The White House today backed an Internet petition asking the Library of Congress to change …

People looking at the Samsung Galaxy S4 may soon learn that it’s looking back at them, tracking their eye movements to perform key tasks. That’s the word in a new report that says eye-tracking software will be built into the new smartphone, which Samsung plans to announce in New York on March 14. The New York Times, citing a person …

HANOVER, Germany–You’re traveling and your coworker needs your key to get into your office. Why not just e-mail it? That’s the idea behind Fraunhofer Institute’s Key2Share technology, which the German research lab is developing in partnership with Bosch and showing off here at the CeBIT show. Key2Share uses smartphones equipped with near-field communications (NFC) short-range wireless networking abilities to unlock …