WASHINGTON, May 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it's taken a close look at a mobile app that analyzes photos of urine samples and has been in contact with its maker.
BRUSSELS, May 24 (UPI) -- Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC says the European launch of its "Facebook phone" has been delayed following disappointing U.S. sales and negative reviews.
WOLLERAU, Switzerland, May 24 (UPI) -- Heinrich Rohrer, a Swiss nanotechnology pioneer who helped invent the scanning tunneling microscope to observe and manipulate individual atoms, has died.
MOSCOW, May 24 (UPI) -- VKontakte, a Facebook-like social networking site that is Russia's largest, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake, officials said.
COLOGNE, Germany, May 24 (UPI) -- An auctioneer in Germany said he has set the starting bid for an Apple-1 computer at a stunning, but not record-setting, $116,000.
DALLAS, May 23 (UPI) -- The Solar Impulse plane, in the second leg of a coast-to-coast flight, landed in Dallas early Thursday, breaking a distance record for solar-powered flight.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 23 (UPI) -- Canadian and U.S. researchers say they've developed a spray-on technology that could revolutionize the way optical lenses are made and used.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22 (UPI) -- Twitter has announced a two-factor authentication system it says will protect users' accounts from being hacked even if someone has obtained their password.
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, May 22 (UPI) -- Researchers in Saudi Arabia say they're working on a drone system that could track potentially deadly floods in real time to sound an alarm before they hit.
BETHESDA, Md., May 22 (UPI) -- More than half of U.S. doctors and other health providers adopted electronic health records, the head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says.
MOSCOW, May 22 (UPI) -- A Russian company designing a new spacecraft for the country's space program says the craft will be reusable and able to make as many as five flights.
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 22 (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant Apple's Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the company would build a factory in Texas to assemble Macintosh computers.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- Teens are sharing more about themselves on social media but many favor Twitter to avoid parents and "oversharing" they see on Facebook, a U.S. poll indicates.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. firm said it has developed a device that can monitor vital signs just by holding it to the forehead for 10 few seconds.
SINGAPORE, May 22 (UPI) -- The family of an American engineer who died in Singapore walked out of an inquest into his death Wednesday, an action a top official called "regrettable."
SEOUL, May 21 (UPI) -- Images found in the file system of Samsung's Galaxy S III phone suggest the company may be working a fingerprint scanning security system, a tech website says.
WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- Apple Inc.'s top executive, Tim Cook, defended the U.S. technology giant's tax strategy in front of a Senate panel Tuesday, saying it abides by the law.
REDMOND, Wash., May 21 (UPI) -- Microsoft has unveiled its latest console, the Xbox One, making it clear it's about much more than just games and pushing it as the ultimate family digital hub.
TOKYO, May 20 (UPI) -- Japan is likely to restart talks with India on bilateral civilian nuclear cooperation as it seeks markets for nuclear plant exports, sources told Kyodo News.
OSLO, Norway, May 20 (UPI) -- An espionage-for-hire service run by a group of Indian hackers was behind spyware recently found on Angolan activist's laptop, security experts say.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (UPI) -- Apple is testing a 1.5-inch OLED display for its rumored smart watch and may have ordered an initial iWatch production run, a Taiwanese newspaper says.
SARATOGA, Calif., May 20 (UPI) -- A young California woman has won a $50,000 science award for inventing a "supercapacitor" that could allow a smartphone to be charged in 20 seconds.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 20 (UPI) -- South Korea's LG Electronics says it will unveil an unbreakable and flexible plastic OLED display panel at an industry exhibition in Canada.
HELSINKI, Finland, May 20 (UPI) -- A team of ex-Nokia engineers in Finland has announced the Jolla smartphone, which has a custom operating system known as Sailfish.
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
