TECHNOLOGY

Roughly 16,000 police agencies around the world use Tasers, the electroshock weapons that send electrical currents to disrupt voluntary control over one's muscles, but law enforcement officers only prefer Tasers because they can subdue unruly people in a non-lethal, non-violent way. A new study released by the American Heart Association's journal on Monday, however, provides scientific, peer-reviewed evidence to the contrary.

Yahoo Axis is on a mission to redefine the way users search for information. Offered by a free download, Yahoo Axis takes four major Web browsers - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari - and alters them to display search results in a more convenient and visual format.

On Thursday, pod2g announced the inclusion of the iPad 3,3 to the list of supported devices. With the new iPad now fully supported by the iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak, the only device left to be tested is iPad 2 Wi-Fi, R2 (iPad 2,4).

HTC has provided a complete list of devices on its website with timeline for receiving the updates. According to the company, the majority of devices will be getting the updates in June and July while the entire process of updating all the announced devices is expected to be finished in August.

Accelerometers are devices that can measure acceleration, but in smartphones, they're able to detect changes in orientation and tell the screen to rotate. Basically, it knows up from down. Even though they're one of the most important smartphone features, we barely notice them. That's where Bill Hammack, a.k.a. The Engineer Guy, comes in.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when Thomas Langenbach, the vice president of SAP -- a top maker of business management software solutions based in Palo Alto, Calif. -- was found scanning boxes upon boxes of Lego toys before purchasing them. Little did anyone know, Langenbach was actually engaged in a giant scam.

Leap Motion has officially set the new standard for how we use desktop devices, a.k.a computers. On May 21, the motion-control software and hardware company announced its latest innovation - The Leap.

Just six months after Google Chrome eclipsed Mozilla's Firefox to become the world's second most popular Web browser, Chrome has also surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer to become the most-used Web browser in the world, according to Statcounter.

When you walk into a clothing store, how can you tell which items are actually popular with previous or would-be customers? Brazilian fashion retailer C&A has the answer: Clothes hangers that leverage the 900 million-plus users on Facebook to show who likes a particular item.

Pod2g announced has that the highly anticipated untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 is almost ready for public release and should available in the next few days. As per further revelation from xvolks, the new jailbreak took will indeed be called Absinthe 2.0. He also uploaded a video showing the tool in action on an iPhone 4 GSM running iOS 5.1.1.

Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduates on Sunday to take the radical step -- at least for their generation -- of tearing their eyes away from their smartphones and computer screens.

One value of going public for any company is to raise cash as well as mint new shares for acquisitions. Facebook (Nasdaq: FB)?s $16 billion initial public offering was no exception.

Pakistan Sunday blocked Twitter in response to the micro blogging website's inability to remove the blasphemous content posted by its users.

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site.

Earlier this week, he listed out, via a blog post, the devices that would be supported by the upcoming untethered exploit. Now, he has come up with yet another update, adding two more devices to the list of the compatible ones - iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3G.

Motorola has updated its timeline for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) updates for a number of devices, including the Droid RAZR and RAZR Maxx that are expected to receive their ICS scoop before the end of the second quarter.

Well, THAT just happened. The world's most dominant social network, touting some 900 million worldwide users, made its Wall Street debut from home Friday, as Mark Zuckerberg and co. opted to celebrate the beginning of a more open and connected Facebook from the company's headquarter's in Menlo Park, Calif.

Both Samsung Japan and NTT Docomo have confirmed that the Galaxy S3's Japanese variant, named the SC-06D, will be packing 2GB of RAM, instead of 1GB. The device will also swap the quad-core Exynos for a 1.5Ghz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor.

As Google rolls out more new changes to their search engine, the Menlo Park, Calif. based company has released the details to their latest search innovation -- Knowledge Graph. The new Google search feature will reportedly work with its users to fully understand what they mean by their search entry, according to Mashable.

The SMU women's rowing team is calling out the Harvard Men's Baseball team with a Call Me Maybe challenge. The SMU team was on its way to the airport in Knoxville, Tenn., after the Conference USA championships in Oak Ridge when they taped a choreographed dance to Carly Rae Jepsen's hit single, Call Me Maybe.

Keeping his followers in the loop, the hacker has also released a formal list in which he has clearly mentioned the devices that would be supported by the ensuing iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak.

Facebook Inc will increase the size of its initial public offering by 25 percent to raise about $15 billion, a source familiar with the matter said, as strong investor demand for a share of the No.1 social network trumped ongoing debate about the company's long-term potential to make money.

Google is getting serious about its self-driving car technology campaign. In an effort to make the driverless car legal on U.S. roads, the Mountain View, Calif. based company was spotted showing off the robo-prius on the streets of Washington, D.C. - just one day after Nevada became the first state to legalize autonomous vehicles.

Since the Facebook IPO announcement back in Februrary, analysts have been researching the company from almost every angle, trying to gauge how well the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company will do once it goes public.

Here's some good news for those A4 device users who recently updated their devices to iOS 5.1.1. The iPhone Dev Team has released yet another new version of the popular jailbreaking tool RedSn0w with complete tethered jailbreak support for iOS 5.1.1, coupled with a few key improvements.

French iOS hacker Pod2g has always been keen to keep his followers updated on the happenings in the world of jailbreaking. He came up with the answers of a few critical questions on the 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak, which, he said, he had received either by email or Twitter.

British video game publisher Eidos has announced on its community forum that it has decided to hold back the release date of Tomb Raider for an undecided period of time in the first quarter of 2013.

Rumors have been swirling around the Internet for months that one day the newest feature on Facebook, Timeline, would become mandatory and it appears the date has been set for May 21, just three days the company is slated to go public. On Monday, some of the remaining Facebook users who haven't converted to the Timeline feature received a message on top of their page, informing that the mandatory rollout would take place next week.

In the developing story that is the resignation of Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, details have leaked about what the former CEO disclosed to the company's board of directors and several colleagues before the major announcement. According to The Wall Street Journal, Thompson revealed to his fellow Yahoo co-workers that he had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.