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Yahoo Gifts Carnegie Mellon $10 Million to Create a Siri Crusher

Yahoo wants a smarter Siri, and it’s hoping Carnegie Mellon University can help develop it.Yahoo has made a $10 million grant to the university,...

Broadcom Unveils Global Location Chip for Wearables

Broadcom is readying a chip with global location capabilities that will give people with wearable devices like fitness trackers and smartwatches more accurate activity...

Google, Movidius Team to Give Devices ‘Human Vision’

Google and Movidius, a designer of ultra-low-power vision processor chips, designs, software and more, are working together to create "intelligent, vision-based applications" that will...

Facebook Gets Younger, Cooler With $19B Buy of WhatsApp

The whispers--as well as the straight talk--about Facebook lately has been around the fact that its 1.2 billion-member audience is getting older, and that...

Top-Tier Vendors Begin Posturing on OpenStack Implementations

Let the positioning begin. The big, all-purpose IT vendors are beginning to confront each other about how best to use and support OpenStack cloud...

Google Maps, Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ Combined in a College Thesis

As he was preparing to find ideas for his bachelor's thesis, Gregor Weichbrodt, a 25-year-old Berlin college student began reading a book called "Uncreative...

eWEEK at 30: Apple Redefined the Smartphone as a Fun-to-Use Device

The day the first iPhone was introduced, Apple's lead engineers were in the audience of San Francisco's Moscone Center, drinking heavily.Each time a portion...

Google Maps Virtual Tours Let You View Valentine’s Day Restaurants

Google wants to help make Valentine's Day a success for its millions of users, so it is offering up a list of suggestions for...

Google Opens Its 2014 Science Fair for Entries

The 2014 Google Science Fair is now open for entries from 13- to 18-year-old students around the world who have great ideas for incredible...

Can Humavox Take Wireless Charging Mainstream?

Humavox has a new approach to wireless charging that it hopes will change the world. While Nokia, Google and others have focused on magnetic...