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The entirety of what we touch, say, and do produces data – and our fingerprints are digitally over it all. On any particular day, over 1.3 billion people are connecting with each other on social media. About 9 billion ...

Microsoft is at it again, having fun with face recognition technology. The company has updated its TwinsOrNot app so that you can now find a picture of someone famous with Microsoft’s Bing image search and then compare...

Ty Walrod is the visionary behind Bright Funds, a platform designed to allow employers and other leaders to organize giving groups to giving funds.

OPINION: Apple could easily put some rougher sections of grippable metal on the phone. The looks of the device would barely suffer, and drops would go down significantly.

Pretend, for a moment, that you are building a home. You have laid its foundation, raised its walls, and now it is time to install the kitchen. As a particularly handy individual, you have assembled your own stove, with ...

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are finding new opportunities building software for governments.

While there are a few things you can't do on Android that you can on the Web, the company has a plan.

ANALYSIS: If the platform isn't special, then the content will have to be.

Dropbox has hit a big milestone.

The news arrives at a heated time for the publishing industry, as everyone fights to be the Netflix for books.

Google upgraded its Chrome OS-based videoconferencing system with a pan-tilt-zoom camera, better microphone and speaker, and better support for dual-screen displays.

EXCLUSIVE: CEO Mauro Repacci launched his company after a move to Canada from Brazil several years before, into a neighborhood he didn't like -- overpriced, no amenities, and far from public transportation.

The Twist bulb's AirPlay Tymphany speakers emit excellent sound, but the product seems to be a solution in search of a problem.

Tengelmann Ventures led the seed round.

The service helps Microsoft round out its cloud service portfolio as it competes with Amazon, Google, IBM, and others.

"UNFPA Kenya is working hard with all partners to support the Government of Kenya and the First Lady of Kenya's clarion call, 'no woman should die giving life,'" explains UNFPA Representative to Kenya, Siddharth (Sid) Ch...

After breaking off Messenger into a stand alone app, Facebook is giving Messenger a new level of autonomy. Today, the company announced that it no longer requires Messenger users to have a Facebook account. Instead, new ...

Music streaming company Spotify today announced that it has acquired Seed Scientific, a consulting confirm that specializes in data science and analytics. The acquisition is helping Spotify start a new advanced analytics...

It feels weird to be alone in someone else’s apartment, and Jerry Seinfeld’s is no exception. To commemorate its mind-boggling $160 million acquisition of streaming rights for “Seinfeld,” Hulu has reconstructed J...

Korean publisher Netmarble has released its first global hit with the help of some Marvel superheroes.

SPONSORED: "The handshake between human intelligence and machine intelligence with the [right technology platform] is going to revolutionize the way people interact with IOT and the way people optimize their IOT environ...

Three-year-old news digest app Circa is shutting down, cofounder and chief executive Matt Galligan announced today in a Medium post.