In a new project with National Geographic, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to project himself into virtual reality—in ...

Titan Supercomputer. Credit: ORNL Physicists at The University of Texas at Arlington have been awarded a new $1.06 million grant from the U ...

Ganesan and colleagues have dubbed a new technology "Braidio," which allows small mobile devices to take advantage of battery powe ...

Automakers say cars that wirelessly talk to each other are finally ready for the road. ...

Credit: University of Alberta Wheelchair users facing persistent shoulder strain or injury will soon have assistance thanks to a device rec ...

Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Nissan’s self-driving car will include technology developed for robots designed for such tasks as building ...

Credit: NASA If there were no need for massive batteries, electric propulsion could dramatically reduce aviation's contribution to climate ...

Credit: Hocoma Swizterland As Europe's population ages, the number of people requiring rehabilitation following neurological diseases such ...

An international team of cybersecurity researchers with the involvement of TU Darmstadt has identified serious security vulnerabilities in t ...

Who are you really talking to in your virtual chat? Credit: Shutterstock It is often said that you should not believe everything you see on ...

Car racking system. Credit: Trans-Rak International Shipping cars could be safer and more efficient than ever before, thanks to innovative ...

Researchers are looking at better ways of helping grieving people let go of emotionally-charged digital content after the death of loved one ...

This Feb. 19, 2014, file photo, shows WhatsApp and Facebook app icons on a smartphone in New York. Global messaging service WhatsApp says it ...

An autonomous vehicle is parked for its test drive in Singapore Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. The world's first self-driving taxis, operated by ...

The prototype of the 3D printed THOR aircraft is pictured at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) in Schoenefeld, in June New 3D pr ...

Britain's official international terrorism threat level is currently set at "severe", meaning an attack is considered highly likel ...

CEVA, a licensor of signal processing IP, has announced that Oticon, the developer behind the innovative BrainHearing technology, has licensed and deployed the RivieraWaves Bluetooth low energy (BLE)

Nano Dimension, a specialist manufacturer of 3D Printed Electronics, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Nano Dimension Technologies, has supplied the first DragonFly 2020 system designate

U.S. officials are publicly criticizing Europe's investigations into favorable tax arrangements that Apple and other multinational companies ...

Logan Green applied for his first job out of college by submitting a resume and a document titled "Logan's Life Plan." ...

Close your eyes. Can you picture that sofa you're coveting in your living room? Now, open your eyes and pull out your phone - because edgy f ...

As Silicon Valley technophiles use devices to collect data on everything from how many calories they burn to their fluctuating stress levels ...

For Bay Area techies attuned to the latest trends, kale is no longer cutting it and quinoa is passe. Instead, many are opting for a six-legg ...

This paper is the first to be published under a project called Probabilistic Resilience Assessment of Interdependent Systems (PRAISys), a co ...

The report cover. Credit: Berkeley Lab Solar energy system pricing is at an all-time low, according to the latest editions of two recurring ...

This Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016, photo shows the Electrohome Archer Briefcase portable turntable, in Decatur, Ga. The unit has built-in speakers ...

YuMi from ABB is a dual arm collaborative robot that can assemble, pick and sort through small components. Credit: A*STAR Advanced Remanufac ...

Credit: Yuki Shimazu, CC BY-SA Imagine walking into a casino with a computer strapped to your chest. Solenoid electromagnets thump against ...

What if there were a faster, easier way to grade exams? A DMZ-based startup has perfected the technology: Akindi, a browser-based system tha ...

An Underground subway station at Piccadilly Circus in London. Credit: istock Haris N. Koutsopoulos believes that our ability to predict the ...

This is a Aug. 17, 2016 file photo of the Airlander 10, during its maiden flight at Cardington airfield England , The Airlander 10 crashed d ...

Credit: Victoria University For his Master's research, Stuart focused on restoring balance for trans-tibial amputees while swimming—a solut ...

Purdue University is leading part of an international effort to develop a system for the military that would detect doctored images and vide ...

In "No Man's Sky," players roam through procedurally generated planets, with a particular focus on collecting resources, defeating ...

The outsourcing of microchip and fabrication worldwide is now worth in excess of $350billion but it is an industry whose supply chain is vulnerable to those looking to install malicious circuitry. Thi

Growth rate for European semiconductor distribution slowed down through Spring quarter. According to Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists (DMASS), sales in the se

Boeing 737-700 jet airliner. Credit: Wikipedia/Arcturu When most major airlines began charging flyers for checked bags in 2008, travelers g ...

Standing on a pebbled beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, Mehdi Salehi searches for a good spot to set his drone loose. ...

In this June 10, 2005 file photo, workers walk past a part of the Qinshan No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant, China's first self-designed and self-bu ...

An effort to replace obsolete pay phones with Wi-Fi kiosks that offer free web surfing and phone calls has been a hit with panhandlers and t ...

A fugitive former technology company CEO who frustrated federal authorities by living comfortably in exile in southwest Africa for the past ...

A simulation of flow over five jet engine low-pressure turbine blades. In an effort to update computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for modern ...

The Social Security Administration has rolled back extra security measures on the agency's website after getting complaints from people who ...

The New York Times in New York City Hackers with apparent ties to Russia have conducted a series of cyber attacks on US media outlets inclu ...

A user of the Groklstyle phone app can take a picture of a room and select a particular furnishing, or just submit a picture of the item. Th ...

An ambitious effort to replace obsolete New York City pay phones with Wi-Fi kiosks that offer free web surfing and phone calls has been a hi ...

Tesla Model S Tesla Motors says a version of the Model S electric car is now the quickest production car in the world from zero to 60 miles ...

In a Aug. 1, 2014 file photo, Mobileye President & CEO Ziv Aviramon, left, CFO Ofer Maharshak, center, and Chairman Amnon Shashua, clasp ...

Facebook and Twitter are officially banned in Iran but applications such as Instagram, Telegram and WhatsApp are available and very popular ...

A man plays at the Pokemon GO augmented reality game in central Moscow on August 23, 2016 A compass on the smartphone screen points towards ...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, left, and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve arrive for a joint media conference in Par ...

Prototype membranes developed by engineers at The Ohio State University to keep rechargeable batteries from catching fire, and to help them ...

World-first research has found technical problems rather than operator errors are behind the majority of drone accidents, leading to a call ...

In this Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016 photo, a selection of private medical files published by transparency website WikiLeaks is shown in Paris. Wi ...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, left, and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve arrive for a joint media conference in Par ...

Credit: Shutterstock Mark Molthan admits he wasn't paying attention when his car crashed into a fence, leaving him with a bloody nose, acco ...

A new study describes the development of a novel hybrid polymer suitable for producing 3D-printed scaffolds on which living cells can be see ...

Auto parts and electronics company Delphi Automotive is joining with Israeli software maker Mobileye to develop the building blocks for a fu ...

Swiss prosecutors say they've charged three people accused of illegally obtaining data on at least 133,600 credit cards with computer fraud ...

An international team has developed a software system to manage data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope and they are running a protoype on the ‘Tianhe-2’ supercomputer in China.

A technique for compressing the computations of encryption and decryption operations, known as Galois field arithmetic operations, has been developed by a team from Tohoku University. With this techni

New Operation Compression Technology Based on Number Representation Transformation Credit: Naofumi Homma Researchers at Tohoku University a ...

Christopher Bettinger, Ph.D., is developing an edible battery made with melanin and dissolvable materials. Credit: Bettinger lab Non-toxic, ...

North Korea is rolling out an on-demand TV catch-up service, allowing people with some sort of internet access to enjoy the highly-propagand ...

Google is ready to start sending out the latest version of its Android operating system to a handful of devices. ...

In this Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016 photo, a selection of private medical files published by transparency website WikiLeaks is shown in Paris. Wi ...

Microsoft apps such as Office and Skype are to be installed on Lenovo mobile devices powered by Android software Microsoft apps such as Off ...

Briefly Monday, it looked like the federal government was going to push all 50 states to ban the use of cellphones and other wireless device ...

A robot designed to enhance the ease and frequency of data collection for crop testing burrows through a field of sorghum at Clemson Univers ...

The team that started Silicon Valley-based Genee in 2014 will join Microsoft and the existing service will be discontinued next month, accor ...

MIT graduate student George Ni holds a bubble-wrapped, sponge-like device that soaks up natural sunlight and heats water to boiling temperat ...

How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented a bubble-wrapped, sponge-like device that soa ...

RFEL has unveiled Trailblazer, a new HD-SDI and Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) compliant military driver vision aid.

Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) announces the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 9,395,33 ...

Credit: Shutterstock Tragic events such as the recent Brussels Airport bombing have enlightened the need for stronger security measures and ...

Renesas Electronics is said to be in the final stages of acquiring Intersil, the US chipmaker, according to reports from Reuters quoting industry sources close to the deal.

SolidEnergy Systems has developed an ‘anode-free’ lithium metal battery that it claims make it twice as energy-dense, yet just as safe as lithium ion batteries. The company, founded in 2012, was spun

Car emissions is a high-stakes issue, as last year's Volkswagen scandal demonstrated. Pressure to meet tightening standards led the carmaker ...

In 2015, two researchers remotely hacked a Jeep Cherokee being driven by a reporter who documented how the researchers controlled everything ...

A team of researchers at MIT has developed a way of using electrochromic materials to make self-shading, smart windows, saving energy by blocking sunlight and so helping to reduce air-conditioning cos

Caterpillar micro-robot sitting on a finger tip. Credit: FUW Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the l ...

The fungi Aspergillus niger (top left), Penicillium simplicissimum (top right) and Penicillium chrysogenum (bottom) can recycle cobalt and l ...

Facebook's new iPhone app allows users to make video clips to describe likes, peeves, dance styles, and other aspects of their character, bu ...

Death and mourning were largely considered private matters in the 20th century, with the public remembrances common in previous eras replace ...

Ohio's toll road, a heavily traveled connector between the East Coast and Chicago, is moving closer to allowing the testing of self-driving ...

Scewo wheelchair. Credit: Alessandro Della Bella / ETH Zurich The Balgrist campus is bustling with activity. After ten months and countless ...

Green Hills Software has completed all of the RTCA/DO-178B Level A certification requirements for its Integrity-178 tuMP multicore real-time operating system (RTOS) for Esterline CMC’s next generation

An early Rolling Stones compilation in that newfangled stereo format. Totally vinyl, CC BY While music lovers continue to argue about the r ...

BERT2, a humanoid robot assistant, hands something to a human. Credit: University of Bristol Making an assistive robot partner expressive a ...

This Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, file photo, shows a Twitter app on an iPhone screen in New York. Twitter announced two new settings on Aug. 18, ...

Researchers at the University of Warsaw have developed a natural-scale soft caterpillar robot with an opto-mechanical liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) monolithic design, using LCE technology develop

The authors tested their new Onion Decomposition on, among other networks, the stanford.edu World Wide Web network domain. In the first laye ...

In this July 29, 2015, file photo, French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane known as a "flaperon" on the shore ...

In this Friday, March 18, 2016, file photo, Gawker founder Nick Denton walks out of the courthouse in St. Petersburg, Fla. Gawker.com is goi ...

In this Friday, March 18, 2016, file photo, Gawker founder Nick Denton walks out of the courthouse in St. Petersburg, Fla. Gawker.com is goi ...

Uber announced Thursday that it will partner with Volvo to make autonomous vehicles. The tie-up is the latest between automakers and tech co ...

In this undated file photo provided by Uber, a Ford Fusion hybrid outfitted with radars, laser scanners and high-resolution cameras drives a ...

In this Wednesday, July 27, 2016, file photo, people pass a T-Mobile store in New York. T-Mobile announced Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, that the ...

The New York Times is shutting down its NYT Now smartphone app because the company says it hasn't lived up to its hopes in the two years sin ...

The latest Twitter suspensions raises to 360,000 the total number of accounts sidelined since the middle of 2015 Twitter on Thursday announ ...