If you’re trying to create immersive virtual-reality video today, you’ve got a problem: choosing between a camera that’s compact or a bulkier one that offers sharp imagery. Researchers at the University of California at San Diego, though, have found a way to get the best of both worlds. It’s a camera called PMast. The camera …

Mozilla’s new “Moz://a” branding builds on the :// characters in every website address. Yet some browsers don’t know exactly what to make of the name. When you type “Moz://a” into the address bar, Google’s Chrome, Opera Software’s Opera, Microsoft’s Edge and Mozilla’s Firefox treat it as a search term rather than a web address. Search engines from Google, Microsoft and …

It’s fun to mock image-processing impossibilities where “Blade Runner” or CSI investigators zoom into photos to see far more detail than a photo could possibly have recorded. But guess what? Not only does Google have technology that can do something like that kind of photo enhancement, it’s also using it to keep you from gobbling through your mobile phone data …

If you just got a new TV, chances are good it’s a high-resolution 4K model. But the electronics industry, ever eager to get you to upgrade yet again, has laid important groundwork for televisions that quadruple the pixels of 4K. The HDMI Forum, a group of electronics companies that includes everyone from LG and Sony to Google and Netflix, has …

Microsoft’s Office 365. Google‘s Gmail. Facebook’s Messenger. These and other modern software products use a cloud-computing approach that lets you work anywhere with a network connection — you can use your phone, your office PC, your friend’s laptop that you borrow for 10 minutes. Now it looks like Adobe Systems‘ Lightroom, one of the most popular photo-editing programs around, will …

Now playing: Watch this: Future iPhone, Pixel phones could be foldable 1:11 A couple years from now, maybe you’ll get a phone that doesn’t look pretty much exactly like the last three you got, because phones from Apple, Google and Microsoft could get folding displays in 2018, according to a new report. Display maker LG Electronics will supply the folding …

Google, trying to get you to think of keyboards as apps for more than just typing words and emoji, released its Gboard software on Friday for phones and tablets using its own Android software. The app includes the standard features on Google’s keyboard, including autocorrect and text predictions, swipe typing that lets you slide your finger from letter to letter …

Aquila, Facebook’s internet-beaming drone prototype, was laid low because of an inability to handle a gust of wind, a federal investigation concluded, and Facebook is changing the aircraft design accordingly. The drone, unmanned and operated by autopilot technology, crashed June 28 as it was coming in to land at the very end of its first test flight in Yuma, Arizona. …

Brave Software has signed a publishing partnership the browser maker hopes ultimately will help rid the web of privacy-invading advertisements. Brave, the startup led by Mozilla co-founder and JavaScript inventor Brendan Eich, announced the deal Tuesday with CoinDesk, a website with news and information about the Bitcoin digital currency. Under the first phase of the deal, Coindesk has begun promoting …

A new fingerprint sensor has just arrived that could make your next phone’s screen significantly bigger without making the phone itself larger. Touch-tech expert Synaptics announced the new fingerprint sensor on Tuesday, an optical model that fits under a phone screen’s cover glass. That contrasts with today’s capacitive models that need dedicated territory, like the circular home button at the …