From today, Twitter for Android will ignore your phone’s emoji and replace them with its own ‘Twemoji’. This will bring the collection of emojis available to Android users back in line with those on the Twitter web app and Tweetdeck. To toggle Twemoji, go into the app’s settings, select ‘Display and sound’ and check ‘Use the Twitter emoji set instead of your device’s default set’. “For example, a U+1F36F HONEY POT encodes for a pictorial representation of a pot of honey, not for some semantic li

Back in February 2017 Nikon cancelled its planned trio of premium compact DL cameras. Having announced the range at the Consumer Electronics Show the year before, Nikon decided to pull the plug before the cameras hit dealers’ shelves, due to continued production delays and profitability concerns. The news disappointed many, as Nikon had taken a slightly different approach to the 1-inch sensor premium compacts offered by rivals. Rather than offering a single model with a wide zoom range, Nikon de

If you were intrigued by rumors of Samsung making a cheaper version of the Galaxy S8, then good news: it’s a real phone. It’s probably going to be locked away in China as the Samsung Galaxy S Light Luxury. That’s pretty similar to the Galaxy S8, and it even retains the irritating Bixby key – showing Samsung isn’t letting up on trying to make that a ‘thing’. The Galaxy S Light Luxury looks pretty neat stacked up against the original Galaxy S8, and will probably be around 20-30% cheaper too, while

Five years after it launched, the PlayStation 4 is now entering the end of its lifecycle. That’s according to PlayStation head honcho John Kodera, speaking during Sony’s Corporate Strategy Meeting, which was aiming to set out Sony’s stall to investors for the coming years. Sliding elsewhereHowever, it’s not quite as rosy an outlook for PlayStation VR and PlayStation Vue. But these may be of little concern to Sony, which seems to have bigger things on the horizon. We already know not to expect ne

The HTC U12 Plus is being announced tomorrow, but someone at HTC seemingly didn’t get the memo, as a testing subdomain on HTC’s website briefly posted specs, prices and pictures of the phone. These are all things we’ve heard rumored before, but you can now consider them pretty much confirmed. Image 1 of 2 Here’s the HTC U12 Plus in red Image 2 of 2 And here it is in blackA premium priceThe price is one of the few things we don’t know about the HTC U12 Plus but alas the one listed here is for Chi

The Expanse has been around for three seasons now and was Syfy’s big push into creating a blockbuster science-fiction TV show. There’s no such thing as ‘cancellation’ in the age of Netflix and Amazon Prime, though, services that have become the home of second chances. Prime timeIf The Expanse does come to Amazon Prime, it will join a roster of big budget shows in production. It will also see Amazon Prime wade into similar sci-fi territory as Netflix, which has been creating a number of movies an

Extra space affords extra power, however, which is why Razer is introducing the Razer Core X, a plug-and-play external graphics card enclosure to boost the gaming potential of its laptop range. The Core X joins the existing Razer Core V2 in the company’s external GPU case range, but can be considered a stripped-down, bare-bones version focusing on graphics performance rather than the bells and whistles of the Core V2. Razer would ideally love you to pair the Core X with one of its Blade, Blade S

For starters the 14-inch Razer Blade is now a 15-inch gaming laptop and amazingly it’s actually 3% smaller. Screen options aside, the Razer Blade features a newly designed CNC machined chassis. Priced at $299 (about £1,415, AU$395) that’s certainly more affordable than the existing $499 (£469, AU$719) Razer Core V2. While the Razer Core X’s Thunderbolt 3 will charge your laptop and carry connect it to an eGPU, it doesn’t feature any of the USB hub functionality of the Razer Core v2. The Razer Co

Security researchers at Google and Microsoft have found a new variant of the Spectre security flaw that was first reported back in January this year. Called Speculative Store Bypass (or Variant 4), the new strain exploits similar vulnerabilities as the older Spectre and Meltdown bugs but, according to Intel, uses a different method to access sensitive information. Partly patchedThe new variant can be exploited by running script files (or text files which contain a sequence of commands) on progra

There a chance that the rumored Samsung Galaxy Watch could run Google’s newly renamed Android Wear software, now known as Wear OS. It’s a surprise move (and one we can’t verify yet) considering Samsung would be ditching its own Tizen OS that’s been a part of the Samsung Gear S3 and Gear S2. But Google is retooling its smartwatch software with Wear OS and likely needs key hardware partners onboard. We haven’t seen Samsung rely on Google’s smartwatch software since the Samsung Gear Live, which hel

Intel’s mystery octa-core Coffee Lake-S chip has re-emerged yet again and this time, there are more details than ever. Interestingly, Sisoftware lists that the processor was used with an ‘Intel Kaby Lake client platform,’ meaning Coffee Lake-S could potentially work with last generation 200-series motherboards. When Intel made the jump from Kaby Lake to Coffee Lake, it claimed that all processors would require a new chipset. However, not too long ago, some clever modders managed to get Coffee La

Pick the LEGOs you’ll put under the tree this yearLEGO unveiled all of the biggest new sets that it will release through the end of 2018 at a big preview event in New York City last week. Fans of Harry Potter, the MCU or DCU, Star Wars or the Incredibles can buy some amazing buildable sets from their favorite films (or pretend they’re buying them for their kids). And parents of tech-minded kiddos can pick from a ton of connected toys, from app-controlled cars to customizable roller coasters, tha

While the photos might’ve indicated that former US President Barack Obama was enjoying his retirement from politics by water skiing and helping send his daughter off to college, he and former First Lady Michelle Obama have actually been hard at work creating a production studio called Higher Ground Productions. Turns out they’ll need it as the Obamas, through Higher Ground Productions, have signed a multiyear agreement with Netflix to produce films and series for the streaming service, potential

The LG G7 ThinQ price is the mystery that has prevented us from giving the phone a final score, with wildly differing estimates out there. To put it another way, that amounts to $30 a month for 24 months (after an initial $30 down). More expensive than the Galaxy S9And to put it yet another way, the LG G7 ThinQ costs more than the Samsung Galaxy S9, which retails for $30 less at $719, or $30 a month without any money down. LG G7 pricing rumors originally had the cost anywhere from $649 to nearly

We’ve also highlighted the best free PDF editorsXodo PDF ReaderGo well beyond the basics with this PDF powerhouseVersatile PDF readerEdit and annotate documentsSync edits with cloud servicesBrowse the Google Store for PDF readers and you’ll find what appears to be a huge choice of apps, but all isn’t quite as it seems. Xodo PDF Reader stands out from the underpowered masses for the range and depth of its feature set. Foxit PDF Reader & ConverterRead, annotate and share your PDFs with easeSpeedy

Our robot future is approaching, but there’s a lot that still stands in the way of a complete machine takeover. One issue is in how humans currently communicate with robots; a lot of data and energy goes into a robot recognizing and properly executing real-world tasks, often of the simplest nature. But, researchers from Nvidia may have come up with a solution: have robots learn by watching humans. Essentially, the researchers made it so its neural networks can infer what’s being done in a video-

If you’re among that number, we can tell you how to live stream every Detroit Tigers game from the comfort of your own PC, phone or tablet. How to stream the Tigers live onlineWhen it comes to streaming baseball online, your first choice has to be MLB.TV. You can watch every out-of-market regular season game live on MLB.TV. Other ways to watch the Detroit Tigers onlineMLB.TV won’t be for everyone. Twitter Following in Facebook’s footsteps, Twitter has the right to live stream an MLB game every w

Photo credit: Josiah BondyStreaming is not a new technology, but few current models from any automaker offer it. Photo credit: Josiah BondyThe first thing to know is that you will need an Android phone or tablet. Photo credit: Josiah BondyOnce you connect, you can use your phone’s data connection or the Pacifica’s Uconnect hotspot, which costs $20 a month. Both the Pixel 2 and the Galaxy S9 had no trouble streaming the Netflix show Lost in Space for several episodes. Photo credit: Josiah BondySo

The 70-200mm G2 is a top-class lens in every respect. Indeed, the Tamron is about £1,050/$1,500 cheaper to buy than the directly competing Nikon AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR. FeaturesRedesigned optical pathRing-type ultrasonic autofocus system upratedElectromagnetic diaphragm controlTamron’s original 70-200mm VC USD lens didn’t skimp on features but had a couple of notable drawbacks. The single-mode optical stabilization system didn’t work particularly well when panning and the lens wasn’t comp

While we’re all waiting for new graphics cards to drop this year, Nvidia has quietly introduced a new 3GB version of its existing GeForce GTX 1050. We never expected a new addition to Nvidia’s Maxwell family so late in the game, but on paper the new GTX 1050 3GB looks surprisingly good. The new graphics card variant comes equipped with 768 CUDA Cores with a base clock of 1,392MHz which boosts to 1,518MHz. Not only are these better specs than what’s available on the current Nvidia GTX 1050 (2GB),