Technology

  NEW YORK / AP Super Mario might be running, but a hefty price tag for a mobile game just won’t fly with the masses. The world so far is underwhelmed by “Super Mario Run,” which Nintendo released for the iPhone last week. This is no “Pokemon Go,” which captivated millions of players in their quest to collect digital monsters ...

  AFP On Amazon’s streaming game platform Twitch, the world of gaming is being intermingled with real life. A feature unveiled by Amazon called IRL — the acronym for “in real life” — lets people broadcast moments from their lives as part of game play. Amazon called this feature “a new content category designed to both enable and encourage Twitch’s ...

  LOS ANGELES / AP Parents spend more than nine hours a day with TVs, computers and other screen devices while also giving themselves high marks as role models for their children’s media use, according to a survey. Among all those surveyed — nearly 1,800 parents in the US — daily screen time averaged nine hours and 22 minutes, with ...

  Relaxnews A Czech company opened a production line for batteries based on nanotechnology, which uses tiny parts invisible to human eyes. The batteries are touted as potentially more efficient, longer-lasting, cheaper, lighter and above all safer. The automatic line will operate for several months to get all necessary certifications. Then, Prague-based company HE3DA said Monday it is ready to ...

  Bloomberg Honda Motor Co. said it is talking to Waymo, the autonomous driving unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., to try to strike a deal that would put its self-driving technology into some of the Japanese automaker’s cars. Both companies stressed that the talks are about research, rather than full production vehicles, at this point. If all goes well, ...

  Bloomberg We already have smartphones, smartwatches, smart lights, smart ovens and smart TVs, and at CES 2017, Miliboo Corporation will be hoping that the smart mirror will be the next gadget to make a connection with consumers. Crowdfunding sites Kickstarter and Indiegogo are littered with failed attempts to take smart mirrors mainstream, but where others have stumbled, Miliboo believes ...

  New York / AP The latest Yahoo hack exposed personal details from more than 1 billion user accounts, the largest known data breach in history. Despite the size of the break-in, which apparently dates back to August 2013, attackers don’t appear to have accessed obviously sensitive information such as financial data or Social Security numbers. Here’s how the Yahoo ...

  Relaxnews LG is bringing five new handsets of different shapes and sizes to January’s consumer technology extravaganza that all have two things in common: they’re focused on premium features but at an affordable price point. The new phones are, according to LG, a genuine effort to bring a host of flagship features, such as fingerprint scanners and latest generation ...

  Bloomberg When the spindle broke off his wife’s sewing machine, Michael Sorkin refused to replace the device. Instead, he bought a 3-D printer and built the part himself. Four years later, he’s using the technology to change how to make the Swiss watch you might get for Christmas. On a rainy afternoon in Sorkin’s company’s dimly lit office in ...

  Sydney/ AFP An underwater robot has captured a rare glimpse beneath the Antarctic sea ice, revealing a colourful world filled with coconut-shaped sponges, dandelion-like worms, pink algae and spidery starfish. The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) took footage on a camera attached to a Remotely Operated Vehicle sent down by scientists through a small hole drilled in the ice as ...