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With the release of the newest version of Google's Android operating system (version 4.3, still known as Jelly Bean), the company is making Android tablet computers, like its own Nexus 10 and newly announced Nexus 7, mor...

Google Translate now accepts handwriting as an input--so you can offer your scrawl up to be converted.

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Revolutions, civil war and economic boom and bust - the changing age structure of a country's population could be behind them all, says Fred Pearce (full text available to subscribers)

Australia is fighting it out with Mexico in offering one of the worst broadband performances in the OECD. Each new set of statistics proves the point.

The movie Inception is getting closer to reality. By planting false memories into the minds of mice, neuroscientists at MIT have created the first artificially implanted memories. And they've brought us closer to underst...

The Youtu GShot Yt21 is a cheap and cheerful wireless flash trigger and IR remote for Canon and Nikon cameras.

Like many multinationals, 33,000-employee packaging giant Amcor had grown so large that its operational divisions had become isolated fiefdoms. An online social collaboration platform is changing that culture by building...

How RFID tags, carbon-fiber airframes, and battery sensors will change the course of flight. RFID Tags A regular addition to cellphones and bank cards, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are creeping into airplan...

Greenlight survey reveals 15 percent of Facebook users will pay up to US$10 a month to receive news feeds devoid of advertisements, and almost 70 percent never or rarely clicked on ads or sponsored listings.

Photographers looking forward to new cameras from Sony might be interested to learn that the alleged specs of the Sony A79 prototype have made their way online, thanks to the sources of Sony Alpha Rumors. Considering tha...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed the health impacts of coal pollution by taking advantage of a de facto control group created by a Chinese government policy that provided ...

Plants grown and sustain themselves through photosynthesis--a seemingly invisible process that converts sunlight into energy. Now, NASA scientists have developed a way to measure photosynthesis from satellites with unpre...

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's stellar results allayed fears that the company may face difficulty in making money from mobile ads and prompted several Wall Street brokerages to raise their target price on the stock.

Google rolled out a new Nexus 7 tablet on Wednesday. But a much smaller, much cheaper new gadget may be the one that makes a seismic impact in the consumer technology world.

First time accepted submitter Dawn Kawamoto writes "Want to become more efficient? Try lopping off 250 workers. That's what BlackBerry did this week -- saying it was a move to become more efficient. From the article: '"T...

The open-source OpenDaylight Software-Defined Networking project is maturing quickly.

Bear with me for a moment: This may be just a tiny bit confusing. Lomography, a company best known for resurrecting cheap, toylike film cameras of the past, is launching a Kickstarter campaign to revive a 19th-century le...

Most creative types don't like getting boxed into a corner, much less to be stuck in an actual box. However, Los Angeles-based artist Tyler Ramsey...

Verizon has been named as one of the carrier's expected to offer the flagship smartphone in September.

An interesting little point made in passing at The Verge is this about Google's upcoming Moto X. There's a rather large difference between "Made in America" and "assembled in America". And it's also true that given the d...