It may not have the 4K HDR screen of its Premium sibling, but the Sony Xperia XZ still offers many of the great features you’d expect from a flagship smartphone. There are a vast swathe of cases to choose from for the Sony Xperia XZ, but we’ve managed to pick out 10 of our favorites for your delectation. These are the 10 best Sony Xperia XZ cases around right now. SLEO’s rubberized back case cover is made from the latter material, which feels great in the hand and provides a hard protective shel

Space may be the final frontier, but Google is giving us Earthlings a closer look at a place most of us will likely never visit: the International Space Station (ISS). The search giant partnered with European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet to capture imagery from inside the ISS for Google Maps’ Street View. You can get to all of the ISS imagery through this dedicated page, but note to see the Street View captures (such as this dizzying one) you’ll need to click the “View on Google Maps” l

You can download Apple’s exclusive video app for free on the App Store today. Original article below…A new Apple-exclusive video app called Clips has launched today alongside the company’s refreshed iPad. It looks to be half way between the iPhone Photos app feature Memories and specialist video editing software iMovies. The app will be landing on the Apple App Store next month, but an exact release date for Clips is not yet confirmed. Note that, as an iOS exclusive, you won’t be able to downl

At one end of the line, which we’ll call the ‘low-effort’ end you’ve got public transport. But a world where the driverless car kills of public transport could be a nightmare for cities worldwide, not to mention the environment. Now, given the UITP exists to promote the views of public transit organisations it’s perhaps not surprising that it takes a view that is unashamedly pro public transport. It’s far too expensive to have train stations literally everywhere, so why not use driverless cars t

What’s more, there’s a special edition that includes the 4K disc, a 3D Blu-ray, a CD, and an actual. The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on its own is going to be $23 (£19.50), but the full set is going to come in at an eye-watering $179. The 4K Ultra HD special edition is going to be released on October 3, although the Amazon link is already live if you want to pre-order. The previous special edition of the sci-fi classic with the Terminator skull and standard HD Blu-ray is available on Amazon second hand.

So, the news that Google is changing its home page for the first time since 1996 concerns me. Has Google forgotten that simplicity was such a huge part of its success? On the subject of Google Rewards, it’s a real eye opener when you realise the price you put on your hard-fought privacy is around $0.06 in Google Play credits. Google has toyed with turning itself into a web portal before with the ill-fated iGoogle, but the less said about that the better. If Google lets pizzazz get in the way of

Google’s homepage on the web – which has pretty much always been a sparse white page with a simple logo and search box – is about to become very different, as the company intends to populate it with a personalised newsfeed, Facebook-style. According to a report in The Guardian, this sort of tailored newsfeed will become a part of Google’s main search page in the ‘near future’. It’s a bold move for sure, but a lot rests on exactly how this will be implemented on the homepage, and at the moment, G

In other words, these dueling dozen-core offerings have a large gulf of 600MHz between them in AMD’s favor, at least when it comes to the base clock. This could potentially be up there with its Ryzen rival which has a boost clock of 4GHz. The 8-core 7820X is also capable of Turbo to 4.3GHz, from a base clock of 3.6GHz in this case. That said, the base clock of 2.9GHz for the 7920X is still a surprising revelation, without a doubt. While Intel’s 7920X will retail at $1,189 (around £920, AU$1,500)

The exception to this not-quite-a rule, however, is the Spider-Man games. Be the spiderI go to a Spider-Man game because I want to explore the highs and lows of New York at high speeds with control and fluidity like a city-slicking Tarzan. There have been a lot of Spider-Man games across a lot of different platforms. The Spider-Man game that stands out to me most for achieving the former (but admittedly utterly failing when it comes to the latter) is Spider-Man 2 from 2004. Gone were the side-sc

New photos of an early iPhone 8 prototype suggests the phone may be the first Apple phone to have a rear fingerprint scanner. Two new photos claiming to show the prototype casing of the iPhone 8 appeared on Chinese social networking site Baidu and the biggest change is the appearance of a slot that looks like a hole for a rear-facing fingerprint scanner. Previously it was rumored Apple wanted to include the fingerprint scanner within the screen for the iPhone 8, so it’s interesting Apple has now

Microsoft has unveiled a sleek smart thermostat called GLAS that’s backed by its Cortana digital assistant. This is Microsoft’s first smart thermostat, and it looks incredibly promising – not to mention utterly gorgeous – based on a teaser video Microsoft released today on YouTube. Microsoft’s video suggests the thermostat is meant for homes, businesses, doctors’ offices and just about anywhere else you can imagine smart atmospheric controls being put to use. Microsoft’s new smart thermostat is

Amazon has begun rolling out Amazon Pay Places, a new feature that allows Amazon customers to make and purchase orders at brick-and-mortar establishments, according to TechCrunch. The system is sort-of an extension of Amazon Pay, which is akin to PayPal by allowing online retailers to accept payments though customers’ Amazon accounts. Rather than internet stores, however, Amazon Pay Places uses customer’s payment credentials at real-life locations, similar to mobile payment services like Apple P

They’ve all just left Netflix for the cool new kid on the block, Hulu. To that end, Hulu recently announced a partnership with FOX that will bring nearly 3,000 episodes from FOX’s back catalogue to the streaming service starting today and rolling out over the next few weeks. While the deal was announced today, it will take some time to see the entire catalogue of shows to be added to the streaming service. Hulu, by comparison, only reported a subscriber base of around 12 million in May 2016, and

However, this is not necessarily the case in an online D&D game. Sure, at a table, where our ears can (sometimes) hear and understand multiple voices at once – what we call crosstalk in the media world – it’s fine, but it’s a bane of many an online D&D game. Between the two, developing a mutual respect of one’s “air time” during an online D&D game is crucial. For some examples for how it’s done well, just watch any well-produced live D&D game on the internet, like the aforementioned Critical Rol

Apple may be working on a way for the Touch ID sensor in the iPhone to contact emergency services quickly and more easily. An Apple patent published today by the US Patent and Trademark Office shows a method for using a biometric sensor similar to the fingerprint scanner on the iPhone 6 and up’s home button to discreetly trigger an emergency call. Originally filed in March 2013, the patent describes using a system that can recognize the frequency, force, and even specific fingerprint used on the

Today, that changes as the tech giant has launched a website dedicated to publicizing its machine learning research. The Apple Machine Learning Journal is a platform where Apple engineers will post “about their work using machine learning technologies to help build innovative products for millions of people around the world.” There’s already a post up on the Journal: Improving the Realism of Synthetic Images. The goal of this process is to improve training for machine learning systems based on i

Avast, the biggest antivirus company outside China, has just announced its purchase of Piriform, creator of the enormously popular system optimization tool CCleaner. CCleaner has over 130 million users worldwide, on both Android and Windows, and is a powerful new string in Avast’s bow. “Avast and CCleaner are the top two downloaded products on popular download sites. Last year, Avast bought rival PC security firm AVG, bringing 400 million new users under its wing. Don’t worry if you rely on CCle

You change your clothes everyday, so why not switch up your Apple Watch and Apple Watch 2 band, too? Thankfully for you, there are a ton of Apple Watch bands to choose from. These are the best Apple Watch bands currently available from both Apple and third-party manufacturers. Thankfully, this works just as well with the Apple Watch Sport as the real gold Edition. Paired with the Apple Watch, this is probably one of the slickest bands you can make your own.

Original article continues below…Onstage at E3 2017 Microsoft officially announced the next entry in its long-running racing series, Forza Motorsport 7. Dynamic weatherFor the first time in the series, in Forza Motorsport 7 the weather will change during your race. Once playing Forza Motorsport 7, the game’s visuals can be customized to reflect the fact that you’re playing with a wheel. Forza Motorsport 7 wish listNow entering its 12th year, there are still lots of features we’d like to see ma

Probably over £170 (around $210/AU$275)Hottest leaks:A July 25 launchWe could see the Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus very soon, as Motorola is holding an event on July 25. Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus screenHottest leaks:A 5.2-inch Moto G5SA 5.5-inch Moto G5S Plus1080 x 1920 resolutionsCredit: Evan BlassIt looks very likely that the Moto G5S will have a 5.2-inch 1080p screen, while the Moto G5S Plus will have a 5.5-inch 1080p display. Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus designHottest leaks:Full metal bodyTiny