Periscope extends beyond phones as Twitter ups ante on video
In this June 29, 2015, file photo, Lauren Simo, left, answers questions during a weekly forum streamed via Periscope on the smartphone of To ...
Spacecraft 'nuclear batteries' could get a boost from new materials
Samad Firdosy, a materials engineer at JPL, holds a thermoelectric module made of four thermocouples, which are devices that help turn heat ...
Next-generation navigation system uses existing cellular signals not GPS will support autonomous vehicle development
Simulation results for an unmanned drone flying over downtown Los Angeles showing the true trajectory (red line), with GPS navigation only ( ...
Researchers examine construction accidents in Gulf region
Inadequate training, limited use of safety equipment and a lack of government oversight contribute to deaths and injuries among construction ...
How 3-D printing brings ancient Greek art to life
Lewis aims a 3-D scanner at a fourth-century vase atop a reflective mat that provides reference points for the scanner to build a virtual 3- ...
India's TCS profits rise 8.8 percent
India's Tata Consultancy Services reported an 8.8 percent year-on-year rise in quarterly profits Thursday as strong growth in Europe helped ...
Electron-phonon interactions prevent heat dissipation
As more transistors are packed into smaller areas, MIT engineers claim that interactions between electrons and heat-carrying particles called phonons play a significant role in preventing heat dissipa
Modern roof shapes tested against big blows
Mitchell Humphreys (L) and Korah Parackal New homes are increasingly being built with unusual roof shapes, and new research by James Cook U ...
Taiwan's TSMC sees profit boost from iPhone 7
Apple's new iPhone 7 series gave Taiwan microchip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) a boost Thursday as the firm announced ...
Swaps or cash? Final choice for Samsung Note 7 owners
Customers return their Samsung Note 7 mobile phones at a dealership in Seoul on October 13, 2016 South Koreans returned their discontinued ...
WhatsApp—a great idea for mates but a terrible one for ministers
It’s all fun until someone gets hacked. Credit: mirtmirt/Shutterstock.com Cyber security experts have raised concerns about Prime Minister ...
Scientists create 'floating pixels' using soundwaves and force fields
The pixels are levitated using a series of miniature ultrasound speakers that create high-pitched and high-intensity soundwaves that are ina ...
A risk assessment approach to unleashing offshore energy potential
Credit: Shutterstock Environmental Impact Assessments – which generally tend to be completed before offshore renewable energy plants can be ...
Flexible electronics company gets £18million
Flexible electronics developer PragmatIC has secured a further £18million of funding, including a strategic investment from Avery Dennison and additional funding from existing shareholders Cambridge I
Strongest coupling between light and matter observed
Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing are said to have recorded an interaction between light and matter 10 times larger than previously seen. The strength of
Samsung Note 7 recall in US expands to replacement phones
Samsung Electronics says it has expanded its recall of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in the U.S. to include all replacement devices the company ...
Google Facebook team on undersea cable to Hong Kong
Google and Facebook are working with Pacific Light Data Communication Company and with undersea communications technology firm TE SubCom on ...
Government data requests up 10 percent: Google
Google said Wednesday that data requests from governments around the world hit a record high in the six months ending in June, extending a s ...
Robots organize your photos so you can procrastinate
This image shows a Google collage generated by machine using images taken on Sept. 13, 2016, in New York, of Binu Paulose playing with a dog ...
Klimt's 'Kiss' made with 3D printer to touch and feel
A special three-dimensional version of Gustav Klimt's masterpiece 'The Kiss' is unveiled in Vienna on October 12, 2016, aimed at enabling th ...
Tesla SolarCity shareholders to vote on merger next month
Shareholders will vote Nov. 17 on the proposed merger between electric car maker Tesla Motors and solar panel company SolarCity. ...
GM takes stake in China car-sharing startup
US automaker General Motors is taking a stake in the Chinese car-sharing startup Yi Wei Xing, expanding the company's global footprint in al ...
EnOcean adds 2.4GHz BLE energy harvesting modules under Dolphin brand
Developer of energy-harvesting wireless technology, EnOcean, has announced its first modules for 2.4GHz Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) systems. EnOcean will also now offer its energy harvesting wireless m
Just give me some privacy: Anonymous Wikipedia editors explain why they don't want you to know who they are
Drexel researchers took a look at internet users who strive to protect their privacy while working on collaborative projects, like Wikipedia ...
Imagination unveils multicore multicluster CPU
Imagination Technologies has launched the MIPS Warrior I-class I6500 CPU, targeted at applications such as advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles, industrial automation and securit
Sony tapping virtual reality with PlayStation headset
A man plays a Sony Playstation virtual reality game at the annual Ani-Com show in Hong Kong on July 29, 2016 Sony is set to launch its new ...
Samsung pulls the pin on the Galaxy Note 7 but will not likely suffer permanent damage
Note 7. Credit: Thaivisa.com Samsung has finally called a halt to its production of the Galaxy Note 7. Following on from its earlier proble ...
Murata acquires 3D silicon capacitor expertise
Murata Electronics Europe is buying 3D silicon capacitor specialist IPDiA. The move is said by Murata to enhance its position as a leading provider of high reliability capacitors.
Australia is vulnerable to cyber threats so what can we do about it?
The Australian government is vulnerable to cyberattacks, report says. Credit: Shutterstock.com The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) ...
Quantum-dot solar windows evolve with 'doctor-blade' spreading
Los Alamos Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics researchers hold a large prototype solar window. From left to right: Jaehoon Lim, Kaifeng ...
First solar-powered wireless charging station for electric bikes
Credit: Delft University of Technology On Wednesday, 12 October, Executive Board President Tim van der Hagen, Dean of the Faculty of Electr ...
Nude-free Playboy hits iTunes Google Play
Playboy said Wednesday its nude-free magazine would be offered for the first time as Apple and Google digital subscriptions, as the iconic b ...
Samsung slashes profit estimate after Note 7 disaster
Samsung announced a recall of 2.5 million units of the oversized Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in early September after several devices exploded ...
Crowdfunding a renewable future
Credit: Youris.com One issue with small-scale, home-based renewable energy systems is that initial setup costs can be high. This puts such ...
Ultrasound imaging is gaining in precision
Credit: Thinkstock Researchers have developed an image-reconstruction algorithm that improves the performance of ultrasound equipment. This ...
Soft robots that mimic human muscles
Marc Delachaux/2016 EPFL Marc Delachaux /2016 EPFL An EPFL team is developing soft, flexible and reconfigurable robots. Air-actuated, they ...
Video: On the cutting edge of composite product development
University of Maine wood scientists and engineers are evaluating the performance of cross-laminated timber (CLT) made from solid-sawn and co ...
Sensor system turns trains into track monitors
The University of Huddersfield’s Institute of Railway Research is working with Siemens to develop an inexpensive sensor that could turn most rail vehicles into track monitors, capable of capturing and
New lab mimics the sound of any room
Neo Kaplanis in the soundlab in Aalborg, Denmark. Credit: Aalborg University Researchers at Aalborg University, in conjunction with Bang &a ...
MOF based supercapacitor outperforms carbon based devices
A research team led by MIT has developed a supercapacitor that not only uses no conductive carbon, but which could also potentially produce more power than current devices.
Encrypting medical photos with chaos
Chaos and confusion could be used to encrypt colour photos and protect them from prying eyes, according to computer scientists in Algeria. W ...
Ericsson shares plummet after it warns on profit and outlook
Mobile networks company Ericsson saw its share price plummet by almost a fifth on Wednesday after saying that its third quarter earnings thi ...
Toyota recalls 340000 Prius hybrid cars for faulty brakes
Toyota Motor Corp. recalled 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world Wednesday, 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North ...
Samsung sends fire-proof boxes for Galaxy Note 7 returns
The corporate logo of Samsung Electronics Co. is seen at its shop in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. The fiasco of Samsung's f ...
Researchers develop an efficient dual-ion battery design
Schematic structure of the DIB. Credit: TANG Yongbing Dual-ion batteries (DIBs) are a new type of battery developed in recent years, typica ...
Personal computer sales continue to slide
Worldwide PC shipments in the third quarter of this year totaled 68.9 million units in a 5.7 percent decline from the same period a year ear ...
Toyota Suzuki tying up in technology ecology partnership
Toyota, the world's top automaker, and Suzuki, a Japanese rival that specializes in tiny vehicles, are tying up in a partnership. ...
BMW presents its self-balancing motorcycle of the future
The self-balancing BMW Motorrad VISION NEXT 100 concept motorcycle is unveiled on the last of four international stops of the 'Iconic Impuls ...
Foreign spies hacked Australian agency report says
Australian Cyber Security Centre report says foreign spies installed malicious software on on the Bureau of Meteorology's system, stealing a ...
Samsung's smartphone brand takes beating from Note 7 fiasco
A screen shows an internal design drawings of Samsung Electronics Galaxy S7 smartphone at its shop in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 12 ...
Amazon launches for-pay streaming music service
This image provided by Amazon Music shows a display of Amazon Music Unlimited, a paid streaming music service Amazon is launching. The music ...
Vermont cabin becomes lab to study wind turbine noise
In this Oct. 26, 2011 file photo, wind turbines line the hillside at First Wind's project in Sheffield, Vt. Government officials in Vermont, ...
YouTube buys FameBit matchmaker for videos and sponsors
YouTube did not disclose financial terms of the deal to buy FameBit, which it described as a technology platform that helps creators and bra ...
For smartphone-dependent world Samsung troubles hit hard
In this Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, file photo, a woman walks by an advertisement of the Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note 7 smartphone at the comp ...
Apple Samsung clash in top US court patent battle (Update)
The epic patent clash between Apple and Samsung went before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the smartphone giants debated the value of d ...
Marconi inspires Rice design for 1-terabit wireless
This silicon-germanium chip converts a digital trigger to a 5-picosecond pulse of radiation with a frequency spectrum exceeding 1 terahertz. ...
Samsung scraps Note 7 so what next for consumers?
This Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, photo provided by Andrew Zuis, of Farmington, Minn., shows the replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone belonging ...
Apple Samsung in epic patent clash in top US court (Update)
The epic patent clash between Apple and Samsung went before the Supreme Court Tuesday, as the smartphone giants debated the value of design ...
Justices raise doubts about $399M judgment against Samsung (Update)
Attorney Seth Waxman, representing Apple, speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, after prese ...
Firm linked to social media surveillance loses data access
Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday cut access to certain data for an analytics firm which according to a civil liberties group helped law enfor ...
NREL to lead one exascale computing project support three others
Scientists at the Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will lead an effort to model the complex and turbule ...
New smart textile is the muscle behind next generation devices
Researchers have for the first time, developed a smart textile from carbon nanotube and spandex fibers that can both sense and move in respo ...
Comcast fined $2.3M to end probe into mischarging customers
In this Sept. 17, 2015, file photo, Comcast trucks are parked in a lot in the company's Westford, Mass. operations center. Government regula ...
Top court weighs key patent issue in Apple-Samsung case
The Supreme Court took up the blockbuster legal battle between Apple and Samsung Tuesday in a case likely to result in a landmark decision o ...
Sprint to connect 1M students under 'My Brother's Keeper'
The White House says 1 million low-income high school students will receive free internet access under President Barack Obama's "My Bro ...
GE ramping up presence at new headquarters digital hub
General Electric is ramping up its presence at its new corporate headquarters in Boston and unveiling a new digital hub in Rhode Island as i ...
Bioeconomy: the ideal mix to pave the way for investments
Credit: Youris.com Venture capitalists, of course, seek smart inventors and breakthrough products. But candidates with intellectual propert ...
Fragment tracking—insights into what happens in explosions
Sandia National Laboratories researchers are doing a series of tests that are studying fragmenting explosives in ways that haven’t been poss ...
Autonomous robot that can navigate explore and digitally map hard-to-access areas
Credit: Shutterstock Digital technology is frequently used to record and map our cultural heritage, enabling research, preservation efforts ...
The future's for sale: Germany auctions maglev train
In this Friday, Aug. 1, 2008 file photo, people watch the then new Transrapid train TR09 on the tracks of the magnetic highspeed train test ...
Typing while driving could be more safe with simple text entry technique
The study was implemented with a driving simulator. The researchers intended to find a solution in which the driver would need to look at th ...
Dutch freeze court action against Pokemon Go makers
Pokemon Go players gather on a beach in Kijkduin, named as the Pokemon capital of the Netherlands, on August 10, 2016 Dutch authorities sai ...
Driverless cars hit British streets in landmark trial
Driverless vehicles carrying passengers took to Britain's streets for the first time on Tuesday in a landmark trial which could pave the way ...
Samsung stops making Galaxy Note 7s as fresh problems emerge
Dee Decasa holds her replacement Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in an aluminum pan at her home in Honolulu on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, one day after ...
Samsung Note 7 nightmare puts firm's brand on trial
A burnt-out Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone photographed in Gwangju, South Korea Samsung's new smartphone was launched with the expectatio ...
DRAM replacement technology could save power area
In a move which is claimed to bring lower power consumption better area efficiency to memories, Kilopass has announced a Vertical Layered Thyristor (VLT) technology. Aimed at DRAM applications, VLT is
Microtubes boost battery energy density
A French-US team says it has improved the energy density of a rechargeable battery without increasing its size. According to the team, it achieved this by developing a 3D structure made of microtubes.
Humanoid robots to come to life at the Engineering Design Show
Engineered Arts will bring two humanoid robots to the upcoming Engineering Design Show (EDS). Its two robots – a Robothespian and a Socibot - will be located within the Innovation Zone, at stand B2, f
Highly efficient organic solar cells with improved operation stability
A joint research team, led by Prof. HyeSung Park and Prof. Chang Duck Yang of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST has developed a new k ...
Worried your emails might be spied on? Here's what you can do
Is someone watching your mail? Credit: Shutterstock.com We live in a post-Edward Snowden world, in which US tech companies have been accuse ...
New 3-D design for mobile microbatteries
In the race towards miniaturization, a French-US team—mostly involving researchers from the CNRS, Université de Lille, Université ...
European Microwave Week shows move to services
​Last week London hosted European Microwave Wee,k bringing more than 300 companies together in Dockland’s ExCeL exhibition and conference centre and providing visitors with access to some of the very
UK distributors remain positive as sales growth expected
The latest figures released by the Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN) are said to reflect the ‘generally positive’ sentiment in the manufacturing sector of the UK economy following the Brexit
Acquisition takes Infineon into automotive LIDAR market
Infineon has acquired Innoluce, a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Nijmegen. Based on Innoluce’s technology, Infineon says it will develop chip components for high performance LIDAR syst
Embedded FPGA technology to cut power in SoCs
Looking to address demand for lower cost devices which consume less power when used in data centre, software defined radio and wireless infrastructure applications, Achronix has announced Speedcore. T
Apple Samsung take battle to US Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court is to hear arguments over financial damages the South Korean smartphone giant Samsung owes Apple for allegedly violatin ...
Samsung halts sales of Galaxy Note 7 after new troubles
Dee Decasa holds her replacement Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in an aluminum pan at her home in Honolulu on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, one day after ...
Now hear this: Emergency agencies turn off radio encryption
In this Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 photo, a radio in a police cruiser sits between the front seats in Naugatuck, Conn. While many police departm ...
YouTube video shows Note 7 'flamer' in Burger King
A YouTube video showing an oven-gloved Burger King employee struggling with a burning Galaxy Note 7 has gone viral A YouTube video showing ...
Upper-limb amputee builds computer controller for feet
Once an avid video gamer, Gyorgy Levay stopped playing when he lost his hands to a meningitis infection six years ago. ...
Worried about your Samsung Note 7? Here are your options
This Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, photo provided by Andrew Zuis, of Farmington, Minn., shows the replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone belonging ...
Study shows knowledge gap with in-car technology
Hyundai and BMW customers are the most satisfied with their in-vehicle technology, but those brands and others still need to work on educati ...
Historic Solar Impulse team planning drone
Swiss pilots Andre Borschberg (R) and Bertrand Piccard (L) took turns captaining the Solar Impulse 2 across four continents, two oceans and ...
Facebook launches intra-office 'Workplace' network
Nicola Mendelsohn, Vice President of EMEA at Facebook, speaks during an event to launch the social media company's latest product "Work ...
Amid breach talk some Yahoo users finding it hard to exit
As Yahoo's embattled email service suffers through a slew of bad news, some users are finding it hard to leave. ...
Insider Q&A: What's hard about streaming TV online
This photo provided by Dish Network shows Sling TV CEO Roger Lynch. Lynch talked to The Associated Press about how streaming TV is going mai ...
Multipurpose processor IP core for IoT applications
A lightweight, multi-purpose processor IP core launched by CEVA is intended to streamline the design of cellular enabled low data rate industrial and consumer loT devices.
Drones create 3-D maps to demonstrate carbon storage
Landgate’s Russell Teede (left) and Simon Abbott (right) with drone. Credit: Landgate 3-D model generating drones may soon be measuring Wes ...
Nobel Prize for Physics 2016
2016-10-10 22:00:45Nobel Prize for Physics 2016
The Nobel Prize for Physics 2016 has been awarded to three British scientists working in the US: David Thouless from the University of Washington; Duncan Haldane from Princeton and Michael Kosterlitz
Three ways organic electronics is changing technology as we know it
Credit: Someya Laboratory/University of Tokyo One day, your latest gadget won't be in your pocket like a phone or even wrapped around your ...