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Saudi Arabian 'honesty' app takes internet by storm

Sep 03, 2017 (AFP)

Tawfiq catapulted to fame when he took time out of his day job as a business analyst last year to develop an anonymous messaging tool called Sarahah -- honesty ...

China's Huawei unveils mobile AI assistant at Berlin's IFA

Sep 02, 2017 (AFP)

"Smartphones are smart but they are not intelligent enough," Richard Yu, chief executive of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, said at this year's IFA electronic...

China fast-food operator pilots face-recognition payments

Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)

The "Smile to Pay" system will allow customers at a healthier spin-off of KFC in the eastern city of Hangzhou to keep their wallets in their pockets after order...

High-def TVs rule the roost at Berlin's IFA

Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)

Rather than just fantasise when they gather in front of an imposing 77-inch (195-centimetre) home cinema-style display, gawkers eagerly ask salespeople about th...

From Europe with beats: Electronica shows clout in NYC

Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)

Times are changing. Electric Zoo, the three-day festival that opens Friday in New York, comes as promoters see a newfound appetite in the United States for Euro...

In smartphone age, the hajj is for sharing

Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)

He may be thousands of kilometres (miles) away and on another continent, but thanks to his father's smartphone and video sharing app, 18-year-old Nabil might as...

When it comes to antennas, size matters

Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)

In a paper published online Tuesday in Nature Communications, Nian Sun, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern, and his colleagues des...

New wrapping material enables high quality bioimaging

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

Be it cosmology or biology, the advancement of science largely relies on the advancement of measuring instruments and methodology. I n the past couple of decade...

The Medici Effect: Highly flexible, wearable displays born in KAIST

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

A research team led by Professor Kyung Cheol Choi at the School of Electrical Engineering presented wearable displays for various applications including fashion...

China demands internet platforms verify users' true identity

Aug 26, 2017 (AFP)

All social networking sites and discussion forums must "check the real identity" of their users before they can post online content and comments, under new regu...

Researchers find more efficient method of monitoring network traffic

Aug 24, 2017 (UPI)

"There's this big movement toward making routers programmable and making the hardware itself programmable," Mohammad Alizadeh, the TIBCO Career Development assi...

Samsung eyes reset with new Galaxy Note

Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)

Introducing the Note 8 "phablet" at an event in New York City, executives repeatedly thanked fans who had remained loyal to the device. "None of us will ever fo...

Baidu sells food-delivery unit to Alibaba-backed Ele.me

Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)

Shanghai-based Ele.me, which means "Are you hungry?" in Chinese, said it would take control of Baidu Waimai, which will continue to operate under its own name a...

Super-photostable fluorescent labeling agent for super-resolution microscopy

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

Nagoya, Japan - Super resolution fluorescence microscopy, which has been acknowledged by the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, allows us to visualize biological sy...

Apple under pressure to dazzle as market slows

Aug 20, 2017 (AFP)

Apple is under particular pressure to dazzle as the culture-changing California iPhone maker looks for a way to maintain its image as an innovation leader in a ...

Apple's deep pockets could take on Hollywood, Netflix

Aug 18, 2017 (AFP)

While Apple has not revealed any plans publicly, a report that the iPhone maker could spend a billion dollars on its own shows suggested more disruption for a s...

Online piracy sites blocked in Australia crackdown

Aug 18, 2017 (AFP)

Australia is one of the world's top illegal downloaders of shows such as "Game of Thrones", and studios have launched legal action in recent years to block inte...

Smart windows that go from clear to dark in under a minute

Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)

Dynamic windows have the potential to transform our homes, businesses, cars, and more, reducing heating and cooling costs or the need for blinds, but even thoug...

Alibaba profit nearly doubles on robust revenues

Aug 17, 2017 (AFP)

Alibaba, which has made billionaire founder Jack Ma one of China's richest men and a global e-commerce icon, has seen its New York-listed shares soar 80 percent...

Chinese teen internet addict dies after rehab

Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)

The first country to declare internet addiction a clinical disorder, China is estimated to be home to millions of primarily young men who spend hours online. Th...