Washington state files $100 million suit against Comcast
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Monday filed a $100 million lawsuit against Comcast, saying the cable and internet giant d ...
Scientists develop cuttable display sheets
Figure: Display sheet being cut with scissors (left). The sheet’s display function is intact even after being cut into smaller pieces (right ...
Instagram ramps up fight against harassment
Instagram has started to let some celebrities and others with accounts that attract torrents of feedback filter those comments by keywords o ...
Tesla's deal for SolarCity could speed sustainable energy
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, ...
Judge tosses patent verdict against Apple orders new trials
A federal judge has tossed out a jury's decision calling for Apple to pay $625.6 million in damages to a Nevada company that claims Apple in ...
Disney World exploring foot tracking technology
Disney World may one day be able to keep track of its theme-park visitors by their feet. ...
Tesla reaches $2.6 bn deal to buy SolarCity
A Tesla Model S car on display in Shanghai Electric car maker Tesla said Monday it won agreement from SolarCity to acquire the solar power ...
Real and artificially generated 3-D films are nearly impossible to distinguish
A test subject watching a 3-D film. Credit: photo/©: Andreas Baranowski, JGU For viewers it seems to be very difficult to tell the dif ...
IBM uses silicon expertise to develop nanoscale lab on chip
Taking advantage of the company’s experience with silicon technology, IBM scientists have developed a lab-on-a-chip device that can separate biological particles at the nanoscale. This, says the team,
'Abzu' game creator finds endless inspiration in the sea
This video game image released by 505 Games shows a scene from the undersea odyssey "Abzu." (505 Games via AP) After designing gr ...
Israeli army identifies a new threat: 'Pokemon Go'
The Israeli military is warning its soldiers about a new threat: the widely popular mobile phone game "Pokemon Go." ...
Hardware Academy launches IoT competition with Intel
Hardware Academy, an IoT education startup, has teamed up with Intel to launch the Intel Edison Developer Challenge, a competition for innovative IoT projects featuring Intel technology.
Verizon to buy Fleetmatics for about $2.4 billion
Verizon said Monday that it plans to pay about $2.4 billion to buy Fleetmatics, which makes software used by cable companies, energy provide ...
Power amplifiers for 5G made of gallium nitride
The power amplifier of the Fraunhofer IAF transmits at a frequency of 5.8 gigahertz. This frequency is needed for the new 5G mobile radio st ...
New vibrations in old tools allow surgeons to feel what they can't touch
View of the PZT Actuator attached to standard surgical forceps using during laparoscopic surgery. The vibration device created by Hiroshima ...
Man-machine interaction—comprehensive assessment of user states
The interaction of man and machine is particularly important for air traffic controllers. A software from Fraunhofer FKIE assesses user stat ...
Israeli army bans soldiers from playing Pokemon Go on bases
The Israeli military says it is banning soldiers from playing the popular mobile phone game Pokemon Go on Israeli military bases due to secu ...
Single actuator wave-like robot developed
Credit: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev The first SAW (Single Actuator Wave-like Robot) that produces a pure wave motion using a single ...
How vulnerable to hacking is the US election cyber infrastructure?
Following the hack of Democratic National Committee emails and reports of a new cyberattack against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Co ...
GSK forms bioelectronics venture with Alphabet (Update)
British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline announced Monday that it will form a joint venture with Google's parent company Alphabet to research and ...
Uber's Chinese rival acquiring company's China operations
Women holding their smartphones show the ride-hailing apps Uber Technology Ltd., left, and Didi Chuxing at a residential compound in Beijing ...
SmartKEM gets Chinese patent allowance
North Wales based SmartKem has received patent allowance in China for its semiconductor material. The company’s truFLEX platform can be used for manufacturing flexible displays and electronics and Chi
Daimler invests in chauffeur service start-up Blacklane
German automaker Daimler is investing more than $10 million in chauffeur service start-up Blacklane. ...
Video: Researchers teach human ethics to autonomous cars
To actually integrate autonomous vehicles into everyday life, researchers need to teach the cars how to make the safe driving decisions that ...
Graphene-like films from salts to boost nanoelectronics
An international team of researchers has used computer simulations to find how thin a slab of salt has to be for it to break up into graphene-like layers.
No more dry mucous membranes when flying
Vortex ring generator prototype. The plan is to integrate the system into the back of passengers’ seats. Credit: Fraunhofer IBP Hovering at ...
TDK's subsidiary EPCOS to acquire Tronics
TDK’s subsidiary EPCOS has made an offer of €48.65million to acquire sensor-specialist Tronics.
Camera-based technology tracks people in car interiors
Assistance systems will soon be able to detect what vehicle occupants are doing – an important feature for autonomous driving, for example. ...
Delphi wants to deploy self-driving cars in 2022
Auto electronics supplier Delphi Corp. will start testing self-driving vehicles in Singapore next year with a goal of putting them into publ ...
Q&A: Netmarble founder Bang on US mobile game opportunities
This June 16, 2016 photo shows NetMarble chairman and founder Jun Hyuk Bang in Los Angeles. Bang founded Netmarble Games in 2000 and has gro ...
GSK Google parent company to make bioelectronic medicine
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is forming a joint venture with a unit of Google's parent that will invest 540 million pounds ($714 mil ...
Brighter and more efficient green LEDs
Using a semiconductor growth technique, researchers at the University of Illinois have grown gallium nitride (GaN) cubic crystals on a silicon substrate.
China's nuclear power ambitions sailing into troubled waters
This Feb. 9, 2012 photo shows a China's oil rig operated in the East China Sea. Two state-owned companies, China General Nuclear Power Group ...
Australia moving up in the world... literally
Australia's coordinates are currently out by more than a metre and the discrepancy could cause major headaches for new technologies which re ...
What's troubling athletes arriving in Rio? No 'Pokemon Go'
In this Thursday, July 28, 2016, file photo, fans play the highly addictive "Pokemon Go" game during a gathering in central Madrid ...
Tesla looking at cameras radar in Florida crash
A person familiar with the discussions says Tesla has told Senate committee staffers that its engineers have two main theories about what ca ...
New method for making green LEDs enhances their efficiency and brightness
A new method of cubic phase synthesis: Hexagonal-to-cubic phase transformation. The scale bars represent 100 nm in all images. (a) Cross sec ...
Facebook to challenge US bill for back taxes
The US government is expected to hit Facebook with a bill for between $3 billion and $5 billion in back taxes, the social network has disclo ...
Groups ask appeals court to reconsider net neutrality ruling
Cable and telecom industry groups want a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling on net neutrality. ...
Sony's profit falls on yen lagging cellphones Japan quake
Sony Corp.'s fiscal first-quarter profit dipped 74 percent to 21.2 billion yen ($205 million), as earnings got hammered by a strong yen and ...
WikiLeaks NSA leaker Edward Snowden clash on Twitter
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and transparency website WikiLeaks are clashing over how best to handle the publication of se ...
Cloud-based resource to support microbiology data sharing
Credit: University of Bath The third week of July 2016 saw the launch of the UK's Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB) ...
Public safety increased with the ability to remotely disable vehicles
Credit: Shutterstock To increase public security, the EU SAVELEC project has demonstrated a prototype device that can stop non-cooperative ...
A research project helps reduce the cost of parallel computing
The European research project REPARA, which is nearing completion under the coordination of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, has worked tow ...
New robot overcomes obstacles
Ourobot. Credit: Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences Students at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences have developed "Ourobot ...
Research aimed at increasing safety of temporary structures on construction site
Xiao Yuan, architectural engineering Ph.D. candidate, connects and secures Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) sensors on a temporary structure sim ...
Engineering student designs tactile maps for people who are visually disabled
Credit: Texas A&M University Tyler Wooten was a freshman engineering student at Texas A&M University when he came up with an idea t ...
Real-time chemical sensor to improve airport security
A team of European scientists has created a hand-held chemical sensor capable of instantaneous detection from a distance of 30m. Harnessing new photonics technology, the mid-IR sensor uses spectroscop
Novel anode material for lithium-ion batteries
Credit: ResearchSEA A novel, low cost and green lithiated tin vanadium oxide compound has been synthesized via simple, economical and scala ...
ams sells NFC RFID technologies to ST
Sensor specialist ams is selling its NFC and RFID reader IP, technologies and product lines to STMicroelectronics for $79.3million. The deal is also said to include a ‘substantial deferred earn out co
Microsoft making additional job cuts in phone business
Microsoft says it is cutting 2,850 jobs, about 2.5 percent of its workforce, as it further scales back its troubled smartphone business. ...
Amazon's already large distribution empire keeps expanding
In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, file photo, Mark Oldenburg processes outgoing orders at Amazon.com's fulfillment center in DuPont, Wash. The ...
Baidu profit falls 34% in Q2 after ads scandal
Baidu, sometimes referred to as the Google of China, said that 667 million people used it for online searches from mobile devices in June C ...
Facebook agrees to refunds on in-app purchases by minors
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Court documents show Facebook has agreed to all ...
Amazon quarterly profit jumps ninefold to $857 million
This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon reports financial results Thursday, July 28, 2016. (AP P ...
Alphabet/Google profit jumps 43% to $4.9 bn
Google parent Alphabet said revenue jumped 21 percent to $21.5 billion Google parent Alphabet said Thursday its second quarter profit jumpe ...
Bay Area girls stream into summer coding camps
It already feels like the dead of summer, but the girls over at Adobe's coding camp are making it snow. ...
Hollywood starts to see a role for virtual reality
On a recent weekday, Hollywood director Ivan Reitman was in the bowels of the Madame Tussauds wax museum here talking up an unlikely passion ...
Alphabet's 2Q earns soar despite rising 'moonshot' losses
In this Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, file photo, electronic screens post prices of Alphabet stock at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. Business is ...
Oracle buying 'cloud' business software provider NetSuite
This July 2, 2007, file photo shows the Netsuite logo on a wall inside NetSuite Inc. headquarters in San Mateo, Calif. Oracle is buying clou ...
Plumbing the possibilities of a camera that 'sees around corners'
Seeing around corners' technology could help emergency personnel identify people in danger during fires or natural disasters. Credit: Morgri ...
Sustainable sensors to detect predict muscle fatigue
Depiction of patch sensor via CFDRC. Credit: Sergio Omar Garcia/CFDRC It may be clammy and inconvenient, but human sweat has at least one p ...
Thomson Reuters sees higher profits revenue slips
Financial information giant Thomson Reuters on Thursday reported a jump in profit in the second quarter, while revenues declined in a " ...
Avnet outbids Datwyler to acquire Premier Farnell
Avnet says it has reached agreement with the Premier Farnell’s directors to acquire the company in an all cash offer which values the distributor at £691million. This is said to be a 12.1% premium ove
Samsung extends lead over Apple in smartphone market
South Korea's Samsung delivered 77 million smartphones in the second quarter Samsung extended its lead in the global smartphone market over ...
Gig economy arrives in China (officially); ride-sharing a go
In this Friday, May 13, 2016 file photo, a mobile device shows the Didi Chuxing ride-hailing app at a shopping mall in Beijing, China. China ...
Treaded hand truck created as class project is now making downstairs deliveries safer and easier
In 2012, a team of students in MIT’s well-known product-design class, Course 2.009, invented a hand truck with fold-out treads and a braking ...
Selfie righteous: New tool corrects angles and distances in portraits
Princeton researchers invented a tool that corrects distortions in "selfie" photographs, which often present a skewed sense of nos ...
Oracle buying NetSuite in deal valued at about $9.3B
Oracle is buying cloud company NetSuite in a deal valued at about $9.3 billion. ...
Researchers raise more than two million dollars to rethink cybersecurity
Is antivirus software already dead? That's certainly what George Candea believes, and he's not the only computer security expert who says so ...
LG Electronics' profit up on TV appliance but mobile in red
LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday its second-quarter net income jumped 19 percent thanks to strong sales of high-end TVs and home appliances ...
SoftBank profit up 19 pct as Japan sales offset Sprint loss
In this June 18, 2015 file photo, Softbank Corp. Chief Executive and founder Masayoshi Son attends a press conference on the sales launch of ...
China confirms legal status of ride-hailing industry
In this Friday, May 13, 2016 file photo, a mobile device shows the Didi Chuxing ride-hailing app at a shopping mall in Beijing, China. China ...
Smart bricks will transform how buildings work
Credit: University of the West of England Smart bricks capable of recycling wastewater and generating electricity from sunlight are being d ...
Fuel made from recycled plastic could power ship engines
Credit: University of the West of England New research will test whether Plaxx, a fuel made from mixed plastic waste, can be used as an alt ...
Steering clear of distracted driving
Credit: Texas A&M University Researchers in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University are making ...
EU and Japan expand collaboration to create smart cities
The EU-Japan ClouT – cloud of things – consortium has decided to add cities and partners to the recent BigClouT programme. The programme gives an analytics capability to the city by leveraging IoT, cl
Researchers develop a new system that can lower room temperature in buildings
Credit: Saleh Haron A team of researchers from Institut Teknologi Maju (ITMA), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) has succeeded in inventing a ...
Amazon delivery drones are just the first step to a highway in the sky
Credit: Shutterstock Amazon recently announced plans to test a drone delivery system in parts of the UK that are hard to access with conven ...
Adlink previews COM Express 3.0 Type 7 pin out
Board developer Adlink Technology has released a preview of the Type 7 pin out for the COM Express standard, currently being updated to version 3.0. The new pinout brings 10Gbit Ethernet (GbE) capabil
Microswimmer robot chains can decouple and reconnect in magnetic field
Microswimmer robots, resembling a chain of beads, can be made to move through a liquid by rotating in a magnetic field. New research shows h ...
Facebook is pushing more people to an app they didn't choose
An Associated Press reporter holds a mobile phone showing the Facebook Messenger app installation page in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 27, ...
Apple says one billion iPhones have been sold
Apple has been seeking to diversify its product line and move into services for a more stable revenue base, while keeping users in its ecosy ...
Smartphone sales drive Samsung Q2 profit
Samsung said its key mobile division enjoyed "substantial earnings improvement" led by expanded sales of its high-end Galaxy S7 an ...
5 cool things to do with Facebook Messenger
An Associated Press reporter holds a mobile phone showing the Facebook Messenger app icon in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. Facebo ...
Facebook quarterly profit surges 186% to $2 bn
"Our community and business had another good quarter," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and chief executive Facebook said ...
And now it's Comcast vs. the wait for the cable guy
In this Sept. 17, 2015, file photo, Comcast trucks are parked in a lot in the company's Westford, Mass. operations center. Cable companies h ...
Revolutionary web browser lets you lead a smarter life when you get a HAT
Credit: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council RUMPEL, a ground-breaking hyperdata web browser that makes it simpler for people ...
Atlantic flights disrupted by Iceland air traffic glitch
Iceland's airport authority says the country briefly closed its airspace to flights because of a technical problem at its air traffic contro ...
Toshiba moves to 64 layer flash memories
Toshiba has announced the latest generation of BiCS FLASH, its 3D flash memory. The latest version is a 64 layer device that incorporates 3bit/cell technology, enabling 256Gbit to be stored. Toshiba s
2016 Ford Edge lauded for reliability powerful engines
This undated photo provided by the Ford Motor Company shows the 2016 Ford Edge. For 2016, Ford stocks its Edge SUV with more technology than ...
SolarWorld to appeal US court's ruling to pay $793M damages
German solar panel-maker SolarWorld says it is appealing a U.S. court's ruling ordering it to pay $793 million in damages to Michigan-based ...
Researchers are designing a data-exchange platform that can act as a city's dashboard
A*STAR’s Urban Systems Initiative is set to design the tools necessary to transform Singapore into a truly Smart Nation. Credit: Pat Law Pho ...
Comcast beats Street 2Q forecasts revenue rises
In this July 23, 2015, file photo, a man walks past the Comcast Building in New York. Comcast reports financial results Wednesday, July 27, ...
Silicon-air battery achieves running time of over 1000 hours for the first time
Test set-up for the silicon battery: the battery itself is only the size of a button cell and is located in the hollow cylinder in the middl ...
Global study reveals businesses and countries vulnerable to shortage of cybersecurity talent
Intel Security, in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), has just released Hacking the Skills Shortage ...
How atmostpheric dust affects photovoltaic output
Measurements carried out at KIT will determine the effect of soiled solar panels on the output of photovoltaic systems caused by deposited m ...
Moving beyond semiconductors for next-generation electric switches
Efficient control of electron motion can be used to reduce the power requirements of computers. “Quantum wells” (QW) are regions that allow ...
Researchers create new 3-D imagery and documentation of Native American artifacts
ISU researchers Yolonda Youngs, left, and Donna Delparte discuss 3-D image creation. Credit: Idaho State University Idaho State University ...
Researchers improve the ITV brake inspection systems
Credit: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid A group of researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed an innovation for ...