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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The number of British children with mobile phones has fallen for the first time but only because more and more are turning to tablet computers, a report says.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The director of the U.S. National Security Agency has admitted the agency tracked the location of Americans' cellphone calls as part of a pilot program.
WATERLOO, Ontario, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Investment firm Cerberus Capital Management has requested access to the books at Canadian smartphone pioneer BlackBerry, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
ROME, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Movement sensors in smartphones are sensitive enough to monitor major earthquakes and could be used to improve rescue operations, Italian researchers say.
PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- NASA engineers say a device to detect heartbeats in the rubble of collapsed buildings was built with technology typically used to explore other planets.
ST. IVES, England, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Six-year-old twins in Britain ran up a bill of $1,500 purchasing virtual pets and clothing while playing two games on their parents' iPad, the father said.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. tech giant Google is ready to start showing ads in its Gmail Android smartphone app, new code discovered in a recent update by a tech news site suggests.
BRUSSELS, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The European Commission says new concessions offered by Google could end its long-running antitrust investigation against the search giant.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- AT&T said Tuesday it will take Google up on the challenge to provide Austin, Texas, with the fastest possible Internet speeds.
ATLANTA, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- People have varying opinions about what a personal robot should look like, and they change their minds based on what it is supposed to do, U.S. researchers say.
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
