Instagram's new initiative will ask a random assortment of people in the United States to take part in a survey, hosted by YouGov, where they can share information such as race and ethnicity.
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Twitter has once again updated its platform policies to prohibit hate speech that dehumanizes people based on race, ethnicity, and national origin. Repeat offenders may get their accounts suspended.
An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. The competition saw Colossus return to code-cracking duties for the first...
A driverless car called Boss has scooped a $2m prize in a Californian race for robotic vehicles. Boss successfully drove around an urban environment, avoiding other cars, and covering 60 miles (85km) in less than...
The world's eyes, and noses, are on the outback central western Queensland town of Winton today for the Australian Dunny Derby. Organiser Robin Stevens says she is amused that media outlets around the world are...
Codemasters today announced Race Driver One™ , the third generation in its acclaimed 8-million+ selling motorsport series. The title is now in development at Codemasters Studios, creators of genre-leading motorsport video games, and will arrive...
It's official - the Draenei will be joining forces with the Alliance in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade! Blizzard has updated the Burning Crusade mini-site, including a detailed history of the Draenei and a...
According to Kotaku, the new Alliance race is none other than the Draenei. Now here is where it gets interesting though. You see this rumor and supposed confirmation of said rumor comes from Parting Visions...
A new class has been announced for the race of Men in the pending massively multiplayer online role-playing game Middle-earth Online. The squire class will join the ranks of hunter, sage and soldier. Middle-earth Online...
The chipmaker says it will use a "performance-power rating" to name its processors, resulting in names that have higher numbers than the clock rating expressed in megahertz. In the latest step...
The e-mail storage race appeared to have reached a new height this week when test users of Google's free Gmail service noticed having not just 1 gigabyte of storage, but 1 terabyte. But the appearance...
Codemasters has released the promised playable demo for ToCA Race Driver 2: the Ultimate Racing Simulator, allowing you to take their upcoming hybrid racing simulation for a spin. This demo includes three Free Race tracks:...
Apple is leading a race of lemmings into the zero-profit business of closed music downloads, says the founder of MP3.com, Michael Robertson. "It seems kind of crazy to me, the economics don't make...
Researchers are fighting against time to save decades of data on the world's endangered languages from ending on the digital scrap heap. Computer scientist and linguist Professor Steven Bird of Melbourne University...
A major number one best seller for PlayStation 2, the Xbox edition features more cars on track in every race and adds qualifying rounds to the cut-throat career championships. A superior graphics...
A casual observer at Intel's Developer Forum earlier this month might have thought the company that grew fat on the back of ever faster desktop PC chips was now more focused on mobile and server...
U.S. software giant Microsoft on Monday took a swipe at rival mobile operating systems maker Symbian, saying familiarity with Windows will help it be the standard used in new high-performance wireless devices. ...
IBM Corp.'s Microelectronics Division here today jumped in the 90-nm (0.09-micron) technology race, announcing an advanced process that will enable the development of ASICs and other chips with up to 72 million "wireable" gates. ...
The racing-game genre has never been the most innovative one. Whether it's a simulation racer or an arcade one, the genre's progress is usually pretty mundane; requisite improvements always include a certain number of new...
