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Google turns smartphones into real-time translators
Jan 14, 2015 (AFP)
Google on Wednesday began turning smartphones into real-time language translators -- of both written and spoken content. The California-based Internet titan is ...
TV of the future may be a sphere
Jan 09, 2015 (AFP)
The TV of the future may not be a rectangle, but a sphere. Some visitors to the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show got a peek at this new way to view 360-degree vid...
China smartphone maker Xiaomi wants a bite of Apple
Jan 08, 2015 (AFP)
When the charismatic founder of upstart Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi took the stage at an Internet conference, he was open about his ambition: world dominati...
'Selfie sticks' give new perspective at tech show
Jan 08, 2015 (AFP)
"Selfie sticks" -- the lightweight monopods which hold smartphones to get a better angle for self portraits -- are making the tech community look at things from...
Steering a quantum path to improved internet security
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
Research conducted at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, may lead to greatly improved security of information transfer over the internet. In a paper ...
Intel CEO says computing 'unleashed' by wearables
Jan 07, 2015 (AFP)
Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said Tuesday that computing is being "unleashed" by the move to wearables as the tech giant unveiled a button-sized device ...
TV makers out to ignite market with super high-def
Jan 06, 2015 (AFP)
After several years of sluggish sales, television manufacturers are pegging growth hopes on new technologies that deliver a more immersive and interactive exper...
Taser International touts LA Police orders for weapons, body cameras
Jan 06, 2015 (UPI)
The Los Angeles Police Department is receiving body cameras and new Taser weapons as part of its new Officer Safety Plan. A total of 3,130 of the non-lethal wea...
Google domain grows as Android takes root in TVs
Jan 06, 2015 (AFP)
Google-backed Android software that leads the smartphone market is spreading to a new generation of smart televisions. Along with unveilings of new ultra high-d...
China box office sales rise 36 percent in 2014: state media
Jan 01, 2015 (AFP)
China's box office sales surged 36 percent in 2014, state-run media reported Thursday, as the world's second-largest film market after the United States added t...
Email, Internet remain top workplace tools: study
Dec 30, 2014 (AFP)
Americans see email and the Internet as the most important tools for productivity at work, and still prefer landlines over cellphones for the office, a study sh...
Evolvable internet architecture
Dec 30, 2014 (SPX)
How to improve the existing architecture to meet kinds of requirements is the key topic in the future Internet research. Professor Xu Ke and his group from Tsin...
Optogenetics captures neuronal transmission in live mammalian brain
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
Neurons, the cells of the nervous system, communicate by transmitting chemical signals to each other through junctions called synapses. This "synaptic transmiss...
Smartphone thumb skills are altering our brains
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
Every region of the body -- from the toes to the jaw and tongue -- has a particular processing area in our emotional center in the brain, the somatosensory cort...
Atom-thick CCD could capture images
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
An atomically thin material developed at Rice University may lead to the thinnest-ever imaging platform. Synthetic two-dimensional materials based on metal chal...
Sony's PlayStation 'gradually coming back'
Dec 27, 2014 (AFP)
Sony was still struggling Saturday to fully restore its online PlayStation system, three days after the Christmas day hack that also hit Microsoft's Xbox, repor...
Web outage hardly stirs Internet-free N. Korea: experts
Dec 24, 2014 (AFP)
North Korea's Internet went down this week after an apparent attack but most of its citizens will not have noticed the difference in a country that does its lev...
Smartphone use makes the brain more sensitive to touch
Dec 24, 2014 (UPI)
New research suggests the incessant touching of our smartphones is making our thumbs extra sensitive. The human sciences are only just starting to catch up to t...
The VuePod: Powerful enough for a gamer, made for an engineer
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
It's like a scene from a gamer's wildest dreams: 12 high-definition, 55-inch 3D televisions all connected to a computer capable of supporting high-end, graphics...
Telstra buys Asian telecom provider Pacnet
Dec 23, 2014 (AFP)
Cashed-up Australian telecoms giant Telstra said Tuesday it has agreed to buy Pacnet, Asia's biggest private owner of submarine communication cables, for US$697...
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