There were a lot of questions regarding Google Glass privacy. There still are. The solution? Apparently, you'll know if someone is spying on you.
Speaking at an I/O session, Steve Lee, Glass' product director, explained that "privacy was top of mind as we designed the product."
Instagram is not the only company being offered a $1 billion acquisition deal. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on the deal with David Karp, CEO of Tumblr.
Details were leaked earlier Thursday via AllThingsD. A later report in AdWeek, via its own sources, cited $1 billion as the figure currently under discussion. Tumblr and its 107 million microblogs would add another 15 billion pageviews a month to Mayer's hoard.
We're still a long way more to go to cure Alzheimer's but the scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a drug that may just reverse memory deficits and slow the disease. In elderly mice that is.
Google and NASA are teaming up to create a laboratory to develop the future of artificial intelligence using quantum supercomputers.
The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, basesd at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, will be home to a quantum computer from D-Wave Systems. The researchers will study how quantum computing might advance machine learning.
One of Apple's patent filed back in 2011 could dramatically improve the way your iPhone takes pictures. Instead of wirelessly connecting the phone to external flashes, the patent sees the iPhone connecting and controlling flashes on other nearby iPhones.
A team of scientists have been investigating some water samples from a Canadian mine to discover that they were looking at samples that may have been sealed up for 1.5 billion years.
The decaying radioactive atoms in the water told them that this cache of water, which is the oldest ever discovered, could have been waiting patiently in the rock up to 2.5 billion years.
A subterranean telescope may have just caught a glimpse of humanity's first "cosmic neutrino" left over from the Big Bang.
Known as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the $279 million telescope is located under the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. IceCube has been searching for evidence of the cosmic neutrino via an array of thousands of sensors under the ice.
Apple released the newest version of iTunes with a couple of improvements. Version 11,0.3 will have an update to MiniPlayer in the form of a lovely new design. The MiniPlayer itself is relatively new, first appearing in iTunes 11.
Water and electricity aren't the best of friends. So when Antonin Fourneau combined both in his installation, it sounds like a death trap more than an art installation. But his work, Water Light Graffiti, is really beautiful.