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Non-profit organization Mars One recently began accepting applications for the chance to travel to Mars in order to colonize the red planet, with the only caveat being that you’ll be living there for the rest of your life. That didn’t stop most applicants, though, as thousands of applications have...

Basically, there are two different ways that Apple works. Apple will either take a device market that has fallen into the doldrums, and inject it with hype and excitement (see: MP3 players, smartphones, tablets), or Apple will look at how other companies are succeeding and do something similar, but...

Business intelligence software provider Tableau Software has updated its namesake software with additional tools for connecting to the sources of data in the cloud.

In case you hadn't noticed , the people over at Mountain View continue to work pretty hard on bringing yet more functionality to its Google Glass. During our patent application trawling this week, we fished up another possible application for Google's future-wear, where the finished product might...

The Samsung Galaxy Camera as seen above certainly spawned off quite an interesting debate among techies, as to whether a smartphone operating system has a place in the world of digital cameras. Well, I guess the correct answer would be yes, otherwise, we would not have seen Samsung apply for a...

USPTO AppleInsider reports that Apple has applied for a patent to potentially bring added functionality to future Smart Covers, such as the ability to charge an iOS device. The patent is titled “Integrated inductive charging in protective cover” and describes a tablet case—most likely the iPad...

As if smartphone maker HTC doesn’t have enough to worry about in an Android space so saturated with Samsung-branded hardware it’s driving HTC’s sales back to 2010 levels . But now the Taiwanese company is facing the prospect of having to fork out for damages if haptics company Immersion gets its...

The company's technology displays an image and requires a user to match it in order for a device to be unlocked. [Read more]

The touchscreen revolution has certainly come a long way since the Apple iPhone brought touchscreen goodness to mainstream viability back in 2007 (has it been more than 5 years already? Time sure as heck passes by all too quickly when you’re having fun). Google has a veritable pool of talented folk...

If an Apple patent application is any indication, athletic shoes may start telling us when they need replacing . In a patent filed back in July of 2012, Curtis Vock and Perry Youngs are listed as the inventors of a "shoe wear-out sensor, body-bar sensing system, unitless activity assessment and...