Overall, Fiio’s third-generation X5 is a robust, stalwart music player. Fiio Music doesn’t have a storefront for you to buy songs, but rather acts as a repository for music on the device. Don’t get us wrong, a repository is nice, but so is a proper storefront like Google Play Music – which, as you might’ve guessed isn’t available here. The silver lining in all this is that, as a music player, the X5 is downright great. Final verdictAt $349 (£377, AU$449), the Fiio X5 Mk.

Image credit: NASAUpdate: The SpaceX launch was scratched today as the team conducts additional GNC (guidance, navigation and control) analysis. SpaceX will now look to launch NASA’s TESS satellite on Wednesday, April 18. Today’s 30-second launch window opens at 6:32pm ET, or 3:32pm PT / 10:32pm GMT. If for some reason the rocket can’t launch today or tomorrow, The Verge notes there are even more backup launch windows scheduled through April 26. How to watch today’s launchSo, how do you tune in

But when it comes to the ancient historical and cultural landmarks of the world, Google has teamed up with a nonprofit organization to create a permanent, three-dimensional archive of Earth’s greatest monuments. Google Arts & Culture announced today a partnership with CyArk, a decade-old organization dedicated to creating laser-scan recreations of historically relevant sites. The joint Open Heritage project has VR-enabled animations of places like the Ananda Ok Kyaung temple in Myanmar, which th

VW announced last week a partnership with the Hamburg Airport in Germany, where the company has begun to test out self-parking cars in an isolated section of a parking garage. And it’s hoping to give all of its new VW Group lineups—Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley and others—self-parking tech by 2020. VW’s eventual goal is to set its parking AI loose in any outdoor parking lot. Then the Porsche will automatically head to a regular parking spot to free up charging space. Audi’s latest self-dri

If you loved last year’s retro-inspired Sonic Mania game on Nintendo Switch, but were still longing for the Blue Blur of old, then Sega just made you very, very happy. The latter of which was a Sega arcade game first released in 1988 that’s similar to classics like Jackal and Contra. Sega gets super nostalgicAccording to Polygon, more than 15 classic games will be released for Nintendo Switch through the Sega Ages program starting summer. Clearly, Sega looks to emulate Nintendo’s wild success wi

Photo credit: Josiah BondyModern drivers need all the help they can get in difficult conditions. (This tech, called Forward Collision Alert, is part of the Driver Alert Package II in the Terrain, which adds $495 to the $37,600 base price.) Credit: Josiah BondyOn the steering wheel, there’s a button you can use to adjust the gap distance, controlling how often you see alerts (either near, medium, or far). Take a closer look at the 2018 GMC Terrain Denali in the gallery below:Image 1 of 7 Credit:

The soon-to-be-launched OnePlus 6 is being teased as the next waterproof (or at least water-resistant) Android Oreo phone, according to an official Twitter post today. From this coy message, it’s safe to assume that OnePlus 6 owners won’t have to worry about soaking wet weather conditions like they did with the vulnerable OnePlus 5T. The OnePlus community, ever-eager for the OnePlus 6 to launch, has been clamoring for a waterproof phone, especially after the Google Pixel 2 suited up for wet weat

iHeartRadio is ready to step up its game against rival streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal, starting with a new feature that brings playlists to free users for the first time ever in the streaming service’s existence. The feature, called Playlist Radio, allows you to listen to iHeartRadio-curated playlists without being a paying subscriber – all you need to do is head over to the playlists tab in iHeartRadio, and you’ll be able to listen to any number of the streaming service’

The gaming-centric Razer Phone has officially been upgraded to Android Oreo 8.1, bringing more software robustness to the multimedia powerhouse hardware. The jump to Android Oreo brings about several improvements, though only a few of them are visible in the user interface. Like the Essential Phone, the Razer Phone is skipping vanilla Oreo (no pun intended) and opting for 8.1, the latest release ahead of Android P. But why? All Razer Phones are transitioning from the developer preview to the fin

Nest, the Google-owned company known for its popular smart home products, like the Nest Cam Outdoor and Nest Thermostat E, is reportedly considering a much deeper dive into the connected home tech sector. Nokia, which acquired Withings in 2016, is said to be looking for a buyer, according to sources familiar with the matter. In the runnings along with Nest are three other companies in total, two of which are France-based. Sources say that they would much rather see Nokia’s assets change hands to

AMD Ryzen 2nd generation is due to release imminently, but it appears the chip is already breaking overclocking records. A PC enthusiast named TSAIK posted two CPU-Z reports detailing the overclocking potential of the Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X with liquid-nitrogen. Both results look promising, especially when the previous generation AMD Ryzen 7 1800X went up as high as 5.8GHz thanks to Der8auer’s expert tuning. We imagine overclocking savants will be able to push the AMD Ryzen 2nd generati

The Nokia 6 has been given a tune-up and fresh coat of paint for 2018, and it’s now available in the US via Amazon and Best Buy. Replacing the 2017 model, which is still available through the Amazon Prime Exclusive Phones program for $199, the newer version brings along several additions and improvements in hopes to justify its bump up in cost to $269. Its fingerprint sensor, previously located on front, has been shifted to the back beneath the centrally-located camera system. Low-end is the new

While it’s had a spotty track record, generally Microsoft has been known to develop some excellent mouse and keyboard peripherals. One of its best mice – an Amazon’s Choice, even – is available now for 36% off in the US and 25% off in the UK. Known simply as the Microsoft Classic Intellimouse (the 3.0 model), this corded pointer is slim and lightweight and features three customizable buttons. Plus, the mouse was designed with ambidextrous ergonomics in mind, so fret not no matter which hand of y

This resulted in Apple and Google coming up with solutions for their customers; CarPlay for iPhone owners and Android Auto for Android fans. Android Auto casts a Google Now-like interface onto your car’s infotainment display via USB. Once you get used to Android Auto, there’s no real need to go back to your car’s system. Android Auto should look familiar if you’ve used Google NowThe UI shares a lot with Google Now. Without even having to think about it, Android Auto suggests directions on where

Waking up to news that there’s a new Sony Xperia phone in town – the Xperia XZ2 Premium – is going to leave a lot of people scratching their heads. The phone Sony fans will wantThe Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium is, unsurprisingly, the follow up to the Xperia XZ Premium – one of the top phones of 2017. But what we got was confusing: the Sony Xperia XZ2, a phone that finally brought the 18:9 screen format with fewer bezels and a powerful new chipset running things. Bad timingOne thing this low-key unvei

AI is making our voice assistants smarter, our cars self-driving, and our photo apps better able to identify our pets. And no, we’re not talking about the newly back-on-the-market Sony Aibo, we’re talking about a genuine neural network trained to behave like a dog. I said SITHow do you train an AI using a dog? So the AI trained on Kelp’s behaviour was correctly able to identify walkable surfaces in images, even though it hadn’t been specifically trained to do so. Now, as much as it’s able to pre

Instead, Google has used machine learning to teach it how real conversations flow. When you type your question, Google searches its catalog of books to find sentences that would follow naturally as an answer. Semantris Blocks is a word-association take on TetrisFor example, the list might contain the words football, lunch, face, plant, frozen and beer. If the word ‘face’ was highlighted, you might type ‘nose’. Those of a more cynical nature may suspect the games are in part designed to help ‘tra

The London Marathon. All the key London Marathon info When is the London Marathon 2018? But it strengthened my resolve to come back and tame the London Marathon, to make it something I felt confident in and could conquer. Let’s talk about the diary in hand, my Running Man of Tech London Marathon countdown for the second year. I’ll suss out what tech you can find at the London Marathon Expo, and most importantly I’ll bring you the full race report the day after the Marathon.

We’ve already had new Nokia phones this year but at least one more is seemingly coming soon, as a handset called the Nokia X has been teased for an April 27 announcement. VTechgraphy notes that according to a user on Baidu (a Chinese forum) the Nokia X will apparently launch in both Snapdragon and MediaTek varieties and will be available with 64GB of storage alongside either 4GB or 6GB of RAM. The Nokia X has seemingly been officially teased. Indeed, if the spec rumors above are accurate then th

Could action cam giant GoPro be about to be snapped by Chinese rival Xiaomi? Despite GoPro dominating that market with the likes of the Hero6 Black it’s been a tough few years for the company. Back in January it announced that it was pulling out of the drone market to concentrate on its core camera business. At the same time GoPro announced it was getting out of the drone business CEO Nick Woodman said he would consider a partnership or sale. And it’s been the cut-price wave of Chinese rivals le