Japan messaging app Line set for year's top tech IPO
Japan-based messaging app Line said Monday it could raise more than $1.0 billion in one of the year's biggest share sales, as it makes its m ...
Players in hunt for Pokemon Go monsters feel real-world pain
This July 8, 2016, photo provided by Justin Harrison shows the bruised shin of Lindsay Plunkett, a 23-year-old waitress in Asheville, N.C., ...
Killer robot used by Dallas police opens ethical debate
Dallas police respond after shots were fired during a protest over recent fatal shootings by police in Louisiana and Minnesota, Thursday, Ju ...
Dallas robot bomb highlights technology in policing
Police attempt to calm the crowd as someone is arrested following the sniper shooting in Dallas on July 7, 2016 The "bomb robot" ...
Comcast adds Chicago customers to those under data caps
Comcast is increasing the number of home internet customers who will face limits on how much data they can use before getting hit with extra ...
Dutch scientists develop brain-inspired memory material
Scientists from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente have developed a ferro-electric material with a memory function resembling the synapses and neurons of the brain, res
Imec opens photonics R&D facility in Florida
Imec has opened a facility in Florida that will focus on photonics and high-speed electronics IC design. As part of the move, imec has signed a collaboration agreement with the University of Central F
Extortion extinction: Researchers develop a way to stop ransomware
Credit: University of Florida Ransomware - what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those c ...
Facebook Messenger to offer strong encryption
Facebook announced Friday it would roll out optional "end to end encryption" for its Messenger application, following a trend aime ...
EU member states approve US data deal
EU member states on Friday approved a highly-criticised deal with the US intended to curb government spying on the personal internet data of ...
Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform health care supply chain
In an effort to apply data-driven insights to one of the most fundamental aspects of running a health care system, UPMC announced today that ...
Spain judge charges Volkswagen with fraud over emissions
Volkswagen last month agreed to a record payout in the US, pledging to buy back or fix vehicles that tricked pollution tests, and pay each o ...
Tech review: Device tells drinkers when they're on the rocks
How do you convince people to buy something they'd rather not have to use? ...
Researchers break record for DNA data storage
A depiction of the double helical structure of DNA. Its four coding units (A, T, C, G) are color-coded in pink, orange, purple and yellow. C ...
Robots don't just take jobs they can help a new business grow
Robots can help a new business deal with all the mundane tasks. Credit: Shutterstock/Ociacia "Make an appointment for 4pm today with G ...
Consumer Reports: Samsung phone not actually water resistant
In this Feb. 22, 2016, file photo, a waterproof Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge mobile phone is submersed in water during a preview of Samsung's flag ...
In drive toward autonomous vehicles will Tesla or Google pull ahead of competition?
The finalized prototype of Google self-driving car. Google and Tesla agree autonomous vehicles will make streets safer, and both are racing ...
Science on the verge of creating 'emotional' computer
Researchers from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI are developing an emotion-based artificial intelligence. ...
Samsung introduces world's first universal flash storage (UFS) removable memory card line-up
Credit: Samsung Samsung Electronics today unveiled the industry's first removable memory cards based on the JEDEC Universal Flash Storage ( ...
France Telecom execs may be tried over suicides (Update)
Prosecutors have called for telecommunications giant France Telecom, now renamed Orange, and its former executives to face trial over a wave ...
US tax authorities query Facebook on Ireland dealings
The Internal Revenue Service said it is "conducting an examination of the federal income tax liability" for Facebook in 2010 US t ...
Wendy's says more than 1000 restaurants affected by hack
Wendy's says hackers were able to steal customer's credit and debit card information at 1,025 of its U.S. restaurants, far more than it orig ...
The Dolan family is taking back Newsday paper
In this Wednesday, April 23, 2008, file photo, flags fly in front of Newsday's headquarters in Melville, N.Y. After selling New York-area ca ...
Q&A: Oscar-winner Gibney on cyberwarfare in 'Zero Days'
In this Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, file photo, Alex Gibney, director of the FIlm "Zero Days" answers questions during an interview ...
Microsoft leadership shake-up as veteran exec departs
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, pictured on July 14, 2014, will leave to become chief executive officer at global financial ...
Putin signs controversial anti-terror measures into law
Vladimir Putin has dominated the Russian political scene since 2000 Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a package of contr ...
France Telecom execs may be tried over suicides
French prosecutors have called for telecommunications giant France Telecom, now renamed Orange, and its former executives to face trial over ...
Mobile news surges newspapers fall further: US poll
The portion of Americans who get at least some news on a mobile device rose to 72 percent in 2016 from 54 percent in 2013, the Pew Research ...
Researchers want to achieve machine translation of the 24 languages of the EU
Professor of Translation-Oriented Language Technologies at Saarland University and a Scientific Director at the German Research Center for A ...
IBM celebrates 20 years of MRAM with 11nm announcement
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of its announcement of spin torque MRAM, IBM has outlined how it believes the technique can be used at process technology nodes of 11nm.
Electronic voting may be risky but what about vote counting?
Several advantages of online voting were identified in a recent post by Conversation columnist and software researcher David Glance who back ...
Avast to acquire AVG in $1.3 billion internet security deal
Avast Software says it is acquiring its anti-virus rival AVG Technologies N.V. in a $1.3 billion deal. ...
Review: 'Star Ocean' never achieves liftoff
This video game image released by Square Enix shows a scene from, "Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness." (Square Enix via AP) ...
3D animation with the stroke of a pen
Ronan Boulic and Benoît Le Callennec. Credit: © 2016 EPFL / Alain Herzog Mosketch, a software developed by Moka Studio and EPFL, ...
Energy saving filters for wastewater treatment
NTU's new nanofiltration hollow fibre membrane. Credit: Nanyang Technological University Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NT ...
Neural networks to obtain synthetic petroleum
The UPV/EHU's Catalytic Processes for Waste Valorisation research group is working on a project related to obtaining bio-oils or synthetic p ...
Cypress completes Broadcom wireless IoT acquisition
Following the announcement in April, Cypress has completed its acquisition of Broadcom’s wireless IoT business and claims to be the only company offering wireless radios, MCUs, memories and PMICs for
Professor studies how apps can affect productivity
TimeAware has two versions that will emphasize either positive or negative productivity. Credit: Angela Kendall You've been working at your ...
Workers are taking on more risk in the gig economy
At the moment there is official classification for gig work, like the type uber drivers do. Credit: Reynaldo Vasconcelos/Newzulu To secure ...
Researchers find as few as 2% of software bugs are detected
A recent study by researchers from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, in collaboration with the MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Northeastern University, has found that as few as 2% of bu
Vanishing message app Snapchat lets Memories linger (Update)
Snapchat estimates it has more than 100 million users globally of the service for sending videos, images and text messages which vanish afte ...
Samsung flags big jump in profit on strong S7 sales
Samsung Electronics flagged a better-than-expected profit for the second quarter, boosted by cost-cutting efforts and solid sales of its lat ...
Electricity-starved Gazans turn to sun for help
A growing number of Gazans fed up with their erratic electricity supply are turning to solar power in an area where the sun shines for the v ...
Jordan's newest mall debuts large-scale green technology
In this July 4, 2016 photo, sunlight reflects on the glass exterior of Jordan's newest mall, the kingdom's first energy-efficient shopping c ...
US probes second suspected Tesla Autopilot crash
According to the Detroit Free Press, the owner of a Model X, Tesla's newest, SUV-styled model, told police the car was using Autopilot when ...
Verizon hikes prices but new options could save you money (Update)
In this June 6, 2013, file photo, pedestrians pass a Verizon Wireless store on Canal Street in New York. Verizon announced Wednesday, July 6 ...
More than 500000 hoverboards recalled after fires burns
In this Oct. 21, 2015, file photo, a young man rides a hoverboard along a Manhattan street toward the Empire State Building in New York. Mor ...
Snapchat introduces new way to save old snaps
Snapchat's commitment to the ephemeral message was ... ephemeral. The popular visual messaging service is giving users a new way to save old ...
Wal-Mart now lets you pay with phone at all 4600 US stores
Wal-Mart will now let you pay with your phone at all 4,600 stores nationwide. ...
Graphene shows potential in near IR photodetection
Described as an important step towards graphene integration in silicon photonics, researchers from the Graphene Flagship have shown how graphene can enable silicon photodetection in the telecommunicat
Your smartwatch is giving away your ATM PIN
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wearable devices can give away your passwords, according to new research. ...
Amdocs founder named chairman of biometrics start-up
A founder of Israeli software company Amdocs has been named chairman of the board of Israeli startup FST Biometrics. ...
Feabhas a founder member of the IoT Security Foundation
The independent provider of embedded software development training and ARM training partner, Feabhas, has become a founder member of the IoT Security Foundation.
Major energy savings when computers learn to share
Professor Steve Blackburn and Xi Yang. Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU Computer scientists have developed a tweak for computer operating systems th ...
Escalade adds communications and safety features for 2016
Cadillac has added new communications and safety equipment to the outsized Escalade for 2016, making it the first version to integrate Apple ...
Public urinal generates electricity from urine
The public urinal installed this year at Glastonbury festival can generate enough electricity to light the cubicle's LED tubes. Credit: Bris ...
Glasgow pioneers IoT connectivity
A consortium composed of Stream Technologies, Semtech, Boston Networks and CENSIS has developed a LoRa network in Glasgow.
How video can help police – and the public
The police accountability, or cop-watching, movement includes activists who go out on regular patrols to videotape arrests. Credit: Mary Ang ...
How teaching robots to identify microscopic fossils could help us understand oceans
Foraminifera, or forams, as seen through the viewfinder of a microscope. Credit: North Carolina State University Research can make for stra ...
2D materials enable ‘first useful’ charge-density wave based device
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and the University of Georgia have used three 2D materials – graphene, tantalum sulphide and boron nitrate – to create a simple, compact
Google buys French startup that helps machines see
French startup Moodstocks has developed technology that helps smartphones recognize whatever they are aimed at Google on Wednesday announce ...
Report: Seven countries benefit most from technology innovation
A report by the organizers of the Davos forum says the United States, Singapore, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Israel ar ...
State Dep't defends handling of classified sensitive info
In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military p ...
Vice Media acquires majority stake in Garage magazine
Vice Media on Tuesday announced that it has bought a controlling interest in Garage magazine, a twice-annual publication founded by the wife ...
BlackBerry kills off its Classic smartphone (Update)
BlackBerry Classic and its iconic physical keyboard will no longer be part of the Canadian company's product portfolio BlackBerry on Tuesda ...
Netflix to make debut on Comcast's X1 box later this year
Comcast is going to add Netflix to its X1 set-top boxes in the latest deal to blur the lines separating cable TV from Internet video service ...
BlackBerry will stop producing its Classic smartphone
BlackBerry says it will stop making its Classic smartphone, less than two years after launching it with much fanfare. ...
Germany may wait 100 years for nuclear waste storage site
The intermediate nuclear waste storage facility near the northern German city of Gorleben is seen on November 26, 2011 Germany may not have ...
You might be overpaying for streaming music
In this Jan. 6, 2015, file photo, a model wears SMS Audio BioSport In-Ear Headphones at the Intel booth during the International CES in Las ...
Berlin aims to lure British startups fearful over Brexit
An advert suggesting start-up businesses based in the UK move to Berlin is displayed on a parked vehicle on Finsbury Square in the City of L ...
Affair site Ashley Madison reboots as 'open' dating hub
Ashley Madison is rebooting under a new leadership following last year's hack which afected 30 million members Ashley Madison, the website ...
Real-time visualization tool reveals behavioral patterns in Bitcoin transactions
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers A novel visualization method for exploring dynamic patterns in real-time Bitcoin transactional d ...
Google to create virtual tours of Loire Valley chateaux
A Google Tracker Man walks around the Chambord Castle, taking panoramic pictures for the Google map and Google Street in Chambord on May 17, ...
As streaming booms audio overtakes video in US
Americans have for the first time streamed more music on audio services such as Spotify than through videos, in a welcome shift for the indu ...
New York Lottery to offer new instant game using cellphones
The New York Lottery has created a new instant game allowing players to use mobile phones in conjunction with a traditional scratch game—som ...
Ethicist cites five considerations for a transforming society
Self-driving cars, such as this model developed by Carnegie Mellon University, offer potential traffic and safety benefits. But the programm ...
Cass academics design an algorithm that can detect lies in emails
Credit: City University London The algorithm works by identifying linguistic cues of deception found within a computer-mediated communicati ...
Despite experts' fears Australia should be moving to electronic online voting
Online Voting. Credit: shutterstock.com Australia's current election proves that there has never been a greater need for online electronic ...
UK engineering unites after EU Referendum
A number of organisations representing the engineering profession have come together to provide advice to the government for EU negotiations following the UK referendum. The group contends that engine
Using servers for home heating
Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne For his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Karim Ziadé assessed the feasibi ...
How energy is hidden in colours—can we use it to power a renewable future?
Credit: Pixabay 'Roses are red and violets are blue' – so says the old poem. ...
Councils not on track for smart city delivery
New research, commissioned by street lighting experts Lucy Zodion and conducted by independent research agency, DJS Research, has highlighted the risk that many local governments are lacking the budge
Social robot interacts naturally with young children
In cooperation with a consortium of European universities and companies, researchers at the Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication ( ...
On the right track for quieter rail infrastructure
Credit: Shutterstock The EU QUIET-TRACK project offers a noise reduction and track monitoring system which is demonstrated to be a valuable ...
Black box’ creates 3D reconstruction from dashcam
What is said to be the world’s first viable 3D ‘black box’ technology for vehicles has been demonstrated by Roke Manor Research. The device is said to operate using a data captured from a single dashb
STFC launches the Campus Technology Hub
An advanced engineering technology centre called the Campus Technology Hub (CTH), pictured, has opened at the Science and Technology Facility’s Council’s (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory.
Students produce pedal powered cinema
The University of Leicester student team with the bicycle powered cinema. Credit: University of Leicester A team of engineering students ha ...
A new airport system to save time money and carbon emissions
Aviation engineering specialists have secured a £1 million research grant to develop a pioneering new aircraft routing and scheduling s ...
Battery performance boosted says research team
Materials researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zurich have developed what is described as a simple and cost effective procedure that can enhance the performance of conventional Li-
Apple urges organ donation via new iPhone software
Apple wants to encourage millions of iPhone owners to register as organ donors through a software update that will add an easy sign-up butto ...
Too dangerous to talk? Some cities explore 911 texting
In this June 17, 2016 file photo, law enforcement officials stand outside the Pulse nightclub following Sunday's mass shooting, in Orlando, ...
Avnet Memec and Silica unite
2016-07-05 02:00:05Avnet Memec and Silica unite
Following the announcement last year, Avnet Memec and Silica have officially formed one company, Avnet Silica. The newly combined business unit will be the European semiconductor specialist division f
Li-ion rechargeable batteries that last longer re-charge more rapidly
Haphazardly arranged graphite flakes in a conventional anode (above left and center): lithium ions attempting to dock or return to the catho ...
Electronic nose sniffs out pesticides and nerve gas
Researchers from KU Leuven, led by Ivo Stassen and Rob Ameloot, have built a sensitive electronic nose with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to detect pesticides and nerve gas in very low concentration
Harwin opens new UK manufacturing facility
Harwin has officially opened its new manufacturing centre in Portsmouth which is dedicated to increased automation and R&D facilities. The £3illion, 3000m² building, which increases the facilities
From SEALs to startups: Special ops drawn to Silicon Valley
In this photo taken Wednesday, June 29, 2016, former Navy SEAL Keith David plays with Anki Overdrive robotic supercars at his office in San ...
'YouTubers' outshining old-school television
A media revolution is taking place, and most people over 35 years of age aren't tuned in. ...
Tesla driver killed while using Autopilot loved fast cars
This still image taken from a video published on YouTube on Oct. 15, 2015, shows Joshua Brown of Canton, Ohio, in the driver's seat of his T ...
US man charged in 'Celebgate' nude photo hack
A US man was charged on Friday in relation to one of the biggest celebrity hacks in which a phishing scheme led to nude photos of Hollywood ...
Personal projects are key to dream job says Facebook's creative 'rebel'
Ji Lee, creative strategist at Facebook, believes that humor and standing out is what makes a personal initiative successful and allows you ...