The smartphone world is awaiting the release of Google's next flagship phone -- the Nexus 5, expected by the end of the month -- and will watch to see if it can repeat the successful sales model of its predecessor, the Nexus 4.
LONDON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The Council of Europe has signed a declaration attacking England's plan to permit the creation of babies with DNA from three biological parents.
ATLANTA, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- An Atlanta woman, Susan Bennett, said she is the voice behind Apple iPhone's voice-activated virtual assistant Siri, although Apple will not confirm that.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A mountain lion seems to have carved out a comfortable life for itself in the hills of Los Angeles, wildlife researchers said.
BOSTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A Boston robotics firm has publicly unveiled its newest creation, a four-legged free-running robot dubbed WildCat that can hit speeds of 16 mph.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Seemingly generic phone information gathered by the U.S. National Security Agency can reveal more personal information than commonly believed, an expert says.
MOSCOW, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A mission with dozens of animals launched into space in a Russian satellite yielded clues to why astronauts' eyesight deteriorates in space, scientists say.
MUSCAT, Oman, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- An owl discovered in a remote, mountainous region of Oman could be a newly recognized species based on its distinctive, unfamiliar hoot, ornithologists say.
GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- NASA says it next mission to Mars has been cleared for takeoff amid fears the U.S. government shutdown could cause it to miss its launch window.
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A chemical in the exhaust fumes of diesel vehicles could hamper the ability of honeybees to find flowers and collect pollen, British researchers report.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The nearby star system Fomalhaut, with its exoplanet and dusty debris disk, is not just a double star, it's an unusual triple star, a U.S astronomer reports.
PARIS, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A proposed Mars rover will undergo its most ambitious test to date in remotely guided explorations of a Mars-like desert in South America, scientists said.
HANOVER, N.H., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A warming ocean caused by climate change could make fish accumulate more mercury, increasing the health risk to people who eat seafood, U.S. researchers say.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Shares of Tweeter Home Entertainment Group soared Friday, riding on the coattails of U.S. Internet giant Twitter's initial stock launch announcement.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The brilliance of Albert Einstein's brain may have been down to unusually well-connected left and right hemispheres, U.S. and Chinese researchers say.
LONDON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- British police said they are investigating the mobile phone records of people in the Portuguese village where little Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Virginia prosecutors said they have charged 13 alleged hackers for cyber attacks on institutions that would not process donations to WikiLeaks.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Adobe Systems Inc. said 2.9 million customers had their IDs, passwords and credit-card data stolen by hackers who breached the U.S. software company's security.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- An error-ridden science paper submitted in an effort to expose unethical academic publishers was accepted by 157 open-access science journals, its author says.
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- An eminent U.S. seismologist is urging the installation of a national early warning system to alert people to an impending earthquake.
PARIS, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- U .S. online retailer Amazon says proposed French laws supporting independent bookstores against competition from Web-based retailers is "discrimination."
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The pollutant metal selenium, which can accumulate in plants, can kill honeybees or delay their development, a study led by researchers in California found.
MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Facebook says more than 17 million users this week have generated about 45 million posts related to the U.S. government shutdown.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden order take-out lunch at Taylor Gourmet on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2013. The reason he gave was they are starving and the establishment is giving a 10 percent discount to furloughed government workers as an indication of how ordinary Americans are looking out for one another. UPI/Pete Marovich/Pool
