After my D300 died I bought a Nikon D7100,which I used alongside a Nikon D4 and more recently a Nikon D810. In short, the Nikon D500 looked like the perfect body at an affordable priceEarly last year I switched on my computer one morning to see that Nikon had announced the D500, alongside the D5, and I almost fell off my office chair in surprise. I was one of those who had stopped believing Nikon would ever give us a proper upgrade to the D300S. The D500 is feature-packed, but before getting int

Electric cars are happening. Alliance 2022 is by no-means the only horse in the race. With Uber and Lyft both working on self-driving car tech, its set to be a competitive market in the years to come. To get a feel of just how big, Alliance 2022 is estimating combined revenues of $240 billion by the end of its six year plan. What is interesting about Alliance 2022, is that it has the possibility to built an infrastructure from the ground up, by utilizing the combined forces of car manufacturers.

The Chrome web browser is tackling one of the most annoying things about browsing the internet these days: auto playing videos that blast out music and sound, even if you have no interest in the video. Starting from Chrome 64, which is due to be released in January 2018, autoplay media will only be allowed if the media doesn’t play sound, of if the user has shown interest in the video. According to a post on the Chromium Blog this will “allow autoplay to occur when users want media to play, and

Dell has begun taking pre-orders for its Dell Visor mixed reality headset, one of the most high profile headsets that will be coming to Windows 10, and which supports Microsoft’s mixed reality initiative. In the US, you can pre-order the Dell Visor from the Dell website, and it will cost $349.99. In the UK, you can pre-order the Dell Visor from PCWorld, which is sold with the controllers for £429.99. Sadly, the Dell Visor is not currently available to pre-order in Australia, but we will update t

The big new feature of the Apple Watch 3 is LTE, letting you use data and take calls without your iPhone, but while you can roam internationally with your phone, you apparently won’t be able to with the Watch 3. A Reddit user asked Apple support about roaming and was reportedly told exactly that, so for example a European Apple Watch 3 won’t work with a US carrier and vice versa. But worse than that, at least for those in Europe, the Apple Watch 3 also won’t let you roam across countries in the

Apple executive Craig Federighi has confirmed that there will be a way to temporarily disable Face ID by pressing the side buttons on the iPhone X. Face ID is one of the big talking points coming off the back of the iPhone X announcement this week. So you can look cool and be safe if you choose to take the plunge on the iPhone X when it comes out later this year. Want to know what we think of the iPhone X from spending time with it? Check out our iPhone X hands-on review.

Apple announced the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X earlier this week and while there was no mention of the battery specs inside the phones a new report claims two of the devices will feature a downgraded battery compared to the previous generation. The iPhone 8 will reportedly have a 1,821mAh battery while the iPhone 8 Plus will have a 2,675mAh cell inside. That’s down from the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus that had 1,960mAh and 2,900mAh batteries respectively, a decrease of 7% and 7.8% r

Countries and companies all around the world are pledging to phase out petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles over the next decade in favour of their electric cousins. To that end, a consortium of Swiss companies has just announced that it’s converting a huge dumper truck into what will become the world’s largest electric vehicle. Instead of wasting heat energy on the brakes as the truck descends, the energy can be harvested and used to charge the batteries. Inside the truck, its 4.5-ton battery sy

The Android 8.0 Oreo update was released last month, but so far only a handful of devices have received the update. Today, Motorola joins that list of companies, with the Android 8.0 Oreo update confirmed for several devices across its line-up. The Lenovo-owned company won’t be updating the Moto G4 series and older generation Moto X series devices. Motorola will be updated a total of 10 devices across the Moto Z, Moto X and the Moto G series to Android 8.0 Oreo. To recall, the Android 8.0 Oreo u

Move over, iPhone X. My bill for the new iPhone 8 Plus was over $1,000 today, according to my Apple Pay receipt. My iPhone 7 Plus confirmed the payment with an audible chime, indicating my bank account has been depleted of funds. Yes, Apple announced that its new iPhone 8 with a 4.7-inch screen would cost $699 (£699, AU$1,079), but I wanted the larger iPhone 8 Plus with a 5.5-inch screen. Naturally, we’ve put a selection of deal pages together for the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus if you want to ch

Love it or leave it, the trend of removing the headphone jack is here to stay, and the new Essential Phone is no exception. We also got an explanation as to why the headphone jack was left off the Essential Phone in the first place. The headphone jack accessory sounds to be next, while cameras are another area of focus. Essential Phone with the clip-on 360 camera accessoryCurrently, the only available Essential Phone accessory is a 360-degree camera that costs $179 (no prices for the UK or Austr

Bose’s next pair of high-end wireless headphones look like they’ll include a little something extra: support for Google Assistant. Several leaks, including an image in a Bose newsletter spotted last month by The Verge, have pointed to the existence of the QuietComfort 35 II, an upgrade to the current-gen QuietComfort 35. This would make the Bose QuietComfort 35 II among the first set of smart cans to rock Google’s digital helper. A Reddit user also posted purported images of the retail packaging

Motorola has announced that just about every phone in its current fleet will soon be updated to Android Oreo, the latest operating system from Google. This comes shortly after the cookie-influenced update landed on the Google Pixel, Google Pixel XL and depending on your carrier, the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. Moto’s early support for the latest Android is par for the course, as it was one of the first to not just back, but deliver on its promise to update its large batch of phones to Android Nougat.

Don’t expect Apple to deliver a new MacBooks or iPad between now and the end of the year, even though it just gave us an iPhone X redesign, a refreshed its iPhone 8, LTE Apple Watch 3, and 4K Apple TV. The Apple Watch 3 earned its own LTE connection. Then there’s the iPhone X, which came with a huge design overhaul, along with dual cameras, facial recognition technology and playful Animoji, among other things. The iPad refresh is another story. You should have no trouble finding great deals on i

“But,” you give voice your concerns, “aren’t games chock-full of 4K assets going to take longer to download?” As it turns out, not necessarily. With Intelligent Delivery, you won’t. Essentially, Intelligent Delivery talks to your hardware before starting a download to see what settings you’re running and then optimizes delivery for those settings. Save your game to an external hard drive and head over to a friend’s house with an Xbox One S or Xbox One X, and you’ll immediately be prompted to dow

GoPro’s last camera outing, the GoPro Hero5 Black, was a stellar effort, and now the action-cam company looks to be preparing a first for its next snapper, the GoPro Hero6 Black. The GoPro Hero6 Black will apparently feature 4K video recording at 60 frames per second (fps), a first for the GoPro line. You can see the box for yourself below:Credit: Photo RumorsAccording to the packaging, the GoPro Hero6 Black has a 12MP sensor, the resolution same as its predecessor. Its 4K recording capabilities

Although it didn’t say the words outright, a cryptic video posted by Google appears to confirm the launch date of October 4 for the Google Pixel 2. Google was careful not to namedrop the Pixel 2 or utter a single spec that we’ve heard so much about already through many, many leaks over time. Pixel-by-pixel analysisThe playful searches hone in on skills that the original Google Pixel was already pretty stellar at and we assume its successor will be even more proficient. Things like battery perfor

Corsair has announced what it calls the world’s fastest DDR4 memory, which operates at a ludicrous speed of 4,600MHz. That’s a big number, and converted into gigahertz the Corsair’s latest Vengeance LPX RAM kit clocks in at at 4.6GHz, which is faster than even some of the top processors like the Intel Core I7-7700K. Of course, comparing computer processors to memory isn’t quite comparing like with like, but Corsair’s latest DDR4 kit is still damned quick. The Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 4,600MHz

For seasoned professionals there’s no real substitute for Adobe’s Creative Cloud, but if you’re not ready to invest in a subscription yet, these free graphic design programs are ideal. Whether it’s creating and editing vector graphics, illustrations or infographics, we’ve picked out the best free software for the job. A powerful vector graphics tool that’s free, even for commercial useOpen source vector editor Inkscape is widely known as the free counterpart to Adobe Illustrator – and for good r

Why we need flying carsThe flying car is something born out of necessity. Being used in front of the watching world would certainly give flying cars a flying start. “Autonomous flying will also enable vehicle-to-vehicle communication and prevent two flying cars from straying into each other’s path,” says Vijayakumar. Flying cars will be driverless, and automated, and an air traffic control system for flying cars will need to be developed. “Comprehensive regulations for flying cars will take even