Future Technology

The Galaxy S5 was widely tipped to launch with iris-scanning capabilities. When the crunch time came, Samsung played safe with only fingerprint sensor support.

Vanhawks' Valour is a connected commuter bicycle that hopes to make your travels both smarter and safer. The 16-pound carbon fiber bike can help you find a route to the office that avoids heavy traffic, and gives you turn-by-turn bike-specific...

A decade ago the idea of driverless fully electric cars, digital currencies and deep sea mining seemed like science fiction.

Want proof that you don't need big, specialized equipment to produce a mind-controlled robot arm? Just look at a recent University of Toronto student project. Ryan Mintz and crew have created an arm that you control using little more than a...

My birthplace has been changed forever by the app and network generation, writes Andrew Smith (Silicon Valley: an army of geeks and 'coders' shaping our future http://t.co/6EYhrCcbv4)...

Broken glaciers in the North Pole. (pranav / Flickr) "It has passed the point of no return." Researcher Eric Rignot of the University of California at Irvine gave a dire warning on the state of the retreating polar ice caps -- nothing can stop it...

reddit: the front page of the internet (UN to debate usage of autonomous 'Killer Robots' http://t.co/UlEHDlgyfr)

Apple has filed a patent for a holographic touch-screen display. Heres an amazing rendering of it for the iPhone. (RT @TrueStartUK: The future of tech: a really neat holographic iPhone?

The Department of Justice has taken the unprecedented step of charging five officials from the People's Liberation Army of China, who are accused of hacking into six American private-sector companies in order to steal trade secrets.

A recent, widely circulated study found that one-third of Americans who bought a wearable tech product ditched it within six months. So why are... (Is "wearable tech" a fad?

Dixons and Carphone Warehouse have just completed a merger and will now be known as Dixons Carphone. The negotiations began in earnest some three months ago, but merger discussions between the companies have been ongoing since long before that....

Wearable technology is the future
Telegraph.co.uk
... devices will be in use by 2017. The industry, including camera eyewear and smartwatches, will be worth approximately $10bn.

The analysts at the Institute for the Future present new research about our weird times.  (The not-so-future of cognitive enhancements: Will we be able to upgrade our brains?

Honey bees. (paulrollings / Flickr)
Honey bees are vanishing from hives and neonicotinoids (a type of insecticide) are to blame.
Two neonicotinoids in particular, imidacloprid and clothianidin, are blamed for the population decline in a new study.

ABC News
Apple Gets Patent for Camera Technology That Could Make Future Devices ...
ABC News
Move over, Alexander Graham Bell.

Tech Policies That Transform Our Future
Huffington Post
For the last decade, there has been a hot-blooded policy debate in Washington that most consumers are unaware of and to some, it may seem quite niche, yet network neutrality (a.k.a.

Connecting with your country's electorate can be a challenge when you're eyeing a top seat in government. That difficulty only magnifies when you're running for office in the world's second-most... (Ok, ok..