In-screen fingerprint scanning has been a hot topic in 2017. Both the iPhone X and Samsung Galaxy Note 8 were rumored to be introducing the new scanner location, but ultimately both Apple and Samsung deciding against doing so. Now it looks like Chinese firm Vivo will be the first to offer it. Vivo’s prototype in-screen scanner in action (credit: Engadget)The technology is available, and we know Vivo has got it working in a demo unit, which adds further credibility to this latest leak. Chipset ma

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of Workplace, Facebook has launched a new desktop app to facilitate group chats. Workplace Chat has always been available via mobile apps and in the browser on a PC, but now there’s a fully-fledged desktop app for PC and Mac, something which has been on the wish-list of many for a while now. The desktop software offers the same features as seen on the mobile apps. Video chatFacebook also revealed that in the coming weeks, group video chat will be rolled

The sound could be a little smoother but the RHA MA650 Wireless are otherwise solid, good-value wireless earphones. DesignMost big headphones brands make a pair of wireless earphones that look like the RHA M650: Sennheiser has the Momentum In-ear Wireless, Beats has the X and Sony has its MDR-EX750. The part of the RHA MA650 that sits around your neck is an ultra-flexible piece of rubbery cabling. Thankfully, the RHA MA650 wireless is great, with the same sort of blip-free experience you get wit

Today Seagate announced its new Game Drive , which brings an additional 4TB of storage space to the popular gaming system. Unfortunately, it’s still not anywhere near as impressive as the behemothic 8TB hub Seagate offers for the competing Xbox One. More like PlayStation 4TBBut in an age when even relatively short games can easily take up around 50GB of space, both of Seagate’s PS4 models wildly improve upon the PS4’s pitiful 500GB of onboard storage. According to Seagate, 4TB should allow for t

GameStop Black Friday ad leaksThere are currently no GameStop Black Friday ad leaks to be found, however, we’ll update this page as soon as those become available. There’s a good chance the GameStop Black Friday 2017 catalog will be out well in advance of Black Friday this year. GameStop deals before Black FridayIt may not be Black Friday yet, but GameStop sales run every day of the week, every week of the year. There are two places you can go to find the latest deals: the GameStop Weekly Ad pag

It’s a move that seems geared toward letting third-party skill developers get some cash back for their efforts and so possibly encourage other developers to start making skills for the platform. As Voicebot.ai discovered while using the Amazon Echo Show , the popular Jeopardy! The Jeopardy skill is a particularly good one for Amazon to test the service, as it’s found on every Echo device from the affordable and lightweight Amazon Echo Dot to the pricey Show. Most notably, you only have to pay fo

The Huawei Honor 8 has never been very expensive in the US, with a starting price of $399 for the 32GB model. It’s the type of phone that packs in a lot of high-end features of other flagship phones while being far cheaper. Jet.com is making it even more affordable by dropping $170 from the price tag to make it $229. At that price, you’d expect the Honor 8 to be a pretty run-of-the-mill Android phone, but it’s far from it. At its current price on Jet.com, $229, it’s an incredible value.

“Bloomberg’s claim that Apple has reduced the accuracy spec for Face ID is completely false and we expect Face ID to be the new gold standard for facial authentication,” an Apple spokesperson said. “Customer excitement for iPhone X and Face ID has been incredible, and we can’t wait for customers to get their hands on it starting Friday, November 3,” the statement continued. “Face ID is a powerful and secure authentication system that’s incredibly easy and intuitive to use. The quality and accura

If you can get over an Amazon delivery person temporarily stepping into your home, Amazon Key promises to be the bane of package thieves some of us so desperately need. How do I get Amazon Key delivery? The first is that Amazon will only allow Amazon Key delivery for around 10 million goods on the website – and only on stuff that a delivery person could reasonably carry by themselves. The other caveat is that while Amazon is an innovator, it’s not an idiot – Amazon is only enabling Amazon Key de

These “black box” systems hide their inner workings, so we don’t actually know when errors are happening – only when they manifest in the real world. The software, called DeepXplore, examines the decision logic and behaviours of a neural network to find out what it’s doing. To test the system, they threw a bunch of datasets at it to see what happens, including self-driving car data, Android and PDF malware data, and image data. They also fed it a selection of production-quality neural networks t

Amazon is rolling out a controversial new smart home service that will make sure you never miss a delivery again. Amazon Key is exclusive to Prime members, and allows couriers to unlock your front door to drop off packages if you’re not at home to receive them. Upon arriving at your door, drivers are required to knock or ring and request to unlock the door before they use their Amazon handheld scanner to get in via Amazon Key. On the morning of the delivery, users will receive a notification wit

If you’ve tried a first-person VR game, you’ve probably already had that smile-lifting, goosebump-inducing moment of looking down at your digitally-rendered body, rebuilt as someone else. Or at least if Oculus Rift exclusive Marvel Powers United is anything to go by. Due out in early 2018, Marvel Powers United lets you (through the power of virtual reality) become your favorite Marvel heroes. Marvel magicVisually it’s a lovely realisation of both the characters and Marvel world, leaning more tow

Unless you’re rocking a Pixel or Pixel 2 chances are you don’t even have Android Oreo on your phone yet, but it’s never too early to start thinking about Android P (or Android 9, as it’s likely to be also known as). We’ve also come up with a list of things we want from Android P, because as good as Android Oreo is there’s always room for improvement. Android P news and rumorsWe don’t know much about Android P just yet, but it seems it’s already being worked on, as XDA Developers has found refere

Microsoft has put a hard ‘K’ into death knell by revealing that it’s no longer manufacturing the Kinect camera in an exclusive interview with Fast Co Design. Though the depth-sensing camera and microphone didn’t quite achieve mainstream success, it was popular amongst hacker communities who used the device to create experiences that required body-tracking. For Microsoft itself, the Kinect technology has been re-purposed for other projects. The depth-sensing camera on Apple’s iPhone X, for exampl

The beauty of Apple Pay is that it is classically ‘Apple’. Simple and elegant, it combines the tech you’ve already got (an iPhone with Touch ID) with a one-step payment process, all wrapped up in watertight security safer than traditional chip and PIN. All you need to do is place the top of your iPhone screen near any NFC card terminal and rest your finger on your phone’s Touch ID sensor. The foundations are laid – in a few years we could be looking back at the dawning of yet another Apple revol

The 2018 edition of SoftMaker Office is now available to download as a free public beta, giving you an early look at the suite’s new features. Image 1 of 4 SoftMaker Office TextMaker Image 2 of 4 SoftMaker Office PlanMaker Image 3 of 4 SoftMaker Office Presentations Image 4 of 4 Mozilla Thunderbird, expanded by SoftMakerSoftMaker Office uses DOCX, XLSX and PPTX formats natively to ensure documents open display and behave correctly if you’re making the change from Microsoft Office, or sharing doc

We already knew the Nokia 8 – along with the rest of the new Nokia range – would be updated to Android Oreo, but now it’s one step closer to happening, as a beta version of Android Oreo has been launched for the handset. A newly launched service called Nokia phones beta labs allows Nokia 8 users to sign up to beta test Android Oreo software and give direct feedback on their experience. Announcing Nokia phones beta labs! Users of the Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3 might have longer to wait, as thei

Called Bad Rabbit, the malware initially struck computers mostly in Russia, and also Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey and Germany. Kaspersky further observes that Bad Rabbit employs “methods similar to those used in the ExPetr [aka Petya or NotPetya] attack”, but the company wouldn’t go as far to confirm that it is related to ExPetr. Fake FlashInitial infection of Bad Rabbit occurs via a fake Adobe Flash installer offered up for download, which carries the malware that’s triggered upon firing up the EX

The OnePlus 5T is rumored to be launching next month and a new leak of benchmarking for the phone shows you likely won’t be too disappointed if you already own a OnePlus 5. A new listing from AnTuTu shows the phone will come packing a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which is the same configuration as we saw perform well on the OnePlus 5. However, the leak shows there will be a different display used for the phone, which we’ve seen pictured in previous leaks. The benchma

What’s promising, though, is that this looks as close to a fully-fledged Animal Crossing title as we dared to hope for mobile. In Animal Crossing Pocket Camp you’re tasked with setting up and managing a holiday camp, rather than an entire town. Given the widespread popularity of Animal Crossing, the free-to-play with microstransactions approach was undoubtedly the right one from a business standpoint. Animal Crossing is played in real-time and the world will gradually change between day, evening