From PC World: Facebook has acquired a facial image analysis firm FacioMetrics as it tries to give users new features to add special effects to photos and videos.

The technology developed by the startup also includes capabilities for face tracking and recognizing emotions, which could potentially...

From CNET: When it comes to the processor that powers your phone, size matters. And Qualcomm and Samsung are going smaller than ever.

The two companies on Thursday showed off the Snapdragon 835 chip, the first mobile processor to lean on a 10-nanometer manufacturing technique from Samsung, which...

From InfoWorld: First came Amazon, offering GPU-powered instances in its cloud back in 2010. Then, more recently, Microsoft Azure and IBM Softlayer each provided their versions of the same, albeit with different pricing structures and instance types.

Starting next year, Google will offer GPU...

From CNET: Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger will all be under the umbrella of a single app soon. With businesses in mind, Facebook is integrating all three into its Pages Manager mobile app in the coming weeks, letting manage messages and comments of all three platforms from one page.

Pages...

From PC World: The company behind the Snapchat messaging app has reportedly filed papers for an initial public offering that could value it at up to US$25 billion, according to news reports.

Snapchat changed its name to Snap in September to reflect the company’s growing interest in new markets...

From CNET: San Francisco has put the squeeze on Airbnb.

The city's Board of Supervisors ruled late Tuesday night that hosts can rent out their houses and apartments on the home-rental marketplace for only 60 days per calendar year. This legislation comes after years of haggling between the city and...

From InfoWorld: HP has been hoping that sleek, powerful hardware will lure Apple Mac aficionados to switch to its PCs, and now is aiming the new Z2 Mini mini-desktop at Mac Mini users.

The Z2 Mini packs the computing power of a full-size desktop into a box that can be held in one hand. Starting at...

From CNET: When Lyft first launched its ride-hailing service in San Francisco in 2012, it gave drivers big, pink, hairy mustaches to drape over their cars' grilles. The idea was to make it easy for passengers to identify Lyft drivers. That fad, however, did not last.

After rolling out other...

From PC World: Thanks to artificial intelligence, we have autonomous cars, chat bots, and speech recognition. Microsoft's CNTK (Cognitive Toolkit) is one among many platforms that trains computers to learn, and it's getting an upgrade.

CNTK drives the Microsoft services Cortana and Skype language...

From CNET: FaceTime and Skype have a new rival in the video-chat market: WhatsApp.

The maker of the hugely popular messaging and voice app said Monday it will soon add the ability to place free video calls from within the app. The feature, which is expected to be available in the coming days, will...