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Building upon the work Google began in 2009, YouTube is now extending its automatic captioning reach to six additional languages. Previously, the transcription service was only available to speakers of English, Japanese,...

If you thought JayBird's Freedom Sprint headphones were the only pair the company had planned for release this year, think again. Today marks the launch of BlueBuds X, an in-ear Bluetooth set with a microphone for taking...

After horse-trading with the FCC and DOJ to gain AWS spectrum from cable venture SpectrumCo in exchange for its 700MHz A and B bands, Verizon has found another taker: Clear Talk, who just signed an agreement to purchase ...

Carl Sagan worked on plan to demonstrate military might, says CNN report American once hatched a plan to nuke the moon, according to a report from CNN.…

EMEA taking it especially hard, says Gartner The server racket continues to be impacted by issues throughout the global economy and intense competition between incumbent players, upstarts, and those making their own hype...

Scientists in the UK have developed a robot that is powered with sewage waste, or, in more layman's terms, poo. Called the EcoBot III, it's entirely powered by energy processed by its microbial fuel cells, which turn was...

Syria vanishes from the net, Jawbone Up gets a review and iTunes 11 has arrived. [Read more]

Facebook, we have a problem, and you?d  better deal with it before it?s too late. You used to be a social network. But since your IPO you've changed. Spending time with you now feels like too much network and not enou...

It's hard to pinpoint when big over-ear headphones went mainstream. It was probably when Dr. Dre/Ludacris/Michael Phelps started endorsing mediocre cans for big bucks. Regardless, big-ass headphones aren't just for big c...

A rarely seen Bolivian wild cat species was photographed by a camera trap in one of the country's national park, the first time it has been spotted there.

Microsoft's Surface RT is the warm-up act, but for many potential buyers the headliner is still waiting in the wings. Today, Microsoft revealed that its Windows 8-powered Surface Pro, due in January, will include two mod...

The NHL lockout has forced most hockey writers to cover boardroom negotiations and players' prospects overseas instead of actual games, but Pat Hickey of The Montreal Gazette has found something a little different to wri...

The quest to create a tricorder began many years ago, when such a device was but a figment of Gene Roddenberry's vivid imagination. However, his vision has crept ever closer to reality in recent years, with many research...

You want a career in computers? Start using computers Eben Upton, a key player in the Raspberry Pi's genesis, said out-of-work graduates should get busy with computers in their spare time if they want to land a job. And ...

Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational video-producing machine, or that the platform continues to diversif...

The Indian government has finally announced its ambitious direct cash transfer scheme, but both banks and the regulator have a lot of work to do before the benefits start trickling down to the rural poor.

Dropcam has recently launched a new iPad app that allows users to watch multiple streams on an Apple tablet. The app is designed to allow you to take a peek at what's going on in front of your Dropcam camera at anytime, ...

When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter provided a terse response saying that it plans to "vigorously ...

A new study shows that high-tech gadgets are ubiquitous across the U.S., but some groups seem to prefer certain devices to others. [Read more]

PeopleBrowsr, the maker of social analytics tools such as Kred, has won a temporary restraining order against Twitter, allowing the company to maintain full access to Twitter's firehose of data. The victory for PeopleBro...

Direct Connect lets arrays and EC2 enjoy rapid hook-ups Re:Invent  Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp have cooked up a new alliance designed to make it easier to use data stored on arrays with Amazon's whatever it i...

Social media now accounts for 18% of time spent online, according to a new infographic. Since 2006, the amount of time that the average person spent on social-networking sites has more than doubled, from 2.7 hours to 6.9...