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Robot hot among US surgeons, but FDA taking a new look

The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year - triple the number just four years earlier.

French agency ordered removal of article: Wikimedia

The foundation behind Wikipedia has accused the French DCRI domestic intelligence agency of forcing a volunteer to remove an article because it was deemed to contain military secrets.

Is Apple looking to disrupt the hybrid notebook market?

A patent application from Apple published this month details a notebook computer with a detachable tablet touch screen.

The web is becoming just another app

The research, undertaken by Flurry Analytics to understand how the smartphone market has grown and developed over the past five years, draws information from over 300,000 smartphone and tablet apps and from more than 1 billion monthly active smart devices.

Android gains US share at Apple expense: survey

Smartphones using the Android platform boosted their US market share in recent months, extending their lead over Apple's iPhone, a new survey shows.

Are phablets are a fad?

A new report shows that phablets are having little if any impact on the smartphone market in terms of use or data consumption when compared to handsets with average screen sizes.

'Apple to release updated phone this summer'

The Wall Street Journal says Apple is set for a possible summer launch of the next iPhone, rather than a fall launch like the last two models. Apple is also working on a cheaper iPhone model that could win it some market share in developing countries, the paper says.

Gadgets often seen as 'status symbols'

People not only judge each other on what they drive, what they wear and where they live, they are now judging each other on what electronics they whip out to use in public.

Accessing virtual obituary of dead through smartphones

Tech-savvy youngsters in China have brought a new digital perspective to a tradition of worshipping ancestors. They wave their smartphones over tombstones and using codes affixed to the monuments can access a virtual obituary where photos and video clips of the deceased can be found.

Tech obsessed? Go on a digital detox holiday

The latest concept aimed at Silicon Valley's stressed-out tech junkies is California's Camp Grounded, a summer camp for adults who leave their gadgets behind and get back to basics with bunk beds and bonfires.

Tech firms bumping up perks to recruit, retain

Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental encounters.

YouTube announces shutdown in April Fool's prank

In an elaborate April Fool's prank, YouTube announced it was going dark for a decade, and the site was merely an eight-year contest to find the best video. The message was simple: the world's most popular video-sharing website would close at the end of the day.

Mobile shines in exploding world of games

The booming popularity of play on smartphones or tablet computers in a realm once dominated by videogame consoles was a hot theme at the major Game Developers Conference that ended here Friday.

From bedroom to boardroom: UK teen turns tech millionaire

Like many British teenagers, Nick D'Aloisio has a hole in the knee of his jeans and gets in trouble when his bedroom is untidy. Unlike most, the 17-year-old has just sold an app to Yahoo! for tens of millions of pounds.

Virtual reality, goggles and all, attempts return

The virtual reality headset, the gizmo that was supposed to seamlessly transport wearers to three-dimensional virtual worlds, has made a remarkable return at this year's Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering of video game makers in San Francisco.

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Review: Sennheiser Momentum

The Momentum areSennheiser’s premium range of mobile headphones. I say mobile headphones because not only are these optimized to work with the relatively weak output of mobile devices but they also come with in-line controls designed to work with your iPhone and iPad.

Review: Toshiba Kirabook

Last year, Apple added a visually stunning option to its MacBooks: screens with ultra-high resolution. These "Retina" displays reveal four times as much detail as any Windows laptop screen until now. Toshiba just released a new laptop line with a Retina-level display.

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How Flipkart broke India's online shopping inertia
It was meant to be a portal that compared different e-commerce websites, only there weren't enough of them in the first place to be compared. Thus was born Flipkart, making sure that online shopping would never be the same again in India.
Smartphones: Android trumps Apple, Windows edges up
Google's Android mobile system boosted its lead in the global smartphone market over Apple in early 2013, while Microsoft's Windows edged into third place, a survey showed.
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