Zoosk just filed its S-1 registration statement today, announcing its plans to raise $100 million in an initial public offering. The company...
Google announced a $100,000 developers' challenge prize on Wednesday, the second day of its Project Ara modular phone developers' conference. The top two runners-up will get all-expenses paid trips for two or three people to the next Ara devcon -- there will be a few more held this year -- and guaranteed hardware for the project, said Project Ara lead Paul Eremenko. Judging will be based on both objective and subjective criteria. The challenge will be unveiled officially in mid-May, with a detailed set of rules, Eremenko said.Google announced a $100,000 developers' challenge prize on Wednesday, the second day of its Project Ara modular phone developers' ...
Samsung, longtime patent foe of Apple, will partner with Swiss Federal Railways, another -- unlikely -- patent foe of Apple. While the deal itself may not be groundbreaking -- Samsung will supply the state-owned rail company with 30,000 mobile devices -- it is interesting given the litigious background that both parties have with Apple. Samsung's court battles with Apple have been documented ad nauseum -- in part because the battles themselves seem to carry on ad nauseum, in Europe and Australia and the U.S. -- and again in the U.S.Samsung, longtime patent foe of Apple, will partner with Swiss Federal Railways, another -- unlikely -- patent foe of Apple. While the dea...
Google has long made it possible for its users to run Hadoop -- a framework for storing and processing large amounts of data -- on its Cloud...
A lot has been said about Aereo's technology — so much, in fact, that there are hundreds of pages worth of legal documents discussing th...
The FBI is planning to have a fully operational facial recognition system in place by this summer and may be well on its way to reaching that goal. The system will be able to query a database of photos to identify individuals based on their appearance even if they do not have a criminal record, reported Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF received documents related to the system following a Freedom of Information Act request for details on the FBI's Next Generation Identification project.The FBI is planning to have a fully operational facial recognition system in place by this summer and may be well on its way to reaching t...
While the tech world has gone mobile, there's one key tool that hasn't changed in years: the printer. Most printers are still big, bulky and boring. They do a job, and they stay put. Right where you left them -- at home or in the office. If a new crowdsourced Kickstarter project gets the funding it needs, mobile workers will be able to print most anywhere -- even coffee shops. The tool? A robot printer. ZUta Labs has reimagined the printer into an apple-sized device that can drive over a sheet of paper and print along the way.While the tech world has gone mobile, there's one key tool that hasn't changed in years: the printer. Most printers are still big,...
