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ABC News: Technology
The world might be focused on the issues surrounding Facebook’s stock price and Mark Zuckerberg’s relationship with investors, but the social media giant is trying to move ahead with business as usual. And today’s business? The announcement of a brand new Facebook app: Facebook Camera....
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon as Apollo 11 commander, has given a rare interview to an Australian CPA group. In it he says he believed there was only a 50-50 chance Apollo 11 would make a successful landing, and he laments America's lack of direction in space today.
What if you could help power a whole city by going for a walk, or generate real electricity by doing the electric slide? Now, thanks to one London-based start-up, you can. The company is called Pavegen Systems, and it’s generating sparks across Europe thanks to...
Researchers at Oxford University in England are taking on a big challenge with their latest DNA investigation: Bigfoot. Scientists at the university’s Wolfson College have begun a study that sets out to identify the types of animals and species that hikers and mountaineers around the...
Bump App Update: Transfer Photos From Your Phone to Computer With Just a TapThu, 24 May 2012 09:00:49 -0400
Bump, an app for Android phones and the iPhone, has made it very easy for people to transfer photos or money from one phone to another. It’s now set its sights on transfers from a phone to a computer. Today the company is announcing an...
In case you missed it, Google’s homepage has been adorned with a digital insturment since last night. The sonic Google Doodle pays tribute to Robert Moog, the inventor of the electronic synthesizer, and lets you play the synth right on the screen with your mouse...
The Obama administration said once again today that technology is high on its priority list. It said it is launching a new initiative that aims to make government services more available to consumers through mobile apps. The President has ordered each major Federal agency —...
Jony Ive, the man who designed the iPod and the iPhone, might already be considered technology royalty amongst geeks. Now he’s an actual British knight. Apple’s lead designer, was knighted this morning in London and given the title of Knight Commander of the British Empire....
A "gay" penguin couple in a Madrid zoo has been given an egg of their own to care for after six springs of building nests together and being disappointed their nests were empty. Inca and Rayas, the Gentoo penguins at Madrid’s Faunia Park have been inseparable...
Stuntman Gary Connery plummeted from 2,400 feet — without a parachute — and landed completely unscathed in the middle of more than 18,000 cardboard boxes in Buckinghamshire, England, today. Connery became the first person to jump out of an aircraft wearing only a wingsuit and land without...
"Sorcery" is finally here, and after years of anticipation PS3 fans finally get a game that shows off what the PlayStation Move controller can do. The game takes five to six hours to play — disappointingly short, but still, "Sorcery" is a beautiful game...
Google's new Knowledge Graph is a new search tool that will begin rolling out starting today, and it it's meant to help you find search results faster. When you search now for popular or well-known people, places and things you'll get a box to the left of the results explaining more about that term.
ABC News' gadget roundup this week features an illuminating speaker, carbon fiber ThinkPad ultrabook, and a new Sony camera. Click through for more exciting gadget picks this week.
A new piece of controversial technology-related legislation is making its way though the House and now the Senate – the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA. What is the bill and what's going to happen next?
And the next iPhone chatter keeps on rolling. Over the last week the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg have reported that the next iPhone will have a bigger screen. As previously reported by others, the WSJ and Reuters agree that the display will measure...
U.K. festival-goers charge their cell phones by dancing on special floor tiles.
Apollo 11 astronaut says he was surprised moon mission was a success.
European researchers plan to test samples to help crack the Bigfoot mystery.
The U.S. government hacks al Qaeda websites to alter ads.
Easily transfer photos by tapping your phone on your space bar.
Music interactive honors Robert Moog on what would have been his 78th birthday.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 is poised to become the fastest selling gadget ever.
ABC's Joanna Stern sits down with Qwiki Founder Doug Imbruce.
Five cable operators will team up to give customers more access to WiFi.
Court orders CEOs from Apple, Samsung, to meeting to discuss patent dispute.
The Lyrid meteor shower was so bright that it could been during the day and night from California to Nevada.
Click on the video below and prepare to be mesmerized. It’s called "Perpetual Ocean," and it was put together by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. It was actually done about a year ago, compiling data from several satellites...
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks Saturday night and Sunday morning, April 21-22. It's a relatively small shower -- 20 shooting stars per hour -- but a new moon should mean darker skies and better seeing.
A young woolly mammoth, found remarkably well preserved in the tundra in Siberia, may have been attacked by lions -- but scientists say there are signs it was then butchered by ancient humans.
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the famed 5,300-year-old Tyrolean iceman, found frozen in the Alps in 1991 -- and discovered he had genetic vulnerability to heart disease, as well as Lyme disease.
The plant in this picture dates from the Pleistocene Age, 30,000 years ago, before agriculture, before writing, before the last Ice Age. And while it’s not accurate to say the plant itself is that old, scientists in Russia say they regenerated it from frozen cells...
Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.
The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first major show of shooting stars in 2012, peaks in the hours before dawn on Wednesday. The best seeing should be after the moon sets around 3 a.m. Astronomers say you may see 60-200 shooting stars per hour if the weather is clear.
Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope say they have found two planets orbiting a distant star -- and say the planets are the first ever that are the size of Earth or smaller. That could be critical in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Everyone's playing Draw Something. Here's some tips for the popular mobile game
Pinterest has taken the Internet by storm. Here are five ways to use the social pinning site.
USA Today, American Airlines, Slacker and others have made beautiful Windows 8 apps.
Thousands march for peace in Mexico TENS of thousands of people have marched in Mexico's second most populous city, angry at the inability of authorities to end a crime wave.
(heraldsun world)
Fake Android apps scam cost users £28,000 Malicious Android apps posed as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope in a scam that used premium rate text messages to defraud customers of £27,850.
(telegraph technology)
First creature to walk on land 'dragged itself along' - like it was on crutches The creature lived in floodplains on what is now Greenland during a period known geologically as the Devonian period - about 360 to 410 million years ago.
(dailymail sciencetech)
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