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ISS using Google’s Project tango to power robots

Mar 20, 2014

One of Google’s two ATAP prototype smartphones, Project Tango is designed to track 3D movement using a multitude of cameras and vision processors....

WeChat faces faces account crackdowns due to Chinese censorship

Mar 14, 2014

An inherent problem of popularity on the Chinese internet is that the censors pay much closer attention. On March 13th...

New Google results layout tries to make ads less conspicuous

Mar 12, 2014

Google is testing out yet another new layout design featuring a few significant changes to the search results. The new...

Researchers boost malware detection on Android devices

Mar 7, 2014

Researchers have developed a new tool to detect and contain the type of malware that attempts root exploits in Android...

Sony Computer Entertainment CEO to step down at the end of the month

Mar 7, 2014

Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton will step down from his position at the PlayStation company at the end...

Qualcomm and Tunstall collaborate to make it easy to access biometric data

Mar 6, 2014

Qualcomm Life, a subsidiary of Qualcomm, and Tunstall Healthcare, one of the leading providers of technology-enabled care services, announced its...

U.S. government thinks that Sprint is overcharging them for spying privileges

Mar 4, 2014

Sprint and the U.S. government said on Monday they will face off in court over how much money law enforcement...

ID-checking palm scanners could be coming to smartphones courtesy of Fujitsu

Mar 3, 2014

While others obsess over fingers, Fujitsu wants your palms instead. Going against the flow, it plans to employ palm-vein scanning on smartphones...

Author of SpyEye may have been repsonsible for the Tilon bank Trojan

Mar 2, 2014

When first discovered by Trusteer in 2012, the Tilon banking malware received its name because of some similarities with the Silon banking...

€1.57 billion patent lawsuit against Apple gets dismissed by German court

Feb 28, 2014

German patent licensing company IPCom was handed a setback today when both of its patent infringement lawsuits against Apple were...

Hulu sells its Japanese business to Nippon in order to focus on the U.S.

Feb 28, 2014

Less than three years after launching a leading online video subscription service in Japan, Hulu has decided to bow out...

360 million stolen account credentials are up for sale on the internet

Feb 26, 2014

A cybersecurity firm said on Tuesday that it uncovered stolen credentials from some 360 million accounts that are available for...