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3D Scanner Turns Woman From Model to Video Game Character
A Palo Alto company is using 3D technology to design video game characters. Scott Budman reports. Read the full story here.Photo Credit: Scott Budman
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Cameras, Face Detection and Your Data
Experts say that technology like Cara, a facial detection software program that turns any web cam into a face detection system, can scan dozens of faces up to 25 feet away, and determine gender...
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Robber IDs Self by Posting Instagram Photo on Stolen Phone
A Brooklyn musician is thanking a popular social media app for helping him locate the man who robbed him in Greenpoint. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York
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Teen Uses Technology to Fight Hunger in California
At the same time millions of people in America go hungry for lack of food, billions of pounds of food goes wasted for lack of people to eat it. Kiran Sridhar thinks that is appalling.
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Police Warn About Buying, Selling Online
Police in various cities across the Metroplex are warning people who buy or sell items online to be careful. Read the full story here.
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iPhone Software Gets a Facelift, iTunes Radio Unveiled
Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled a new digital radio service and an operating system for the company's mobile devices that he called the biggest change ever to the iPhone. Developers from 64 countries...
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Google Celebrates Birthday of "Where the Wild Things Are" Writer
Google celebrated the career of late children's author Maurice Sendak today by turning its homepage into an animated homage of his work. Featuring characters and scenes from various Sendak stories such...
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Google Buys Israel's Waze Map App
As was much anticipated, Google bought the popular Israeli mapping app Waze on Tuesday for an undisclosed sum, according to its blog. A source close to the matter told Reuters that Google reportedly...
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Microscope Solves Musical Mystery
Inside the Stanford Linear Accelerator, a microscope the size of a room, de-codes parts of a 1797 opera by Luigi Cherubin. NBC Bay Area's Scott Budman explains.
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Facebook Finally Gets Clickable Hashtag
Social media's beloved hashtag is finally coming to Facebook. While many users are already using hashtags on the site, they served no purpose until Wednesday, when Facebook announced in a blog post...
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Car Thieves Outsmarting Police
Car burglars appear to be using a new high-tech device that allows them to disable alarm systems and quickly enter vehicles. Law enforcement agencies are stumped as to how they can prevent the...
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Madden 25 Represents New Beginning for EA Sports
Madden 25, EA Sports' upcoming football game, is a two-headed monster.Photo Credit: EA Sports
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Oxford English Dictionary Adds "Tweet" and "Big Data"
The Oxford English Dictionary is catching up to the high-tech world. The word "tweet," appearing both as a noun and a verb, was added to the dictionary despite the OED's own rule that "a new word needs...
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Facebook Outage Sparks Online Frenzy
Facebook crashed on Tuesday and people took to Twitter to lob complaints, laugh and joke about the outage. Website monitoring site DownRightNow noted that the social network went down at around...
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Yahoo: 13,000 Data Requests From Law Enforcement in Six Months
Yahoo says that U.S. law enforcement agencies filed "between 12,000 and 13,000" requests for data from Jan. 1, 2013 to May 31 of this year, according to Reuters. Yahoo made the announcement in a blog...
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Rihanna Dethrones Bieber on YouTube
Rihanna has nabbed Justin Bieber’s claim as YouTube’s most-viewed artist.Photo Credit: Getty Images
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Facebook's Instagram Unveils "Cinema" Video Sharing
Facebook's Instagram on Thursday announced a new 15-second video capability with editing features called "Cinema." The service will allow users to upload videos that are twice as long as allowed...
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Online Spying Fears a Boon for Local Company
Paoli search engine, which offers anonymous searching, is seeing record traffic after NSA leak.Photo Credit: DuckDuckGo
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Panic Buttons For One School
A pilot program means the installation of "panic buttons" in nearly every room of the West Vine Street School in Stonington, Connecticut. Once pushed the school doors automatically lock and all...
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Insults Exchanged in Cell Phone Camera Duel
A cell phone video taken last Thursday in Hialeah, Florida shows an out-of-the-ordinary confrontation between a retired Police officer and aspiring mayoral candidate.
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Cool 3D Model of Chicago
The Chicago Architecture Foundation is showing off 3D printing technology to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of The Windy City.
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Sonic Makes Friends With Old Enemy in "Lost World"
For over 22 years, the one constant in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe has been the battle between Dr. Eggman and Sonic. But for "Sonic Lost World," the newest addition to the series, scheduled for...
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RIP Google Reader: 5 News Aggregator Alternatives
Google Reader's long-awaited death has finally arrived. The news aggregator gave a final announcement on its blog Tuesday, months after Google first announced it was shuttering the service, citing a...
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