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A support page on Apple’s website confirmed that some tattoos can disrupt the Apple Watch heart-rate sensor.

Google is giving owners of Android smartphones the power to open and search through apps using voice commands.

Yann LeCun, director of artificial-intelligence research at Facebook, says there's going to be a lot of progress in the way that machines can understand human interactions in images and in video.

Three years after it made a splash with its novel approach to news delivery, the mobile news app Circa said it is putting itself up for sale.

Speaking at Stanford University on Thursday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan should emulate the spirit and creativity of Silicon Valley’s technology scene.

Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person’s face and guesses in seconds how old the subject is.

YouTube used its NewFront event Wednesday night to take some direct shots at the TV ad business, and some subtle digs at Facebook’s emerging Web video prowess.

Some facts about Nidec Corp., the little-known motor maker that has emerged as a key parts supplier for the Apple Watch.

A software glitch that delayed two dozen American Airlines flights for several minutes Tuesday originated in a database that feeds information to the iPad app that pilots use to view terminal maps.

The Apple Watch arrived with plenty of fanfare. It's less clear how many people will buy it. Do you think smartwatches will be a hit? Take our poll.

The initiative comes on the backdrop of much hand-wringing about the dominance of Silicon Valley tech firms in Europe, as well as regulatory pushes in the European Commission to create a single digital market to help local firms enter the digital age and better compete against the U.S. and Asia.

Online eyeglass retailer Warby Parker has raised a fresh round of capital that values it over $1 billion and bolsters its expansion of brick-and-mortar stores.

A cyber conference in Madrid this week brought together some 1,600 security experts. Here's what they say keeps them awake at night:

Unless you live in India or Bangladesh, you can’t actually get your hands on a smartphone running Tizen, Samsung Electronics Co.'s homegrown alternative to the Android mobile operating system. But starting this week, Samsung is throwing the doors of the Tizen app store open to most countries around the world.

There’s nothing LG executives hate more than being overshadowed by rival Samsung.

In this week's Digits, Chester See shares how he integrates YouTube fame with a traditional-media presence and we check out high-tech devices for everyday use and a smart table that bosses you around.

Tucked in Twitter’s earnings call was a notable comment that the company is bolstering its user numbers by accounting for a new audience group.

A New York museum is going to pick the most widely recognized, long-lasting, far-reaching and influential videogames of all time. Donkey Kong isn't on the list.

Alex Batlin, the head of Swiss bank UBS’s new financial technology lab, tweeted the following message: “decrypt('frnepu sbe n punyyratr ng HOF ba gur oybpxpunva')”. Decrypted, the message reads: Search for a challenge at UBS on the blockchain.