The Vatican has come out in first place in a long-awaited draw to expand the Internet address system with new domain names that go beyond the usual .com, .org or .net endings. ICANN, the corporation

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Futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil said on December 14 that he is going to work as director of engineering at Google to help "turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' visions into reality." Kurzweil, an author whose

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US regulators unveiled new regulations December 19 aimed at strengthening online privacy protections for children, to reflect the growing use of mobile apps and social networks. The Federal Trade Commission said its updated rules require

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Future computing devices will push further into the senses by developing capacities to mimic the ability to see, smell, touch, taste and hear, IBM says in an annual forecast on December 17. The seventh annual

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Twitter said on December 18 the number of active users of the service has topped 200 million, in a sign of the sizzling growth of the messaging platform. News of the milestone came in a

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A filing Wednesday in a high-stakes legal battle between Samsung and Apple revealed that a "pinch-to-zoom" patent central to the case has been deemed invalid. The patent was a centrepiece of a trial that ended

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US tech giant Apple announced on December 17 it had sold "more than two million" of the latest model of iPhone after the popular smartphone's first weekend on the market in the Asian powerhouse. "Customer

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A Brazilian company this week began selling its own Android-powered smartphones using the iPhone brand name and did so legally. Gradiente S.A. told AFP Thursday it could do so because in 2000, it secured the

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Central President of Pakistan Muslim League (Q), Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, called on the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar at Governor's House, Peshawar on Sunday. Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, who was also accompanied by Central Secretary-General of

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The body of Station House Officer (SHO) Khan Razaak Kabuli Police Station, Sattar Khattak who was martyred in a deadly suicide attack on Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour near Qisa Khwani Bazaar, Peshawar, has

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