Preparing for air traffic control via satellite
An aircraft from the Netherlands Aerospace Centre carried a prototype Iris terminal connected to Inmarsat’s next-generation SwiftBroadband-S ...
China clamps down on popular online video-streaming services
Chinese authorities are clamping down on streaming video over social media amid a proliferation of online-only television content and live-s ...
EU charges Facebook over WhatsApp buyout (Update)
Facebook faces fines after the EU rules it gave misleading information over WhatsApp The European Union charged Facebook on Tuesday with p ...
Solar power project at Northeast US military base underway
A solar power project officials say is the largest in the military in the Northeastern U.S. is moving forward. ...
New technology coordinates drones in team missions
Marjorie Darrah, professor of mathematics at West Virginia University. Credit: West Virginia University A West Virginia University mathemat ...
New technology could help track firefighters for safety
A test of a new tracking technology, which can be followed on a computer map. JPL may have solved a longstanding technology problem for fire ...
Electrons trying to catch up with photons
How electrons interact with other electrons in graphene affects how quickly they travel in the material, leading to its high conductivity. Scientists from the Centre for Extreme Matter and Emergent Ph
Rating ranking and recommending—three R's for the internet age
Credit: shutterstock.com This holiday season, when we Google for the most trending gifts, compare different items on Amazon or take a break ...
MH370 officials: Crash site could be north of search area
A team of international investigators hunting for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said Tuesday it has concluded the plane is unlikely t ...
Australia and France sign deal to build 12 submarines
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, right, and Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne listen to national anthems on the Australian ...
Signal encrypted messaging app say Egypt is blocking it
Signal, the encrypted messaging app that is used heavily by journalists and activists in Egypt, says the authorities in the Mideast country ...
Solid state battery with unmatched energy density
A garnet-based solid-state battery technology is being developed by researchers at the University of Maryland’s Energy Research Center and A. James Clark School of Engineering.
China clamps down on popular online live-streaming services
China's media regulators are clamping down on the booming live-streaming industry. ...
Nanomaterials enhance electrical and thermal conductivity in composites
Technology that could enhance both the electrical and thermal conductivity of conventional composite materials has been developed thanks to a collaboration between the University of Surrey, University
EU accuses Facebook of providing 'misleading' information about WhatsApp buyout
The EU charged Facebook on Tuesday with providing "misleading" information when it sought approval for its blockbuster $19-billon ...
'Super Mario Run': Price connectivity missteps for Nintendo
This image provided by Nintendo shows a screenshot from the game "Super Mario Run," which the gaming giant released for the iPhone ...
SoftBank delivers first $1 bn of Trump pledge to space firm
Satellite broadband firm OneWeb on Monday announced a $1.2 billion funding round led by SoftBank, the first concrete investment from the Jap ...
House report urges clearer guidance on cellphone technology (Update)
Clearer guidelines are needed for law enforcement's use of secretive and intrusive cellphone tracking technology, and police and federal age ...
On the road to autonomy remember the operator
Credit: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Automakers and their tech partners may be looking toward a future when they can offer fully au ...
Cuba slashes internet costs
2016-12-20 06:01:26Cuba slashes internet costs
Cuba has some 900 state-run internet cafés and 200 wifi hotspots, but connection costs are prohibitively expensive for most Cuba cut t ...
NYC launches mobile parking payment system
New York City has announced a new mobile payment system for parking on the streets. ...
House report urges clearer guidance on cellphone technology
House lawmakers say Congress should set clearer guidelines for law enforcement's use of cellphone tracking technology. ...
US fails to renegotiate arms control rule for hacking tools
The Obama administration has failed to renegotiate portions of an international arms control arrangement so that it's simpler to export tool ...
Zuckerberg builds software butler for his home
Mark Zuckerberg's artificial intelligence-imbued software "butler"—named Jarvis—is now in service, and even plays with his family, ...
Apple appeals EU order to collect $14B in back taxes
In this Sept. 5, 2014, file photo, the Apple logo hangs in the glass box entrance to the company's Fifth Avenue store in New York. Apple is ...
Czechs open production of batteries based on nanotechnology
Company HE3DA President Jan Prochazka shows qualities of a new battery during the official start of a battery production line in Prague, on ...
Google's Waymo adds 100 Chryslers to self-driving fleet
A Google self-driving car maneuvers through Washington, DC Google's spinoff self-driving car division Waymo announced Monday it added 100 C ...
Hackers hit Thai sites to protest restrictive internet law
Hackers saying they are protesting the passage of a bill restricting internet freedom have been attacking Thai government computer servers, ...
The lab that's betting on low-tech
From the Saint Loup Chapel in Pompaples to the soon-to-be-completed Vidy Theatre Pavilion in Lausanne, the lab run by Yves Weinand is develo ...
Radio created from atomic scale defects
Researchers from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have used atomic scale defects in pink diamonds to create the world’s smallest radio receiver.
NIST device for detecting subatomic motion
A device developed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can measure the motion of nanoparticles traversing distances shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
ams acquires digital noise cancellation technology
Looking to strengthen its position in the active noise cancellation market, ams has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UK company Incus Laboratories.
Multi-gigabit Ethernet controllers for enterprise and SMB networks
The AQtion product line of multi-gigabit Ethernet BASE-T controllers developed by Aquantia support 10,5 and 2.5Gbit speeds in addition to Gigabit Ethernet.
Combatting retail fraud using a simulator
Every year the retail industry lose billions of dollars to fraud in the US alone. To complicate the matter research in the field has been ob ...
Holiday cheer: students build hi-tech toys for disabled kids
In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, photo, University of North Florida students, Garrett Baumann, right, Chris Martin, center, and Jason Pavicha ...
Digital wallpaper to redecorate with one switch
Redecorating the living room could be as easy as pressing a button thanks to Italian scientists who have created a ceramic tile that can change colour, pattern, or play videos with one tap.
Ireland to appeal EU's record $14 billion tax order on Apple
In this Sept. 5, 2014, file photo, the Apple logo hangs in the glass box entrance to the company's Fifth Avenue store in New York. Ireland i ...
Hydroelectric engineers find potential in centuries-old mine
In this Dec. 8, 2016 photo, Steve Burke and Jim Besha of Albany Engineering Corp. stand at the site of an abandoned iron mine in the Adirond ...
Hotel search site Trivago rises in stock market debut
Shares of Trivago, the hotel search company that created a buzz with a rumpled TV spokesman, rose in their Wall Street debut. ...
Uber defies California keeps self-driving cars rolling
Uber said Friday it planned to keep its self-driving cars on the streets of San Francisco, defying a state order to halt the test program. ...
Review: Price right service not with DirecTV Now
If you're looking for a low-cost alternative to pricey pay TV service, you've a got new option from AT&T. ...
Startup Ranker helps brands tailor ads
If Fox Searchlight Pictures wants to increase attendance at its new film "Jackie," it might consider pitching fans of "True D ...
Startup Ransomly keeps phone addicts in check
Zack Prager, 39, doesn't like to wash the dishes. In fact, to the chagrin of his fiance, the San Diego software developer has been known to ...
Rice Baylor team sets new mark for 'deep learning'
From left, Richard Baraniuk, Tan Nguyen and Ankit Patel. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Neuroscience and artificial intelligence exper ...
French cars lead EU list of low CO2 emitters Ferrari fined
A Renault Zoe electric car at a charging point in Lisbon The European Union on Friday said luxury carmakers Ferrari and Aston Martin would ...
Frustrated by self-checkout? Retailers look to smartphones to cut the line
Self-checkout is supposed to be a time-saver. But that's before ...
Delivery robots are showing up on city sidewalks
Designers of futuristic cityscapes envision delivery drones dropping off your packages from the sky and driverless cars taking you to work. ...
Without these ads there wouldn't be money in fake news
It's never been easier to launch a wildly profitable online media empire. Whether you're an aspiring mommy blogger or political pundit, $10 ...
A startup's system for cleaning 3-D printed items could revolutionize additive manufacturing
Daniel J. Hutchinson, left, and Jeff Mize stand amid the products that PostProcess Technologies sell from their Buffalo headquarters. Credit ...
Syncing data center computers at the speed of light
When several computers need to work together, as when calculating in parallel on several parts of a single large problem or managing a large ...
Database of software 'fingerprints' expands to include mobile apps
Credit: Titima Ongkantong/Shutterstock.com A group of computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has ...
FBI's DNA profiles to include more data making them even more powerful at solving cases
Until now, forensic DNA profiles in the United States have been a series of 26 numbers that can be used to identify an individual. When DNA ...
Think twice before trusting a digital assistant to do the shopping
The risks of using digital assistants for online shopping are laid out in the book. Credit: Shutterstock images Online shopping for Christm ...
A drone that flies (almost) like a bird
Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne A drone has been equipped with feathers to increase its precision during flight. The bio-i ...
Rating systems may discriminate against Uber drivers
Many new "sharing economy" companies, like Uber and Airbnb, use consumer-sourced ratings to evaluate their workers – but these sys ...
Mars Rover project wins Rohde & Schwarz’s 2 minutes competition
Rohde & Schwarz has named Iowa State University Aerospace Engineering Department as the winner of its 2 minutes competition and recipient of the star prize of an R&S Scope Rider. Scope Rider w
How to spot lies 'fake news' and propaganda
In this Friday Dec. 9, 2016 file photo, flowers and notes left by well-wishers are displayed outside Comet Ping Pong, the pizza restaurant i ...
Thai junta passes controversial cyber-crime law
Thai workers look at job advertisements in Bangkok Thailand's rubber-stamp parliament on Friday passed a controversial cyber-crime law that ...
ARM buys Allinea as it firms HPC offerings
In a move which strengthens its presence in the high performance computing sector, ARM has acquired Allinea Software, a developer of tools that maximise software efficiency. According to ARM, Allinea’
Method for using focused ultrasound to noninvasively ablate tumors in deep tissue
Researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University, in cooperation with colleagues from the University of Washington, have developed a metho ...
Optical fibre sensor enables real time detection
Optical fibre sensing shows promise for monitoring the condition of structures. By embedding long optical fibres into a structure, strain and temperature distributions along the fibres can be detected
Intelligence in the abyss
2016-12-16 20:00:17Intelligence in the abyss
Credit: Youris.com Would you dive into a body of water populated by about 150 robots? That's what could happen if you were to fall off a &q ...
Scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment
Low-frequency mechanical energy harvesting could provide as much as 40 percent of the power requirements for next generation smartphones and ...
FDXcelerator programme expanded
Globalfoundries has added eight partners to its FDXcelerator Program, designed to help its customers to develop SoCs targeted at its FD-SOI based 22FDX and 12FDX processes. According to the company, t
Scientists turn to AI to create safer batteries
Techniques adapted from AI and machine learning have identified more than 20 solid electrolytes which Stanford University researchers claim could replace the volatile liquids used in smartphones, lapt
California Uber still negotiating self-driving car legality (Update)
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, an Uber driverless car waits in traffic during a test drive in San Francisco. The ride-hailing c ...
Smiley faced success for Japan's emoji creator
From a humble smiley face with a box mouth and inverted "V's" for eyes, crude weather symbols, and a rudimentary heart—emoji have ...
Feds: No 'show-stoppers' found in nuke readiness review
U.S. Energy Department officials said Thursday no "show-stoppers" were found during an intensive review of whether the federal gov ...
Yahoo hack shows data's use for information warfare (Update)
The latest Yahoo hacking is the largest on record and comes just months after the internet giant disclosed a separate breach of data from 50 ...
California Uber meet amid self-driving car legal showdown
In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, an Uber driverless car waits in traffic during a test drive in San Francisco. The ride-hailing c ...
Amazon aims to blur lines between game real life
Amazon unveiled a new feature called IRL, from the acronym "in real life", that allows users to "share content captured from ...
Yahoo's mega breach shows how just how vulnerable data is
This Tuesday, July 19, 2016 photo shows a Yahoo sign at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. On Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, Yahoo s ...
UN: Threat of a hacking attack on nuclear plants is growing
The "nightmare scenario" is rising for a hacking attack on a nuclear power plant's computer system that causes the uncontrolled re ...
Ford studies using drones to guide self-driving cars
Drones launched from an autonomous vehicle could help guide it by mapping surrounding areas beyond what the car's sensors can detect, accord ...
Researchers combat antimicrobial resistance using smartphones
A schematic shows a smartphone and the diagnostic attachment for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Credit: Aydogan Ozcan/UCLA A team of ...
Facebook gets serious about fighting fake news (Update)
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spr ...
GM begins testing autonomous cars on Michigan public roads
General Motors has started testing fully autonomous vehicles on public roads around its technical center in suburban Detroit. ...
Malawi drone test centre to help with healthcare disasters
Malawi on Thursday launched Africa's first drone-testing corridor as developing countries explore how drones could be used during humanitari ...
Mind-controlled toys: The next generation of Christmas presents?
Infographic on mind-controlled Scalextric. Credit: University of Warwick The next generation of toys could be controlled by the power of th ...
Another Yahoo breach and investors are rattled
Yahoo shares slid Thursday on worries that Verizon will walk away or slash its $4.8 billion offer for the company's digital operations after ...
Suspect arrested in JPMorgan Dow Jones data theft case
A 32-year-old American formerly living in Moscow but wanted in the United States in connection with a massive theft of customer data from JP ...
Lower cost of LEDs reduce profitability for manufacturing landscape
Although residential and commercial industries are widely adopting energy-efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs), the drop in LED prices is ...
Facebook takes on fake news
2016-12-16 04:00:08Facebook takes on fake news
Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news. It will partner with outside fact-checkers to sort honest news reports from ...
Yahoo hack shows data as tool of information warfare
The massive hack affecting a billion Yahoo users shows how seemingly innocuous bits of data gleaned from cyber attacks can be exploited for ...
Businesses more likely to pay ransomware than consumers study says
Credit: IBM IBM Security today announced results from a study finding 70 percent of businesses infected with ransomware have paid ransom to ...
Trump tells anxious tech leaders: 'We're here to help'
Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, center, listen as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with techn ...
Tackling the ethical challenges of big data
An authority on social data, Susan Etlinger argues we need to apply critical thinking and exercise caution as we enter the age of "data ...
New report finds health wearable devices pose new consumer and privacy risks
Personal health wearable devices used to monitor heart rates, sleep patterns, calories, and even stress levels raise new privacy and securit ...
Nintendo to release Super Mario Run in mobile game test
Super Mario Run, based on Nintendo's iconic Italian plumber, is the firm's most important move so far into mobile gaming Nintendo will on T ...
Big data technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships
A new technique devised by MIT researchers can take data sets with huge numbers of variables and find approximations of them with far fewer ...
Energy report provides guidance for evolving electric power sector
Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT Distributed energy resources—relatively small-scale power technologies such as solar, wind, energy storage, ...
Advances in transport infrastructure technology are quickly changing the landscape
The future will see Sydney commuters have more control. Credit: Shutterstock Sydney's transport system, long troubled by disjointed connect ...
360-degree airport simulator tests the future of air traffic control
Credit: NASA Heading home for the holidays may fill you with joy, as well as a little dread at the thought of the complexities of air trave ...
Rogue One highlights an uncomfortable fact – military robots can change sides
The droid K-2SO from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd The latest Star Wars movie, Rogue One introduces us to a new droid ...
Blocking access to illegal file-share websites won't stop illegal downloading
The Grand Tour, starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, available on Amazon’s pay-to-view service is reportedly now the mos ...
Flexible optical sensor to monitor liquid properties
An optical sensor using a low cost and flexible conventional tape has been developed by researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The sensor can detect variations of the optical properties o
How news sites' online comments helped build our hateful electorate
Who do we become in online comments? Credit: shutterstock.com Critics may accuse President-elect Donald J. Trump and his supporters of drag ...
Proposed rule to mandate V2V communication
The US Department of Transportation (DoT) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are looking to mandate the use of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology in all new light-duty vehicles.
Ilika leads battery integration project
A collaborative project involving battery developer Ilika, McLaren Applied Technologies and Sharp Laboratories of Europe has received more than £500,000 from Innovate UK to create an autonomous energy
Safety MCUs for autonomous driving
Four MCUs have been added to the RH850/P1L-C Group, completing Renesas Electronics’ safety microcontroller RH850/P1x-C series suitable for advanced driver assistance systems. It has been designed for