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  • Qualcomm says future smartphones will have Kinect-like augmented reality abilities

    Qualcomm has said that future smartphones will feature augmented reality (AR) technology as seen in Microsoft's Xbox Kinect. Speaking at the AR Summit in London on Thursday, Qualcomm's director of business development Michael Gervautz said, "I think if we look at the PC world and in depth sensors like the Kinect as doing huge in computer vision technology, I would guess we would ...

  • Russian agency will keep going as funds probe under way

    THE Russian agency at the centre of an investigation into the alleged misuse of government funds will continue to operate as normal even as the probe continues, according to the project's vice-president Conor ...

  • Review Sony Xperia Tablet Z

    Android tablets - part of the Tablet S and Tablet P series - but did not push them like the Xperia phones. With Xperia Tablet Z, this is changing. With Tablet Z, Sony has a better idea of what it is doing in the market. Unlike the original Tablet S that had an asymmetric shape, the design ...

  • Samsung Galaxy Note III leaked image surfaces online

    Samsung has been releasing smartphones at a rapid pace in the past couple of months. Now, a new image of the company's Galaxy Note III phablet has emerged on the internet, just a day ahead of Samsung's June 20 event in London. The handset is an update to the Galaxy Note II smartphone and is slated to be launched at IFA 2013 in ...

  • This is what the world will look like in 2045

    Global Futures 2045 Congress , famed geneticist Dr. George Church neatly summed up what being a futurist is all about, though he was reminding the audience rather than the other speakers assembled at Alice Tully Hall in New York City this past weekend. Gathered there by ...


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Zoolander [DVD]

Zoolander [DVD]

The unstated joke throughout Zoolander, Ben Stiller's humorously surreal comedy about the fashion industry, is that the two leads, Stiller and Owen Wilson, who play competing male supermodels, look nothing like male supermodels. ...

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  • Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg mount Snowden defense

    By Sameepa Shetty, reporter FORTUNE -- Famous whistleblowers and journalists, including Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg, held a conference call on Wednesday, to express concern about the freedom of press, in the light of the latest whistleblowing scandal. "With the Obama administration's prosecution of WikiLeaks, [Julian] Assange, [Bradley] Manning and [Edward] Snowden and also ...

  • Microsoft was in talks to buy Nokias handset biz

    Nokia have attempted to quash rumours of a takeover since the installation of ex-Microsoft man Stephen Elop as Nokia's CEO, rumours have emerged that Redmond recently held late-stage talks to dicuss buying the Finnish company's handset business.Nokia's Windows Phones have largely been met with positive reviews, though a lagging app ecosystem and major inroads ...

  • Why Ive built a search engine that doesnt follow you

    Revelations about governments' online snooping have been good news for Gabriel Weinberg, builder of DuckDuckGo - a search engine that doesn't track its ...

  • Huaweis interest in Nokia makes it a huge threat to Microsoft

    The Wall Street Journal , are certainly plausible -- and not entirely surprising. Microsoft made it clear it had a long-term relationship in mind when it ...

  • NSA spying could mean U.S. tech companies lose international business

    It is not just personal information that is being swept into the National Security Agency's (NSA) massive databases. It is corporate data as well. And that could cause some serious international blowback for the U.S., both politically and economically. According to a number of security experts, the U.S. surveillance state --exposed more officially than ever before by ...

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