Technology

  AFP Global automakers are showing off new electric vehicles at the Paris auto show as they look ahead to a world of tighter environmental standards on emissions. Volkswagen on Thursday displayed the I.D, a battery-powered compact it says will sell for about what a fully equipped Golf diesel does when a production version eventually goes on the market in ...

  AFP Although wave-generated power could meet a quarter of America’s energy needs, the technology lags other renewables such as wind and solar. But the U.S. Navy has established a test site in Hawaii, where power from floating devices travels a mile through undersea cables to Oahu’s power grid — the first wave-induced electricity online in the US. Some things ...

  Bloomberg Virtual reality is on the cusp of becoming mainstream, but one startup in Japan is betting the technology won’t really succeed unless it cracks one critical piece of the puzzle: human eyeballs. Fove Inc. is introducing the world’s first commercially available VR goggles equipped with tiny infrared cameras to follow eye movements. By tracking human irises, the gadget ...

  Bloomberg So far Apple Inc.’s HealthKit has mostly collected fitness data from its devices. In the future, if the company gets its way, the software will interpret that information, turning it into advice for users, doctors and others. Scores of health-care experts hired by Apple in recent years are building improved electronic health record software that can better analyze ...

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. agreed to provide cloud-computing services for cars made by Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA as the manufacturers push ahead with developing connected vehicles. Microsoft will build cloud infrastructure for the two carmakers that can host navigation data and allows drivers to predict gas usage and check on their cars remotely, the Redmond, Washington-based software producer ...

  AFP BlackBerry, the Canadian firm that helped pioneer the smartphone market, said Wednesday it will stop making handsets, outsourcing production to an Indonesian partner. Handsets with the BlackBerry name will be produced under license by PT Tiphone Mobile Indonesia Tbk, allowing the Canadian firm to concentrate on software and services, a statement by the firms said. BlackBerry, which a ...

  Relaxnews British supercar brand McLaren clearly likes toying with its fans because its newest model is a battery-powered hypercar for the under sevens. It would appear that with its latest offering, McLaren has taken recent surveys regarding the next generation of drivers and their willingness to get behind the wheel of an electric car quite literally. The newest edition ...

  Bloomberg Energous Corp. has seen its share price more than double this year, largely on the promise of a smartphone future without electrical outlets or charging mats. San Jose, California-based Energous is one of a handful of companies racing to introduce technologies that may allow our phones, tablets and smartwatches to be powered from across a room —all at ...

  NEW YORK / AP Does “Pokemon Go” have a second act? The mobile phone app was an instant hit when it debuted in July. Crowds stampeded after a Vaporeon in Central Park and people fell off cliffs playing it in California. At an Apple event on Sept. 7, Niantic CEO John Hanke said 500 million people had downloaded the ...

  Relaxnews You might have noticed a new birthday doodle from Google on Tuesday as the internet search engine turns 18. Designed by Gerben Steenks, one of the team’s illustrators —better known as doodlers at Google HQ —Tuesday’ss logo celebrates the company’s coming of age with the Google “G” blowing up a balloon which lifts it off into the sky. ...