The Federal Communications Commission is setting out to unravel the mystery behind the Internet traffic jams bogging down the delivery of Netflix videos and other online content.

The inquiry announced Friday by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will dissect the routes that video and other data travel to reach Internet service providers such as Comcast and Verizon.

Two outpost offices of the National Weather Service in Alaska are finally ending what has been a bygone practice for most of the nation for almost two decades — using real human voices in radio forecast broadcasts.

The Nome and Kodiak offices are switching to computerized voices that nationally go by the names of Tom, Donna and, in some parts of the country, Spanish-speaking Javier. It's an idea first hatched in the mid-1990s as part of a move to modernize the weather service, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

New tablet computers from Samsung will feature screens that are richer in color than standard LCDs.

These screens, known as AMOLED for active-matrix organic light-emitting diodes, are already found in smartphones made by Samsung and a few other manufacturers. But until now, tablets haven't used them because larger AMOLED screens are more difficult to produce.

When robots play football, it looks like a game played by five-year-olds: they swarm around the ball, kick haphazardly and fall down a lot.

But robot teams have made strides in recent years, and some researchers believe the humanoids could challenge the world's best players in a decade or two.

Director Quentin Tarantino lambasts digital film-making as nothing less than the "death of cinema as I know it". Converts hail it as a democratising force for good that is cheaper and faster than celluloid.

A debate is raging in the film world about the merits of shooting movies on 35mm film versus digital cameras.

Less than six months are left for Lebanon's parliamentary elections, and for that purpose the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections launched the first elections monitoring mobile phone application which allows all citizens to monitor the polls and register violations in the framework of their national shared responsibility, LADE said in a press conference on Thursday.

The organization said that it is now ready to monitor the elections with the help of unprecedented new technical tools used for the first time in the world. It has launched the field preparations in districts, and its central office to be ready to monitor the polls.

Nils Pihl has spent 18 months building what he calls cutting-edge software to crunch "really big data sets." But instead of going to Silicon Valley, the 27-year-old Swede and his four colleagues have been working on his invention from a small apartment overlooking smoggy northwest Beijing.

In typical startup fashion, they've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars after countless pitch meetings and were racing to prepare their product for launch. Their investors are in Beijing as well as the U.S.

U.S. online giant Amazon is preparing to launch a streaming music service as early as this week, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The report, citing unnamed sources, said the service would have a more limited catalogue than some rivals but would be offered free and without advertising for customers of Amazon Prime -- a subscription service that includes free delivery, access to online movies and books and other advantages.

Sony's new-generation PlayStation 4 console ramped up its winning momentum at international E3 video game show that wraps here Thursday.

PS4 arrived at the major industry event a clear leader over Microsoft Xbox One and didn't stumble.

French video game star Ubisoft is bringing its blockbuster "Assassin's Creed" game to home turf.

The sequel set for worldwide release on October 28 takes players to the streets of Paris during the French Revolution.