Tests underway for how employees can use news feed, groups and messaging for their work, but will be kept separate from personal profiles Facebook at Work is launching for iOS and Android initially Many companies still ban staff from accessing Facebook during office hours, but the social network is hoping to win over the corporate critics with Facebook at Work, a version of its service designed ..
An open letter AI researchers warms of pitfalls ahead, and lays out a plan for avoiding them while improving the quality of artifical intelligence More than 150 artificial intelligence researchers have signed an open letter calling for future research in the field to focus on maximising the social benefit of AI, rather than simply making it more capable. The signatories, which include researcher..
Google Android Auto and Apple CarPlay both connect mobile phones to in-car touchscreens, but using apps while driving brings risks I don't often see a YouTube video that truly worries me, but one from the LA Auto show in November still gives me shivers. It was meant to be reassuring and delightful, because it was showing how Google and Apple want to integrate their mobile phone systems - so your..
Concrete is the single most used material on the planet - but not many fancy cementing the relationship Half of everything that gets made gets made from concrete. In terms of usage, it is the single most popular material on the planet - if you want to build a dam, a bridge, an airport or a city, this is the material of choice, yet very few people will admit to liking the stuff. No matter how bea..
Is Apple's Siri the people's PA or a threat to humanity? Don't ask Jeeves, he's not looking well You are reading the technology supplement, which means you are: a) already very knowledgeable and interested in commercially available computerised goods; b) an inhabitant of a dystopian bookless future teaching yourself English with the only available resoures; c) a rabbit examining the bottom of yo..
Mark Zukerberg may have discovered the book but Facebook - and the rest of the web - is the enemy of deep thought Mark Zukerberg's influence cannot be overestimated. The Facebook CEO can set the bellwether for popular thought'. I have an admission. A declaration, maybe. I've had to step off the world for a few weeks. It's all spinning too fast, and there's no place to rest, no island, no solace,..
From paraplegic able to stand up from a wheelchair and walk again to workmen carrying heavy loads, robotics-enhanced humans are no longer just science fiction Visions of humans running around in exoskeletons able to move faster, jump higher and hit harder from films such as Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow are no longer science fiction but a hidden reality right now What started out as a military a..
Wearable technology's evolution is not about the gadget on the wrist but what is done with the data they collect, says computational biologist The future of health and fitness devices is not the trackers themselves but the analysis of the data they collect for meaningful advice that helps users adjust their behaviour The future of wearable technology in fitness and health isn't about the fitness..
From the story of Facebook's beginnings and the danger of selfies, to action-packed hacking narratives and robot intelligence, we explore technology imagined on the big screen There's a long history of technology appearing in films: from outlandish futuristic advances in science-fiction movies, to social networking and the digital-age presented on screen From "robot lovers" to "the dangers of se..
Constantinos Miltiadis's project combines inteligloves and Kinect sensors to an Oculus Rift-style headset to provide the ultimate in impressive digital experiences It might look like a scene frrom Minority Report, but Constantinos Miltiadis's hi-tech gear is science fact, not fiction. Created for a postgraduate thesis at ETH university, Zurich, and dubbed Project Anywhere, his proof-of-concept k..
Michael has a large pile of handwritten notepads that he would like to convert into Microsoft Word documents Your handwrittedn notes would be more useful in Microsoft Word format because you could do lots of things with them. I have many A4 pads of handwritten notes, which I would like to convert into Microsoft Word documents. To type them all in would take a very long time. I've noticed that Go..
Studies in America suggest that the social networking site has the tools to influence voter turnout There are two things about 2015 of which one can be reasonably certain: there will be a general election in May and it's unlikely to produce an overall majority for either of the two big parties. In those circumstances, small, localise events might have big implications: a Ukip candidate shoots hi..
The internet is capable of enormous social good but users feel overly advertised to as well as tracked and monitored Do you user a fitness tracker? Online banking ? Do you shop online, use a messaging app, download music, use email, file your tax return online or let your children play games on your iPad? How much do you trust the services and technologies? you use ? Most of use will admit to a ..
What next after learning Mandarin, wearing a tie every day and only eating meat if he killed the animal himself? I'm crowdsourcing ideas... Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg sets himself a "personal challenge" every year, from wearing a tie every day in 2009 and learning to speak Mandarin in 2010 to only eating meat in 2011 if he killed the animal himself Now Zuckerberg is turning to Face..
Jan Krissler used high resolution photos, including one from a government press office, to successfully recreate the fingerprints of Germany's defence minister It's an old cliche of security researchers: fingerprints might appear more secure than passwords. But if your password gets stolen, you can change it to a new one; what happens when your fingerprint gets copied? That's no longer an abstra..