Life Style / Technology

Amazon seeks patent for buying items with a look 15 Mar 2016 - 12:50 pm

San Francisco, United States: Online retail colossus Amazon is seeking a US patent on using selfies -- instead of passwords -- for shopping...

Apple fight could escalate with demand for 'source code' 15 Mar 2016 - 12:15 pm

An Apple logo is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in downtown Brussels, Belgium March 10, 2016. REUTERS/YVES HERMAN BY JOSEPH...

Russia-Europe rocket blasts off on mission seeking life on Mars 14 Mar 2016 - 01:15 pm

The Proton-M rocket, carrying the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft, blasts from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, March 14, 2016. Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov Baikonur,...

Human Go Champion Scores 1st Win Over Machine After 3 Losses 13 Mar 2016 - 03:05 pm

The world's top Go player Lee Sedol attends a news conference after the fourth match of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match against Google's...

Coming to a hotel near you: The robot humanoid receptionist 13 Mar 2016 - 10:23 am

This file photo taken on March 09, 2016 shows robot Chihira Kanae developped by Toshiba at a welcome desk at the International Tourism...

Louisiana tops in posting hateful, abusive tweets in US: Study 12 Mar 2016 - 01:15 pm

Washington: When it comes to tweeting hateful and abusive content on the micro-blogging site Twitter, the state of Louisiana - at a rate...

Game over! Computer wins series against Go champion 12 Mar 2016 - 11:29 am

The world's top Go player Lee Sedol puts the first stone against Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo during the third match of Google...

The Trappist monk whose calligraphy inspired Steve Jobs - and influenced Apple's designs 10 Mar 2016 - 05:44 pm

Robert Palladino, circa 1978. (Courtesy of Reed College) By Niraj Chokshi Robert Palladino's name appears nowhere in Steve Jobs's lengthy authorized biography, but...

AI beats human Go grandmaster... again 10 Mar 2016 - 11:44 am

South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol makes a move during his match against AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence system developed by Google, at a...

Human vs machine Go showdown kicks off in Seoul 09 Mar 2016 - 11:31 am

A South Korean elementary student watches the historic match between South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol and the AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence system...

Go champ recalls defeat at hands of 'calm' computer 09 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

European Go champion Fan Hui shakes hands with Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind an artificial intelligence company under Google parent Alphabet. Photo courtesy:...

Ransomware aimed to shake down Mac users 08 Mar 2016 - 10:13 am

San Francisco: The bane of "ransomware" used by hackers to hold data hostage was expected to begin striking a small number of Mac...

Email inventor Ray Tomlinson dies at 74 07 Mar 2016 - 11:35 am

Washington: Ray Tomlinson, the US programmer credited with inventing email in the 1970s and choosing the "@" symbol for the messaging system, died...

Russian firm to build suborbital tourist spacecraft 06 Mar 2016 - 11:29 am

The moon is pictured above Earth in this handout photo courtesy of Col. Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency. Reuters/CSA/Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout ...

Closing the generation app 05 Mar 2016 - 03:57 pm

Residents at Westminster at Lake Ridge, a senior living community in Prince William County, listen as Christian Magnuson, 16, teaches them to use...

International Space Station's 'one year crew' returns to Earth 02 Mar 2016 - 09:09 am

US astronaut Scott Kelly broke the record for the longest single stay in space by a US astronaut after 340 days on the...

WhatsApp to end support for some BlackBerry, Nokia, Android and Windows platforms 01 Mar 2016 - 04:29 pm

Doha: By the end of 2016, WhatsApp will be ending support for WhatsApp Messenger on the following mobile platforms: BlackBerry, including BlackBerry 10...