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Valve will be releasing its SteamOS this Friday

Valve's Linux-based Steam Machines gaming console starts shipping today to a few beta testers. SteamOS, it's Linux for gamers, is scheduled to be released to everyone at the same time....

Twitter partners up with Truecaller to link user accounts with caller ID in India

The deal tells Truecaller users if the person calling them has a Twitter account, and even allows limited Twitter functionality from within the Truecaller smartphone client. Truecaller, a Swedish company...

Bangalores’s Spire secures $8M in Series A to help customers manage talent

Spire Technologies, a big data firm based in Bangalore, has closed $8 million in a Series A funding round from a yet-unnamed institutional investor. The new capital will be used...

Bendable smartphones won’t be coming any time soon

Mass-produced mobile devices with flexible, and eventually foldable, screens may be as far as a decade away, according to Max McDaniel, chief marketing officer of Applied Materials's display business group....

AT&T offers gigabit Internet discount in exchange for your Web history

AT&T's "GigaPower" all-fiber network has launched in parts of Austin, Texas, with a price of $70 per month for download speeds of 300Mbp. The $70 price is only available if you...

Shopify raises $100 million Series C to expand offline into general commerce

Shopify has made its name and accumulated 80,000 businesses as customers by providing a simplified ecommerce and inventory system, but now it’s moving offline. The company is expected to announce...

SmartCopter drone uses a smartphone as the processing unit

A group of researchers in Vienna have created an inexpensive drone that uses a smartphone as the processing unit. According to Annette Mossel, the creator of the project, using a smartphone in the...

Steam Machines ship to beta participants on Friday

The first round of 300 beta Steam Machines and controllers ship out on Friday, December 13, Valve announced. Selected beta testers will be notified today around 5PM ET. These anointed ones will find...

KeepTruckin turns the smartphone into the long-haul trucker’s digital assistant

Though there are millions of truck drivers with smartphones, most of them live in a pen, paper and fax machine world when it comes to managing their driving records. KeepTruckin...

AT&T CEO: We can’t afford to subsidize smartphones indefinitely

Consumers love being able to upgrade their smartphones every two years with affordable, subsidized pricing. US$199 for a brand new iPhone? Sure, sign me up. Some carriers like Sprint even...

Japan’s billion-dollar plan to store its contaminated Fukushima dirt

As the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has passed, Japan is faced with another conundrum: Where to store thousands of tons of radioactive soil that have been harvested...

In push to regulate, South Korean politicians claim online games are a drug

South Korea has long been called the mecca of eSports. If the country’s parliament passes a new law that classifies online gaming as an “antisocial addiction” on par with drug use...

Steve Ballmer explains his philosophy as CEO

Whatever else you might think about Steve Ballmer’s reign at Microsoft, there’s no doubt that he’s helped the company maintain its position as an absolute cash cow with a thriving enterprise software and...

Contact lenses that dispense drugs could be effective glaucoma treatment tool

There has been a fair amount of methods that are being practised to make sure that patients do take their medication on time, all the time, but how about something...

Norway to digitize all Norwegian books

In most other countries, if those books were still under copyright, the digitized versions (assuming publishers even allowed them to be made in the first place) would probably only be...

This isn’t what digital TV was supposed to be

The switchoff of analogue TV has been long coming,  but with digital spectrum awash in home-shopping channels and the 'digital dividend' falling short of mobile expectations, is it really the...

Japan has overtaken the US as the world’s biggest spender on mobile apps

Japan has overtaken the US to become the world’s biggest spender in mobile app stores for the first time. During October, Japanese smartphone and tablet owners spent over 10 percent...

NimbleTV officially launches in NYC, streams cable shows to mobile

Previously rolled out as a beta test during Spring 2012, NimbleTV launched to the public this week in New York City. While there are some similarities to Aereo’s mobile streaming video service, NimbleTV is attempting to cooperate to...

Hi-tech sensors might help in the fight against obesity

New high-tech sensors have been developed which are said to be capable of measuring the amount of food intake as well as activity level, so that one is able to...

NASA’s Valkyrie robot is a six-foot ‘superhero’ designed to save you from disasters

NASA has created a robot for DARPA's upcoming Robotics Challenge Trials. The Valkyrie is a six-foot two humanoid machine with detachable arms, sonar sensors, mounted cameras, and a glowing, Tony Stark-esque circle in the middle...