Since the Facebook acquisition, Oculus has already snatched up just about all of the biggest names in virtual reality. Their next move? Grabbing amazing hardware designers.

When Patrick Pichette from Google said that the technology giant will provide internet connection of 10 gigabits per second, it seemed as if the science fiction become reality. It is 1,000 times faster connection than any present connection you have at home, however, for Nasa it remains slow. And while we all send data across the public internet, the space agency uses a separate network called ESnet – Energy Science Network.

Superman had X-ray vision. Now, so does the United States military, in the form of an X-ray gun that can see through fabric, rubber and aluminum to find drugs, money, explosive liquids and even people. The recently released X-ray gun is the first device of its kind that a soldier or would-be superhero can hold in her hands.

ProtonMail, an encrypted email service that advertises itself as “NSA-proof,” launched to much acclaim about a month ago. Since then, the company says it has signed up 200,000 users – and it just launched a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo because, co-founder Andy Yen says, “that is the best way to get financing and also keep ProtonMail independent.”

When the man at the forefront of some of the most cutting-edge enterprises in the world warns you about, well, some potentially disastrous technological dangers, you should probably listen, right? So pay attention to a warning from Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, Paypal and SpaceX. During an interview on CNBC this past week he warned about artificial intelligence—you know, computers thinking for themselves.

The Wii U is on the brink of success, according to Nintendo of America marketing executive Scott Moffitt. Speaking with GamesIndustry International at E3, Moffitt pointed out that the 3DS also got off to a slow start before Nintendo cut the price and released key first-party games like Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land. The Wii U's situation isn't all that different, he said.

Microsoft has called every device in its Surface line “the tablet that can replace your laptop.” But with the Surface Pro 3, it’s finally right. Microsoft today released the Surface Pro 3, its latest tablet-laptop hybrid, in the U.S and Canada. It’s available through Microsoft’s online store as well as via retail partners like Best Buy, Staples, and Tiger Direct.

An MIT team has turned a multi- million-dollar NASA contract into the most advanced rethink to date of the classic passenger jet. The design, nicknamed the Double Bubble, calls for an extra-wide fuselage and rear-mounted turbo­fan engines. The configuration would allow the craft to burn 70 percent less fuel than a Boeing 737 while producing significantly less noise and nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that causes acid rain. So when can we board?

Watch the Elders try out New Technology! How do they do when they are presented with Google Glass?

eBay today is expanding its lesser-known eBay Sell For Me service to mobile with the launch of a new app called eBay Valet, which promises to let eBay do the selling for you. That is, it takes every step of the selling process — from determining an item’s value to listing it online to shipping it when sold – and handles it for you.

For years China has served as the workshop of the world. Copying foreign technology helped the Chinese become an economic power. But now China is set to become the main driver of innovation.

During your school years, you absorb more, learn faster and are more influenced by your environment than you ever will be in any other concentrated period of life.

Visit some of the most beautiful historic libraries of the world. These amazing book deposits will boost your desire for reading.

The war on dietary fat may finally be over, as scientists now concede they were wrong to say saturated fat was unhealthy for the past four decades, Time magazine trumpeted.

Through the engineering of its fulfillment centers, Amazon has built the world's most nimble infrastructure for the transfer of things. We step inside to see how the formidable system works.

A chatbot pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy made waves last weekend when its programmers announced that it had passed the Turing test. But the judges of this test were apparently easily fooled, because any cursory exchange with ‘Eugene Goosterman’ reveals the machine inside the ghost. Maybe the time has come, 60 years after Alan Turing’s death, to discard the idea that imitating human conversation is a good test of artificial intelligence.

Battery charge-time is more than a matter of convenience. In the case of electric cars, it could be the difference between full-on adoption and affluent novelty, or the difference between a clean(er) transportation future or one that clings to portable combustion machines until the bitter end, because who can even wait for things nowadays. Indeed, an issue now is how long electric cars take to charge: doing it at home, which is the ideal case, can take many hours—overnight—while doing it at...

British scientists have discovered a drug which fights all cancers by boosting the body's defences and prevents the disease returning by increasing natural immunity

My wife and I got into an argument last night over a dead man. His name was Joseph Robert Wilcox. He was 31 on Sunday, the day he tried to stop cop-killer Jerad Miller in a Las Vegas Walmart and was shot by Miller's wife Amanda. Wilcox was a good guy with a gun. It cost him his life.

The U.S. government relies on intelligence from an unknown number of U.S. telecoms for its mass surveillance programs. What's the state of phone privacy in the post-NSA world?

What kind of a person looks upon the world's largest land animal and says "Where's my gun?"

Austin startup TrackingPoint is best known for its precision-guided firearms, expensive weaponry purportedly capable of turning anyone into a veritable marksman. In this minute-long concept video, the company shows how wearable technology can be used in conjunction with its products to further augment a person's shooting abilities.

According to a report from the University of Adelaide, Australia, physics researchers from the University’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) have built the most sensitive thermometer in the world, boasting a threefold advantage in precision over the best thermometers – 30 billionths of a degree. Interestingly, the thermometer uses light to measure temperature.

In the future, virtual reality won't require strapping a bulky contraption to your head. Instead, imagine stepping into an empty room and then suddenly seeing life-size, 3-D images of people and furniture. Or looking down at a smartwatch and seeing virtual objects float and bounce above the wrist, like the holographic Princess Leia beamed by R2-D2 in the movie "Star Wars."

Some of the machines acquired recently by Google represent a giant leap forwards for robot-kind.

Intel’s fifth-generation Core processor family—code-named Broadwell—might be late, but the company has cooked up a couple of brand-new Haswell-class desktop CPUs that PC enthusiasts are sure to dig. Code-named Devil’s Canyon, Intel unveiled the all-new Core i7-4790K and Core i5-4690K processors at Computex on Tuesday (Taiwan time). Intel is also marking the 20th anniversary of its Pentium processor by introducing the all-new Pentium G3258.

Arthur Szyk's meticulously detailed, fiercely moral, Word War II-era political art is returning to the public consciousness due to 21st-century revival efforts.

Researchers have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals’ reaction to past events. The study is the first to show the ability to selectively remove a memory and predictably reactivate it by stimulating nerves in the brain at frequencies that are known to weaken and strengthen the connections between nerve cells, called synapses.

Curved screen televisions are nothing more than a gimmick, and one that will quickly die off once users realize anyone watching from the periphery has a sub-par view, industry analysts said this week. "You see a whole load of pseudo-scientific claims that get made for why curved TVs are a good thing. I think they're designed to bamboozle," said Paul Gray, director of European TV Research for DisplaySearch.

At least seven people were killed in a drive-by shooting near a college campus in the Californian city of Santa Barbara, including the suspected gunman, local media reported on Saturday. California's KEYT-TV reported that a further seven people were wounded in the shooting late on Friday in the town of Isla Vista near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara.