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Apple Could Put Quantum Dots Before Your Eyes

Not quite content with pushing the boundaries on the level of screen clarity with the vaunted Retina display, Apple apparently is investigating new ways of advancing screen technology. The USPTO on Thursday published three patent applications that detail Apple's interest in improving the Retina disp...

Google Offers Higher Bounties for Security Bugs

Google is taking the fight to hackers by increasing the rewards it hands out to researchers who flag vulnerabilities in the company's products. Its security reward program now covers additional services including Chrome browser apps and extensions that the company has developed and branded as "by Go...

Here Comes the Sun-Powered MacBook?

Apple wants to use natural energy sources to keep MacBooks powered while on the move. The company has won a patent for a laptop with a lid that features a second display, touch inputs and solar cells. The latter could help users keep their MacBooks' batteries topped up without having to plug in an...

Slipshod Security, Human Frailty Made @N Ripe for Plucking

GoDaddy reportedly has admitted one of its employees handed out customer information to a scammer who carried out a scheme to obtain a prime Twitter account. Naoki Hiroshima this week detailed how the scammer was able to force him to hand over his prime Twitter account, @N. The scammer used social e...

Google Glass Now Available for Well-Heeled Explorers With Fuzzy Vision

Google is making Glass more accessible to consumers who need to wear prescription glasses or prefer to wear their Glass with shades. Its new Titanium Collection of frames can accommodate prescription lenses. There are four new styles of frames in the collection: Bold, Curve, Thin and Split. Google s...

Stratasys Makes 3D-Printed Objects Pop

Stratasys is planning to take 3D printing to a new level with the launch of the first color, multimaterial printer. The Objet500 Connex3 Color Multi-material 3D Printer, which is now available for purchase through Stratasys' partners, offers design and manufacturing efficiencies and faster productio...

ICE Goes Medieval on Glass-Wearing Moviegoer

A man who wore Google Glass to a movie last weekend was hauled out of the theater and questioned for several hours by federal authorities over piracy concerns. The officials took no action against the man after they determined the wearable tech device functioned as his prescription glasses, and that...

LG’s G Flex Muscles Into US, Europe

LG Electronics has revealed initial plans for the rollout of its curved screen LG G Flex handset in the U.S. and Europe. Until now, the LG G Flex has been available only to consumers in Asia -- namely in LG's home market of Korea, as well as Hong Kong and Singapore. Sprint will sell the device in th...

Microsoft Struggles to Get Surface Pro Updates Right

Microsoft is rolling out a fix for a troubled firmware update for Surface Pro 2. Many of those who installed the December patch saw battery-life issues and trouble with the sleep and shutdown functions on the tablets. Some users reported that battery power drained more quickly, and that their Surfac...

Google’s Smart Contacts Could Save Diabetics a Lot of Pricks

Google is taking the wearable tech trend to a new level. The company has announced it is working on smart contact lenses that measure the level of glucose in one's body. Diabetes affects around one in 19 people in the world, many of whom struggle to control the levels of blood sugar in their bodie...

Passwords Flow Freely at Starbucks

Starbucks has admitted storing users' passwords in plain text on its mobile apps, creating security and privacy risks. Anyone with access to a customer's phone could obtain that person's user name, password and email address by connecting the device to a computer and opening a file. The clear text r...

Blackphone Aims to Keep Spooks in the Dark

Silent Circle and Geeksphone have teamed up to create the Blackphone -- a smartphone designed to truly protect users' privacy. Carrier- and vendor-independent, the Blackphone allows users to make and receive phone calls securely, as well as transfer and store files, swap secure text messages, and co...

AMD Unleashes Kaveri APUs

AMD is attempting to take computing to a new level with the launch of its 2014 AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units. The A-Series APUs include AMD's Radeon R7 graphics technology and are codenamed "Kaveri." The chips mark the first time that AMD has used the Heterogeneous System Architecture in...

Chevrolet Revs Up 2015 Corvette Z06

Chevrolet pulled off the cover on its 2015 Corvette Z06 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Its new supercharged LT4 6.2L engine gets at least 625 horsepower and 635 pound-foot of torque. Though the engine is only around 1 inch taller than the Corvette Stingray's LT1 engine, it...

New Case Lets iPhones See the Heat

Flir Systems this week unveiled an iPhone case with a difference. The Flir One, which made its debut at CES, lets consumers view heat signatures through a thermal imaging camera attachment to the phone. It works by focusing the camera's attention on a different part of the electromagnetic spectrum t...

Intel Leaps Out of the Box

CEO Brian Krzanich laid out the road map for Intel's future in his first Consumer Electronics Show keynote as CEO. Krzanich, who took over the top job last May, focused on wearable technology -- including some products designed internally -- as well as dual operating system tech and Intel's McAfee ...

LG Bets on WebOS for New Smart TV Line

LG Electronics has revived the webOS operating system for its latest line of smart TVs, the company announced on Monday. In fact, LG will use webOS on more than 70 percent of its smart TV lineup this year, the company said. "The beauty of webOS is that it provides so much freedom and is so simple to...

Tech Firms Vie With Telecoms for Internet Infrastructure Control

Several major tech firms are making a strong push into Internet infrastructure all over the world, leading to increasingly fraught relationships with telecoms. Google and Facebook in particular have drastically invested more in Internet infrastructure over the last year, installing new undersea an...

Google Buys Military Robot Maker Boston Dynamics

Google has added to its portfolio of robotics acquisitions by snapping up Boston Dynamics. The company has conceived research robots for the military and is renowned for its agile robots that have a firm sense of balance. One can run faster than any human. While Boston Dynamics has not sold commerci...

Twitter’s Block Backtrack Scores Points

Finding itself at the center of a social media firestorm, Twitter on Friday acted quickly to placate users who were concerned about changes it made to its blocking functionality Thursday afternoon. Prior to the change, Twitter would send a notification to a person blocked from another's profile. The...

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