Nokia is killing off further development of its mega-expensive VR Ozo camera as part of shift in focus to digital health tech, the company announced Tuesday. Blaming slower-than-expected growth in the VR market, Nokia said it would continue to focus on licensing opportunities and fulfilling its commitments to existing customers, but would otherwise redirect its …

Eleven years after Sony put the adorable robotic dog Aibo to sleep, everyone’s favorite electronic pooch is back. Aibo will return by the middle of 2018 as a household robot equipped with AI and internet connectivity, according a report in Nikkei Asian Review on Sunday. The mobile robot will be designed to control household appliances via voice control as part …

Trying to get tickets for a sell-out production at London’s National Theatre is difficult enough at the best of times, but if you’re hard of hearing, it’s trickier still. Not only must you book tickets for one of a small handful of “captioned” shows, but you must also try to secure the seats in the part of the auditorium that …

Google showed off a whole bunch of new tech on Wednesday in San Francisco, and the great news for Brits is that it will mostly all be available for preorder in the UK immediately. First up is the Pixel 2, the successor to 2016’s sell-out Pixel phone. The smaller version of the phone, with the 5-inch screen, will cost £629 …

If you have a long shopping list after Google‘s event on Wednesday, we don’t blame you. But before you start adding to your basket with abandon, check out this offer that will help you consolidate. Almost immediately as the Pixel 2 was announced, the phone was available for preorder on the Google online store. As soon as preorders opened, Google …

Then-President Barack Obama warned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the impact of fake news on the 2016 US presidential election nine days after the chief executive dismissed the idea as “crazy,” the Washington Post reported Sunday. The two met in private on November 19 at a world leaders forum in Lima, Peru, according to people briefed on the exchange. Obama told Zuckerberg …

British Prime Minister Theresa May will be joined by the leaders of France and Italy in calling for terrorist content to be removed from the internet within one to two hours after it has been posted. World leaders and internet giants including Facebook, Google and Microsoft are set to meet at the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday …

Google celebrated the life of Samuel Johnson on Monday with an animated Doodle defining the word “lexicographer”. Monday would have marked Johnson’s 308th birthday. He was well known as a lexicographer himself, as well as a poet, essayist, critic and biographer. It took him nine years of work to publish his “A Dictionary of the English Language” in 1755, and …

The 2017 iPhone cohort is here, which means it’s the second-best day of the year for Apple fans. The best day of the year, of course, is yet to come. It’s the day the newest iPhones become available, which isn’t until Sept. 22 (although you can preorder from Sept. 15). It’s set to be kind of like Christmas, except rather than getting …

When Apple debuted Face ID, one of the iPhone X‘s headline features on Tuesday, it appeared to go… wrong. Ask most people who watched as Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, was forced to reach for a backup device to show off the facial recognition tool, and they would probably say that the demo failed. But not so …