Computers will be cleverer than humans by 2029, according to Ray Kurzweil, Google’s director of engineering. The entrepreneur and futurist has predicted that in 15 years, computers will be more intelligent than we are and will be able to understand what we say, learn from experience, make jokes, tell stories ...
Britain and Germany will team up to work on developing the next superfast mobile network, 5G, Prime Minister David Cameron ...
A sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in ...
Apple is accelerating the race to make smartphone applications easier and safer to use in cars. Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo are previewing Apple’s iPhone technology for cars this week at an auto show in Geneva. The partnerships give Apple an early lead over Google’s ...
We are in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another while computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives. Toothbrushes tell your mirror to remind you to floss. Basketball jerseys detect impending ...
Expect sharper, clearer selfies this year. Samsung Electronics Co. has beefed up the camera in its Galaxy S5 smartphone due for release in April and added smarter software, following handset camera upgrades by Sony and Nokia. The tweaks mean smartphone photos, ubiquitous on social ...
Microsoft will update its Windows system this spring to address some of the gripes people have had when they use devices without touch capabilities. Windows 8 and last fall’s 8.1 update were designed for a touch environment. But some of the gesture commands don’t ...
Looking to meet women, 20-year-old U.S. college student Leland turned to mobile phone app Tinder after a friend told him about his own successful exploits. Leland’s results were mixed. He was matched with around 400 women over more than a year but only ended ...
Netflix has reached a deal with Comcast to ensure that its TV shows and movies are streamed smoothly to American households, the first deal the online video streaming service has reached with an Internet service provider. The two companies said in a joint statement ...
WhatsApp’s 450 million worldwide users were unable to access the smartphone free-messaging service for several hours Saturday, three days after Facebook declared it was lavishing up to $19 billion on it. “Sorry we currently experiencing server issues. We hope to be back up and ...
Diehard gamers in Japan finally get their hands on a new PlayStation 4 as Sony unleashes its console on home turf in a midnight launch.
“Candy Crush” is out to tempt investors with the sweet taste of success while avoiding the sourness left in the mouths of those who bit into social game maker Zynga. King Digital Entertainment, the developer behind the wildly addictive puzzle game, said this week ...
Fanatical players forking out money to get ahead in games such as “Candy Crush Saga” or “Angry Birds” are driving explosive growth in the multibillion-dollar mobile gaming business. Once hooked on free-to-download smartphone and tablet games, millions of not-so-brilliant or simply impatient gamers are ...
Facebook’s $19 billion takeover of smartphone messaging service WhatsApp staked the social network’s place in dramatic fashion as a pivotal player in the mobile world. The U.S. social networking giant’s 29-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg snatched the limelight ahead of his debut as the star ...
Netflix had a chance of breaking the Internet over the weekend in America. The hugely popular movie streaming company released the second season of the award-winning drama “House of Cards” on Friday, just as winter storms turned large swaths of America into a nation ...
