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Facebook samples China's potential with sneaky app

Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)

The US tech giant acknowledged last week that it was behind the Colorful Balloons application, which is similar to its Moments app but omits any mention of Face...

Facebook rolls out video shows, in new challenge

Aug 10, 2017 (AFP)

The Facebook service called Watch will include a range of shows, from reality to comedy to live sports, the social network said in its announcement late Wednesd...

End of an era as typewriting tests phased out in India

Aug 10, 2017 (AFP)

The roughly 3,500 institutes teaching the antiquated ways of the typewriter across Maharastra state will be phased out as India pushes ahead with a drive to dig...

Disney empire strikes back, sort of, with new streaming plan

Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)

But analysts say the move is likely to have only limited impact on the Netflix juggernaut and represents an effort by Disney to keep pace with the industry shif...

Smartphone screen maker Japan Display cutting 30% of workforce

Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)

Citing intense competition, the Tokyo-based company said it would cut 3,500 positions at overseas assembly plants and another 240 jobs from its payroll in Japan...

Placing insects into CO2-induced suspended animation allows for live micro-CT scanning

Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)

But an interdisciplinary team of biologists and imaging specialists from Western University has worked out a novel micro-imaging solution that's leading to unpr...

Japan gives world-beating fidget spinner a whirl

Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)

Most fidget spinners, the must-have toy for 2017, can only rotate on their own for a few minutes at most. But a subsidiary of precision machinery maker NSK set ...

US trade commission probing Qualcomm iPhone complaint

Aug 08, 2017 (AFP)

The step, arguably procedural, means that the commission will assign Qualcomm's complaint to an administrative law judge for evidentiary hearings instead of dis...

Technique enables printable and rewritable color images

Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)

The researchers explain the technique in a paper that will be published in the Aug. 4 issue of the journal Advanced Materials, which will feature images printed...

Never too old to code: Meet Japan's 82-year-old app-maker

Aug 07, 2017 (AFP)

Frustrated by the lack of interest from the tech industry in engaging older people, she taught herself to code and set about doing it herself. The over 60s, she...

Apple's China problem highlights conundrum for tech sector

Aug 06, 2017 (AFP)

The iPhone maker is the latest from Silicon Valley to face a conundrum in balancing their value for human rights and free expression against a government intent...

Contemporary art boom is 'historic change' in art market

Aug 04, 2017 (AFP)

The $110.5 million (93 million euros) paid for a painting by the black New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in May was no flash in the pan, according to Artpric...

Department of Defense to start issuing tablets for classified documents

Aug 04, 2017 (UPI)

The program expands on a previous effort allowing access to documents on smartphones and falls under the Department of Defense Mobility Classified Capability - ...

Apple, Huawei, Amazon gain in sluggish tablet market

Aug 03, 2017 (AFP)

Overall tablet sales dropped 3.4 percent from the same period last year to 37.9 million, according to a survey by research firm IDC. Apple's nearly 15 percent b...

Smartphone sales slip as top vendors consolidate market share

Aug 02, 2017 (AFP)

The IDC survey showed South Korean giant Samsung maintaining the top spot by delivering some 79.8 million handsets for a 23.3 percent market share. Apple held o...

Apple beats profit estimates, boosting shares

Aug 01, 2017 (AFP)

Profit climbed 12 percent to $8.7 billion, and revenue rose seven percent to $45.4 billion, with the California-based company selling 41 million iPhones in the ...

Broadband light sources with liquid core

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

The solitons form the extremely broadband laser light that is indispensable as a supercontinuum light source for applications in medical imaging, measurement te...

Amazon sales surge, but spending bites into profit

Jul 28, 2017 (AFP)

The US-based company said that net sales increased 25 percent to $38 billion when compared to the same period last year, but that profit plunged 77 percent from...

Trump hails $10 bn investment from Apple supplier Foxconn

Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)

The businessman-turned-president made the announcement side by side with the Taiwanese tech giant's CEO Terry Gou, as he tried to show his "America First" econo...

Twitter dives, growth stall highlights contrast with Facebook

Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)

Twitter, which has been struggling to keep pace in the fast-moving world of social media, reported a net loss of $116 million in the second quarter, slightly wi...