Sony’s camera sensors are found not just in its own phones, but also in those made by its rivals across the industry, including the likes of Apple and Huawei. But if Sony does build some of the best mobile camera tech, making remarkable advancements in downsizing sensors without affecting their quality, why aren’t its own …

Watch the newest Star Wars movie with Sphero BB-8, and movie nights will never be the same again. Everyone’s favorite charismatic droid was granted new powers on Tuesday, courtesy of a Sphero app update. Now if you watch “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” with BB-8 by your side, the little bot will listen and respond to the film as it …

Apple’s new iPhone SE is at greater risk of catching the bends than its bigger brethren. Tests conducted by SquareTrade, which sells extended warranties for mobile devices, found the just-released 4-inch iPhone SE to be weaker than the 4.7-inch iPhone 6S and the 5-5-inch 6S Plus. Although the iPhone SE is thicker than the 6S or 6S Plus, SquareTrade said …

The bets are off for fantasy college sports. A deal between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and two online fantasy-sports giants, DraftKings and FanDuel, suspends betting on fantasy college sports indefinitely. All college contests will cease after the college basketball games played this week, ESPN reported Thursday. The agreement resolves months of discussion that involved not only the NCAA and …

Microsoft is making sure its new Web browser can be part of the war on Internet ads. At its Build conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Microsoft outlined improvements to the new Edge browser it introduced with the Windows 10 operating system last year. High on the list is technology that will let you customize the browser’s behavior, for example, …

On any given day, the area near the zebra crossing outside London’s Abbey Road Studios is chockablock full of tourists waiting in turn to re-create the iconic cover shot of the famous Beatles album. Now those tourists can wander into the recording facility, take a seat behind a drum kit and make like Ringo. Well, sort of. In a blog …

Apparently, waking up grumpy is a universal trait for teens. Microsoft’s Tay, the artificial-intelligence teenage chatbot, was put to bed last week after its exposure to Twitter left it a horny racist. But after a short nap, it awoke on Wednesday to spew nonsensical rubbish for a couple of hours before dozing off again. Teenagers, eh? The AI Twitter bot …

Here’s a master class in how not to respond to a terrorist incident. A man from London who tweeted about accosting a Muslim woman in the street regarding this week’s terror attacks in Belgium has been arrested, the BBC reported Thursday. The tweet, which went viral, read: “I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon. I asked her to explain …

Google has finally shed some light on when Android Pay will arrive in the UK, after launching the service six months ago in the US. The mobile payments service, which already has several major British banking partners on board, will be available in “the next few months,” Google said in a blog post Wednesday. Android Pay will support MasterCard and …

If you were expecting Apple to unveil a new smartwatch at Monday’s event, you may be feeling a little disappointed today. What we got instead was a price cut and some new bands for the existing Apple Watch. But Apple isn’t the only smartwatch maker that has skipped out on introducing a new timepiece so far in 2016. Two of …