A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has created experimental software which is capable of reasonably extrapolating a 3D shape from a 2D image.

LinkedIn has reached an agreement to pay $6m (£3.6m) in wages and damages after it was found by regulators that its employees were paid lesser than the hours they actually worked for. Now, 359 former and current employees will be paid by the company, with $3.3m in unpaid wages and $2.5m in damages.

On Thursday, Time Warner Cable (TWC) announced a new speed-boosting plan, under which the company will offer six-fold faster Internet speeds to its Triangle subscribers at no extra charge next year.

In a letter written to the shareholders of electric carmaker Tesla Motors on Thursday, the company's billionaire founder Elon Musk said that Tesla's yearly production of cars will likely touch more than 100,000 by the end of 2015.

British and Chinese users of Windows Phone-based handsets will soon receive much-awaited digital assistant Cortana - Microsoft's answer to Siri, the software giant has confirmed.

Technology giant Apple has recently released an updated series of MacBook Pro Retina laptops, equipping them with faster Haswell processors, high-resolution Retina display, and increased storage capacity. The update of the laptops comes just in time before the commencement of the school season.

With a series of incidents involving the use of cheap or inappropriate chargers having been reported in the UK in recent times, the latest of these incidents includes a huge explosion at a Ringwood, Hampshire, family home --- the cause of the explosion, and subsequent fire, being the plugging of an e-cigarette into a faulty charger.

According to recent reports, with the first one from AppleInsider website, US tech giant Apple has been granted a patent for a wearable device, which hints at Apple's much-rumored iWatch device.

The patent documents, which were filed by Apple in 2011, refer to a wrist-worn electronic device called 'iTime.'