Science & Technology

Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Yahoo's board has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion, US media reports say.…

12 years ago

Google told to clean up auto-complete results in Germany

Google has been ordered by a German federal court to clean up the auto-complete results its search engine suggests. The…

12 years ago

Google Glass: Ten features and ways to use it

Google has revealed for the first time what view users will get through its “Project Glass” wearable computer. 1. Google…

12 years ago

Samsung announces 5G mobile network technology development

Samsung announces it has developed technology that could sit "at the core of 5G" - the successor to the 4G…

12 years ago

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere pass symbolic mark of 400 ppm

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have broken through a symbolic mark reaching its highest throughout human history, recent figures…

12 years ago

Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn perform emergency spacewalk to fix ammonia leak

US astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn are carrying out an emergency spacewalk to fix a leak of ammonia from…

12 years ago

Thermal invisibility cloak can hide objects from heat

Scientists have built and tested a form of invisibility cloak that can hide objects from heat. Similar cloaking efforts are…

12 years ago

Liberator: US orders removal of Defcad 3D-gun designs

The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. The order to remove the blueprints for…

12 years ago

YouTube launches paid-for subscription service to charge users to access content on some channels

YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is set to launch a paid-for subscription service later this week that will…

12 years ago

Solar Impulse plane arrives in Arizona completing first leg of a trip across America

Solar Impulse plane, which is powered only by the Sun, has completed the first leg of a journey that aims…

12 years ago