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Science meets science fiction

Imagine being alone and stranded for more than a year.

Google Research has quietly made a breakthrough in the emerging area of image recognition and rapid video analysis — a breakthrough that has significant implications for pedestrian detection. Pedestrian detection refers to the analysis of statistics of pedestrian scale, occlusion and location. It gives detection systems a base of knowledge under which to operate.

The CEO of embattled Avid Life Media, the firm that operates the infidelity website AshleyMadison.com, stepped down today, according to the Canadian company.

A U.S. appeals court has sided with the National Security Agency, striking down a lower court's injunction ordering the agency to stop collecting some domestic telephone records.

Predicting the weather is an inexact science. The weatherman often seems to get it wrong, and you find you really didn't need to lug that umbrella around on what turned out to be a sunny day.

The U.S. Department of Defense is teaming with Apple, Boeing, Harvard University and other organizations to develop flexible electronics and sensors that could be placed in uniforms or inside ships and aircraft.

Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier this week was awarded 560,000 shares, worth approximately $57.7 million, receiving the full amount of a grant due him because of Apple's performance on Wall Street over the last two years.

While service providers such as AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon have long touted the capabilities of their networks, many of the large Web-scale providers are now openly disclosing their internally developed network designs.

Intel has invested millions of dollars in a Chinese drone maker as it hopes to catch up to Google and Amazon. 

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Intelligence everywhere is the mantra of our increasingly connected planet and nowhere is this more apparent than in news Apple and others will help the US military develop wearable technologies.

The Pentagon today announced plans to work with Apple, Boeing, Harvard and 160 others within the newly announced Flexible Hybrid Electronic Institute. The aim is to use high-end printing technologies to “create stretchable electronics that could be embedded with sensors and worn by soldiers... Читать дальше...

It may take some time for Apple to see any damages from its patent infringement dispute with Samsung Electronics.

Mobile gaming company DeNA has launched a live streaming app that lets users stream anything on their smartphones, from chats to apps and video. 

For the first time, Facebook recorded more than a billion active users in a 24-hour period. We're told that Monday saw about 15% of the world's population log in to watch cat videos, argue about politics, stalk ex-lovers, and publicly complain about bad service.

Companies are spending billions on tools and engineering to analyse big data, though many are hampered by one little problem: they still don't know what to do with all the data they collect.

Mobile Web browsing is all about finding what you need quickly and with as little hassle as possible -- at least, in theory. In the real world, the experience of surfing sites from your smartphone or tablet is often anything but enjoyable.

Samsung is offering not one but two big high-end smartphones this year -- and while the Galaxy Note 5 is the more prominent product of the pair, the Galaxy S6 Edge+ is an eye-catching alternative.

Google will stop some Flash content from automatically playing starting Sept. 1, a move it decided on earlier this year to improve browser performance.

Earlier this week, 1 billion people logged into Facebook in a single day, marking a new milestone for the social network.

Flashback to the mid-1990s, when this psychologist pilot fish finds himself IT manager at a large mental health center because management has decided he "wasn't afraid of the computers."

Missing from the ranks of businesses that accept Apple Pay are small retailers like food trucks and local coffee shops that may lack the capital to invest in sales terminals for accepting mobile payments.