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Facial detection cameras ready to creep out San Francisco bar patrons
A smartphone app called SceneTap determines body count, gender ratio in bars. ...
Facebook IPO: is a smartphone next?
With Facebook now sitting on $16bn after its flotation, will we see the massive social network do a ...
Facebook shares see modest debut
Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pr...
Twitter to use Do Not Track
Social network to honour requests from users who do not want online behaviour recorded – unlike Goog...
Met Police to extract phone data
Mobile phone data of suspects in police custody is to be extracted and retained, regardless of wheth...
Max Payne and narrative dissonance
Rockstar has turned its ex-cop anti-hero into a credible character. So does it matter that he's also...
Silicon trick for next-gen memory
Researchers reveal details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer mem...
Twitter confirms support for Do Not Track
Twitter won't use cookies for surreptitious data collection if users opt out....
Pinterest valued at more than $1bn
Popular social network valued at between $1bn and $1.5bn following a $100m round of fundingMove over...
Twitter backs web privacy effort
Micro-blogging service Twitter will support an initiative that lets people browse the web without be...
Comcast suspends 250GB data cap—for now
Everyone will get at least 300GB—and possibly more—when caps return....
John Sculley: future of health is in the cloud
The Newton was two decades ahead of its time, says the former Apple chief executive – and the future...
Anonymous attacks Indian websites
Hacker group Anonymous has carried out a series of attacks against government and political websites...
330Mbps fiber-to-the-home coming to UK this summer
As the UK "last mile" moves from copper to fiber, it gets much faster....
ISPs told to come clean on broadband speeds
TalkTalk and BT the worst offenders in mystery shopping exercise that showed broadband companies oft...
Computer game for stroke patients
Newcastle University helps to develop a computer game to help those who have suffered strokes....
Ask Jack: using a VPN to protect your web use
Dave Null is looking for a good free VPN (virtual private network) to ensure his privacy while using...
Government to miss cookie cut-off
Most government websites will miss the UK's deadline for complying with EU regulations over cookies,...
Terahertz frequencies bring Japanese researchers 3Gbps in a WiFi prototype
The tiny wireless radio transmits on spectrum between 300GHz and 3THz...
Google unleashes sparkly new search tool
Search process tries to pinpoint context surrounding search term and will carry more graphical eleme...
China Mobile in talks with Apple
China Mobile, the main mobile service provider in China and the largest in the world by users, could...
Private: some search engines make money by not tracking users
DuckDuckGo and Ixquick take a tiny bite out of Google....
Cory Doctorow: the problem with nerd politics
If we don't operate within the realm of traditional power and politics, then we will loseIn the afte...
Government may miss cloud targets
The Government may miss its cloud computing targets because of a lack of enthusiasm from public sect...
Say hello to the real real-time Web
It's not just a buzzword, but a technological shift—the instantly accessible Web...
Life is tweet, says John Prescott
Twitter has helped shift the balance of media power from press barons to the people – a true champag...
Japan launches S Korea satellite
Japan completes its first successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite early on Friday, ...
Google Docs' new sidebar makes research faster
Now you can find handy info without ever leaving the page....
Former Yahoo CEO diagnosed with cancer
Thompson, who quit amid allegations that he had lied on his CV, reportedly said his illness contribu...
Privacy watchdog to meet Google
The French privacy watchdog, acting on behalf of the EU, is to meet Google to scrutinise its controv...
General Motors pulls annual $10 million worth of ads from Facebook
A GM executive says paid advertising is ineffective on the social network....
Google makes search 'more human'
Google revamps its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions with a n...
Ex-Yahoo CEO Thompson reportedly has thyroid cancer
The diagnosis impacted Thompson's resignation, according to anonymous sources....
Facebook staff celebrate multi-million dollar windfall outside the limelight
As the social network floated on the stock market, its employees marked the occasion with discretion...
The Pirate Bay hit by hack attack
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay appears to have been hit by a coordinated hack attack....
Build versus buy: one company's decision to go it alone
Do you build your own technology in-house, or buy/license from someone else?...
Should you do business in a hoodie?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can afford to dress down, even when he's courting Wall Street suits...
Virgin Atlantic allows air calls
Passengers flying Virgin Atlantic from London to New York will soon be able to make in-flight phone ...
DRM-free physical media: dead in the water or the answer to art’s prayers?
A Kickstarter to create a DRM-free HD video format caters to small-time artists....
Olympic torch up for sale on eBay hours after it arrives in UK
Souvenir has so far attracted 18 bidders, despite the fact that 8,000 identical ones will be given t...
Google patents Project Glass design
Search giant Google patents the design of its augmented reality glasses, known as Project Glass....
Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks
E-readers are ascendant, but they'll have to fight to gain ubiquity....
Taking stock after the Facebook IPO | Mike Daisey
As Facebook's public offering fizzled, so did the media's 'finance porn' hype. And perhaps a sense o...
Jury out in Google Oracle dispute
A jury has retired to consider claims that Google wilfully infringed patents belonging to Java devel...
Yahoo names interim CEO in light of Thompson's credentials scandal
Daniel Loeb will also join Yahoo's board after bringing everything to light....
This week's new games
Max Payne 3, PC, PS3 & Xbox 360Max Payne was the series that brought John Woo-style "bullet time" to...
Prosthetic retina in development
Scottish scientists are working on a device to restore sight in people with a form of age related bl...
Are you really getting ripped off on printer ink?
Questions raised about the amount of hydrophobic foam inside the cartridges....
On the road: Peugeot Bipper Tepee Outdoor HDi 75 – review
What will Sam Wollaston and tribe make of this Tepee?Wow, so much space above my head. What am I goi...
Iran 'to sue Google' over Gulf
Google is facing legal action for not labelling the body of water separating Iran and neighbouring A...
Kickstarter Game Watch: From Rohrer to Republique
This week: DS strategy, unique stealth-action, and a new "SpaceVenture"...
Facebook is now priced for perfection | Brent Hoberman
The weight of the world is now on Zuckerberg's shoulders. As co-founder of Lastminute.com, I can, in...
VIDEO: Why do gadgets keep on breaking?
An investigation into why devices stop working without anything seeming to be wrong with them...
Wood 2.0: mass timber and the tall buildings of tomorrow
An architect makes the case for the old being new again....
Google+: still not as interesting as Pinterest, new study finds
Comparing public user engagement suggests that Google+ is still a niche pursuit, despite Google clai...
VIDEO: Does web privacy have a price?
Stopping websites from using tracking software could have serious consequences on the users themselv...
The return of the Ars community rank system
In which we return to our roots and celebrate our community....
Facebook narrowly avoids dip below starting price in mixed first day of IPO
Social network giant ends day at $38.23 (£24), up just 0.61% from its starting price after share sal...
VIDEO: The low-cost tablets battling Apple
LJ Rich takes a look at the low-cost tablets battling Apple's dominance in India....
Facebook IPO: an anatomy of Wall Street overreach | Heidi Moore
Before trading, Facebook's bankers were ready to count their profits in billions. By close, they'd h...
VIDEO: Technology and texting tips for MPs
MPs have had their fingers burned by texting and technology, and may have regretted the odd text or ...
How Amazon saved Zynga's butt—and why Zynga built a cloud of its own
Zynga's cloud runs just like Amazon's, but it's all in-house....
The battle of the book reviews | Lionel Shriver
Professional critics are no more reliable than Amazon ratings, a study shows. So do we really need t...
VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut
Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial prici...
China's restrictive rare earth mineral policy draws global ire
An American company bets it can put a serious dent in global output by the end of 2013....
Facebook IPO: social network makes stock market debut – Friday 18 May
• Facebook breaks even in first day of trading• IPO smashes record for trading volume with 565m shar...
VIDEO: Electric unicycles and other tech news
Honda Motors unveils a new auto-balancing unicycle that can be controlled hands free - and other tec...
New Dell Ubuntu ultrabooks a step in the right direction for Linux support
But upstream hardware support is more important than preinstallation....
Facebook IPO: who gets what
Mark Zuckerberg is not alone in financially benefitting from the world's largest technology flotatio...
VIDEO: Creative brains imagine a smarter tomorrow
The creative brains studying at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in New York are showcasin...
Facebook IPO reaps huge rewards for founders as buyers watch and wait
Early trading delays subsided to sell 82m shares of Facebook stock in 30 seconds before subsiding cl...
AUDIO: Taxman targets online traders
HMRC is targetting people who use sites such as eBay and Amazon to sell items online at a profit....
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: from Harvard hijinks to hoodie billionaire
The social network's stock market debut has made Zuckerberg the 23rd wealthiest person on earth but ...
VIDEO: 'Is Facebook worth $100 billion?'
As Facebook floats itself on the stock exchange, technology experts attending the Future Everything ...
Facebook preaches accountability - but doesn't practise it
Facebook's share structure wouldn't happen in the UK. The principle of 'equal votes for equal econom...
AUDIO: Tweeting to a planet near you
Why is an artist about to sent tweets into space? Nathaniel Stern, associate professor at the Univer...
Facebook shares open at $42 as it begins trading on Nasdaq
Mark Zuckerberg instantly catapulted into the top tier of the super-rich in most anticipated IPO sin...
Facebook's first female engineer
How the social network’s first female engineer beat old-fashioned views in Silicon Valley...
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg rings Nasdaq bell – video
The CEO and founder of Facebook rings the bell at the Nasdaq stock market on Friday, as shares in th...
Is social media changing how we complain?
Has social media shifted balance when making complaints?...
Robotic arm controlled by thought
Paralysed patients control a robotic arm only with their thoughts...
Power behind the phone: Imagination Technologies
The tech firm putting the smart into smartphone...
Tech powers Philippines call centre success
The technology powering the Philippines call centre revolution...
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