Managing tabs in Google Chrome can double your laptop battery life

If you're one of those people who likes to have hundreds of Google Chrome tabs open at the same time, you might have noticed your laptop...

How to download offline maps in Windows 10

Windows 10's new Maps app is handy, but what if you need to find your way around a city on a limited (or nonexistent) data connection? O...

Facebook launches 'suicide prevention tool' in UK

Facebook is to roll out suicide prevention tools in the UK following successful trials in the US and Australia. The  tools  will allow users...

IBM Launches Two New Enterprise Products At PartnerWorld

This year at the  IBM PartnerWorld  Leadership Conference, IBM launched two new products for customers with high-performance processing and ...

HSBC brings British banking into biometric era

HSBC is offering more than 15 million of its customers a chance to use fingerprint or voice logins in the first major rollout of biometrics...

Samsung adds fingerprint authentication to new browser

Samsung has released an updated browser for its devices that uses fingerprint authentication for its “secret” mode.  Called Internet 4.0, u...

Samsung SDS to deploy Morpho’s face recognition tech

Biometric firm Morpho has announced that Samsung SDS will implement its online authentication solution based on facial recognition technolo...

Jamaica to add face recognition to passport production

Senior Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) officials have confirmed that Jamaica will add facial recognition capability to ...

Apple Pay officially launches in China

Apple Pay has landed in its fifth country, one that offers great opportunities but some significant challenges. Apple on Wednesday announced...

iPhone bricked due to Error 53? Apple has a fix for that

Unbrick your iPhone Apple issued an updated version of iOS 9.2.1 today that brings with it a fix for the Phone-bricking Error 53. The fix wi...

Rogue Wave introduces continuous static code analysis

Rogue Wave Software wants to help developers find defects and resolve them faster. The company has announced the release of Klocwork 2016 w...

Twitter introduces GIF keyboard

Twitter has released a built-in GIF button for all users. The new feature lets users search its catalogue of animated GIFs using terms such ...

Apple Watch 2 release date, news and rumors

Set your Siri-controlled timer for Apple Watch 2 , as we're hearing the first rumors of when the iPhone-compatible smartwatch will launc...

iPhone sales fall for the first time

iPhone sales have fallen for the first time, as the global smartphone market grew at its slowest rate in eight years. Sales of Apple's ...

Skype's iOS and Android apps now let you video chat with 24 other people

The company has confirmed the full group calling feature will be heading to Windows 10 Mobile after the roll out to Android and iOS. Howeve...

Microsoft tests underwater data center

Such data centers can be taken close to users who live by the sea Companies are finding some of the oddest locations for data centers these...

Qualcomm wants smartwatches to be free from phones

Wearables are becoming more and more viable in the technology world , but they're still limited - especially when you compare them to th...

Electronic blood' aims to cool and power computer chips

IBM Research in Zurich is experimenting with "electronic blood" - a fluid that both powers and cools computer chips. The research...

Tim Cook hits back at 'chilling' FBI request for iPhone 'backdoor'

The Apple CEO has responded to a ruling forcing the company to crack its own iPhone security in order to investigate last year's San Ber...

India firm to launch 'world's cheapest' smartphone

Ringing Bells said their Freedom 251 phone would be priced under 500 rupees (£5; $7.3), but Indian media reports said it would cost just 251...

Mega bug may hit thousands of devices

A major computer security vulnerability has been discovered - with experts cautiously warning it could potentially affect hundreds of thousa...