The Apple company is to launch a new program. Users of the Apple gadgets will have the possibility to test their DNA. The United States researchers contribute to the program. The iPhones are based on ResearchKit, a software platform Apple introduced in March that helps hospitals or scientists run medical studies on iPhones by collecting owners’ data from the devices’ sensors or through... 

Snowden’s documents reveal details of the US National Security Agency’s voice recognition technology. New analysis of documents leaked by former NSA spy Edward Snowden sheds light on sophisticated software used by the agency to turn phone call speech into text. The documents show that “the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough... 

Dan Fredinburg was one of three Americans killed when the massive earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday, killing more than 3,700 people. He was given letters by friends and family when he reached the summit. The head of privacy at the secretive Google X facility was one of the 18 people killed in an avalanche at Mount Everest, triggered by the Nepal earthquake. Hundreds of foreign nationals are also... 

Business owners are awaiting Tuesday’s Google search results, crossing their fingers that the tech giant’s new algorithm won’t affect their internet livelihood. The firm has updated its search algorithm to demote websites not deemed ‘mobile-friendly.’ Sites with text too small to read on a mobile device and those with links too close together are among the reasons why... 

Manipulated Search Results: At least 40% of all websites on the internet are not even shown in Google’s search results anymore and they usually get hidden in the “Omitted Results” at the very bottom, which is a form of severe censorship. The EU has officially filed a complaint against Google for allegedly abusing its dominance in the European market. The case could carry a fine of... 

Whether taking a car for a spin on a Sunday or focusing on getting from A to B after a stressful day, driving can be fun and therapeutic. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes humans could be banned from driving in years to come and all cars will, instead, be controlled by robots. The entrepreneur claims that computers will one day do a much better job of driving and that humans are simply ‘too dangerous’... 

Tech firms are rushing to fix a disastrous security flaw dubbed ‘FREAK’, stemming from the US government’s requirement of lower encryption standards, that for over a decade left millions of users visiting ‘secured’ websites exposed to potential attacks. Cyber security experts have discovered a massive flaw that allows attackers to decrypt HTTPS-protected traffic passing between millions... 

Wants To Cross Check Websites Against Debunking Sites Such As Snopes.com Search Engine giant Google, the major driver of traffic to the majority of media portals is moving to change the way it ranks websites, declaring that it intends to use known partisan debunking outlets to determine the “truthfulness” of content. Currently, Google rankings are determined by the number of incoming links to... 

Google is continuing the suicidal path it has enrolled in, since June 2013 when Eric Schmidt had his first attendance at elitist world domination organization, the Bilderberg. We have no idea what he talked about during that weird meeting but all we can say is that shortly after that, Google has slowly gone down the toilet more and more with each and every passing day. Newest Google bad move was guess,... 

President Obama has criticized European efforts to regulate the internet, suggesting Brussels is unfairly targeting US tech companies, because their European rivals just “can’t compete” with Americans. “We have owned the internet,” Obama stated in an interview with the technology portal Re/Code, during his summit on cyber-security in Silicon Valley on Friday. “Our companies have created... 

China has allegedly blocked access to Gmail. China has blocked access to Gmail, Google’s email service, the founder of a Beijing-based firm says. The world’s biggest email service has been largely inaccessible inside China. Users, however, could still access the service by using third-party mail applications, rather than the webpage. “But they have blocked those ways of accessing,”... 

Google’s famed self-drive car is ready to go. The first fully-functioning automated vehicles will be seen on Californian roads starting 2015. “Today we’re unwrapping the best holiday gift we could’ve imagined: the first real build of our self-driving vehicle prototype,” the search engine giant said on its website on Monday. Initially, the world got to see a different car, with co-founder... 

For this proof-of-concept, a Nexus 4 Android phone equipped with Android L Developer Preview and Samsung Gear Live (pictured) were used – and hackers could read messages sent to the watch. They are touted as the next bit thing in technology smartwatches that can keep you up to date right from your wrist. However, Romanian experts from famous Bitdefender Antivirus have warned they could also be... 

Government requests for Facebook user data shot up nearly a quarter worldwide in the first six months of 2014 over the second half of last year, a biannual report from the company reveals. Over 40 percent of those requests originated in the United States. Between January and June of this year, governments made 34,946 requests for data globally. During the same period, the amount of Facebook content... 

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has seeped into our app stores, as Google recently removed two different Android games from its online marketplace for putting players in charge of bombing Gaza. Both of the titles have been blasted on social media for turning the violent Middle Eastern conflict, one in which more than 1,800 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis have been killed into a game. The first...