Samsung's profit jumps 50 percent despite Galaxy fiasco
A man walks by an advertisement of the Samsung Electronics Galaxy S7 Edge and S7 smartphones in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Sa ...
Baidu family robot a Chinese spin on Amazon Echo
Chinese internet company Baidu displays its new "Little Fish" voice-controlled home assistant unit which also features a touch scr ...
The Latest at CES: Unlimited will be only option at T-Mobile
Hair Coach smart hairbrushes are displayed at the Withings booth during CES Unveiled before CES International, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in Las ...
Jury: DuPont should pay Ohio man $10.5M more in cancer suit
A federal jury says DuPont should pay an additional $10.5 million in damages to an Ohio man who says he got testicular cancer because of a c ...
T-Mobile says unlimited plans will be only option
T-Mobile said unlimited plans will be the only option for new customers even though they are more expensive than some of its old, limited pl ...
The Latest at CES: Skydiving and zombies in virtual reality
Han Chen reacts as he participates in a virtual realty presentation during an Intel news conference before CES International, Wednesday, Jan ...
Process to print flexible e-stickers
A process developed by KAUST prints silicon-based networked sensors on to soft, sticker-like surfaces that can be attached anywhere. Pressure-sensitive ‘e-stickers’ contain all the functionality of tr
Telecommunications light amplifier could strengthen integrity of transmitted data
Singapore University of Technology and Design Assistant Professor Dawn Tan and the newly developed amplifier on a chip. Credit: Dr. Dawn Tan ...
Artificial intelligence seen as a key technology to enable better balancing of UK's energy market
Upside Energy and Heriot-Watt University have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant by Innovate UK to maximise the oppor ...
Gadget makers offer voice controls through Amazon's Alexa
A show attendee stands in front of the Sony's CLEDIS display system during a news conference at CES International Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, i ...
Who will be the winner in the next computing revolution?
Artificial intelligence will unleash computers from behind screens. Credit: Shutterstock A computer's operating system, the layer of softwa ...
Attackers can make it impossible to dial emergency services
When calling these people, you want to be able to get through. Credit: Fairfax County, Virginia It's not often that any one of us needs to ...
Nano-chimneys in graphene material may cool circuits
Putting a cone-like ‘chimney’ between graphene and carbon nanotubes may be all that is required to eliminate a barrier that blocks heat from escaping, according to Rice University scientists. The theo
Accelerated customization with smarter methods
Product development. Credit: Jönköping University A recent collaboration between the business sector and the School of Engineerin ...
Work email overload: can the law lead a fightback?
Beatrice, a busy 50-year-old manager at an airline in Paris, sounds like she would benefit from France's new "right to disconnect" ...
BMW to deploy 40 self-driving cars in US Europe
BMW made the announcement of deploying 40 self-driving vehicles at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas jointly with US computer chip ...
Hyundai eyes autonomous cars for the masses
Mike O'Brien, vice president of Hyundai North America, said the autonomous Ioniq concept "is a normal car, not a science project" ...
China's Huawei adds Amazon Alexa to flagship phone
Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, presents the new Huawei Mate 9 high-end-phablet during the Huawei Global Product Launch i ...
MCUs for automotive radar systems
Renesas Electronics has unveiled a series of MCUs intended for use with automotive radar systems. The RH850 based parts are said by the company to deliver the performance and features required for fut
China's Alibaba sues vendors over selling counterfeits
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has filed a lawsuit against two vendors for allegedly selling counterfeit goods, it said, weeks after the U ...
Gigafactory battery production underway
Tesla and Panasonic have begun mass production of lithium-ion battery cells for use in Tesla’s energy storage products and in the Model 3 car.
Apple removes New York Times app from China store
The New York Times said both its English- and Chinese-language apps were pulled late last month from Apple's China app store Apple has remo ...
BMW launches first augmented reality dealerships
Using a smartphone, potential BMW buyers can view and interact with a virtual car as if it were standing in front of them BMW customers wil ...
The Latest at CES: HTC's Netflix for virtual reality
Joe Stinziano, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics America, introduces the Samsung QLED TV with Quantum dot Technology during a ...
The big thing in TV sets this year is ... big TV sets
David VanderWaal, vice president of marketing for LG Electronics USA, unveils the LG Signature OLED TV W during an LG news conference before ...
Lawsuit seeks to ban Google from US government contracts
The U.S. Labor Department is trying to bar Google from doing business with the federal government unless the internet company turns over con ...
Hulu adds CBS for upcoming live TV streaming service
This June 27, 2015, file photo, shows the Hulu logo on a window at the Milk Studios space in New York. Hulu says it signed a deal with CBS C ...
The Latest at CES: Spy on your fridge to restock
The FridgeCam is on display at the Smarter booth during CES Unveiled, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in Las Vegas. The camera takes a picture every ...
LG kicks off gadget gala with 'wallpaper' thin TV
LG touched on hot themes at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show, including robots, appliances equipped with artificial intelligence, and self ...
Tesla starts mass production of batteries
Mass production of the energy-saving batteries are a critical step in realizing Tesla's ambitions for the Model 3, which is priced at a mode ...
Smartphone with Google 3-D Tango from Taiwan's Asus
Taiwan-based electronics group Asus announced Wednesday it was launching a new smartphone which uses Google Tango 3D technology and allows u ...
At 70 JBL still knows how to throw sound
At least one participant at the upcoming presidential inauguration will care more about how clearly the speeches will be heard than about an ...
Sea sponges offer clues to how human-made structures can resist buckling
Tiny rods found inside the bodies of orange puffball sea sponges have an interesting tapered shape. That shape, new research shows, turns ou ...
New gadgets only part of CES's success story
It's easy to get caught up with all the new gizmos at CES. But ...
Unconventional Snap Spectacles make discrete video capture a cinch
Snap Inc. shows their new Spectacles video-catching sunglasses For decades, from Kodak to Polaroid to GoPro, companies have marketed camera ...
China's innovation future depends on intellectual property rights protection
As China's working age population shrinks and cheap labour dries up, the country's leaders have been keen to stress the urgency to move from ...
Spray Combustion Consortium formed to improve engine design
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Lyle Pickett, who serves as Sandia's lead for the consortium, examines a fuel injector with the nozz ...
Adobe looks to artificial intelligence to make products more approachable
A teary-eyed Mala Sharma felt vindicated as she stood outside a school for impoverished children in India. A student had snatched the Adobe ...
Review: Acer Spin 3 is a laptop that's also a tablet and that's just right
While Apple is content to keep its laptop and tablet hardware separate, Windows PC manufacturers seem determined to bring them together. ...
Nanowire inks enable printable electronics
By suspending tiny metal nanoparticles in liquids, Duke University scientists are creating conductive ‘inks’ that can be used to print inexpensive, customisable circuit patterns on any surface.
Microsoft Intel era at CES gives way to rising star Nvidia
For most of its 23 years, Nvidia was best known for building graphics processors that helped computers display high-powered computer games. ...
Select Comfort's new bed tracks whether you sleep badly and then does something about it
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Select Comfort's latest bed promises to adjust to your sleep patterns throughout the night, including warming the ...
An app to crack the teen exercise code
Welcome to Camp Conquer. From this screen, players can buy new items for their avatar, battle with water balloons and see their health stats ...
Smart prioritization of visually important data to improve video streaming
By prioritizing the delivery of rich visual data, A*STAR researchers have demonstrated that the quality of streaming video can be vastly imp ...
Skyrmion displacement for better memory devices
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have proven that is possible to move magnetic textures, or skyrmions, backwards and forwards between d
Diamondoids to make wires three atoms wide
Scientists at Stanford University and the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a way to use diamondoids – the smallest possible bits of diamond – to assemble
Electronics academics feature in New Year’s Honours
Professor John McCanny, director of Queen’s University Belfast's Institute for Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), has received a Knighthood in the New Year’s Honours Li
Tech outlook dampened by political uncertainty
As tech industry leaders gather for an annual extravaganza showcasing hot new products, political uncertainty is casting a cloud over the se ...
The Latest at CES: From drones to A.I. top CES 2017 trends
Workers prepare a booth during setup for CES International, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in Las Vegas. The show runs from January 5-8. (AP Photo/J ...
Cruise company Carnival gets personal with concierge tech
Miles Clark of Carnival Corp. demonstrates the Ocean Compass interface before CES International, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in Las Vegas. The li ...
Company stands by plan to bury nuke waste near Lake Huron
A Canadian company that wants to bury waste from nuclear power plants near Lake Huron said Tuesday a study of alternative sites had found no ...
Lenovo launches 'home assistant' with Amazon Alexa
Lenovo new Smart Assistant, to go on sale for $129, will compete with Amazon's Echo speakers using the artificial intelligence developed by ...
Electric car startup unveils 'new species' of vehicle
Faraday Future, the secretive electric car startup with ambitions to overtake Tesla, unveiled its first production vehicle Tuesday, proclaim ...
Chrysler's new tech-rich concept car aims young
The company said the Chrysler Portal concept car, seen January 2, 2017, can be used in "semi-autonomous operation," where a driver ...
Global launch by Huawei of new mid-range smartphone
Chinese electronics giant Huawei announced Tuesday a global launch of its mid-range Honor 6x smartphone which includes dual-lens camera tech ...
FDA probes dangers of exploding e-cigarette batteries
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is probing the dangers of exploding batteries in e-cigarettes, following dozens of reports of devices ...
Scientists turn memory chips into processors
Memory chips could now perform tasks which were traditionally done by computer processors, according to Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in collaboration with the RWTH Aachen Universi
Ford cancels plan to build new Mexican plant adds US jobs
Ford is canceling plans to build a new $1.6 billion factory in Mexico and will invest $700 million in a Michigan plant to build new electric ...
Rolling out an e-sticker revolution
Pressure-sensitive 'e-stickers' contain all the functionality of traditional silicon circuits but can be fabricated into complex, flexible s ...
Dark lattice modes used to create laser light
A plasmonic nanolaser that operates at visible light frequencies and uses dark lattice modes has been made by researchers at Aalto University, Finland. The results are said to open new prospects for o
First real-life study to provide data on the potential of powering medical implants with solar cells
Credit: Lukas Bereuter The notion of using solar cells placed under the skin to continuously recharge implanted electronic medical devices ...
Compound eyes for industry and smartphone
The first prototype of the technology transfers the images from the camera to the smartphone by Bluetooth via a transmission box. Credit: Fr ...
Scientists create self-healing material
A transparent, self-healing, stretchable, conductive material has been developed by scientists at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Colorado, Boulder. The material can be a
To each driver the appropriate vehicle
The data logger designed by the project group for New Drive Systems NAS in Karlsruhe is useful when developing new hybrid and electric vehic ...
Lessons in trust from America's experience with electronic voting
It reads like a Hollywood movie. Elite hackers, allegedly sponsored by the Russian government, infiltrate the computer systems of the Democr ...
Unique technology for diagnosing vestibular function disorders
Simple device for diagnosing vestibular disorders created by Kaunas universities Researchers of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and L ...
Eco-driving and safe driving technology to save lives environment and money
Atiyeh Vaezipour with a prototype of a new device to help drivers use less fuel. Credit: Queensland University of Technology Road safety re ...
Team develops supercapacitor electrodes
A fast and simple method to synthesise different types of copper based nanostructures has been developed by a team from the Nano-fabricated Energy Devices lab at the University of Tehran.
Opinion: Should algorithms be regulated?
Accidents involving driverless cars, calculating the probability of recidivism among criminals, and influencing elections by means of news f ...
A social reboot for illegal downloaders
Unauthorized downloading of digital goods, including copyright music, videos, computer games, and images has become an increasing problem fo ...
Streaming subscription boom boosts US music sales
Streaming services, which offer unlimited on-demand music online, have grown rapidly in recent years and brought new growth to a long-stagna ...
A closer look at the eye: Researchers develop new retinal imaging technique
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have developed a new imaging technique that could revolutionize how eye health and ...
Surging Bitcoin breaks through $1000 barrier
Some analysts believe the rise in Bitcoin is due to some investors treating it as a safe-haven, like gold, at a time of global uncertainty ...
Foxconn to invest $8 bn in China LCD plant
Foxconn, a major Apple supplier, will spend the vast sum on an industrial complex in the sprawling southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, state ...
Tech show looks beyond 'smart' to new 'realities'
The mega-extravaganza of the tech world in Las Vegas is showcasing an array of new devices that get smarts from computer chips, sensors and ...
French workers win 'right to disconnect'
French companies will be required to guarantee a "right to disconnect" to their employees from Sunday as the country seeks to tack ...
Finding trust and understanding in autonomous technologies
In 2016, self-driving cars went mainstream. Uber's autonomous vehicles became ubiquitous in neighborhoods where I live in Pittsburgh, and br ...
Intel experts share insights on tech trends for 2017 and beyond
Intel is inventing foundational technologies for amazing new experiences from merged reality to 5G communications and from autonomous drivin ...
New wood technology may offer hope for struggling timber
In this Nov. 11, 2016 photo, John Redfield, chief operating officer of D.R. Johnson Lumber Co. in Riddle, Ore., poses for a photo as he show ...
US gives detailed look at Russia's alleged election hacking
The U.S. has released its most detailed report yet on accusations that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election by hacking Americ ...
Study: Ad-tech use shines light on fringe fake news sites
This pair of images provided by the web analytics firm Mezzobit shows a graphic representation of a mainstream news site, left, and a fringe ...
Humanoid robot Pepper is amusing but is it practical?
In this Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, photo, Emerson Hill, 6, plays with Pepper the robot at Westfield Mall in San Francisco. While merrily chirp ...
How Amazon Echo listens and what it stores
This July 29, 2015, file photo shows Amazon's Echo speaker, which responds to voice commands, in New York. A prosecutor investigating the de ...
Review: These Bluetooth speakers can be life of the party anywhere
We are becoming a nation of people who take our music wherever we go. ...
Uber's surge pricing isn't as painful as you may think according to study
Recent research from Olin Business School shows that the surge pricing model seen in ride-sharing services can actually benefit both drivers ...
Study: Fringe mainstream news sites differ in ad technology
The contrast between mainstream and fringe news sites isn't just about content. A web analytics firm has found clear differences in their un ...
Museum getting a massive geodesic dome with 61 glass eyes
A massive geodesic dome with 61 glass eyes is coming to Arkansas' Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. ...
Image-based modeling of body tissues
Scaffold modelled using image-based Lattice Boltzmann method. LEFT: Calculated shear stress (SS). RIGHT: Soft tis-sue is subtracted using im ...
Twitter unveils 360-degree live video
The first 360-degree video was delivered over Twitter's live Periscope application from broadcaster Alex Pettitt, showing a Florida sunset, ...
How robots will change the workforce
Thirty of the world's top scientists are scheduled to meet at the University of California at San Diego in February to discuss the toughest ...
Review: Apple's AirPods as irritating as they are impressive
Apple is pitching the AirPods, its new wireless headphones, as "effortless" and "magical." ...
OSCE victim of 'major' cyber attack
A Western intelligence agency believes that Russian hackers group APT28 was behind the attack on the Organization for Security and Co-operat ...
Alexa a witness to murder? Prosecutors seek Amazon Echo data
Authorities investigating the death of an Arkansas man whose body was found in a hot tub want to expand the probe to include a new kind of e ...
Pokemon Go Trump top Google trend list
According to Google's global trends report released on December 28, 2016, Pokemon Go was the most-searched item of 2016 and President-elect ...
Where to sell your unwanted stuff online and earn extra cash
This Dec. 22, 2009, file photo shows a gift card kiosk in New York. If you know you won't be using a gift card, you can sell them at a numbe ...
Avoid dull snapshots: Tips for taking stunning pictures
Smartphone cameras have seen dramatic improvements, but technology alone won't produce shots that grab attention. ...
New data-mining strategy that offers unprecedented pattern search speed could glean new insights from massive datasets
A new data mining strategy that offers unprecedented pattern search speed could lead to new insights from massive data. Credit: © Mopic ...
A 'small data' approach to energy saving for industry
With his eyes gazing at the countryside in County Meath, a dozen miles north-west of Dublin, Vincent Murray, project technical leader at IES ...
Production to consumption energy efficiency for smart cities
Credit: Shutterstock By integrating energy management systems the EU funded BESOS project contributes to the efficiency and sustainability ...
NIST guide provides way to tackle cybersecurity incidents with recovery plan playbook
"Defense! Defense!" may be the rallying cry from cybersecurity teams working to thwart cybersecurity attacks, but perhaps they sho ...