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With kids like these, the future is bright. Thirteen-year-old Trisha Prabhu is one of 15 global finalists in the Google Science Fair 2014, and her project is meant to end cyberbullying. Prabhu looked into how many kids between 12 and 18 are bullied online (more than 50 percent) and found research th
In May, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it wanted to see its text-to-911 service rolled out across all network carriers in the United States. Now the process has moved a stage further: On Friday, the body voted in favor of rules that will compel U.S. carriers and some app develo
Japan’s LINE Corp, the parent company behind the popular LINE instant messaging service, has taken off as one of the most popular social networks in Asia over the past few years, largely in part to its fabulous collection of stickers and booming business as a mobile gaming platforming. Home to hundr
3D printing can make an action figure copy of your body and face, but the hair usually ends up looking like a Lego minifig wig. The mad scientists at Disney Research just solved that, with an algorithm so powerful it can trace your hair’s shape and color with ultra-realism. The research team a
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler isn’t happy with Verizon’s reply to his strongly worded letter, which chastises the company for its plans throttle some unlimited LTE subscribers. See, Big Red defended the move and reasoned that the other major carriers (AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile) do it too,
These days, data centers, portable USB battery chargers and all sorts of transportation are going green thanks to fuel cell technology. Now you can add submersibles to that list: Japan is developing a 33-foot-long submarine that runs off emissions-free energy. Japanese Defense Ministry officials tol
CareDox, a New York startup focused on cloud-based storage solutions for health records, is in the midst of raising about $3.1 million, according to SEC filings. The company, founded in 2010 through Startup Health Academy, is headed by Hesky Kutscher with the purpose of making health information mor
John McAfee, the controversial founder of McAfee antivirus software, has started a new company called The Brown List aimed at helping people fight big problems. He made the announcement in a surprise appearance at a hacker conference here today. The list will take complaints filed by ordinary people
Remember the class-action lawsuit that Adobe, Apple and Google faced over no-hiring deals? Well, it turns out that the $324.5 million settlement the trio reached isn’t going to be honored by the judge. As The New York Times reports, judge Lucy H. Koh has rejected the low-ball figure because, a
Roughly a month after first announcing its expansion into Canada, subscription streaming music service Spotify is now sending invites to people who signed up to receive notification when the service was imminent. Invitations are currently still on a limited basis, but the company is testing the serv
Dell is working on software for existing brain-reading headsets that can accurately identify a user’s mood, the company says. The company could release a mood-reading app as soon as 2017, according to the BBC. Dell’s head of research and development Jai Menon said the company’s moo
And you think apps that track your location are bad! Quettra, a mobile intelligence startup that compiles massive amounts of information about mobile users, just closed a seed round in the amount of $2.9 million. Quettra knows that mobile advertisers can never have enough data about customers. And i
