Look at a clock on a nearby wall. The focal point of your gaze should be in focus, while the scene around the clock is blurred, as if your brain is sketching your surroundings, or, in computer graphics terms, rendering a low-resolution version of the scene.

At 2AM, in the dark morning hours of June 28th, Mark Zuckerberg woke up and got on a plane. He was traveling to an aviation testing facility in Yuma, AZ, where a small Facebook team had been working on a secret project. Their mission: to design, build, and launch a high-altitude solar-powered plane, in the hopes that one day a fleet of the aircraft would deliver internet access around the world

Pokemon Go players have stumbled into places they really shouldn’t be on the hunt for digital monsters. It seems that for some fans of the popular app, catching them all is more important than personal safety. Every once in a while, you hear stories of pet owners who drowned because they jumped into streams trying to save their dogs. Now it seems people risk their lives for digital creatures, too – even though those actions are more careless than heroic

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser Al-Qadi will meet with a delegation from TRANSSION Holdings, owner of Tecno Mobile, in the next couple of weeks to discuss opportunities for locally manufacturing mobile phones, according to an official at the Ministry of Communications.

The first ever study of the impacts of one-way car-sharing services in North America shows that overthe past three years there are already noticeable benefits in terms of pollution levels and traffic volumes.

Women who smoke during pregnancy run the risk of having boys with low sperm production in adulthood, an Australian study suggests.

A Cape Breton eye doctor, who is now using the latest technology to treat patients with glaucoma, says the procedure is good news for those affected.

Russian balloonist and survivalist Fedor Konyukhov on Tuesday embarked on a solo flight around the world in a hot air balloon from Western Australia.

The much awaited iOS upgrade that we were waiting for, is finally here. The fresh version of iOS 10 was unveiled at the WWDC held in San Francisco, promises to turn a new leaf for older iPhones and tablets.

Pokemon Go is now officially available to download in Canada for iPhone and Android users, ending a much-hyped wait for fans of the 20-year-old Japanese franchise since the game was released in other countries earlier this month.

If all else fails, grab a smartphone. When the Turkish military reportedly began shutting down internet services like Facebook and Google during an alleged coup Friday, the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, tried a different way to call for help. He held a phone in front of his face and, using Apple's FaceTime video-chat software, gave an interview to a local news station and implored citizens to fill the streets and support the democratically elected government.

Areport issued by Static on the market shares of internet browsers in July showed that 38.1% of users worldwide prefer using Google Chrome.

A report issued by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology for the market in April showed that the three mobile carriers, Orange, Vodafone, and Etisalat, acquired 30,000 new clients in April, boosting the total number of mobile phone users to 95.29 million people. In March, the number stood at 95.26 million users—displaying a growth of 0.4% in April.

Cry "wolf!" once to often - and people will stop paying attention. In predicting weather events, meteorologists have always faced that fundamental problem: A prediction may come true in one place but not in another, even though the two places are not that far from each other.

An experimental solar-powered airplane has left Spain for Egypt in the penultimate leg of its globe-circling voyage.

The National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority’s (NTRA) report for May 2016 revealed the continuation of a decline in the quality of call services across the three mobile operators—Vodafone, Orange, and Etisalat—for the second consecutive month.

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said Facebook Inc (FB.O) may have understated the value of intellectual property it transferred to Ireland by "billions of dollars", unfairly cutting its tax bill in the process, according to court papers.

Nintendo’s Pokémon Go app has turned the slumping Japanese video game developer into an overnight celebrity on the app market. Can it sustain its success, or is it just experiencing its 15 minutes of fame? With stocks falling for months as sales of its video game consoles grew tepid, it became clear to Nintendo that it could no longer ignore the booming smartphone gaming market. Last week, it released the game “Pokémon Go” onto Android and Apple app markets in the US, Australia and New Zealand.

For pilot André Borschberg, this is already his last leg in the cockpit: On Monday at 6:20 a.m. local time he took off from the Spanish airport of Seville. He is scheduled to arrive in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Wednesday morning at 9:40 a.m. local time.

Warning: Looking at your smartphone while lying in bed at night could wreak havoc on your vision. Two women went temporarily blind from constantly checking their phones in the dark, say doctors who are now alerting others to the unusual phenomenon. The solution: Make sure to use both eyes when looking at your smartphone screen in the dark.

Careem, an online chauffeur cab booking service in the Middle East and North Africa, intends to implement a new strategy for global expansion based on the company’s research and development (R&D). According to a press release issued by the company, it will inject $100m over the next five years into R&D.