In a move that might make some privacy advocates breathe a sigh of relief, Google said late Friday that it won’t be approving facial recognition capabilities in software meant for its high-tech Glass specs. “As Google has said for several years, we won’t add facial recognition features to our products without having strong privacy protections in place,” the company said in a post to the Google+ page for Project Glass
Read MoreAndrew Scott Reisse, co-founder of the company that made the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset, was struck and killed while walking in a crosswalk Thursday, ABC has reported. The 33-year-old co-founder and lead engineer at Oculus VR in Irvine, Calif., was hit in Santa Ana, where he was a resident, by a speeding car being pursued by police, KABC TV Los Angeles said
Read MoreAt D11, Tim Cook kept his cone of silence active in regard to any new Apple products, and had a few laughs. (Credit: ATD) For the last few years, Tim Cook has masterfully steered Apple through a difficult transition period following the death of Steve Jobs
Read MorePrototype glasses from Atheer are designed to create a digital layer in space. (Credit: Atheer) Years from now, will historians pinpoint 2013 as one of those myriad present-at-the-creation moments when a new technology entered the mainstream? When it comes to wearable computing, we’re not there yet.
Read MoreIn what has become an annual ritual, the higher-end segment of Intel’s new generation of processors has been launched at the Computex trade show in Taipei. This includes the quad-core versions of what Intel calls the fourth-generation Core i-series, which was until recently known by the code name “Haswell,” and was extensively previewed at CES 2013
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