Your phone could finally help you pay a fair price for taking the trainIncoming tech could allow us to pay for precisely what we use, with tiny micropayments changing the very concept of value.

Wet Wet Wet: The best ways to listen to music in your bathroomIn depth Why should your morning routine interrupt getting down to some serious beats? Here are the best ways to tune in to your music while you’re warbling into your loofah.

The next mission that Nasa sends to Mars will use methods originally developed to find the the oldest life on Earth to hunt down measurements that could indicate signs of ancient life once existing on the planet. Major step upThey’re also major step up from tools available on the rovers currently exploring our second-closest neighbour in the solar system. “Mars 2020 takes the next natural step in its direct search for evidence of ancient microbial life, focusing measurements to the microbial sca

The European gaming bonanza that is Gamescom has got off to a roaring start with the announcement that Final Fantasy XV is coming to PC. It’s been available for a little while now as a title on PS4 and Xbox, but for PC gamers there’s been no way to throw yourself into the fifteenth instalment of the RPG classic. Speaking at Nvidia’s presentation, the game’s director Hajime Tabata announced that this would be the highest quality Final Fantasy XV experience available by taking advantage of Nvidia’

If the Moto Z2 Force is a bit too pricey for you there might soon be a slightly lower end alternative, known as the Moto X4, and two newly leaked images gives us a clear look at this shiny handset. It also sports the expected dual-lens camera, while around the front there’s a home button (and likely a fingerprint scanner) below the display. These images don’t reveal any specs, but plenty of previous leaks have done, with the Moto X4 said to have a 5.2-inch 1080 x 1920 screen, 3GB or 4GB of RAM a

Perhaps you’ve noticed that there’s a solar eclipse happening today, and Google wants to put together a ‘megamovie’ of photos and videos of the big celestial event. It also wants you to submit your own snaps of the occasion so it can stitch together a “continuous view” of the eclipse as the Moon blocks out the Sun. If you’re going to be eclipse-spotting in the US and taking photos of the full eclipse, you can submit pictures through the Eclipse Megamovie website by signing in with your Google cr

The United Nations should put an outright ban on the development and manufacture of autonomous killing machines, says a group of 116 leading industry figures including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Google’s Mustafa Suleyman. The AI and robotics experts have written an open letter to the UN outlining their concerns. Development on AI capable of killing humans should be stopped before it can be started, says the open letter. The third warfare revolution”Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the t

HP has revealed the new ProBook 400 G5 series laptops which run with 8th-generation Intel Core processors and are designed with small businesses in mind. The ProBook notebooks come in three flavors – the ProBook 430 G5, 450 G5 and 470 G5 – and can be specified with up to an Intel Core i7-8550U quad-core CPU running at 1.8GHz with boost to 3.7GHz (carrying integrated UHD Graphics 620). The top-end 470 G5 has a 17.3-inch screen with a Full HD resolution, although you can go for a 1,600 x 900 optio

The Galaxy Note 8 is expected to launch on Wednesday (August 23), but if you’ve already bought the Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8 Plus you may be treated to a new feature the day before. Updates for Samsung’s Bixby assistant have been rolling out in some markets this weekend with upgrades for Bixby, Bixby Global Action, Bixby Dictation, Bixby Wakeup and Bixby PLM all getting pushed. The updates have come to those using the Galaxy S8 in a variety of markets including the UK and Australia. Previously Bixb

Samsung announced its Gear Fit 2 fitness tracker over a year ago, but rumors suggest instead of a Gear Fit 3 we’ll instead see the release of a Gear Fit 2 Pro very soon. A new leak suggests the fitness tracker will cost more than the original Fit 2 did at launch, so it may be this is a high-end device that will sit in a product range alongside the original Gear Fit 2. One large US retailer has listed the Gear Fit 2 Pro on its site for $199.99 (about £160, AU$250), while the original Gear Fit 2 l

Microsoft finally opened up Xbox One X pre-orders last night at Gamescom 2017. Thankfully we’ve found one Xbox One X deal for the UK and US each, so don’t worry about importing one (yet). The Scorpio Edition seems to be the default Xbox One X pre-order for now, so don’t worry, you’re not paying extra for this version. If the above Xbox One X pre-orders sell out, and they will, there are some Xbox One X bundle options at GameStop USA. If you want some extra reasons to get excited about the new Xb

HTC has announced that it’s dropping the price of its HTC Vive headset worldwide. The headset will now retail for $599 (£599 / AU$999) as opposed to its previous price of $799 (£759 / AU$1399). In the UK that amounts to a 20% price cut, in Australia it’s closer to 30%, and in the US it’s 25%. But when VR has to be seen to be fully believed, how does Brown think mainstream VR adoption will happen? In other words, healthy competition in the VR space is working wonders for making the technology mor

We’re only days away from Samsung’s official Galaxy Note 8 unveiling, and the South Korean giant has released two new videos in its homeland showing off some of the upcoming handset’s standout features. Later, the video gives us a peek at the device’s apparent optical zoom functionality. Both 3D depth sensing and 3x optical zoom have been rumored since last month, and this video goes a long way to confirming the features. That said, a commercial focusing on the Samsung’s S-Pen is a good way for

After being mistakenly released and quickly retracted in June this year, Bluetooth audio streaming has returned to the Google Home and looks to be here to stay. Now users can stream local audio directly via their Bluetooth connection. To pair the Google Home with your device, you’ll need to navigate to “Devices” in your Google Home app. From here, go to the Bluetooth settings of the device you want to pair and find Google Home in the list in order to pair with it. There hasn’t yet been any offic

Picking out the best back to school backpack for you can lift some of that burden. Naturally, we happen to be experts in picking out the best of, well, all sorts of tech products, including the best back to school backpacks to cart them around in. From designer names for the lowest prices they’ll be found this season to sensible, affordable picks all year round, these are the very best back to school backpacks we’ve found for 2017. A full-canvas bag with nylon mesh inside including a 15-inch lap

We’ve arrived in Cologne for what is arguably Europe’s biggest annual gaming event, Gamescom. Once open, Gamescom runs until August 26, giving gamers a solid three days to get their hands on some of the world’s most exciting games. Super Mario OdysseyAs Nintendo’s next big release, there will be a big Super Mario Odyssey presence at Gamescom this year. For information, check out our guide on how to watch Gamescom 2017. And for all other news, make sure that you check our full guide to Gamescom,

In a move that was anticipated by many, Microsoft has started strong at this year’s Gamescom by launching pre-orders for the upcoming Xbox One X. The console is fairly pricey at $499 (£449 / €499 / CA$599 / AU$649) but it’s a powerful upgrade from the Xbox One S. 40% more powerful, in fact. The Shadow of War Xbox One S bundle will be released on October 10 and will come with either a 500GB or 1TB Xbox One S console, with the brand new Middle Earth: Shadow of War game as well as a 1-month Xbox Ga

Sources speaking to Bloomberg said the new Nest would appear at some point next year, so it would make sense for the first official shots to be floating around. Alternatively the company might push out their new model in time for the 2017 holiday season. The price would be driven down by using cheaper materials and a lot of plastic, rather than the metal of the current model. The thermostat’s display could also see a downgrade as well, as Nest looks to make its product offerings more palatable t

Humans have wanted to live forever for as long as we’ve lived at all. There’s a common misconception that to live forever we need to somehow pause the ageing process. Human lifespan has been lengthening at a constant rate of about two years per decade for the last 200 years. There’s a common misconception that to live forever we need to somehow pause the ageing process. That prediction mirrors another, published in Nature in October 2016, that concluded that the upper limit of human age is stuck

I mean, they couldn’t just call it American Ninja 2, that would be too easy. It’s a bad movie, really bad, but it’s also strangely compelling. The Ninja SquadThe Premise: Ninja Master Harry is no more! Where Ninja Terminator was actually good bad, this is bad bad. While everyone else wears nifty pinstripe suits he parades around either half naked or in his camouflage ninja robe last seen in Ninja Terminator.