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At the CeBIT trade fair in Germany, Alibaba founder Jack Ma said the tech giant is working on payment technology that uses facial recognition.

BlackBerry attempts is first tablet in four years.

Hanover, Germany is the host city for the CeBIT conference starting March 6 through March 10, but a company called Tobit Software has already captured the crowd's imagination with a pole-dancing robot. As the second decade of the 21st century advances on, so does the robot world and the realm of mobile technology. From autonomous quadcoptors to a DARPA built four-legged Cheetah robot and exoskeleton supports for the disabled, the tech is advancing very rapidly.

Tobii Technology, a pioneer pioneer and the world leader in eye tracking and eye control technology, is all set to show off its recent innovation at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 (better known as CES 2012), which is set to kick off on Jan. 10 in Las Vegas - its gaze interface for Microsoft Windows 8 Metro, which allows users to interact with their computers using eye tracking technology.

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New computers from Lenovo show off a possible future of computer interfaces.

It was Léo Apotheker whose name appeared on the invitation to the opening ceremony of the Cebit trade show -- but his successor, co-CEO Bill McDermott, appeared on stage.