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A “bat-sense” algorithm that generates images from sounds could be used to catch burglars and monitor patients without using CCTV, the technique’s inventors say. The machine-learning algorithm developed at Glasgow University uses reflected echoes to produce 3D pictures of the surrounding environment. The researchers say smartphones and laptops running the algorithm could detect intruders and monitor care home patients. [Read:3 new technologies ecommerce brands can use to connect better with customers]...

Technology and Internet references are making significant impacts on our daily lives, enough to ensure words like “bloggable”, “feature phone” and “trackpad”have been acceptedinto the Oxford Dictionaries Online for the first time. Experts from Oxford Dictionaries Online noted that the Internet’s influence on the English language was increasing, the rapid development of technology resulting in the creation of new products and services, which require new terms to describe what they can do....

A Danish Pirate Bay user has been fined 150,000 Kroner ($28,000) for uploading a movie to file-sharing website Pirate Bay. The user, who used the Pirate Bay pseudonymIcenfire, uploaded a DVD screener copy of the movie Black Balloon. He was raided by anti-piracy group Antipiratgruppen (APG) in February 2010 and admitted uploading a copy of the Anders Matthesen comedy. Asreportedon TorrentFreak, Maria Fredenslund, a lawyer with APG, talked up the significance of the raid at the time, claiming that “massive violations of copyright” had been uncovered....

‘Chief Awesome Officer’ is an actual job title — suck it, CEOs Wait… Chief what, now? Back from the ashes On February 22, 2011, as the people of Christchurch were just finishing their lunch breaks, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the city. Most of the city center was reduced to rubble in the intense quake, 185 people lost their lives, and thousands of people were made homeless. “The inner city was completely flattened....

Residents of an otherwise quiet neighborhood in San Francisco have been dealing lately with a very weird affliction: the constant buzzing of several Waymo vehicles crowding a dead-end street. The self-driving taxis are flooding the end of 15th Avenue, appearing rather “confused” as they enter the area, residents told local news stationKPIX. What the f is happening? “I noticed it while I was sleeping,” said resident Jennifer King to the outlet....