Faceshift: Apple buys Star Wars motion-capture company

Apple has purchased the company behind motion-capture technology used in the latest Star Wars film.

Faceshift, a Zurich based start-up, specialises in software that allows 3D animated characters to mimic the facial expressions of an actor.

Apple has now bought the company, though it is

Windows turns 30: a visual history

The PC revolution started off life 30 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. While Windows 10 doesn’t look anything like Windows 1.0, it still has many of its original fundamentals like scroll bars, drop-down menus, icons, dialog boxes, and apps like Notepad and MS paint.
Windows 1.0 also set the stage for the mouse. If you used MS-DOS then you could only type in commands, but with Windows 1.0 you picke

Facebook will now offer to hide your exes from you after a breakup

The more ubiquitous Facebook becomes around the world, the more likely you are to one day have an ex-boyfriend, -girlfriend, or -spouse using the service. So what happens when you break up, and you

Beats now makes rose gold headphones

The newly tinted Solo2 wireless and urBeats headphones are available today

Apple broke up its stale color options of space gray, silver, and gold earlier this year by introducing an iPhone that was unflinchingly pink. Rose gold, as it's known, turned out to be such a hit that the company also made pink Apple Watches. Now the trend continues, as Apple has started selling Beats Solo2 wireless headphones and urBeats headphones in rose gold, too.

Neither pair of headphones is being changed in any other appreciable way, save for the new color option. That's fine — they're both

LG joins Apple, Google in creating its own mobile payment system

Just when you thought there couldn't be more tech companies tackling the notion of mobile payments, in walks LG.

The South Korean electronics conglomerate said Thursday it plans to launch LG Pay, a service that will presumably turn its smartphones into digital wallets.

LG is the latest company looking at mobile payments as the next big service. While the idea of paying for goods and services with smartphones has been around for years, Apple Pay helped ignite consumer interest in the

Instagram doubles its active users in India in a year

India is on the cusp of officially becoming the country with the world's second largest Internet userbase, and that's great news for Mark Zuckerberg.

Instagram, a megapopular photo-sharing platform that in 2012 was bought by Facebookfor around $1 billion, doubled its base of monthly active users in India during

Apple crosses $1-billion sales mark in India

MUMBAI | KOLKATA: Apple crossed the $1-billion sales mark in Indian operations for the first time in the year ended March, according to results filed with the Registrar of Companies (RoC) on Wednesday.

The maker of iPhones and iPads posted a 44% increase in sales to Rs 6,472.89 crore from Rs 4500.35 crore and net profit

Anonymous ‘Operation Isis’ accused of wrongly naming innocent people after Paris attacks

Anonymous’s “war” on Isis is leading to innocent people being wrongly reported as members of the militant group.

The 'hacktivist' network launched an operation to identify and shut down the accounts of Islamic extremists in the wake of the attacks in Paris, but people who are not affiliated to Isis appear to have been identified as part of the