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Staring at a phone or tablet before bed may be hurting sleep, study finds
Dec 22, 2014 (UPI)
Staring at electronic devices before bed could be ruining people's sleep, according to a new study. The devices, like iPhones or e-readers, emit a light that ca...
China's Xiaomi raises more than $1 bn in funding: report
Dec 21, 2014 (AFP)
China's top smartphone seller Xiaomi Corp. is raising more than $1 billion in a fresh round of funding, a move which would raise its valuation above $45 billion...
Apple co-founder Wozniak skeptical on smartwatches, Google Glass
Dec 19, 2014 (AFP)
Steve Wozniak says he is no fan of smartwatches and believes Google Glass will fail as he cautioned not to expect the company he co-founded, Apple, to always le...
Hackers trick way into ICANN computers
Dec 18, 2014 (AFP)
The private agency that acts as a gatekeeper for the Internet on Wednesday said that hackers tricked their way into its computers. A "spearfishing" attack aimed...
Online privacy to remain thorny issue: survey
Dec 18, 2014 (AFP)
Online privacy will remain a thorny issue over the next decade, without a widely accepted system that balances user rights and personal data collection, a surve...
Canada court orders Apple to hand over iPhone documents
Dec 17, 2014 (AFP)
A Federal Court in Canada on Wednesday ordered Apple's Canadian subsidiary to hand over nearly three years worth of documents to a watchdog agency as part of an...
Control on shape of light particles opens the way to 'quantum internet'
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
In the same way as we now connect computers in networks through optical signals, it could also be possible to connect future quantum computers in a 'quantum int...
After Google, Dutch privacy watchdog probes Facebook
Dec 16, 2014 (AFP)
The Dutch government-affiliated watchdog said Tuesday it is probing changes in Facebook's privacy policy, the latest skirmish in a wider fight over the commerci...
US appeals court hears Apple e-books challenge
Dec 15, 2014 (AFP)
A US judge Monday expressed doubt towards the government's e-book antitrust case against Apple, saying the tech giant was challenging "predatory" pricing from r...
Microsoft's Skype moves toward auto-translation
Dec 15, 2014 (AFP)
Microsoft announced Monday a new step toward real-time translation, launching a Spanish-English test program using its Skype messaging service. "Today, we are e...
Wearable cameras find person's unique motion signature (like fingerprints)
Dec 12, 2014 (UPI)
No one wears a body camera quite like you. It's not the auteur framing or sepia tones, but the way the camera shakes, rattles and rolls as your walk down the st...
Internet trend puts users center stage
Dec 11, 2014 (AFP)
Sensors that track steps, pulse, diet and more marked a wearable computing fashion trend this year as they evolve from measuring what we've done to telling us w...
Instagram hits 300 million users, passes Twitter
Dec 10, 2014 (AFP)
Instagram, the photo-sharing social network owned by Facebook, announced Wednesday it has more than 300 million users as it unveiled a new system to authenticat...
Amazon allows some buyers to 'make an offer'
Dec 09, 2014 (AFP)
Amazon said Tuesday it would allow online haggling between buyers and sellers for some items sold by third parties using the US online retail giant. The "make a...
Internet overload? No, survey says
Dec 08, 2014 (AFP)
Most people are happy with the Internet as a source of on-demand information, with only a small percentage hit by "information overload," a survey of US users s...
Steve Jobs gives posthumous testimony in Apple trial
Dec 06, 2014 (AFP)
Three years after the tech world mourned his passing, Apple mastermind Steve Jobs was back from the dead Friday giving posthumous testimony in a video at a US a...
World's fastest 2-D camera may enable new scientific discoveries
Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)
A team of biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineeri...
Engineers build world's fastest 2-D camera
Dec 04, 2014 (UPI)
Light photons are pretty fast. In fact, they're the speediest thing humans have ever recorded in the universe. As such, they're pretty difficult to capture on f...
Intel, Luxottica team up for smart eyewear
Dec 03, 2014 (AFP)
US tech giant Intel said Wednesday it was joining forces with Italy's Luxottica to develop connected eyewear, with the first products due in 2015. "The ultimate...
California chemists develop rewritable paper
Dec 02, 2014 (UPI)
It's often said that we're living in the Digital Age. But even Internet startups use paper. In fact, some research suggests businesses continue to retain 90 per...
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