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The crafters of science fiction have often speculated about what will happen when computers and robots develop consciousness, becoming as self-aware as their masters. In many cases, the results aren’t pretty. From “2001: A Space Odyssey” to the TV series “Battlestar Galactica,” and such lesser films as “Colossus: The Forbin Project” and “Demon Seed,” the coming era of artificial intelligence long has been seen as a time when machines will turn on their makers. Director / writer Spike Jonze has a different idea. In the languidly enjoyable romantic drama “Her,” a lonely young man falls head over keyboard in love with his computer’s operating system. Mind you, it’s not just any operating system but one designed to be empathetic with humans, and has Scarlett Johansson as its Siri-with-sex-appeal voice. Who…

With each iPhone release from Apple, we are further amazed. With everything from constantly improving speed and graphics to unlimited new possibilities and ways to use this device through the App Store, the iPhone simply leaves us wondering -what's next? Let's take a look at the iPhone evolution to date, all the way from the original iPhone to the current 5C and 5S models. THE ORIGINAL iPHONE January 9th 2007 was a day Steve Jobs had been looking forward to for over two and a half years. At the Macworld Conference held in San Francisco, California, he introduced three new devices: a wide-screen touch-controlled !Pod, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device. Excited and cheering for each and every one of these devices, the crowd was soon…

iOS #01 – Flipagram By Cheerful, Inc. Category: Photo & Video Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 – Rayman Jungle Run By Ubisoft Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – Snapchat By Snapchat, Inc. Category: Photo & Video Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad 2, iPad (3rd gen), iPad (4th gen), iPad mini, iPod touch (4th gen), and iPod touch (5th gen). This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – QuizUp: The biggest trivia game in the world! By Plain Vanilla Corp Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.…

You won't find Apple, Facebook or Microsoft exhibiting at CES ~ at least not officially ~ but Pizza Hut, Ford and Schwinn are here. The annual consumer electronics confab used to be the premier gathering place for the world's largest technology names. But those companies are increasingly sitting out or scaling back while a wave of non-tech brands are elbowing their way in. The hodgepodge of companies at this year's International CES and smaller side events underscores the evolving nature of the convention, and of the tech industry. Nowadays, with 65% of U.S. households owning smartphones "everybody becomes a tech company, said Shawn DuBravac, chief economist o the Consumer Electronics Assn., which produces CES. DuBravac said it's the most diverse mix of brands he has seen in his decade of…

Apple says people spent more than $10 billion in its app store last year, on apps such as "Minecraft," "'Angry Birds Star Wars" and "Sleep Cycle" alarm clock. December was the most successful month in the store's history, as customers spent $1 billion that month. Apple says the year's total was also a record. There are more than a million apps available in the app store for the !Phone, the !Pad and the !Pod Touch. Besides games, there are newspapers, magazines, travel, business and health and fitness apps, among others. Apple launched the app store in 2008, a year after the iPhone with 500 apps.…

APPLE DENIES NSA iPHONE CONTROL CLAIMS Have you, like many observers from across the world, been following the story of the disclosure to several media outlets - including The Guardian and The Washington Post - of classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden? The "NSA leaks" have revealed much about the operation of an NSA global surveillance apparatus, and have sparked a major debate about who is spying on us, how they are doing it... and for what reasons. Alternatively, of course, you may not have been following it all that much. You might not be one of those who fret at night about being spied on by the powers-that-be, perhaps reasoning that you have nothing to hide. There's also the question of whether Snowden's…

Jan. 06-Dozens of MIT Sloan School of Management MBA students will test the job market waters this week when they visit some of the nation's top companies on their annual job-hunting, network-building "Tech Treks." This year's treks will include stops in Seattle and San Francisco to visit tech titans such as Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Google, as well as Los Angeles and Las Vegas to visit media and entertainment companies such as Sony, Warner Brothers and MGM -- the company that wants to build a resort casino in Springfield. "It's one thing when they come to campus and talk in the abstract about the kind of company they are; it's quite another to be able to go to their headquarters and see how everyone interacts," Zachary Freeman, 27, of Swampscott…

iOS #01– Heads Up! By Warner Bros. Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 – Minecraft – Pocket Edition By Mojang Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – Cut the Rope 2 By ZeptoLab UK Limited Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – Sky Guide: View Stars Night or Day By Fifth Star Labs LLC Category: Reference / Price: $1.99 Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone…

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone thinks a picture can be more meaningful than 140 characters of text. That's the concept behind a smartphone application released Tuesday by Jelly Industries. Stone launched the San Francisco^ startup nine months ago without revealing what he was working on. Jelly's free app for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and phones running Google's Android allows people to tap into the collective knowledge within their networks on Twitter's short-messaging service and Facebook's online hangout to find answers about things that puzzle them. The questions are accompanied with a photo of the object that triggered the curiosity. Stone played an instrumental role in building Twitter Inc. into one of the Internet's most valuable companies. His exit from Twitter nearly two years ago raised a great deal of intrigue about what…

The Next Big Thing. How often is that phrase trotted out like a prized thoroughbred, only to turn into a weak-kneed nag? Home products, fad diets, even actors and actresses are annually anointed. The technology industry is especially prone to such predictions, with companies touting their devices as future home runs on the order of the iPhone or Xbox 360. But some predictions inevitably fall flat. Last year, tech analysts made plenty of claims about what would send consumers into a buying frenzy. But whether it was sticker shock or a piece of hardware's inability to live up to expectations, consumers didn't latch onto some of the devices that were predicted to become 2013's must-own products. Thanks to falling prices and second-generation models that are more refined and capable, analysts…

In a room at a Cupertino office building in 1982, German designer Hartmut Esslinger decided that Apple computers had to be white. The last computer, the Apple III, had been a flop and Esslinger thought he knew partly why -- it was a color the designers called "greige." "Dud," Esslinger called it. A celebrity designer in Germany, Esslinger had modernized Sony TVs (bigger screens, cleaner lines) in the '70s and even made a showerhead (15 million of them were produced the year he sketched it). When he moved to Cupertino to work at a fledgling Apple in 1982, his advisers told him it would be a mistake. Americans, they said, wanted their electronics like they wanted their homes: covered in wood paneling and brass. In his pen-and-highlighter sketches, now reprinted…

San Francisco will charge technology and other companies a fee for using public bus stops for their employee shuttle buses. Mayor Ed Lee and other city leaders joined Google, Facebook, Apple and other companies Monday to announce a pilot program to charge a fee based on the number of stops each shuttle provider makes. The shuttles have become a symbol of inequality for people concerned over the city's rising housing costs, which they blame on the region's tech boom. Protesters have blocked and vandalized the buses. While the shuttles create some traffic problems by blocking city bus stops during commute hours, Lee says they reduce gridlock and pollution by removing thousands of cars from roads each day. The city's transportation board votes on the proposal Jan. 21.…