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Samsung, LG improve smartphone cameras, turn to virtual reality 22 Feb 2016 - 07:48 am

A visitor takes a photo of the new Galaxy 7 mobile device by South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation Samsung presented on February 21,...

Smartphones to replace cards at bank machines 21 Feb 2016 - 07:40 am

Washington: Here's another use for the smartphone as it invades daily life: in place of your debit card at your bank cash machine....

Indian Firm launches world's cheapest smartphone 20 Feb 2016 - 05:45 pm

Ashok Chadha (2-R), President of Ringing Bells Pvt. Ltd., along with unidentified Ringing Bells official shows the 'Freedom 251' smartphone after its launch...

Pluto's largest moon likely fractured by sub-surface ocean: NASA 20 Feb 2016 - 11:19 am

A close-up of the canyons on Charon, Pluto's big moon, taken by New Horizons during its close approach to the Pluto system last...

Growing evidence of Zika link with microcephaly, WHO says 20 Feb 2016 - 12:00 am

BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY GENEVA: Evidence is growing of a link between the Zika virus and potential birth defects in babies, the World Health...

Apple warns users against changing date to May 1970 or earlier 18 Feb 2016 - 10:28 am

Apple on its website warned iPhone users not to fall for an internet hoax that leaves handsets useless and irreparable. A fake advertisement...

Apple launches payments service in crowded China market 18 Feb 2016 - 08:20 am

Logos of China UnionPay are seen on bank cards in this photo illustration taken in Beijing. PHOTO: REUTERS Shanghai: Apple on Thursday launched...

'World's cheapest smartphone' to be launched in India 17 Feb 2016 - 11:35 am

New Delhi: A little-known Indian company will on Wednesday launch a smartphone believed to be the cheapest in the world, targeting a market...

World's first microchip-powered device to mimic kidney functions 16 Feb 2016 - 11:15 am

Washington: A team of US nephrologists is developing first-of-its kind implantable artificial kidney with microchip filters and living kidney cells that will be...

App reviews: Save the Line, Pac Man 15 Feb 2016 - 10:46 am

Screenshots of Pac Man app from itunes store. By Hayley Tsukayama Save the Line This quick little puzzler requires fast reflexes and lots...

Intelligent robots threaten millions of jobs 14 Feb 2016 - 07:44 am

Washington: Advances in artificial intelligence will soon lead to robots that are capable of nearly everything humans do, threatening tens of millions of...

This is how Twitter's new timeline works 13 Feb 2016 - 06:04 pm

By Hayley Tsukayama Well, Twitter fans. The apocalypse has come. Twitter's reordered timeline is here. And it's, um, not so bad, actually. In...

The future of television, according to Google 13 Feb 2016 - 05:09 pm

Google is increasingly interested in building an alternative to the traditional cable set-top box, according to a top exec for Google Fiber. Milo...

Drones helping scientists collect high-resolution data 13 Feb 2016 - 11:23 am

The Swiss Post drone being flown at a presentation. Reuters New York: Earth and environmental scientists are relying on affordable advanced technological drones...

Picasa being shutter in shift to Google Photos 13 Feb 2016 - 12:00 am

San Francisco: Google on Friday said it will be shuttering Picasa to shift its focus to the new Google Photos service launched less...

A 'magical' space-time ripple that wasn't believed, at first 12 Feb 2016 - 12:00 am

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) research optic is shown in this undated photo released by Caltech/MIT/LIGO Laboratory on February 8, 2016. The twin...