This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. The refugees I met in Germany told me unfathomable tales of horror. I heard of family and friends killed in bombings, of being tortured by militants and of boats …

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. I didn’t expect to have tears in my eyes while on assignment in Munich. But that was before I saw a group of Muslim refugees holding signs of peace and hope. I was in …

Square Enix, creator of the venerable Final Fantasy video game series, has launched a teaser website for a new role-playing game that will launch not on a powerful next-gen console, but on the humble Apple Watch. The website calls the game Cosmos Rings, and simply states it’s coming soon. It’s safe to assume that the specific mention of “Apple Watch”, …

When you’re perched at the top of a waterfall, fiddling with the aperture on a giant camera and leaning to frame your shot just right, you’re taking a risk. You might fall in. You might drop your camera. You might screw up the shot. You might get wet. But if you know what it takes to nail this photo, you’ll …

Some BT and Plusnet customers are facing their second day with disrupted internet services, following outages due to “power failures,” BT said. BT acknowledged the problem yesterday, but the issues are persisting today, with BT’s service tracker still listing the problems as “ongoing”. BT said in a statement “We apologise to those BT customers who had problems connecting to some …

How can an already brilliant bargain phone like the Moto G4 get any better? By coming with pure, unadulterated Android and getting even cheaper. The Moto G4 Play will hit UK shelves in August and will cost only £129, cutting £40 off what was already an extremely reasonable price. That’s unambiguously good news, but I’m less sure why Moto needs …

Getting a close-up look at something with a DJI drone previously meant flying the thing closer to the subject. DJI’s new camera module — the Zenmuse Z3 — comes with a built-in optical zoom, giving you a closer view, without risking smashing up your fancy flying machine. The camera has a 3.5x optical zoom, with a 2x digital zoom, combined …

The BBC will for the first time make all of its radio services available to listeners outside of the UK, via the iPlayer Radio app. The Republic of Ireland will be the first country to benefit, with the British broadcaster saying it’s the “first stage of a global rollout”. No other countries have yet been announced. Available for free on …

We’ve all been there. You find a lovely pub deep in the heart of the countryside, and there’s no signal to post a picture of your food to Instagram! Vodafone is hoping to tackle this living nightmare with a new scheme that offers phone signal boosting technology in community hubs (pubs, village halls and those adorable little shops) in rural …

Say cheerio to your pocketful of microSD cards — Samsung’s new Universal Flash Storage (UFS) cards are here to give them a swift lesson in the ceaseless march of progression. The new cards are as small as microSD cards, but they’re much faster. Samsung promises the cards can achieve read speeds up to 530 megabytes per second, which is five …