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Unlike searching on a desktop or laptop computer, when you're searching on a touch-screen mobile device it’s often inconvenient to type. So we strive to give you a variety of ways to interact with Google, be it by speaking your queries, getting results before you finish typing, or searching by image. Now there’s a new way for you to interact with Google: Handwrite for web search on mobile phones and tablets.

Say you’re standing on a busy street corner, in a bumpy taxi ride, talking with a fr…

The Canadian Space Agency has just unveiled its contributions to the space telescope that will replace the Hubble – a highly-precise camera and a sensor.

Evolution might underlie the different processing of female vs. male bodies. Both genders do it

Yesterday, Eureka brought its five-season journey to a close. The finale gave us callbacks and cameos galore, happy endings for all the townspeople, and one last chance for Sheriff Carter to be the bi…

Google's search-based calculator is a bit of a God-send when it comes to impromptu math, but now the Big G has gone and extended its functionality by rolling out a full-on, 34-button scientific calcul…

Sherman Hemsley, the American actor who played George Jefferson, first on All in the Family and later on the TV show The Jeffersons, has died. He was 74.

The battle between Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 has only recently begun in earnest, what with mobo's finally emerging to give non-Mac computers access to the 10Gbps interface. While USB 3.0 can't match Thunderbolt in terms of data throughput, it now has the upper hand in power capabilities, as last week the 100W Power Delivery spec was approved for both USB 2.0 and 3.0. That's ten times what Thunderbolt can do, and it means that you can charge up your laptop or power most any peripheral via Univer…

RBC, along with CIBC and many of the national Canadian banks, are endeavouring facilitate the largest change to the way we make payments since the invention of the credit card. Mobile payments are a reality, and they are coming very soon.
Earlier this year CIBC and Rogers, along with RIM and the Bold 9900, set in motion the first NFC-based mobile payment system in Canada. While the scope will be limited to CIBC Visa and Mastercards at first, it will eventually be enabled, through a secure SIM…

The much-hyped Ultimate Fighting Championship event ended on a sour note in Calgary last night, with fans booing the main bout.

Samsung has surpassed their own record and has announced that their newest flagship device – the Galaxy S III – has reached 10 million in sales in less than two months. The device, which is designed for humans, runs Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and was originally released on May 29th in London, then gradually launched in 145 countries with availability across 296 carriers worldwide. The Canadian release kicked off on June 27th from various carriers including Rogers, Bell, TELUS, WIND, Mo…

Transparent photovoltaics have yet to grace the face of your smartphone, but don't give up hope — UCLA researchers are working on a new see-through solar cell that's showing potential. Using a new type of polymer solar cell, the team has been able to build a device that converts infrared light into electrical current. Current prototypes boast 4 percent energy conversion efficiency at 66 percent transparency — not crystal clear, but certainly clean enough to peer through. According to a stud…

Usually, cars don't explode in a huge ball of fire, as Michael Bay wants you to believe. Unless you are at the Kashira highway in Moscow, Russia, just like these guys.

After nearly a month on the air, Charlie Sheen's FX comedy finally sees week over week gains on Thursday night, improving its chances of a 90-episode renewal.read more

Microsoft says an accounting adjustment to reflect a weak online ad business led to its first quarterly loss in 26 years as a publicly-traded company.

Ah, the warm summer months are here, which means more time spent outside running around enjoying the outdoors. It also means occasionally battling the bugs, the sun, and the heat. To ensure that these…

We reported back in April that the hottest baby names of the year thus far were including names from Hunger Games and Game of Thrones. And now, another list of the year's most popular baby names has come out from the naming service Nameberry — and those trends continue. As we predicted, both Senna and Cinna are becoming popular names. More »

The title says it all, folks — Microsoft's newest operating system will hit the masses starting on October 26th, nearly three years to the day after the launch of Windows 7. Just days after the company previewed Office 2013, we're now told that Steven Sinofsky has affirmed the date at MS's annual sales meeting, but it's not clear if that's a global date or one reserved for the US market. Customers will be able to grab Win8 as an upgrade or in new, unmolested form on that date, and you can be…

Apple is being forced by a British judge to tacitly state that Samsung didn't copy its iPad design. According to Bloomberg, Judge Colin Birss said that Apple has to post a notice both on its website and several British newspapers and magazines, to help correct the "damaging impression the South Korea-based company was copying Apple's product." The online part will reportedly stay there for six months. Apple lost its case against Samsung in the UK earlier this month, with the same judge awkwar…