With implicit identification aka implicit authentication, your smartphone would shut down after recognizing it was lost or stolen based on how the new user was fiddling with its functions...
More of Moore’s Law: A scalable process could realize the dream of carbon nanotube transistors that would be much smaller and more efficient than today’s silicon chips
2013 MacArthur picks include scientists taking on prosthetics, audio preservation and describing planets beyond our solar system
A group in Germany claims to have cracked the fingerprint sensor unveiled as part of the iPhone 5S, pointing to the limitations of single-factor authentication
Despite its lightweight metal body, the Tesla Model S electric vehicle earned the highest automobile safety rating in North America
Microsoft's revamped Surface 2 tablet is thinner, lighter and has longer battery life
Tech Talker: Quick and Dirty Tips to Navigate the Digital World
Tech Talker: Quick and Dirty Tips to Navigate the Digital World
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its new flagship iPhone 5S and a new budget smartphone, the iPhone 5C, as it seeks to attract more customers and revitalize interest in its devices
For Apple, Tuesday's looking a bit like a time warp
Smartwatches are too small to be useful for serious web browsing, and phone calls will be made using "hands-free" equipment, but their visibility will make them desirable fashion accessories...
Innovations could cut the growing amount of energy used for air-conditioning and refrigeration
Samsung Galaxy Gear will be available in the coming weeks
A new study reveals, despite polarized opinion about brain-training packages, that playing a 3-D race car-driving video game reduced cognitive decline in subjects aged 60-85
There are ways to protect personal information while still enjoying much of what the Web has to offer
We all know our phones will be outdated sooner than we'd like. But here's how to minimize the tech-buyer’s remorse
Bill Gates will have the final say in who gets the CEO role at Microsoft
A service available for Apple users allows you to have a replacement key made based on a digital picture of the original. Larry Greenemeier reports.
Researchers repurpose TV signals to transfer data and power battery-free sensors
With Surface, Microsoft offers its own slant on tablets, for better or for worse (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) It's no secret that there are some serious issues around competition and Windows that spell trouble not only for Microsoft's Surface, but for other tablets, detachables, and convertible devices running the latest incarnation of Microsoft's venerable operating system...
