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Microsoft adds new creation tools to its social-search project
Microsoft is enhancing its Socl social-search site with new creation tools, including an animated GIF creator.
The death of the PC has been exaggerated: Get ready for the era of ubiquitous computing
It’s not Post-PC, it’s not PC+. Tomorrow is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
Does the NSA make the case for a "Beneficent Archivist"?
One PRISM theory runs that the NSA copies everything "in case they need it later." Whether this is true or not, is there a case for archiving every global citizen's private data for the benefit of future historians?
A tech-enabled revolution unfolds in Brazil
Activists use technology to spread the word about civil unrest across the country.
Webinar: How embracing technology can make money
Join ZDNet for an informative webinar on how business owners can change their spending on technology to improve their bottom line.
Asia hotels go high on tech to lure guests
To remain competitive and drive productivity, hotels in Asia have been building their own apps and turning to various technologies like second-screen functions and telepresence to offer a more intuitive guest experience.
Apple iOS 7: Removing the obstacle of user interface
Some have accused Apple of copying the user experience of its competitors for the latest version of its mobile OS. Some are complaining that the changes are too drastic, or have not gone far enough. The reality is that the future of computing has one ultimate and common goal, which is to eliminate the user interface altogether.
Cisco, iRobot team up on video collaboration robot
The Ava 500 is designed to bring collaboration, mobility and telepresence to manufacturing facilities, labs and supply chain outposts.
Are we giving our kids Stockholm smartphone syndrome?
The necessities of life: food, sleep, sex, smartphones?
13 eye-opening figures about wearable tech
What do people really think about Google Glass and its ilk? The answers may surprise you.
Solar lighting, app creations projects among Google's Global Impact Challenge winners
Google has awarded a total of £2m to four charities that are aiming to use technology to make the world a better place.
Podcast: Wearable computing in the workplace
Jason Perlow and Rick Vanover talk about Google Glass and its use cases for business technologies, complicating the trend of consumerization of IT to wearable computing devices
Google Glass is just the beginning: Invisible cameras and the privacy headaches of tomorrow
It's time to start quantifying the wearable computing privacy problem: devices that make us fitter and smarter may also eat away at privacy unless we act now.
Put pressure on Europe to get €80bn research plan moving, Italians urged
The EU's Horizon 2020 framework could help boost innovation in Europe and Italy in particular.