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LG’s LCD TV lineup at CES 2016 goes heavy on HDR compatibility

Other features we can expect from LG’s Super UHD TVs include Harman/Kardon-designed speakers, which ensure viewers still get high-quality sound despite the paper-thin design, a new Magic Motion remote control,

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Google to replace Oracle’s Java APIs in next version…

“Google has long worked with and contributed to the OpenJDK community, and we look forward to making even more contributions to the OpenJDK project in the future”, a Google spokesperson

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Biggest Container Ship to Visit US Barely Clears Golden Gate Bridge

The ship is easily the largest vessel to grace the waters of the Bay, surpassing the MSC Fabiola, which could carry 12,500 containers and arrived in Oakland in March 2012.

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Bitter George Lucas Says He Sold ‘Star Wars’ To ‘White Slavers’

Even if you’ve only been paying intermittent attention to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens box office performance, you know the movie has been doing some insane businesses, breaking records

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Trai extends deadline for comments on net neutrality

Facebook’s partner in Egypt, telecom carrier Etisalat Egypt, began providing Free Basics service two months ago, and Facebook says more than 3 million people in Egypt have signed up.

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Mohammad Amir back in Pakistan team after five-year ban

The debate over whether Amir should be allowed to play for the national team again had recently created a big divide in Pakistan cricket with former cricketers engaging in war

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Jeff Bezos Tweets to Elon Musk: ‘Welcome to the Club’

Rival company Blue Origin, a space start-up founded by Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos, nailed a similar return rocket landing test last month. This marks the third attempt of the

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BlackBerry to continue operations in Pakistan, after government drops data access demands

State-run Pakistan Telecommunication Authority had in July demanded that the company give access to its BlackBerry Enterprise Services (BES), which encrypts data such as emails and instant messages.

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Elephant seal crossing the road, causes North Bay traffic mess

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that wildlife experts and law enforcement officials on Monday worked to keep the determined elephant seal off a Sonoma County highway that it has repeatedly

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Solar storm to deliver brilliant aurora just before New Year’s Eve

However, strong aurora borealis are expected to light up the first week of 2016, due to a coronal hole, a region where the solar wind is allowed to leave the

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Spotty service at popular messaging app WhatsApp on NYE

It was down for most users in the United Kingdom and U.S. earlier in the evening on the last day of 2015 and it soon spread to other parts of

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El Nino weather ‘could be as bad as 1998’, says Nasa

According to the USA space agency, the El Nino we are now experiencing will bring more wild weather in the new year.

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