Trying to cut your drinking? There's an app for that
Technology can help cut your alcohol use. Credit: Flickr/Mr TinDC, CC BY-NC-ND Australia is known to be a nation of drinkers with almost 18 ...
Leti and KIST to explore vital technologies
A collaboration has been agreed between CEA-Leti and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) to jointly explore a variety of technologies, including monolithic 3D, neuromorphic architectu
Low current spintronics technique developed for high density memory
A technique capable of controlling magnetism at a lower current level than conventional spintronics devices has been developed by the research team of the International center for Materials Nanoarchit
Chinese national jailed for hacking US defense firms (Update)
A Chinese national was sentenced on Wednesday in Los Angeles to three years and 10 months in prison for hacking American defense contractors ...
Experts: Use of robot to kill suspect opens door for others
In this Thursday, July 7, 2016 file photo, Dallas police respond after shots were fired during a protest over recent fatal shootings by poli ...
Utah votes to let authorities disable drones near wildfires
Utah authorities likely will be among the first in the nation to be allowed to disable and crash drones for flying too close to wildfires af ...
Chinese businessman gets nearly 4 years in US hacking case
A Chinese businessman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for conspiring to export sensitive military information to China aft ...
PROTO FPGAs Lower the Cost of Prototyping Rad-Tolerant FPGA-Based Systems  EE Times
RTG4 PROTO devices use the same silicon and the same packages as RTG4 flight-model FPGAs, but they cost a whole lot less.
Chinese government suspected of  hacking into FDIC computers
The Chinese government is believed to have hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2010, 2011 and 2013, including th ...
Investors tap mobile message craze as trading begins on Line
In this March 24, 2016, file photo, Line Corp. Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer Jun Masuda speaks during a news conference of Line Confe ...
Auschwitz museum says no to Pokemon Go
Main gate entering the Nazi Auschwitz death camp at sunrise with the infamous sign reading "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free ...
New dissolvable metal support enables 3-D printing of complex metallic structures
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers Researchers have fabricated dissolvable carbon steel structures using 3D printing technology tha ...
Study uses text-mining to improve market intelligence on startups
A researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington has created a new method that uses big data analytics and text-mining techniques to imp ...
Google LinkedIn complete massive Silicon Valley land swap
In this Nov. 12, 2015, file photo, a man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google and LinkedIn said July 1 ...
In video games spectating is the new advertising
In this June 15, 2016 file photo, a spectator watches players trying out the PlayStation "Gravity Rush 2" video game at the Electr ...
German police launch mass raids over online hate speech
BKA chief Holger Muench, pictured in 2015, said police were taking a "clear stance against hate and incitement on the internet" wh ...
Germans join Pokemon hunt as hit game reaches Europe
German consumers are the first country in Europe to get their hands on the new Pokemon Go game The Pokemon Go mobile gaming craze reached E ...
Google wins extra time to fight EU Android probe
The European Commission has accused Google of obstructing innovation by giving unfair prominence to its own apps, especially its search engi ...
Engineered 'sand' may help cool electronic devices
Silicon dioxide nanoparticles coated with a dielectric constant polymer could act as a thermal conductivity material for electronic devices with high heat fluxes, according to researchers at Georgia T
Auschwitz memorial says playing 'Pokemon Go' not allowed
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum says it does not allow people to play "Pokemon Go" on their smartphones during visits to the f ...
Nokia expects boost from patent licensing pact with Samsung
Finnish telecoms company Nokia expects a sales boost this year after agreeing to expand its licensing agreement with Samsung. ...
User-controlled system makes it possible to instantly revoke access to files hosted on internet cloud servers
By securing data files with a 'need-to-know' decryption key, A*STAR researchers have developed a way to control access to cloud-hosted data ...
Pokemon GO gets people out and about and that's a good thing
Chris, Tim, Lachlan and Emma travelled to the University of Queensland’s Great Court to play Pokemon Go. Credit: Daniel Angus, Author provid ...
How apps and other online tools are challenging racist attacks
Online and offline activism are merging, as recognised by this protest against the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missou ...
Conversion efficiency of 18.2 percent achieved using perovskite solar cells
Current-voltage characteristics of perovskite solar cells measured by the Calibration, Standards and Measurement Team at the AIST Research C ...
Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication
“It’s intuitive that if a bunch of people are randomly walking around an area, the number of times they bump into each other will be a surro ...
Researchers report cybersecurity risks in 3D printing
A 3D Printing device layers polymers to build an object by depositing material in very small layers. A new paper by a team of NYU Tandon res ...
Mobile craze 'Pokemon Go' officially reaches Germany
The popular smartphone game "Pokemon Go" has been officially rolled out in Germany. ...
Solar plane flies over Egypt pyramids on globe-circling trip
In this Wednesday, July 13, 2016, handout image provided by Solar Impulse, the Solar Impulse 2 flying over the pyramids, Egypt Cairo. The ex ...
Think a gasoline-direct injection engine is the green choice? Maybe not
Dr. Cheol-Heon Jeong and Professor Greg Evans measured emissions from gasoline-direct injection engines and evaluated climate tradeoffs of t ...
Breakthrough in powering wireless sensors
Dr. Salman Durrani. Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU. Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are a step closer to harvesting renewa ...
Test pattern generation package updated certified to ISO26262
Synopsys has announced its latest automatic test pattern generation and diagnostics package. Called TetraMAX II, the software is said to incorporate test engines announced in October 2015.
Predicting the pattern
2016-07-13 20:00:05Predicting the pattern
The radiation pattern of patch antenna when installed in actual equipment can now be predicted using a parametric model. Credit: A*STAR Inst ...
Driving the technology behind fuel-efficient electric cars
Credit: University of Nottingham An £830K research project to speed up the shift from fossil-fuel reliant to greener, quieter and chea ...
Google says anti-privacy effort has delivered $2 bn
Google and YouTube have been using a system called ContentID, where a copyright holder can notify the company if its music or other content ...
The rise of Facebook and 'the operating system of our lives'
Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA’s Robertson Professor of Media Studies, is the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Media and Citizen ...
Pokemon Go unleashes legions of monster hunters
The free Pokemon Go smartphone game has triggered a near-obssessive craze since its release in the US, Australia and New Zealand last week ...
Robot earns its shoes walks like a person
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology What do you give a robot when it takes it first steps like a human? Its first pair of shoes. ...
Solar plane lands in Egypt in penultimate stop of world tour
Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg waves before taking off in the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft at Sevilla aiport The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Cairo ...
Nissan keeps self-driving simple—and not quite autonomous
In this July 12, 2016 photo, Nissan Motor Co. Deputy General Manager Atsushi Iwaki gets his hands off of the steering wheel of a self-drivin ...
Pokemon-mania vindicates Nintendo's mobile game shift
With Pokemon-mania sweeping the planet, Nintendo's nascent shift into mobile gaming has proved a massive hit, vindicating the Japanese video ...
Fiat Chrysler offers hackers bounty to report cyber threats
Fiat Chrysler is turning to weekend car tinkerers and good-guy hackers to expose software vulnerability in its cars and trucks. ...
Greater privacy and security measures needed to protect patient info in mobile health tech
With over two-thirds of U.S. adults owning a smartphone, and the rise in miniaturized sensors and low-power body area networks that are used ...
Five questions on Germany's green energy shift
Over the past two decades, thousands of wind turbines have mushroomed across the country and offshore, boosted by state subsidies, as German ...
Bavarian village pioneers clean energy revolution
A row of wind turbines towers on the edge of the picturesque Bavarian village of Wildpoldsried, population 2,600, where rolling meadows meet ...
US holds potential to produce billion tons of biomass support bioeconomy
Cover of 2016 Billion-Ton Report The 2016 Billion-Ton Report, jointly released by the U.S. Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Labo ...
How to play Pokemon Go
2016-07-13 06:00:15How to play Pokemon Go
A man holds up his cell phone with a screen shot of the Pokemon Go game in front of the White House on July 12, 2016 Pokemon Go mania has p ...
Tesla won't disable Autopilot despite accidents: report
Tesla does not plan to disable the Autopilot self-driving function in its cars despite accidents possibly linked to it, founder Elon Musk to ...
Advancing self-driving car design other shared human- and machine-controlled systems
University of Massachusetts Amherst computer science graduate students Kyle Wray and Luis Pineda, with their professor Shlomo Zilberstein, t ...
Pokemon Go's digital popularity is also warping real life (Update)
In this Monday, July 11, 2016, photo provided by Huge shows Pokemon Go players stopping outside the Huge Cafe in downtown Atlanta, Ga., in s ...
Oculus boosts Rift VR gear availability
Facebook-owned Oculus said that all pre-ordered Rift headsets have been sent to buyers Oculus on Tuesday announced it is ramping up availab ...
Christmas in July? Amazon's 'Prime Day' is back
In this June 30, 2011 file photo, a United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto, Calif. Amazon is offering d ...
Judge tosses lawsuit over NYC's payphone-turned-Wi-Fi plan
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging New York City's push to turn payphones into Wi-Fi hotspots. ...
Shedding the fat: ONR explores ways to trim software bloat improve security
Dr. Dinghao Wu in his lab at Penn State University. Wu is one of several researchers sponsored by the Office of Naval Research to reduce sof ...
Dutch hospital's appeal: No more Pokemon hunting!
A Dutch hospital issued an appeal Tuesday to over-zealous fans of augmented reality game Pokemon Go not to "hunt" the fictitious m ...
Feds: Warner Bros. agrees to settle charges it misled gamers
The Federal Trade Commission says Warner Bros. has agreed to settle charges that it deceived consumers by not properly disclosing that it pa ...
Top news outlets see more risks than benefits in employees' use of social media
Lehigh University assistant professor of journalism Jayeon "Janey Lee" finds in a new study that top news organizations focused mo ...
Pokemon Go's digital popularity is also warping real life
In this Monday, July 11, 2016, photo provided by Huge shows Pokemon Go players stopping outside the Huge Cafe in downtown Atlanta, Ga., in s ...
Some places should be off limits for games such as Pokemon GO
Florida Holocaust Museum is a Pokemon Gym. The outstanding, almost overnight success of Pokémon GO in the few countries its officially ...
New WSU virtual reality Cave uses cutting-edge technology
WSU's Cave immerses people in a 3D, full-color virtual reality experience. Credit: Lainie Mazzullo Nestled in a nondescript room in Wichita ...
ARMv8-A licence to open server opportunities in China
Chinese company Huaxintong Semiconductor Technology has signed a multiyear licence for the ARMv8-A architecture in a move that will enable Chinese companies to develop ARM based server chipsets for th
Does music sound better on vinyl records than on CDs?
Credit: Ingimage Vinyl is back, no doubt about it. Sales of vinyl records have been soaring, although they still represent only a tiny frac ...
EU launches controversial internet privacy deal with US (Update)
EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova and US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker presented a deal aimed at curbing government spying on the per ...
Mouser unveils latest release of MultiSIM Blue
Mouser has announced MultiSIM Blue Premium, the latest release of its version of the circuit design tool. The software is said to take the user’s ability to scheme, simulate and design to ‘new levels’
Social exchange app might help turn collaboration into currency
In traditional timebanking, a member can provide help -- installing floor tile, for example -- and earn credits that can be used to pay for ...
New products look to address the needs of all mainstream engineers
Mentor Graphics has made what it calls significant additions to its PADS PCB Product Creation Platform, including new analogue and mixed signal and high speed analysis products.
Interconnect resistivity model to enable early screening of interconnect technology options at advanced nodes
Caption: 3D model of a multilayer interconnect stack (a) after process emulations using the Synopsys Sentaurus Process Explorer and 3D local ...
Industry emissions down transportation up
While industry in the U.S. has made solid strides in reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the past 25 years, the transportation sector has ...
As the Memec name disappears and Premier Farnell is acquired a distribution veteran steps down
The Memec name has disappeared from the distribution world after more than 40 years. Founded by Dick Skipworth in 1974 and run initially from his house, Memec – Microelectronics and Memory Company – s
e2v signs FRAMOS to distribute CMOS sensors in EMEA
Chelmsford based systems company e2v has appointed FRAMOS as a distributor for its high performance CMOS image sensors across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Plexus to offer stress screening at Kelso site
As part of its continued programme of growth within EMEA, Plexus is investing in a dedicated building and equipment to undertake environmental stress screening (ESS) at its Kelso site in Scotland. Acc
EU launches controversial internet privacy deal with US
EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova and US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker presented a deal aimed at curbing government spying on the per ...
Apple's Mac no longer bucking PC industry's sales slide
After defying industry trends in recent years, Apple is feeling the slowdown in global purchases of laptop and desktop computers. ...
Kim Dotcom to revive Megaupload
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom's extradition appeal is set to begin in the High Court in Auckland on August 29 Internet mogul Kim Dotcom has ann ...
Pokemon Go craze crashes Aussie servers draws police warnings
Pokemon Go has been a huge hit with players since it was rolled out in Australia, New Zealand and the US late last week High demand for the ...
Pokemon Go mania drives players into wild outdoors
Sameer Uddin and Michelle Macias play Pokemon Go on their smartphones, outside Nintendo's flagship store in New York, on July 11, 2016 Poke ...
Japanese messaging app Line raises over $1.1 billion in IPO
Japanese messaging app Line's initial public offering has raised more than $1.1 billion despite a lukewarm IPO market. ...
GM sees self-driving cars as gradual rollout
General Motors believes in autonomous vehicles as a safer mode of transport, and expects the technology to come more quickly than most peopl ...
When is big data too big? Making data-based models comprehensible
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers Data-driven mathematical modeling is having an enormous impact on the ability to organize and de ...
CBS Twitter announce partnership for convention
Twitter says it will live-stream CBS News' online coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions later this month, a first for the so ...
Booming business sees relocation to bigger premises
Continuing and sustained growth in Verotec’s modified and custom business has required the company to move to new premises. The new facility is said to double the space available for the design depart
NIST 3D ballistics research database goes live
A 3D topographic surface map of the base of a fired 9 mm bullet. This visualization highlights the grooves imparted on the bullet by the bar ...
Get Started: Small businesses at risk for cyberattacks
Small businesses' inability or failure to deal with their vulnerability to cyber criminals puts them increasingly at risk for online attacks ...
New material for efficient and sustainable organic solar cells as an alternative to standard silicon cells
Credit: Panthermedia/Elena Elisseeva Organic solar cells are considered a competitive alternative to the standard silicon cells that are us ...
Students invent new technology to improve later life
Team members from Cambridge's EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications. Credit: Tiesheng Wang A team of p ...
The Pokemon GO craze sees gamers hit the streets but it comes with a warning
Playing Pokemon Go. Credit: Pokemon Go/YouTube/Screenshot In 2014, as part of its traditional April Fool's pranks, Google released a video ...
Universities off to a flying start with large drone research project
Credit: University of Kentucky Nearly 100 researchers and students from four universities, including the University of Kentucky, converged ...
Solar plane leaves Spain for penultimate leg of world tour (Update)
Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg takes off in the sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft from Sevilla aiport on July 11, 2016, to Cairo for the pe ...
Anonymity network can protect users' identity if all but one of its servers are compromised
Researchers at MIT and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a new anonymity scheme that provides stron ...
Driving toward more efficient solar cells
Credit: North Carolina State University For solar energy to become a real power player in the energy game, solar cells need to be both inex ...
Virtual reality 'Chinook' to help train medics in UK Armed Forces
Credit: University of Birmingham A new simulator of a Chinook helicopter, bringing together virtual reality and an inflatable enclosure, ha ...
Plane powered by hybrid-electric drive system
Following the announcement last April that Siemens and Airbus have partnered to build hybrid-electric drive systems for regional flights, an electrically-powered aerobatic aircraft, the Extra 330LE, s
Researchers use Minecraft for AI research
Katja Hofmann, left, and Matthew Johnson, right, say Project Malmo can speed AI research. Credit: Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures Microsoft h ...
Semi sales show slight increase
According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $26billion in May 2016, an increase of 0.4% compared to April 2016, but 7.7% lower than May 2015.
Imec ARM to work on 7nm and beyond
ARM has joined imec’s INSITE programme and will work within the partnership to address the impact of circuit design and system level architecture on power, performance, area and cost of process nodes
Government to reform post-16 technical education
The Independent Panel for Technical Education’s report, chaired by Lord Sainsbury, has recommended simplifying the current system so that technical education is provided through 15 routes. There are c
Solar-powered plane lands in Spain leaves for Egypt
In this June 23, 2016, file photo, the Solar Impulse 2 plane prepares to land at the San Pablo airport in Seville, Spain. The experimental s ...
Tesla CEO says he's working on another secret  'masterplan'
In this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, file photo, Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk delivers a speech at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as ...
Insider Q&A: IHS Automotive analyst Jeremy Carlson
This photo provided by IHS Automotive shows Jeremy Carlson, a principal analyst for IHS Automotive. Autonomous cars will appear on worldwide ...
Israel ultra-Orthodox women go hi-tech
Bright and airy, the workspace at Comax is much like other Israeli hi-tech firms, except that a rabbi has carefully vetted its design to all ...