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While several automakers are currently in the process of developing autonomous vehicles, the road ahead for self-driving cars could be long, with numerous obstacles to overcome ...

BlackBerry subsidiary Secusmart on Monday introduced the SecuTablet, a high-security tablet based on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5, at the CeBIT 2015 trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany ...

The Federal Trade Commission last week charged DirecTV with deceptive advertising practices in a complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. ...

Square on Monday introduced two new services for small businesses: instant deposits; and protection for disputed purchases. ...

Autonomous vehicles are on a roll, suggests a new report fromMcKinsey & Co., released last week during the Geneva Motor Show. ...

Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. Known to its contemporaries as "The Great War," it claimed the lives of more than 10 million soldiers and about seven million civilians in a span of just more than four years -- ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. With these numbers in mind, it's understandable that WWI might be a taboo subject for entertainment purposes...

Google on Monday confirmed that it plans to launch a mobile virtual network operation, or MVNO, later this year. Google Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai, who heads up operations for Android and Chrome, commented on the undertaking in a Q&A following his keynote address at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain ...

Volvo last week revealed the latest developments in its Drive Me project, showing off a complete system that could make it possible to integrate self-driving cars into regular traffic with drivers behind the wheel ...

Apple on Monday announced a plan to build two new data centers in Europe -- one in County Galway in Ireland and the other in central Jutland in Denmark. Apple plans to spend US$1.9 billion (1.7 billion euros) on the project -- its largest European investment to date. The new facilities will power its online services including the iTunes Store, App Store, iMessage, Maps and Siri...

Fuel Industries last year sought to find the long-rumored cache of buried E.T. theExtra-Terrestrial video games. The games, made for the Atari 2600, long have been linkedto the video game industry's crash in the early 1980s. ...

Sony on Tuesday announced that its SmartEyeglass Developer Edition SED-E1 will be available generally next month in the United States, the UK, Germany and Japan. The smart glasses -- Sony's first -- also will be released in March to business customers in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden. ...

A "Digital Dark Age" could be looming, warned Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. His warning came this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Jose ...

RadioShack Corporation last week announced that it had signed an agreement to transfer between 1,500 and 2,400 of its U.S. company-owned stores to General Wireless, which will, in turn, transition the retail locations into Sprint Mobile storefronts ...

Dish Network on Monday officially launched Sling TV, its widely anticipated US$20per month streaming service, and further announced that customers couldsign up for a "Sports Extra" add-on pack for $5 per month. ...

The first smartphone to be powered by the open source Ubuntu operatingsystem will arrive at retail in Europe beginning on Monday, Feb. 9. ...

It is in the darkest time of the year with the arrival of winter thatperhaps we most appreciate our light bulbs. It isn't just the lightson the holiday decorations that provide that festive glow, but reallythe fact that the light bulb makes our daily modern life possible. Thelight bulb is taken for granted, and until recently it hadn't reallyevolved much in more than a century...

Dish Network on Thursday announced that subscribers to its satelliteTV service can enable Reverse AutoHop for this Sunday's SuperBowl. This feature will enable viewers with the Hopper Whole-Home HD DVR to watch the commercials alone without having to fast-forward through the game ...

Oculus VR on Monday unveiled a new project at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Oculus Story Studio will produce movies in virtual reality. It presented its first example of the genre on Monday evening -- a 4-minute experience called Lost ...

Ford Motor on Thursday announced the opening of its Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto, a 25,000 square foot facility that will help it accelerate the company's innovation in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data. ...

Verizon last week unveiled a new connected-vehicle service at the North American International Auto Show, taking place in Detroit this coming weekend. Verizon Vehicle, which will go live this spring, will be compatible with nearly every vehicle made since 1996. It will be available directly to consumers regardless of their wireless carrier ...