Google has announced that the Moto X4 is joining the Project Fi family, the company’s US-only wireless carrier service. Now, the Moto X4 is now available for pre-order and comes in at the low-ish end in terms of pricing: $399. All about this special X4As you might have seen, the 5.2-inch Moto X4 debuted at IFA 2017, but this particular model is a bit different. Other than that, the Moto X4 coming to Project Fi features the same dual-lens rear camera and super slick design as the one set to go on

The possibilities it opens up are almost endless; from basic adjustments to high-end retouching to creating surreal composite images, Photoshop can do it all. Adjustment layers are accessed by clicking on the half-white, half-black circle icon at the foot of the Layers panel. However, if you’re working on a JPEG file in Photoshop and want to convert it to mono, the Black & White adjustment layer is a powerful option. The Camera Raw filterThe Camera Raw filter gives you access to all the controls

Back in July we reported that TVAddons, a leading source of Kodi addons, could be endangering the privacy of its users now that its domains were in the hands of a law firm. Central to their argument is that while their domains are in the hands of a law firm, the firm holding them is separate from the firm suing them. An ongoing caseThe domains will remain in the hands of the law firm in question until the case has been resolved. After all, reports about the possession of these domains started to

The original batch of Xbox One X pre-orders sold out in a few days back in September, but we’ve had word from a few retailers around the world that fresh stock is coming in today ahead of the November 7 release date. We’ve included links to all the Xbox One X pre-order links we can find and called out the ones we know will be going live at certain times. We’ll also give a shout out to the best Xbox One X game bundles that offer the best value. A fresh batch of Xbox One X pre-orders are landing i

When Yoshiaki Koizumi took to Nintendo’s stage at Gamescom earlier this year, he proudly announced that the theme of Super Mario Odyssey was ‘travel’. It might be a little different from Odysseus’ journey in the original Greek Odyssey, but we’ll allow Nintendo some creative license. These Power Moons are accompanied by a raft of other hidden delights, including a volleyball minigame that will even feature online leaderboards. But what’s more surprising is just how much Cappy shakes up the tradit

When it comes to streaming devices, the three biggest names remain Amazon, Apple and Roku. But of those three, it’s only Amazon and Apple that have truly established voice assistants working alongside their TV platforms – Roku have dabbled with voice controllers in their remotes, but it’s not offering a true Siri or Alexa alternative. Roku is on the hunt for a senior software engineer in audio, and an “expert” senior software engineer in new products and audio, alongside a “Sr. Roku software is

HTC has issued a trading halt from Thursday September 21 ready for the release of information about the company. After rumors earlier this month suggested Google was nearing an acquisition of HTC we are tempted to believe this is what we’ll hear about tomorrow. JUST IN:HTC just announced it’s shares will halt trading tomorrow (Thur) pending a major announcement.September 20, 2017What would it mean? It would make sense for Google to buy HTC though. For more details on why Google would want to buy

When Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor was first released back in 2014, it introduced the world to the ‘Nemesis System’, a gameplay mechanic that has Modor’s hoards of Orcs responding dynamically to how you play the game. It will come as no surprise that its sequel, Shadow of War, features some big improvements to the Nemesis system. But the problem with it is that Nemesis mode doesn’t just quietly get on with it behind the scenes. The unskippable element of Nemesis mode isn’t new to this game; in

OptionsBleed is the name of a new major vulnerability which potentially threatens to expose data from servers in a similar sort of way that Heartbleed did a few years back. OptionsBleed is different in that it’s a bug in the Apache Web Server (as opposed to OpenSSL) leveraged by making HTTP OPTIONS requests (hence the name) in order to potentially cause data leakage as Heartbleed did. The problem was first uncovered by security researcher Hanno Böck, but the good news is it’s far less widespread

Rare’s Sea Of Thieves is one of the most exciting games on the horizon for Xbox. At the same time, we always wanted to build a game that had co-op at the heart of it. What’s the right world to set it in? “With the vision of the game being this co-op experience, what is more the perfect expression of co-op than being on a ship together? That’s the pirate world that we wanted to create, a pirate fantasy world.”And the pirate fantasy world is beautiful.

They’ve been smashing drones into crash test dummies in a variety of different situations to try and model what happens when a drone inevitably hits a human. In some tests they flew the drone into the dummy at full force, while in others the drone was dropped onto the dummy’s head in different orientations. The smallest drone had only a 10 percent risk of causing severe neck injuries, but that rose to 70 percent with the largest one. Injury riskThey also found that the drop tests were more likel

Very recently it was discovered by SwitchBrew that each and every Nintendo Switch console has a NES game buried quietly in its code. Once a yearUsers at SwitchBrew seem to have done it again and uncovered what appears to be the official method of unlocking the game. Interestingly, and touchingly, the method of unlocking the game indicates that it may be a tribute to Nintendo’s late CEO Satoru Iwata. To launch the game SwitchBrew user, yellows8, reports via the site’s wiki that you have to detach

Echo glasses could soon be on their way. As Alexa is primarily a vocal interface, it’s not a massive surprise, but it does mean that the Alexa glasses will lack the full functionality that augmented reality glasses promise. The glasses will reportedly not be an entirely standalone device, but will work by tethering to a smartphone. At the moment, the Alexa Glasses are unconfirmed by Amazon, we only know about this due to a Financial Times report. Want to know about other top secret AR glasses ru

This is known as Andromeda OS internally at Microsoft, and sources have spilled the beans on the project to Windows Central. Therefore depending on what device the operating system will be used on, components or features can be stripped away or added as necessary. This will allow the OS to be fully customized to the hardware in question, and also fully streamlined with no unnecessary bloat. Of course, there is already speculation that perhaps this is the operating system we’ll see on the heavily

With the imminent launch of the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X ahead of us, it’s time to start thinking about the path forward for smartphones. The difference is that AnyTrans can accomplish so much more while moving data from either an Android or iOS device. Unlike Move to iOS, AnyTrans gives you the autonomy to personalize your upgrade to the latest iPhone. From there, launch the program on your computer and connect both the new device and the original device whose data you’re trying to

At Gamescom, Microsoft came out with a big claim; at launch there will be over 100 games enhanced for the Xbox One X. When we asked for a definition of what exactly ‘Xbox One X Enhanced’ means, Xbox’s UK marketing manager Harvey Eagle said, “[Enhanced] means different things for different games. Making changesTo get to the bottom of whether there are any minimum requirements for developers before they can call a game Xbox One X Enhanced, we spoke to Xbox Marketing Manager Albert Penello. “All ga

As the official name suggests, the Google Home Mini is a shrunk down version of the Google Home. Think of it like the Amazon Echo Dot to the Amazon Echo. The standard Google Home lets you swap the baseLike the standard Google Home, the Mini appears to plug in, based on the cord in the leaks. Google Home costs $129 (£129 / about AU$170), and here’s where the Google Home Mini differs greatly. Also look for the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL to be unveiled on October 4, along with the new Google Day

The latest major leak ahead of next month’s anticipated Google Pixel 2 reveal is a third Chromebook from the product maker, known as the Google Pixelbook, Droid Life reports. But, that’s not even the end of the rumored cost: Google will offer up a pressure-sensitive stylus allegedly known as the ‘Pixelbook Pen’ for $99 (about £73, AU$123). Droid Life wasn’t able to glean much from its alleged sources in regards to specs, but claims to have learned of three internal flash storage options: 128GB,

The Google Pixel 2 unveiling is still weeks away, but we might have seen what it and its larger variant, the Google Pixel 2 XL, will look like when they both come out later in 2017. Credit: DroidLifeColorful PixelsSupposedly, the smaller Pixel 2 will launch in three colors: Clearly White, Just Black and (my favorite) Kinda Blue. The Google Pixel 2 XL colors take an interesting turn. It’ll supposedly be available in two colors: Just Black and Black & White. The Pixel 2 XL will obviously be more e

Here’s something to distract you: a leak purporting to detail the new Google Daydream View virtual reality headset has surfaced today. As part of the large Google device dump, courtesy of Droid Life, we see a noticeably updated VR viewer. The Google Daydream View 2 also purportedly comes in new colors. DroidLife, which doesn’t say where it got the image or information, reports the new Daydream View will cost $99 (about £75 / AU$125). We’ll likely hear all about the new Google Daydream View at th