Technology

A company in Japan is trying to undercut the funeral market by having a robot priest oversee the services. In Japan robots can serve as companions, helpers for the elderly, entertainment bots and even sexual partners, but now SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper has put itself up for hire as a Buddhist priest for funerals...

Alphabet Inc’s Google announced on Wednesday it would make its digital assistant available on Apple Inc’s iPhone, opening up the tool to a key high-end segment of the technology market...

Drive and purpose, give birth to new technologies social media platforms, serve as an outlet of interpersonal connections.

While technology offers convenience on one’s life, it could also impose negativity on its users especially on children. A new study presents the possible speech delay in children upon usage of handheld devices last May 6 during 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting...

The leading social networking platform, Facebook, has reached another milestone as its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company’s first-quarter-2017 earnings call last Wednesday that the platform garners 1.9 billion users.

"The mother of all phones is back." -Nokia In their Twitter account, Nokia, the highest grossing mobile brand in 2000s, announces on Friday the near worldwide launch of its newly revamped 3310 mobile unit.

Samsung introduced its new Galaxy Tablet S3 and Galaxy Book tablets at the Mobile World Congress. The tablets feature a new version of The S Pen - a special edition Staedtler-branded S Pen called the "Noris Digital".

A SpaceX rocket soared from NASA's long-idled moonshot pad Sunday, sending up space station supplies from the exact spot where astronauts embarked on the lunar landings nearly a half-century ago.

Apple has joined the Wireless Power Consortium on Monday, and pretty much everyone is seeing this as proof that the iPhone 8 will sport wireless charging feature.

WHEN Snapchat first became popular in 2013, many thought the messaging app would disappear almost as quickly as its vanishing messages. Instead, it has become one of the most intriguing internet firms to emerge in years. When Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, goes public at an expected valuation of $20bn-25bn—the IPO is expected in March—its market debut will be the most closely watched since Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce giant, floated in 2014. Snap’s offering documents may be filed publicly as soon as this week.