An international research team led by UCLA and Caltech has demonstrated that, by using jagged platinum nanowires, the amount of precious metal used as catalysts in hydrogen fuel cells could be reduced
Credit: Boom Sir Richard Branson wants to bring back supersonic travel. Thirteen years since Concorde ended operations, the Virgin tycoon h ...
Designers can now develop high performance fitness and medical wearable devices with enhanced functionality – according to Maxim Integrated Products – by using the MAX32630 and MAX32631 ARM Cortex-M4F
Volkswagen currently employs 215,000 people worldwide Volkswagen on Friday announced the biggest revamp in its history, cutting 30,000 jobs ...
In this Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, the new Google Pixel phone is displayed next to a Daydream View virtual-reality headset, right, following ...
Choe Byong-Nam, a director general of South Korea's National Geographic Information Institute, speaks after a meeting at the National Geogra ...
In this July 14, 2015 file photo, Johnny Bench is introduced as one of the Cincinnati Reds Franchise Four before the MLB All-Star baseball g ...
Automaker Volkswagen says it will shed 30,000 jobs to cut costs as it tries to recover from its diesel emissions scandal and invests more in ...
A digital battle is being waged over the huge amount of technical data that will be stored in autonomous vehicles Just like credit cards, s ...
Facebook is offering new tools for charity fundraising, for marking yourself safe during a crisis and for helping others—or asking for help— ...
In this April 19, 2016, file photo, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky speaks during an event in San Francisco. Airbnb is adding local t ...
Scientists at the University at Buffalo have identified a fluorescent dye called BODIPY as a suitable material for stocking energy in rechargeable, liquid-based batteries that could one day power smal
In a Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., talks about the Model X car at the company's headquarters, in Fremont, ...
The biggest U.S. manufacturer of solar panels is cutting a quarter of its jobs worldwide and will reduce production at its only North Americ ...
Verizon-owned internet firm AOL said Thursday it is trimming jobs as part of a restructuring plan making priorities of mobile, video and dat ...
NIST engineer Jeremy Marvel adjusts a robotic arm used to study human-robot interactions. According to a NIST economic study on advanced rob ...
The SciPhi-XVI supercomputer was just listed as a TOP500 Supercomputer Site on Nov. 14, placing 397th on the 48th edition of the list of the ...
In a Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., talks about the Model X car at the company's headquarters, in Fremont, ...
Software written by Jing Li, right, and her students -- including Jialiang Zhang, left -- allows programmers to directly use existing coding ...
Chinese manufacturers are driving growth in the smartphone market as sector leaders Samsung and Apple sputter, a survey showed Thursday. ...
Facebook is offering new tools for charity fundraising, for marking yourself safe during a crisis and for helping others—or asking for help— ...
Not content to just rent out rooms and homes, Airbnb is adding local tours and activities to its travel services in a number of cities. ...
Nearly one-fourth of American adults have earned money recently using online commerce platforms for "gigs" or to sell goods, a sur ...
Social media giant Facebook has purchased a facial analysis software firm linked to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. ...
Renishaw has been named Company of the Year at the NMI Awards. The event also saw Ultrahaptics take the Innovation of the Year Award for its touchless haptic interface, while machine learning based pr
AOL is cutting about 500 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, as it trims back following some deals and focuses on mobile, video and data. ...
In this Thursday, June 19, 2014 file photo, the Shard as seen from the river Thames in London. A new report says a drone just missed hitting ...
Credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft What will intelligent, decentralized energy management look like in the future? Using its own Micro Smart G ...
LinkedIn has over 467 million registered members, according to its website Russian internet providers on Thursday started blocking the Link ...
VTT's gas fermentation process. Credit: Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) VTT has developed a solution for converting even small s ...
In this Thursday, June 19, 2014 file photo, the Shard as seen from the river Thames in London. A new report says a drone just missed hitting ...
In a Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., talks about the Model X car at the company's headquarters, in Fremont, ...
Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University have developed a soft and wearable acoustic sensor that measures vibrations in the human body, allowing for the monitori
Having launched the first all digital radio transmitter in 2015, Cambridge Consultants has added a digital receiver to create a complete radio system. According to the company, Pizzicato promises to i
Russia's state telecommunications regulator has moved to block business-focused social network LinkedIn after a court ruled it violated a la ...
Steve Martin has been working for decades to find better materials for safer, more powerful batteries. Credit: Christopher Gannon Steve Mar ...
The star-shaped drug delivery device, held here by Giovanni Traverso, a Koch Institute research affiliate, can be folded inward and encased ...
Microchip has added the first automotive grade device to its PIC32 MCU family, along with a higher speed variant operating over the industrial temperature range.
The predicted death of the household landline telephone in the United States may be premature, according to a new RAND Corporation study. ...
After a tumultuous presidential election, will Americans be ready to shop for the holidays? Research firms are predicting robust growth for ...
China's leaders and official media are pushing for greater control of the internet and technology products as tensions surrounding a far-rea ...
Facebook said a software bug went live in May that let repeat visits to online pages of companies or brands be counted as though someone new ...
This Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, file photo, shows a Twitter app on an iPhone screen in New York. Twitter has suspended the accounts of several p ...
This Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 photo shows the Xiaomi's Mi Box streaming TV device in New York. Your streaming TV options just got better and ...
In this Tuesday, May 6, 2014, file photo, a vehicle moves past a sign outside Fiat Chrysler Automobiles world headquarters in Auburn Hills, ...
A team of physicists from ITMO University, MIPT, and the University of Texas at Austin has developed a nanoantenna that scatters light in a particular direction depending on the intensity of incident
The Obama administration is announcing baseline specifications for smart-gun technology. ...
In October, a hacker used a powerful malware program known as Mirai to arness some 150,000 "Internet of Things" devices to overwhe ...
(a,b) Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) (c) great gray owl (Strix nebulosi) and (d) snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus). Credit: Ian A.Clark, Conor A. ...
In this April 12, 2016, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference i ...
Virginia-based Kryptowire said that it had discovered the problem in a number of Android-based phones using firmware from the Chinese compan ...
Electro Rent has signed a deal to acquire Microlease from Lloyds Development Capital for undisclosed terms. According to Microlease’s CEO Nigel Brown, the combination will create a global platform in
Twitter has suspended the accounts of several prominent members of the so-called "alt-right" in an apparent purge. ...
Figure 1: Summary of the newly developed technology Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of an automatic analysis technolog ...
How can the internet balance targeted advertising with privacy concerns? A novel approach to targeted advertising would allow companies to o ...
Credit: University of Birmingham Train delays due to leaves on the line could be a thing of the past if a prototype developed at the Univer ...
Credit: University College London The majority of updates to mobile apps don't have a significant impact on user ratings, suggesting develo ...
Supercomputers provide the computational horsepower to understand single atoms or supernovae. To get the best performance from these machine ...
This figure compares a traditionally trained algorithm to Aarabi and Guo's heuristically trained neural net. The left and centre columns sho ...
On November 16, the K computer took first place in the HPCG benchmark, a new index developed to create a more realistic view of supercompute ...
General Motors says about 160 jobs are being cut from a plant in Kokomo, Indiana, after the automaker announced it would stop producing semi ...
Researchers at Tyndall National Institute in Ireland have developed scalable, electrically driven photon sources that could enable the development of quantum computers sooner than expected.
Norway and Sweden have joined their emergency radio networks so first responders can better coordinate their efforts during rescue operation ...
a. Photo figure of the gas sensor device, b. Cross-sectional FE-SEM image of the MoO3 nanorod arrays. Credit: Osaka University A group of r ...
Motion capture technology helped researchers at NC State University develop an energy-efficient technique for accurately tracking a user's p ...
Credit: EPFL/ LSI Researchers have come up with a way to link a smartwatch to the metabolic monitors used with patients in intensive care. ...
In this May 10, 2016, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at parade participants at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North ...
In his keynote to the AutoMobility conference, Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich said that Intel Capital will invest more than $250million over the next two years in an effort to make fully autonomous drivin
A Bitcoin dispensing machine at a shopping mall in Singapore Singapore will launch a new electronic payment system using blockchain, the te ...
Microsemi says it is the first FPGA provider to offer a software tool chain and IP core for RISC-V designs, adding the core is ‘compelling’ for use in applications such as safety and security.
Farnell element14 is launching a global competition to discover how engineers can ‘Change the World’ with their design ideas. The aim of the competition is to find out how the world of electronics can
Could forestry revive Finland's economy post-Nokia? Metsa Fibre's new pulp and bioproduct mill in Aeaenekoski, Finland Nokia was once the m ...
Nintendo shares surged more than 5% on November 16, 2016, after the game giant said it would release a Super Mario app for iPhones next mont ...
The world's first pizza drone delivery was claimed Wednesday by the New Zealand division of fast food giant Domino's, as it looks to grab a ...
Twitter says that the platform is "open to everyone and every opinion" while noting that it has seen "a growing trend of peop ...
Robert Silvers, Assistant Secretary for Cyber Policy with the Department of Homeland Security, smiles after speaking to members of the Coali ...
Google announced it would add a new office building to a complex currently under development behind London's King's Cross train station US ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google is promising that its widely used translation service is now even more fluent, thanks to an advance that's ...
In this April 12, 2016, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference i ...
Snapchat parent firm Snap Inc. has filed confidentially for a public share offering valuing the disappearing messaging platform at more than ...
Billions of fitness trackers, medical implants, surveillance cameras, home appliances, thermostats, baby monitors and computers in automobil ...
The PhotoScan app is demonstrated on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 in New York. Google wants to make digitizing your old photo prints as easy as op ...
Google and Facebook cut off advertising revenue to bogus news sites Google and Facebook moved Tuesday to cut off advertising revenue to bog ...
Twitter says that the platform is "open to everyone and every opinion" while noting that it has seen "a growing trend of peop ...
Professor Neil Hyatt, Research Chair in Radioactive Waste Management, calls for UK plutonium policy to be re-examined to allow swift immobil ...
In this July 5, 2015, file photo, a man uses the dating app Tinder in New Delhi. Tinder announced on Nov. 15, 2016, that it would allow gend ...
Scientists from Heidelberg University and the University of St Andrews have demonstrated a strong interaction of light and matter in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. According to the researchers, this
Following its acquisition of Atmel, Microchip has unveiled a new generation of 8bit tinyAVR MCUs at electronica. The four devices in the family range from 14 to 24pins and offer either 4kbyte or 8kbyt
Maps show the distribution of proposed solar and wind projects and their potential economic impact. Graphic courtesy of University of Minnes ...
The OpTIC Centre in St Asaph is encouraging businesses to apply for part of a £50,000 incubation fund secured from the UK Space Agency (UKSA). The cash is intended to support companies looking to ente
New energy vehicles (NEVs) at Beijing Institute of Technology's campus. Credit: Yu Hao Many Chinese cities are suffering from deteriorating ...
Small wind farm with several turbines. Credit: sprisi /www.pixelio.de Wind energy has been remarkably successful in providing an increasing ...
EBV has announced that its Iris certified Wi-Fi module is now in full production. The device, which enables automatic connection to the cloud and mobile apps without network programming, supports over
Credit: Michigan Technological University A new patent search tool developed by engineers at Michigan Technological University makes it eas ...
Credit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Graduate studies within any single scientific discipline are challenging endeavors on their o ...
The ENS210 from ams is a single die sensor IC providing accurate, pre-calibrated measurements of relative humidity and ambient temperature. Launched at electronica, the device provides a digital outpu
Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon whose only anatomy training was using virtual reality? Credit: Shutterstock Virtual reality h ...
Photovoltaic system connected to the network and installed on the roof of IES-UPM./ Credit: IES-UPM Researchers at UPM make available for t ...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected the idea that bogus stories shared at the social network paved a path of victory for Donald Trump ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook is telling his employees to "keep moving forward." Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is saying "progress does n ...