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Welcome to our guide on the best home printers of 2019. If you’re looking for the best printer for your household – something that can handle documents, homework and photos – then you’ve come to the right place.

The best home printers need to be more versatile than regular printers. The modern household needs to print out a wide range of documents. There’s the kids homework, of course, but you’ll often find you need to print out forms and documents in your day to day life. Plus, if you take lots of holiday snaps, then a home printer that can do an excellent job printing them out will save you having to leave the house – as you’ll be able to print them out right then and there!

You shouldn’t game without the best gaming mouse on the market. In fact, to squeeze the optimal performance from the best gaming PCs, you’ll want to pay close attention to all the gaming mice available so that you can reach your full gaming potential, whether it’s competing in e-sports or digging into the newest first person shooter.

Look at more than just the price tag though, as it’s not always the best indicator of a quality peripheral. The SteelSeries Sensei 310, for instance, is an excellent mouse that looks good and has solid performance at a very reasonable price, making getting the best gaming mouse for you one of the easiest ways to max out your rig.

In 2019, this piece of hardware is as important as it’s ever been and you should definitely grab a mouse with excellent performance and that can take a beating. And while it’s easy to just pick the one with the highest price tag, why not look for one that also gives you excellent value – a characteristic for more than a few of our choices for the best gaming mouse on this list. And while you’re at it, don’t forget to grab the best gaming mouse pad, especially if you’re looking for RGB lighting or wireless charging capabilities.

Yes, there’s a whole horde of gaming mice to choose from more companies than ever before. It can be overwhelming deciding what the best gaming mouse for you is but that’s why we’ve put this list together. These picks have all been put through the ringer here at TechRadar so you can rest assured that these choices for best gaming mouse have been diligently tested and reviewed.

Also, take a look at our exclusive price comparison tool to decide where to get the best deal for your choice of best gaming mouse. Also, since the holiday season is upon us, keep abreast of upcoming excellent Black Friday 2019 deals. We’ll share any deals you should keep an eye out for here at TechRadar as the shopping season approaches.

Best gaming mice 2019 at a glance:

1. SteelSeries Rival 710
2. Razer Viper
3. Corsair Harpoon Wireless
4. Logitech G502 Hero
5. Roccat Kain 120 AIMO
6. Cooler Master MasterMouse MM520
7. Razer Naga Trinity
8. HyperX Pulsefire Surge RGB
9. Corsair Ironclaw RGB
10. Gigabyte Aorus M5

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1. SteelSeries Rival 710

DPI: 12,000 | Features: OLED display, customizable weight, 60-million click mechanical switches, Haptic engine, RGB lighting

I’ve been predicting an increase in screen size (and the number of screens) in cars for years. It matches up with the trend to automate more, provide more information to the driver, and eventually take over the driving entirely (known in the industry as Level Four automation).

Not only will we need more information about what is happening in the car, but we will eventually need those extra screens to do work in the car while we drive, watch movies, talk on a Skype call, or find other ways to communicate and entertain ourselves.

After 24 hours, Disney Plus has reached 10 million subscribers, according to The Walt Disney Company. That’s a strong start and might explain why there were more than a few reports of Disney Plus outages when the service launched in the US, Canada and the Netherlands on November 12.

Audience demand is certainly one of the reasons Disney has earned so many sign-ups so quickly, but there are a couple of other explanations of why that number is so high. For one, there’s a 7-day free trial so you don’t have to spend $6.99 a month – at least not right away. Alongside that, Verizon customers can get a year of Disney Plus for free under certain 4G, 5G and home internet plans.

Facebook has released the latest figures in its efforts to remove harmful content from its platforms.

They reveal 11.6 million pieces of content related to child nudity and child sexual exploitation were taken down between July and September 2019.

For the first time, Facebook is also releasing figures for Instagram and including numbers for posts related to suicide and self-harm.

This follows a public outcry over the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell.

The teenager killed herself in 2017 and her father then found large amounts of graphic material about self-harm and suicide on her Instagram account.

In a blog, Facebook vice-president Guy Rosen said: “We remove content that depicts or encourages suicide or self-injury, including certain graphic imagery and real-time depictions that experts tell us might lead others to engage in similar behaviour.

“We place a sensitivity screen over content that doesn’t violate our policies but that may be upsetting to some, including things like healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a context of recovery.”

The figures, in Facebook’s fourth Community Standards Enforcement Report, reveal that between July and September 2019:

• 11.6 million pieces of content related to child nudity and child sexual exploitation were removed from Facebook – and 754,000 from Instagram
• 2.5 million pieces of content related to suicide and self-harm were removed from Facebook – and 845,000 from Instagram
• 4.4 million pieces of drug-sales content were removed from Facebook – and 1.5 million from Instagram
• 2.3 million pieces of firearm-sales content were removed from Facebook – and 58,600 from Instagram
• 133,300 pieces of terrorist-propaganda content were removed from Instagram

Facebook said it had removed more than 99% of the content associated with al-Qaeda, the Islamic State group and their affiliates.

And for other terrorist organisations this proportion was 98.5% for Facebook and 92.2% for Instagram.

Overall, the figures suggest Facebook is removing ever larger quantities of harmful content.

From January to March 2019, for example, it took down 5.8 million pieces of content related to child nudity and sexual exploitation of children.

But future efforts to clamp down on harmful content could be hampered by the social network’s self-styled “pivot to privacy”, announced by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, in part in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The end-to-end encryption on Facebook-owned WhatsApp will be extended to Facebook Messenger and Instagram, with Mr Zuckerberg acknowledging there would be a “trade-off” that would benefit child sex abusers and other criminals.

Analysis

By Angus Crawford, BBC News correspondent

Facebook, it seems, is still playing catch-up in two very important areas.

Instagram, the junior partner, bought back in 2012 for $1bn (£0.8bn), now seems to be leading policy changes at Facebook around content about self-harm and suicide.

Molly Russell’s father, Ian, led calls for Instagram to reform – and, to be fair, it has made a start, banning images, pictures and even cartoons, that encourage or promote self-injury, so no more razor blades, bottles of pills or nooses.

Already that kind of thing is harder to find on Instagram than it was a year ago.

So what do we now hear from Instagram’s parent company, Facebook?

For the first time, it is revealing how much of that kind of depressing, graphic damaging material it has been taking down, on both platforms – a little late some might think.

The second area is around child abuse material. In the third quarter of 2018, Facebook removed 8.7 million pieces of content related to child nudity and child sexual exploitation.

In the same period this year, that figure had risen to 11.6 million.

Now, either Facebook is doing an even better job of detection than before – or it has lost control of the problem.

After all, it is not as though the company is new to this issue – it has been a member of the Internet Watch Foundation, which actively hunts for this kind of content, for more than a decade.

It has also been using sophisticated search-and-takedown software, such as Microsoft PhotoDNA, since 2011.

But still the images of child sexual abuse keep coming, in ever greater quantities.

And what is heading down the track? Mr Zuckerberg’s plans to introduce encrypted messaging on the apps – which at a stroke throws an invisibility cloak over all communications.

Facebook may not be able to see what you’ve sent, but, possibly, nor will PhotoDNA or, crucially, the police.

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Disney Plus exceeded the Hollywood studio’s expectations at launch, to the point where users were reporting outages and login errors shortly. According to research firm Apptopia (via Variety), the app was downloaded on iOS and Android an estimated 3.2 million times on launch day, with the vast majority of downloads (unsurprisingly) coming from the US. 

89% of downloads were reportedly in the US, while 9% were in Canada and just over 2% came from the Netherlands, the sole European launch territory. Note that since these are just mobile numbers, it doesn’t take in to account the many people likely to be watching via browsers, Amazon’s Fire devices and games consoles. That’s a lot of downloads.

You’re probably on this page because you are traveling abroad and you want to watch UK TV via catch up services such as BBC iPlayer in the US, or perhaps from somewhere else in the world.

The good news is that this is entirely possible, although we should point out that you are technically breaking the rights agreement reached between rights holder and broadcaster, and iPlayer’s own terms of service.

Arguably, if you are usually a resident of the UK (and a TV Licence payer), you are at least morally in the right, but it’s still not technically how you’re meant to be using the service.

BBC iPlayer lets you stream high-quality TV and radio shows like Doctor Who and His Dark Materials, as well as movies. It is, however, limited to UK viewers, which means – in principle – you can only watch it from inside the UK.

But there are ways to watch BBC iPlayer from outside of the UK, perhaps while on holiday or for those living abroad, just as you can watch American Netflix or Hulu from outside the US.

This will be even more important soon, as the EU has confirmed that following Brexit, Brits won’t be able to watch iPlayer or Netflix when traveling around the EU, given that the rules that allow them to ‘carry their copyright’ with them no longer apply. We expect that you’ll be able to get around this using a VPN, which we outline below.

iPlayer knows where you are in the world when you visit by checking your public IP (Internet Protocol) address. The figure relates to your internet service provider or cellular connection. If it determines that your IP address is not in the UK, you will not be able to access content without using the following methods. 

Use a VPN

The easiest way to watch BBC iPlayer abroad is to use a VPN.

VPNs (virtual private networks) are used for many purposes, as they allow you to surf the internet with anonymously and protect your privacy. They can also be used to virtually relocate your computer or mobile device by offering access to an IP address from the region you require. This is where they can come in handy for watching BBC iPlayer and other UK TV abroad.

Our pick of the best VPN for BBC iPlayer is NordVPN, which also tops our overall best VPN round-up thanks to its ease-of-use, top-notch security and excellent value for money.

You can get NordVPN here, but other recommended alternatives include ExpressVPN and PureVPN.

Once you’ve got your chosen VPN service up and running, you’ll need to set it to connect to a UK server and go to the BBC iPlayer webpage to start watching.

Here are more recommendations for VPN providers with UK servers.

Change DNS settings to watch on Xbox or PS4

If you want to get UK TV via the browser on your Xbox or PlayStation then you will need to fiddle with some DNS settings. If you head to the network settings of the console/device and manually configure the settings then you can enter a primary and secondary DNS (Domain Name Servers) numbers.

You can search the internet for these (they change fairly regularly) and  has a good list which you can try. They are free but easily get clogged up and slow, and occasionally send you to someone’s own site rather than your desired TV source in an attempt to sell you VPN software or something worse.

If you want to watch iPlayer from abroad via a game console you might be better off simply installing a VPN directly to your router, which will let you connect your console through the VPN without any of the above concerns.

BBC iPlayer accounts and the UK TV Licence

The BBC requires that anyone using iPlayer is a UK TV Licence holder – to find out for sure if that affects you, check our guide to who needs a TV Licence.

It’s also required that iPlayer users sign in with a free BBC account, which requires a UK postcode. You’ll need an account if you want to watch or listen to iPlayer through the website or mobile apps, though for now the account remains optional for iPlayer’s Smart TV and game console apps.

You can for free, but you’ll need to give your date of birth, gender, and email address, along with a valid UK postcode, and the BBC says that it will use the information to better understand its audience and improve its recommendations to users.

The BBC says that the aim of the account isn’t to pursue iPlayer users who haven’t paid for a TV Licence, but admitted that it will cross-reference the email addresses with people who’ve previously claimed not to need a Licence.

If you’re a British resident with a paid-up Licence Fee, the new account won’t change your ability to watch iPlayer abroad – simply sign into your account, and continue to use either a VPN or altered DNS settings as described above.

The only change will be if you don’t have a Licence because you live abroad or just haven’t paid for one, and are hoping to access iPlayer anyway, as you’ll need to give a valid UK postcode and your details to get access.

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