Apple Inc.'s latest iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus smartphones featuring upgraded cameras and wireless charging went on sale in Japan on Friday, with eager buyers lining up outside retail outlets in the morning. But preorders appeared to fall short of previous models as many held out for the new flagship ...
With a handful of U.S. technology giants growing more powerful and dominant, debate is intensifying on whether big tech's growth ...
Amazon's game-broadcasting and social-video company, Twitch, is stepping up efforts to expand its presence in the nation that invented Mario, ...
With the debut of high-end virtual reality gaming systems for home use, 2016 was heralded as the dawn of the VR era. But while the technology basked in the spotlight, some questioned whether there was substance behind the hype. If this year's Tokyo Game Show ...
Google is biting off a big piece of device manufacturer HTC for $1.1 billion to expand its efforts to build phones, speakers and other gadgets equipped with its arsenal of digital services. The deal, announced Thursday, underscores how serious Google is becoming about designing its ...
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions — a medical joint venture set up by Sony and Olympus in 2013 — says it has developed a new surgical microscope that could free doctors from the strains involved with operating older, unwieldy models over long periods of time. The ...
Twitter Inc., under pressure from governments around the world to combat online extremism, said in a new report that improving automation tools are helping block accounts that promote terrorism and violence. In the first half of the year, Twitter said it suspended nearly 300,000 accounts ...
The problems keep piling up for Facebook, and it's unclear how long the internet giant will be able to brush them aside as it barrels toward acquiring its next billion users. The world's biggest social network has unwittingly allowed groups backed by the Russian government ...
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Friday she has begun an investigation into Equifax's massive data breach, and along with 11 other Democratic senators, introduced a bill to allow consumers to freeze their credit for free. Equifax came under increased pressure from lawmakers and U.S. states ...
Pop diva Madonna once said during her 2005 visit to Japan that she'd "missed the heated toilet seats." That may sum up the fascination foreign visitors have with Japan's high-tech loos. And more than a decade later, as Japan prepares for the 2020 Olympics, the technology ...
A bathroom emergency can quickly turn into an embarrassing experience. But now there's an app with an "emergency" button to help you find the nearest bathroom when medicine just won't do the trick. Lion Corp., maker of the diarrhea medicine Stoppa, says the @Toilet app will ...
Companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter could face European Union laws forcing them to be more proactive in removing illegal content if they do not do more to police what is available on the internet. The European Union executive outlined in draft guidelines how internet ...
Self-driving cars may not hit the road in earnest for many years — but autonomous boats could be just around the pier. Spurred in part by the car industry's race to build driverless vehicles, marine innovators are building automated ferry boats for Amsterdam canals, cargo ...
Telling satellites what to do is expensive, complicated, and can only be done a few times a day. Infostellar Inc. is aiming to change that by getting satellite operators to share their antennae. By connecting dishes around the world to create a single network, everyone ...
Apple Inc. has packed its new-model, top of the line iPhone with augmented reality (AR) features, betting the nascent technology will persuade consumers to pay premium prices for its products even as cheaper alternatives abound. The iPhone X — Apple's most expensive phone ever, priced ...
