You may not have noticed, but the cost of the Moto Z2 Force recently fell from $799 to $720 on Motorola’s own site. Oddly enough, if you wanted the phone through Motorola itself, it was going to surge the cost by about $80. While this price adjustment is a good thing, as it proves that Moto isn’t out to steal your dollar if you can’t do some basic math, the move raises a big question: what happened to the unlocked version? Unlocked is now locked awayMotorola launched the Z2 Force with one of the

Most hobbies are more fun if you can share them with others, and the same is true of gaming. The most obvious way to share your enjoyment of gaming is to indulge in multi-player sessions with mates, or to battle it out in online games with strangers. Another option is to broadcast your games to the world – be they multi- or single player – by streaming them to Twitch. For any PC gamer who wants to show off their skills, it’s a great way to hit a potentially massive audience. Read on to find out

Amazon has removed Blu smartphones from its virtual shelves amid recent concerns that user data is being sent to third-party servers in China without the user’s consent. Though, obviously, there still seems to be concern as to how these devices are handling user data. All in all, it’s the phone makers’ responsibility to ensure that user data is protected. And until Blu can provide the assurance that’s sorely needed from the consumer’s eye, Amazon’s removal of Blu phones seems to be warranted for

Starting at £219.99 (around $290/AU$360)G5S £219.99, G5S Plus £259.99Arriving in UK early August, in US this autumnMotorola has confirmed it will begin selling both the Moto G5S and G5S Plus from early August in the UK. UK pricing for the Moto G5S is £219.99 (around $290/AU$360) while the Moto G5S Plus price is set at £259.99 ($340, AU$430) in Britain. Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus screenThe Moto G5S comes with a 5.2-inch screen with a 1080p resolution, which is a touch larger than the screen on th

The idea of a computer being able to measure your brainwaves and then act upon them feels distinctly sci-fi, but that is exactly what VR startup Neurable has accomplished. This is accomplished through the use of an upgraded headband for the HTC Vive that has a number of sensors that monitor brain activity. The user is shown a collection of images, has to choose one of them, and then from measuring the brain activity as each object flashes, the correct object floats towards the user. You must use

Crash Bandicoot is one of my all time favorite game franchises. I owned the main trilogy as well as Crash Bash and Crash Team Racing (CTR), and plowed countless hours, days, weeks, probably months, into them. Micro Machines, especially V3, is another all-time favorite and when it returned last year I was excited… until I installed it on my iPad and started playing. It was this experience, and similar app-based reboots of games such as Theme Park, that had me questioning whether I’d ultimately be

Motorola has just announced the Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus, despite only announcing the Moto G5 and G5 Plus earlier in 2017. The new Moto G5S comes with a 3,000mAh battery – an upgrade on the Moto G5’s 2,800mAh cell – as well as an even better camera with a 16MP sensor and phase detection autofocus built-in. The display on the Moto G5S is also bigger than the original Moto G5 at 5.2-inches, but it has a Full HD resolution so you’ll get fewer pixels per inch. The same metal unibody design of the

This is a hack that requires direct access to the Amazon Echo speaker, where the potential hacker will need to remove the rubber base of the speaker to reveal its debug pads. The second caveat is that this hack is only possible on 2015 and 2016 versions of the full-size Echo device (the Echo Dot is not affected). Responding to the hack, Amazon commented, “Customer trust is very important to us. You can do so by making sure you only buy Amazon Echo devices that are new and directly sold by Amazon

Last week a pretty substantial price hike hit the UK’s PlayStation Plus service , mirroring a similar increase that hit the service’s US customers last year . Instead the service now appears to be aimed at allowing non-PlayStation owners to play PlayStation games, as evidenced by the addition of PS4 games to the service . Numerous Xbox 360 games have been made backwards compatible on the Xbox One, and at E3 the company announced that original Xbox games would be joining them. Sony would have ann

Getting sharp photos is one of the fundamental goals in photography. 5 Your Photos Aren’t Sharp: Subject movementIt doesn’t matter how rock-steady the camera is, if the subject is moving the image will be blurred. A shutter speed of 1/60sec or 1/125sec is usually fast enough to freeze a walking person, but you’ll need to push the shutter speed up with faster moving subjects. Then half-press the shutter release to focus the lens, before recomposing the shot while keeping the shutter release butto

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a shooter which has been generating more and more buzz and excitement of late, and the latest news is that the game has just become the third most popular title on Steam – setting a new record for the most-played non-Valve game ever. That’s not bad for a shooter which is officially still in beta testing (Steam early access). Going by concurrent player numbers (provided by Steam Spy), PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) just racked up a peak player count of 481,2

Enter Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross, the former introduced in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and the latter returning after her villainous stint in the most recent game – these are the heroines of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. We recently sat down to play a section the upcoming game alongside Naughty Dog’s Senior Communications Manager, Scott Lowe, who had some intriguing things to say about what we can expect from The Lost Legacy. You are still able to hide in long grass and tag enemies from a distanc

The big Samsung Galaxy Note 8 must be awfully difficult to hide because photos of the new Android phone keep leaking on the internet – almost every day. Today’s Note 8 leak shows Samsung’s S Pen-equipped smartphone in black, aka midnight black, thanks to a full front render leaked by Evan Blass. It confirms the return of Samsung’s bezel-less ‘Infinity Display’ from the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, and shows the S Pen in its usual bottom right holster. Note 8 specs can still surprise(Photo Credi

As wireless headphones become less a novelty and more the status quo, tracking the battery life of your Bluetooth accessories is crucial for avoiding running out of juice at an inopportune moment. As such, it appears the Android Open Source Project is working on a way for the Google-powered platform to track the battery life of Bluetooth devices, according to a report from XDA Developers. While iPhone users have been able to track the battery levels of their Bluetooth accessories since iOS 9, An

Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus are making the leap into Google’s virtual reality world as a Daydream-ready update is rolling out to the phones right now. Google VR made the announcement on Twitter this afternoon, marking the compatibility of Samsung’s devices with the Google Daydream View headset. The Daydream-ready update is rolling out now to @SamsungMobile Galaxy S8 and S8+. https://t.co/KaRNJEcURi pic.twitter.com/PEeC6RfyyZJuly 31, 2017We’ve known Daydream support was coming since th

Nvidia has officially unleashed the wrath and ruin of its most powerful graphics cards upon laptops everywhere with new external GPU (eGPU) options for Titan X and Quadro Pascal-generation products. To get your Titan Xp graphics card to work through an eGPU setup, Nvidia has released a new driver update for the chip that will make it compatible with eGPU products that operate over a Thunderbolt 3 USB-C port. Nvidia promises that this solution allows virtual reality gaming at 90 frames per second

Tomorrow’s Apple earnings call could talk about iPhone 8, even if CEO Tim Cook won’t mention the new phone by name. So we’re going to listen closely to Cook’s comments for one specific thing: are flat iPhone sales expected to recover in any part of September? During last quarter’s conference call, Cook warned of a ‘pause in purchases on iPhone’ due to ‘frequent reports about future iPhones.’ Even though Apple leaked the iPhone 8 design highlights itself this week, don’t expect Cook to refer to t

Google’s Gboard application received a major upgrade on iOS, incorporating two of the tech giant’s best-known products to the add-on keyboard to make messaging even easier. Rolling out now for iPhone and iPad, Gboard has added support for Google Maps and YouTube, plus the ability to make your own in-app drawings to spice up conversations. By hitting the Google Maps tab on the Gboard toolbar, users can now send their location or share an address instantly. Gboard’s latest tricks are available now

But today is where we draw the line: an anonymous group of hackers have just leaked episodes of Ballers, Room 104 and, worst of all, the script for next week’s episode of Game of Thrones. According to the hackers themselves, however, they’re just getting started and have alluded to the fact that they might have obtained full episodes of future Season 7 Game of Thrones episodes. The greatest leak of cyber space [sic] era is happening,” an anonymous email sent to the EW reporters on Sunday said. I

Samsung revealed today it’s developed LTE modems for the next generation of its Exynos mobile processors, ones that support six carrier aggregation, or 6CA. Well, this is a first in the industry, Samsung said, and an achievement that unlocks a max download speed of 1.2 gigabits per second (Gbps). While Samsung’s current Exynos 9 Series (8895) modem supports 5CA and turned the S8 into the first gigabit-speed phone, Samsung added one more bandwidth in its newest modem to generate the .2 Gbps boost