In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes.
If the key to happiness is low expectations, then Microsoft's customers and investors have it in spades. Most of the software giant's users simply skipped the company's last big operating system launch, Vista. And its shares have spent a decade in purgatory.
"Until robots rise up and overthrow their puny human creators, one of the main risks comes from the people using the robots. A new study warns that the current crop of household robots presents a serious safety and privacy risk.
The video explains the concept far better than any words.This vision examines the problems with the current mouse based user interface, why early attempts with touch and multi-touch screens have failed and derives a vision for a system that works.
While most people simply associate authentication services with a unified method of managing their sign-in activity across several websites, Facebook Connect does much more than simply letting users log in to a site by validating their identity via their Facebook account.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal in 2007, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg alluded to a new stage to transform Facebook from simply a social media site into a diverse platform.
At first glance, James Dyson's latest invention looks like a powerful HD antenna or perhaps a small portal into another world. But in fact, the device, which carries the vaunting title of Dyson Air Multiplier, is something much more common: a fan.
Don't get me wrong - I love my Jesusphone, I love pizza and I love technological breakthroughs. The thought of ordering a pizza directly from my iPhone sounded really exciting, until I remembered I can already order a pizza from my iPhone. It's called making a phone call.
Reports have been cropping up on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's latest Operating System. Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most data is gone, according to iTWire.
There has been a sharp rise recently of so-called geek girls, and the sad fact is that many, if not most, of these women are nothing near geeky. While the elusive geek girl does, in fact, exist, she's much less common than most would care to admit.
