If you want your wedding proposal to really soar, call in a drone. A new Wedding Proposal Package from UK drone retailer DronesDirect includes everything you need to get engaged in style (ring sold separately, of course). The kit includes rental of a DJI Phantom 4 and a DJI Inspire One with pilots — the …

Remember 2015? When we all had bad blood and couldn’t feel our faces when we were uptown funkin’? Turns out 2015 was the most successful year the music industry has seen in 15 years, according to new figures. That’s in terms of growth, anyway: People don’t spend nearly as much on music as they did in the heady days of …

Uber has signed up 50,000 people for its UberMilitary program, and the company hopes that signing up even more drivers will cut down on alcohol-related incidents around military bases. UberMilitary, launched in September 2014, is focused on recruiting US service members, veterans and military spouses to become drivers for Uber. They join the ranks of civilians using the ride-sharing app …

https://www.instagram.com/p/BD3SEMgA5mm Batman has his Batsignal, but it seems Superman favours a more modern method of communication. Superman actor Henry Cavill took a break Wednesday from promoting comic book car crash “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” to promote the new Huawei P9 smartphone instead. At the phone’s launch event in London, Cavill appeared on stage to talk up the new …

Now playing: Watch this: Tinier, cheaper, iPhone SE arrives 1:25 You can order Apple’s new 4-inch iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro this very week — read on to find out when you can get your hands on the new smartphone and tablet and how much they’ll cost you. Apple today announced the new iPhone and iPad Pro at a …

You’ll soon need a licence fee even if you don’t have a telly and you only watch iPlayer on your PC, phone or tablet. The government has promised to bring in new laws closing the iPlayer loophole “as soon as practicable.” “The BBC works on the basis that all who watch it pay for it,” said Culture Secretary John Whittingdale. …

Near twenty years ago, Christina Cyr and Linda Inagawa started working at Microsoft on the same day. All week they kept finding their new colleagues mixing them up, until on the Friday they finally met. They’ve been friends ever since — and now, they’ve teamed up to change the way mobile phones are designed. Cyr and Inagawa’s company is called …

I love live music. Hearing music played by talented musicians is…wow, I wish that guy in front of me would stop talking. Anyway, to catch the nuances of your favourite…blimey, the acoustics on this side of the room are awful. Right, as I was saying…what? I said, AS I WAS SAYING…forget it, it’s too loud in here. Yes, there’s a …

Walking into a store and demanding cash from the register usually ends badly for all concerned — but an app called Spare replaces a stocking mask and a sawn-off when you want to withdraw cash straight from the till of any shop. Phones are increasingly muscling in on the stuff you’d previously need your wallet for. Mobile-payment services like Apple …

What does the world sound like from inside your head? Or to a kid on the mean streets of New York? Or the cop confronting him? Those are the kinds of questions being asked by virtual-reality creators keen to use sound to take you places both familiar and untraveled. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where film fans and filmmakers …