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Alphabet: Google announces new parent company for medical research, self-driving car projects
It will still use the Google name for its popular Internet search engine, mapping service and related products. But the new holding company called Alphabet will provide more independence for divisions like Nest, which makes Internet-connected home applian...
Microsoft Cortana can replace Google Now on Android devices
With the latest update to the beta app, you can now press and hold the home button to activate Cortana instead of Google Now.
Xiaomi to launch its first India-made smartphone in Visakhapatnam today
Xiaomi will also make announcement about its expansion plan in India.
Twitter users lack global awareness: Study
They also found that Twitter users in large, dense cities have a greater geographical awareness than users from less densely populated mid-sized cities.
Young Hong Kongers embracing analogue technology in a digital world
Interest in the pre-digital era is growing as the city's younger generations seek out everything from film cameras to vinyl records in response to the hi-tech deluge.
Haha vs LOL: Facebook finds out which 'e-laugh' rules
The regular expressions for laughter were automatically identified in texts, including variants such as haha, hehe, emoji, and lol.
Twitter launches emoji for Premier League fans
Twitter has added a new feature that allows fans of the English Premier League to call up team crests after typing hashtags for their favourite teams.
Apple Music attracts more than 11 million members during free trial period
Apple Music rolled out with a three-month free trial period on June 30. Nearly 2 million people opted for the free trial family plan, which will cost $14.99 a month for up to six family members.
Stand-alone devices beat all-in-one smartphones on many fronts, except one
A stand-alone device does one or two things, but does them really well.
Samsung struggles to retain market share against Chinese competitors
Behind Samsung's reality-check is the fact it is stuck with the same Android operating system used by its low-cost competitors, who are producing increasingly-capable phones of their own.
Your smartphone's battery life could be used to track you online
Security researchers have discovered that a feature of the HTML5 specification allows websites to find out how much battery power a user has left on their browsing device and the information could then be used to snoop on their online activity.
Samsung's thinnest ever Galaxy A8 smartphone with fingerprint sensor launched in India at Rs 32,500
The phone is said to be the thinnest ever Galaxy smartphone by Samsung at just 5.9mm and weighs 151 grams.
Couples who use Facebook together, stay together: Study
Researchers found that couples who were chatting on Facebook echoed those feelings in real life and were likely to have better marital ties.
'Rumoured' iPhone 6s display with Force Touch technology revealed in new leaked images
The new Force Touch technology determines levels of pressure applied to a screen or trackpad to show additional features.
Leaked: Samsung Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge Plus images revealed ahead of August 13 launch
According to Blass, the Galaxy Note 5, internally dubbed Noble, will come with a 5.66-inch display with 2560X1440 resolution and will be powered by a Exynos 7420 Snapdragon octa-core processor combined with 4GB RAM.
This new memory chip is a thousand times faster than flash storage used in smartphones today
Chipmakers Intel and Micron Technologies say they've made a major breakthrough by creating a new kind of memory chip that's a thousand times faster than the "flash" memory now used in smartphones, tablets and high-end laptop computers.