Gmail is opening its doors to rival email services. Google has released a new version of its Gmail mobile app, available for download now on Android, that lets you manage accounts from alternative email providers like Yahoo(YHOO, Tech30), AOL (AOL, Tech30) and Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) Outlook. You can also use it with your work email address. The new app has a cleaned-up look that Google(GOOG) calls "material design," which gives the illusion of varying depths for...

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Google Calendar is becoming more like a personal assistant. A new version of the popular calendar app is now available for users of the new Android Lollipop operating system, Google announced Monday. The biggest new feature is that the app can now scan your email and automatically create new events based on incoming messages. That means when you do things like buy concert tickets or book...

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If you're serious about PC gaming, you've put your heart and soul into building your rig. You've hand-selected the right combination of memory, processing power and storage options, calculated your power usage, and scrimped and saved to buy that top-tier GPU. This begs the question: If your PC is so great, why would you settle on your mouse? Stop using that $20 Microsoft...

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The UK government is set to confirm measures that will allow driverless cars to to be used on public roads next year. Currently, driverless vehicles are only permitted on private roads, but the UK government is to outline plans that will introduce test cars onto the UK's public roads from January 2015. The Department of Transport will begin reviewing public road laws to...

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Electric cars certainly have potential, but it's a pain having to plug them in to charge - give it three years though and you'll be able to ditch those annoying cables. Wireless car charging technology is already up and running on the safety cars of the new Formula E championship - the world's first fully electric racing series - and from 2015 even...

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