Deezer aims for profitability in two years
Music streaming firm Deezer says it has six million paying subscribers and boasts a catalogue of 40 million songs Music streaming firm Deez ...
New remote-controlled microrobots for medical operations
For the past few years, scientists around the world have been studying ways to use miniature robots to better treat a variety of diseases. T ...
Designing climate-friendly concrete from the nanoscale up
Left to right: Roland Pellenq of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Katerina Ioannidou of the MIT Energy Initiativ ...
Apple is taking its first steps towards a more comprehensive post-PC world
Apple-developed lessons help students learn to code on the same device the code will be used on. Credit: Apple Hands up if you've heard of ...
How to build a 1000mph car (by the scientists behind it)
BLOODHOUND SSC during construction at the Bloodhound Technical Centre, Avonmouth, summer 2015. Credit: Author provided It was a staggering ...
Student shows how diagrams can be used to make buildings energy smart
Credit: Imperial College London An Imperial engineering student showcases his equations as a set of beautiful diagrams and describes how th ...
How 'Pokemon Go' went from prank to phenomenon
In this Tuesday, June 26, 2007, file photo, Elliot Schrage, left, Google vice president for global communications & public affairs, list ...
Watch it cowboy: Japan's 9 safety tips for "Pokemon Go"
This image released Friday, July 22, 2016 by Japan's National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity shows a copy of a ...
Robots mimic centipede's surprising unstable advantage
What makes centipedes move with such agility? Researchers at Kyoto University have used simulations and robotics to find the answer -- and a ...
Avoiding stumbles from spacewalks to sidewalks
Researchers are developing a new boot with built-in sensors and tiny “haptic” motors, whose vibrations can guide the wearer around or over o ...
Walmart 'sending strong signal' with Visa ban in Thunder Bay
Earlier this week, retail giant Walmart banned the use of Visa credit cards at three of its Thunder Bay outlets, with the threat of a nation ...
The wait is over for 'Pokemon Go' fans in Japan
People gaze at their smartphones as they play "Pokemon Go" at Akihabara district in Tokyo, Friday, July 22, 2016. The wait is over ...
Oliver Stone warns of Pokemon Go 'totalitarianism'
Oliver Stone attends "Snowden" panel during Comic-Con International on July 21, 2016 in San Diego, California Filmmaker Oliver St ...
Why the Pokemon-McDonald's deal in Japan could be big
Women play "Pokemon Go" in front of a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo, Friday, July 22, 2016. The Japan launch of "Pokemon Go& ...
End of an era: last VCR rolling off factory line
The world's last videocassette recorder is set to roll off the factory line as a Japanese manufacturer ends production of the once booming h ...
The post-Ailes Fox News may have bigger problems
In this Jan. 30, 1996 file photo, Roger Ailes, left, speaks at a news conference as Rupert Murdoch looks on after it was announced that Aile ...
Pokemon Go players risk all for their monsters
The Pokemon Go phenomenon has grown so rapidly that authorities in a number of countries have issued warnings about the dangers of the game ...
Roke expands cybersecurity operations
Roke Manor Research is expanding its operations by opening a second office in Gloucester, bringing it closer to defence, government and commercial partners in the region – such as Defence Equipment an
Samsung hits back at China's Huawei with patent suit
Samsung has demanded millions of dollars in compensation from Huawei for allegedly stealing its mobile imaging and data storage technology ...
Racism on Airbnb inspires new sites Innclusive and Noirbnb
This screenshot from a new website, Innclusive.com, shows the company's homepage. The founders of Innclusive.com started the vacation rental ...
Oregon man sentenced in celebrity hacking case (Update)
A man who admitted hacking hundreds of email accounts and stealing explicit photos from several unidentified celebrities was sentenced Thurs ...
First bitcoin securities fraud case ends in 18-month sentence
A Texas man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for carrying out what prosecutors said was the first bitcoin securities fraud case. ...
Imaging software predicts how you look with different hair styles colors appearances
These examples show a single input photo (left) and Dreambit's automatically synthesized appearances of the input photo with "curly hai ...
Racism at Airbnb inspires new sites Innclusive and Noirbnb
This screenshot from a new website, Innclusive.com, shows the company's homepage. The founders of Innclusive.com started the vacation rental ...
An accelerated pipeline to open materials research
This image shows ORNL software engineer Eric Lingerfelt (right) and Stephen Jesse (left) of ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences l ...
Autopilot technology drives Teslas but comes with warnings
In this Sept. 29, 2015 file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., introduces the Model X car at the company's headquarters in Fremont, ...
Oregon man sentenced in celebrity hacking case
A man who admitted hacking hundreds of email accounts and stealing explicit photos from several celebrities has been sentenced to six months ...
Artificial muscle for soft robotics: Low voltage high hopes
This soft muscle can move with low amounts of electricity. This type of actuator could be used in everything from wearable devices to soft g ...
Thai police arrest Russian Uzbeki for alleged cybertheft
A Russian man and an Uzbek woman were arrested at beach resorts in Thailand and accused of stealing more than $28.5 million by planting malw ...
Designing a geothermal drilling tool that can take the heat
Technologist Elton Wright assists as mechanical engineer Jiann Su inspects a downhole hammer used to drill at Sandia National Laboratories’ ...
Facebook internet drone passes first full-scale test
Facebook announced Thursday it had completed its first successful test of its solar-powered Aquila drone, being develop to deliver internet ...
Self flipping magnets could improve MRAM architecture
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are looking to exploit a novel effect arising from the relativistic physics of Einstein in which magnets can flip themselves through the intern
Avnet Silica announces partnerships to develop IoT connectivity solutions
Avnet Silica has forged partnerships with Arkessa, Spica Technologies and UbiquiOS to provide full range of IOT connectivity solutions.
Computer model predicts how people perceive softness of 3-D printed objects
Credit: Disney Research A plastic ducky produced by one 3-D printer may look the same as one produced by another printer, but it doesn't ne ...
GPS jamming: Keeping ships on the 'strait' and narrow
The University of Nottingham and Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNoNA) are investigating how to prevent shipping Global Positioning Signals ...
Thin films integrate novel oxides onto silicon substrates
Novel functional materials could be integrated on silicon devices, says a team from North Carolina State University, allowing the creation of new smart devices and systems.
Smartwatch market slips on Apple decline: survey
The global smartwatch market took a sharp downward turn in the second quarter on falling sales of the industry-leading Apple Watch, a survey ...
Team conducts ongoing research to evaluate performance of reactor cooling system
Credit: Texas A&M University On March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by an earthquake and tsunami that caused the shutdown of the Fukushima ...
Computer scientists find way to make all that glitters more realistic in computer graphics
Researchers used their method to model the glittery shell of this snail. Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Iron Man's suit. ...
Froome's precarious posture not an aerodynamic gain
The remarkable posture of Chris Froome in the eighth stage of the Tour de France. Source: Sporza.be. Credit: Eindhoven University of Technol ...
Southwest says technology outage fixed but more flights cut
Southwest says it has fixed computer problems that caused hundreds of flights to be canceled, but it is telling passengers to get to the air ...
IP core to improve radio telescope performance
Signal processing specialist RFEL is supplying a HyperSpeed FFT IP core to the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO) for use in a high performance radio astronomy spectrometer system. The core will play a c
Southwest technology problems cancel delay flights (Update)
Hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights across the country were delayed or canceled Wednesday after technology problems prevented many travel ...
Asimo meets Pepper: Honda and Softbank partnering in robots
This combination of file photos taken on July 3, 2013, left, and June 6, 2014 both in Tokyo shows Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co.'s walki ...
Israel takes on Facebook in battle against incitement
In this Thursday, July 14, 2016 photo, Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in ...
Oceanographer says Flight 370 could be north of search area
In this March 22, 2014 file photo, flight officer Rayan Gharazeddine on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, searches for the mis ...
No 'Pokemon Go' yet in Japan but government already worried
In this Monday, July 18, 2016 photo, a stuffed toy of Pikachu, a Pokemon character, is surrounded by children during a Pokemon festival in T ...
Tesla plans trucks small SUV as part of future plans
In this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, file photo, Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk delivers a speech at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as ...
South Korea anti-trust agency probes Google: report
Google enjoys only 10 percent of a market that is dominated by Korean search engines Naver and Daum South Korea's anti-trust agency is inve ...
Suspected boss of online piracy site Kickass Torrents arrested (Update)
The Justice Department announced a criminal complaint against Artem Vaulin, 30, of Kharkiv, Ukraine, who was arrested in Poland and is being ...
How to choose a fitness tracker when they all sound the same
Six fitness tracking devices measuring step counts and other fitness features are worn Wednesday July 20, 2016, in New York. Clockwise, from ...
How millennial nostalgia fueled the success of 'Pokemon Go'
In this Dec. 18, 1997 file photo, a girl and her brother view dolls of a Pokemon cartoon character at a toy shop in Tokyo's Ginza shopping d ...
Leader of top piracy site arrested in Poland charged in US
US authorities unveiled criminal charges Wednesday against a Ukrainian alleged to be heading the world's biggest online piracy site, Kickass ...
Southwest suffers technology outage; flights held at gates
Some Southwest Airlines flights are being held up while the airline tries to fix a technology outage. ...
3-D-printing lab instruments one block at a time
An overview of designing and building a custom lab instrument using the Multifluidic Evolutionary Component (MEC) system created at UC River ...
France serves notice to Mircosoft on data tracking
France's National Data Protection Commission said in a statement it had given Microsoft three months to comply with the French Data Protecti ...
Former US attorney general joins Airbnb bias review
A campaign to ferret out discrimination at Airbnb came after a host in North Carolina fired off hateful, race-based messages to a black woma ...
More disappointment for Japanese waiting for 'Pokemon Go'
In this Monday, July 18, 2016 photo, a stuffed toy of Pikachu, a Pokemon character, is surrounded by children during a Pokemon festival in T ...
Facebook Messenger hits one billion users
Facebook, co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg (pictured), says more than 17 billion photos are sent to friends through Messenger every month Face ...
Don't hunt Pokemons while driving warn Portuguese police
Pokemon Go sees players armed with smartphones hunting streets, parks, rivers, landmarks and other sites to capture monsters Portuguese pol ...
Social robots—programmable by everyone
Founder and CEO Dr. Pouyan Ziafati is with Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Aida Nazariklorram. Credit: © ScienceRELATIONS The sta ...
Putting software on a diet
2016-07-21 02:00:01Putting software on a diet
Conducting research on energy-efficient software are (from left) University of Delaware undergraduate students Gifan Thadathil and Kate Trav ...
Adaptive rendering method reduces discolored pixels in photo-realistic images
Credit: Disney Research Disney Research has developed a new method to improve the rendering of high-quality images from 3-D models by drast ...
Single camera can capture high quality facial performance
Credit: Disney Research Facial performance capture, a key component of visual effects for movies and computer games, can be obtained using ...
New method reconstructs highly detailed 3-D eyes from a single photograph
Credit: Disney Research A digitally created face can have the most realistic looking skin imaginable and still look fabricated to audiences ...
All change at XMOS
2016-07-21 00:00:06All change at XMOS
Mark Lippett has succeeded Nigel Toon as president and CEO of XMOS as the company looks to focus on the development of voice enabled controllers for IoT applications. Toon assumes the role of chairman
Harvesting water from air with less energy
An energy-saving, liquid-desiccant vapor separation (LDS) system removes vapor from air before cooling the vapor and condensing it into pota ...
Myth-busting research into a new alternative solar cell material could lead to cheaper solar cells
Solar cells that are cheaper and easier to manufacture could challenge the dominance of silicon, with new research showing an alternative ma ...
Novel technology to automatically assess personal data privacy risks
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced development of a unique new technology to automatically assess the privacy risk of personal data. ...
A chair for getting fit and trim
With the help of the personal trainer, residents of KogniHome can improve their endurance and strength – while sitting. Credit: CITEC/Bielef ...
Japan Pokemon fans in agonising wait for game launch
Pokemon Go has sparked a global frenzy since its launch two weeks ago, but has yet to be released in Japan Legions of Pokemon fans were lef ...
Autonomous grilling robot prepares sausages at a party
Steffen Seibert, government spokesperson and head of the Press and Information Office, was interested in the function of the BratWurst Bot t ...
OPINION: Blockchain really only does one thing well
Blockchain doesn’t magically make entries on a distributed ledger trustworthy. Credit: shutterstock.com No new technology since the dawn of ...
Car sharing increases mobility decreases greenhouse gas emissions
Credit: University of California - Berkeley Drive, ride or share? It's a question more people are asking themselves as transportation optio ...
Business software firm SAP sees rise in profit sales
Business software maker SAP SE reported Wednesday that its second-quarter net income rose to 816 million euros ($900 million) from 469 milli ...
China's Midea snares near-86% stake in Germany's Kuka
Chinese appliance giant Midea said Wednesday it has secured almost 86 percent of German industrial robotics supplier Kuka, giving it overwhe ...
Self-learning computer software can detect and diagnose errors in pronunciation
An inexpensive, versatile and personalized system for recognizing and correcting mispronounced words could improve language learning. The A* ...
How science can help us make AI less creepy and more trustworthy
Credit: Shutterstock Stories about racist Twitter accounts and crashing self-driving cars can make us think that artificial intelligence (A ...
Macy's tests artificial intelligence tool to improve service
In this undated photo provided by Macy's Inc., the department store's new mobile tool is demonstrated. Macy's is testing a new mobile tool t ...
Indonesia's presidential palace bans playing of 'Pokemon Go'
In this Sunday, July 17, 2016 photo, members of Presidential Security Forces stand in attention during the changing of guard at Merdeka Pala ...
Netflix plan to conquer world stumbles for now (Update)
Analysts said Netflix is still showing growth, but not at the breakneck pace expected when the company announced it had expanded its global ...
Microsoft delivers earnings surprise stock rises (Update)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote address during the 2016 Microsoft Build Developer Conference on March 30, 2016 in San Franc ...
Netflix announces new episodes of 'Making a Murderer'
Netflix said on Tuesday it was filming new episodes of its headline-grabbing true crime series "Making a Murderer." ...
NY Massachusetts Maryland sue VW over emissions cheating
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, right, joined by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, discusses a lawsuit against Volks ...
Brazilian judge blocks WhatsApp nationwide: court (Update)
The WhatsApp smartphone messaging service is hugely popular in Brazil A judge on Tuesday suspended the WhatsApp smartphone messaging servic ...
Facebook films Muncie Animal Shelter's 'Pokemon Go' walks
The director of an Indiana animal shelter says Facebook has hired a production company to shoot video about its effort to encourage "Po ...
Twitter eases process for verified accounts
Twitter said Tuesday it was streamlining the process for creating verified accounts, a move likely to boost the number of users with a " ...
DOT secretary wants more rigorous reviews of robotic cars
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says he wants government regulators and the auto industry to work more closely together to test s ...
Engineers designing system so cellphones laptops other wireless devices can help nab radio-frequency thieves
University of Utah School of Computing professor Sneha Kumar Kasera and his team of researchers are tasked with creating a crowdsourcing sys ...
NBA teams up with Twitter for streaming but no games
Twitter and the National Basketball Association have announced a deal to stream live content Twitter and the National Basketball Associatio ...
Judge in Brazil blocks WhatsApp messenger application
A Brazilian judge has ordered the nationwide suspension of the instant messaging application WhatsApp because it won't help out in a police ...
Netflix plan to conquer world stumbles for now
Analysts said Netflix is still showing growth, but not at the breakneck pace expected when the company announced it had expanded its global ...
Modern off-grid lighting could create two million new jobs in developing world
A focus group with rural Kenyans on solar-LED lanterns, from a 2009 Berkeley Lab study. Credit: Evan Mills/Berkeley Lab Many households in ...
Bosnia's Pokemon Go players urged to avoid wartime mine fields
The new mobile app, which is based on a 1990s Nintendo game, has created a global frenzy as players roam the real world looking for cartoon ...
NY Massachusetts sue Volkswagen over emissions cheating
New York state and Massachusetts are suing Volkswagen and its affiliates Audi and Porsche over diesel emissions cheating, alleging that the ...
Fujitsu begins field trial for AI-based train delay prediction
Figure 1: Summary of the field trial system. Credit: Fujitsu Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has collaborated with Jorudan Co., Ltd ...
Review: 'Pokemon Go' is a nifty idea marred by glitches
In this Thursday, July 14, 2016, file photo, players congregate during a "Pokemon Go" event at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb. T ...
Ericsson steps up cost-cutting as profit hit by poor demand
Wireless equipment maker Ericsson says lower demand for mobile broadband in a weakening global economy caused second-quarter profit to drop ...
Johnson & Johnson tops 2Q forecasts despite profit drop
In this July 30, 2013, file photo, large banners hang in an atrium at the headquarters of Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, N.J. Johns ...
What's next for augmented reality after 'Pokemon Go'?
In this Tuesday, July 12, 2016, file photo, Pinsir, a Pokemon, is found by a group of Pokemon Go players at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. ...