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Basketball legend Shaq talks tech at SXSW
Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal on Monday credited the "geeks" who introduced him to computers during his troubled teenage years for making him the tech tycoon that he is today.
12 March 2013
Google's star rises as Apple fades
Google has retaken the role of superstar of the tech sector with a stunning stock rally as rival Apple flounders.
09 March 2013
SXSW kicks off with vision of a 3D printing revolution
The 27th edition of South by Southwest kicked off Friday with a bold prediction that desktop 3D printing will unleash a new industrial revolution guided by "creative explorers."
09 March 2013
Gadgets and gizmos galore at world's top IT fair
From a glove that can be used as a mobile phone to a remote-controlled spy helicopter: this year's CeBIT, the world's top high-tech fair, showcases a bewildering array of gadgets.
06 March 2013
Kazakhstan gets access to Japanese technologies database
Japan Science and Technology Agency has given Kazakhstan National Technical Development Agency access to J-STORE database.
03 March 2013
TED Talks take wing online as enclave ends
As a week of mind-bending TED Conference talks ranging from animal necrophilia to fighting poverty ended Friday, inspiring presentations from the renowned gathering were spreading.
03 March 2013
Peter Gabriel wants to talk with animals online
Peter Gabriel joined big thinkers and one of the Internet's founding fathers Friday in launching an "Interspecies Internet" for animals to communicate with us and each other.
02 March 2013
Glasses.com turns heads with 3-D iPad app
Jonathan Coon turned heads Wednesday with iPad software that lets people try on sunglasses by manipulating 3-D images of themselves from the neck up.
28 February 2013
US teenager crafts early detection tool for cancer
Jack Andraka catapulted from being a typical US teenager unaware of the pancreas to one with a cheap way to detect cancer in the organ before it turns deadly.
28 February 2013
Lightning-fast mobile hits speed bump in Europe
Lightning-fast fourth generation mobile networks are spreading rapidly worldwide, led by the United States, Japan and South Korea, but Europe lags behind and its economic crisis could brake investment.
25 February 2013
Kazakhstan to get 34 green power stations by 2020
34 wind, hydro and solar power stations will be built in Kazakhstan by 2020.
22 February 2013
China's Geely to set up research centre in Sweden
Chinese automaker Geely, owner of Sweden's Volvo Cars, said it would set up a research and development centre in the Scandinavian country to capitalise on advanced European technology.
21 February 2013
Zuckerberg, Brin join forces to extend life
Famed founders of Internet rivals Google and Facebook joined forces on Wednesday to back big-money prizes for research aimed at extending human life.
21 February 2013
How 'Life of Pi' makers brought audience into film
Director Ang Lee wanted to offer filmgoers an "immersive" experience with "Life of Pi," his Oscar-nominated 3D fable about an Indian boy trapped on a boat with a tiger.
20 February 2013
Samsung launches new premium 'smart' TVs
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Tuesday launched a range of giant Internet-enabled televisions as part of a strategy to cement its lead in slowing global markets by focusing on premium models.
19 February 2013
Scientists 'print' 3D object with stem cells
Scientists on Monday said that for the first time they had printed 3D objects using human embryonic stem cells, furthering the quest to fabricate transplantable organs.
05 February 2013
IBM to build smart technologies center in Astana
Kazakhstan's Astana will become a hub for the only such center in CIS and Eastern Europe.
04 February 2013
Tech entrepreneur Musk offers to help Boeing
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of the electric carmaker Tesla and aeronautics firm SpaceX, has offered to help Boeing fix apparent problems with the batteries in its grounded 787 Dreamliner.
30 January 2013
Luring young car buyers with gadgets, nail polish
From navigation systems serving as game consoles to sound systems doubling as amplifiers and nail polish matching a paint job, automakers are trying new tricks to lure fickle young buyers.
17 January 2013
Tech meets sex at big Vegas show
Can technology improve sex? The makers of one device unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show are banking on it.
12 January 2013