US Congress to see push to regulate Big Tech in 2019
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told lawmakers in December the internet giant acknowledges a need for national privacy regulations The newly insta ...
Flights scrapped as Berlin airports brace for Monday strike
Lufthansa has cancelled several flights because of the strike action Hundreds of German passengers were facing travel upheaval on Monday wi ...
Four things Apple needs to do to bounce back in 2019
Credit: CC0 Public Domain For 11 years, consumers have made Apple technology's jewel, selling hundreds of millions of iPhones happily e ...
Netflix and chill no more—streaming is getting complicated
This image released by Disney shows a scene from Marvel Studios' "Black Panther." Disney and WarnerMedia are each launching th ...
Embraer shares dive after Bolsonaro voices wariness at Boeing venture
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil expresses worry about a $5.2 billion tie-up between Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer and US giant ...
Trump to Apple: 'Make your product in the United States'
President Donald Trump called on Apple Friday to make its iPhones in the United States, saying that China is "the biggest beneficiary&q ...
German politicians' data posted online govt probes source
In this picture taken Nov.21, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) speaks in the Bundestag. (Ralf Hirschberger/dpa via AP) Personal d ...
Navy engineer gets New Year's Day patent for dual mode slotted antenna
Illustration of Tonn's new antenna. Credit: Troy Carter/TechLink On New Year's Day, 2019, Navy engineer David A. Tonn received his ...
Tech's big gadget show edges closer to gender equity
In this Jan. 6, 2017, file photo attendees stand in front of a QLED TV at the Samsung booth during CES International in Las Vegas. Critics h ...
Fewer affected in Marriott hack but passports a red flag
This Oct. 5, 2010 file photo shows the exterior of a Marriott hotel in Santa Clara, Calif. Marriott says that fewer guest records were invol ...
How to fund roads and ensure electric vehicles pay their share
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Since electric vehicles use no gasoline, their drivers pay no gasoline tax. And as more people drive EVs, gas-tax ...
Video: Artificial intelligence putting an end to poaching
Credit: CC0 Public Domain When placed in protected areas, the TrailGuard artificial intelligence camera uses AI inference at the edge to de ...
Amelia Earhart would have a hard time disappearing in 2019
Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, with advanced navigation equipment mounted above the cockpit. Credit: USAF/Wikimedia Commons ...
German court opens way for diesel case against Daimler
Mercedes-Benz C-Class cars are among those targeted by a possible collective legal action in Germany related to disputed diesel emission dat ...
Technology developed to control near-field thermal radiation using multilayered nanostructure
A team of researchers from KAIST have succeeded in measuring and controlling the near-field thermal radiation between metallo-dielectric (MD) multilayer structures.
German politicians' data reportedly hacked posted online
Data and documents belonging to hundreds of German politicians have been hacked and posted online via Twitter, a German broadcaster reported ...
Google moved almost 20 bn euros to Bermuda in 2017: report
Google moved 19.9 billion euros ($22.7 billion) with a tax evasion strategy dubbed "Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich", according to Du ...
With slump in iPhone sales are we post Peak Smartphone?
An image of an iPhone is on display in the background as a customer, left, is helped at the Apple store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, ...
US auto consumers tap the brakes swerve away from small cars
The GM Lordstown Plant in Ohio: GM said in November it would end production at five North American plants including Lordstown, and cut 15 pe ...
Apple's bombshell and the trillion-dollar question
Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that iPhone sales in the past quarter would be disappointing, amid weakness in China and other emeging marke ...
Buzz grows on 'flying cars' ahead of major tech show
Talk of flying cars will be growing at the Consumer Electronics Show with some designs to be on display such as this image from Cartivator b ...
Ghosn set for court hearing in Japan over detention
Ghosn is likely to appear in court to face the allegations against him Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn is likely to appear in a Japanes ...
STMicroelectronics develops neural-network developer toolbox
Leveraging the position of its STM32 family of microcontrollers, STMicroelectronics has extended the associated STM32CubeMX ecosystem for product developers, adding advanced Artificial Intelligence (A
A sharper digital eye for intelligent devices
According to estimates from Arm, the demand for IoT devices with embedded vision capabilities are among the highest across connected device’s space.
Osram and GaN Systems introduce ultrafast laser driver for LiDAR
Osram Opto Semiconductors, an optoelectronics company and a leading supplier of automotive lighting, has announced an ultrafast laser driver with a high-power, multi-channel Surface Mount (SMT) laser
GM and DoorDash to deliver food with self-driving cars
General Motors is teaming up with the delivery service DoorDash to use self-driving cars for meal and grocery orders Food delivery service ...
US auto sales falter in 2018 as consumers abandon small cars
The GM Lordstown Plant in Ohio: GM said in November it would end production at five North American plants including Lordstown, and cut 15 pe ...
Apple's bombshell raises trillion-dollar question
Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that iPhone sales in the past quarter would be disappointing, amid weakness in China and other emeging marke ...
Drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb says to buy Celgene in $74bn deal
Bristol Myers Squibb is buying US biotech firm Celgene in a massive $74 billion cash and stock deal New York-based pharmaceutical giant Br ...
Apple rival paves way for ban on some iPhones in Germany
An Apple spokesman told AFP that it had been "disappointed" by the Munich ruling and would appeal US chipmaker Qualcomm said Thur ...
US car sales falter in 2018 as consumers abandon small cars
The GM Lordstown Plant in Ohio: GM said in November it would end production at five North American plants including Lordstown, and cut 15 pe ...
Nanoco and Plessey partner to shrink full-colour microLED pixels using quantum dots
Plessey Semiconductors and Nanoco Technologies are working together to shrink the pixel size of monolithic microLED displays using Nanoco’s cadmium free quantum dot (CFQD quantum dots) semiconductor n
Emotion-reading tech fails the racial bias test
Basketball players Darren Collision (left) and Gordon Hayward (right). Credit: basketball-reference.com Facial recognition technology has p ...
Viasat expands Carlsbad headquarters highlighting tech and beach vibe
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Painted on a prominent wall at Viasat's latest headquarters expansion is the phrase, "There is always a ...
Waning iPhone demand highlights Chinese consumer anxiety
A woman browses her iPhone as she walks by a mural depicting an iPhone and Chinese people buy smartphone to communicate with family members, ...
Snacks on wheels: PepsiCo tests self-driving robot delivery
This undated photo provided by PepsiCo shows self-driving robots made by Robby Technologies. PepsiCo says it will start making snack deliver ...
Researchers survey beachgoers on potential implications for offshore wind farms
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As the United States moves closer to developing offshore wind farms, one of the most important questions for coas ...
Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb says to buy Celgene in $74bn deal
Bristol Myers Squibb is buying US biotech firm Celgene in a massive $74 billion cash and stock deal New York-based pharmaceutical giant Bri ...
372000 German drivers join legal action against Volkswagen
VW, which admitted in 2015 to manipulating 11 million diesel vehicles to appear less polluting under test conditions than in real driving, n ...
Optek licenses and deploys CEVA Bluetooth IP
CEVA, a licensor of signal processing platforms and artificial intelligence processors has announced that Optek Digital Technology, a fab the develops advanced multimedia SoCs, has licensed and deploy
Molex completes Laird acquisition
Molex has completed the acquisition of the Connected Vehicle Solutions (“CVS”) division of Laird, owned by funds managed by Advent International.
Touch sound localisation technology
A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a smartphone-based touch sound localisation technology that can turn objects like furniture and mirrors into to
Could Tesla price cuts mean demand is slowing?
In this July 6, 2018, file photo, a prospective customer confer with sales associate as a Model 3 sits on display in a Tesla showroom in the ...
Apple cuts outlook sees 'challenges' in China emerging markets
Apple stores in China have continued with business as usual despite a Chinese court-ordered ban on iPhone sales that could hurt the US tech ...
How we built a tool that detects the strength of Islamophobic hate speech on Twitter
Finding, and measuring Islamophobia hate speech on social media. Credit: John Gomez/Shutterstock In a landmark move, a group of MPs recentl ...
Global tech show to celebrate innovation amid mounting concerns
Amid trade wars, geopolitical tensions and a decline in public trust, the technology sector is seeking to put its problems aside with the Co ...
Vietnam's draconian cybersecurity bill comes into effect
Critics say online freedom is shrinking under a hardline administration that has been in charge since 2016 A law requiring internet compani ...
Ghosn's detention extended to Jan 11
Carlos Ghosn faces three separate sets of allegations involving financial wrongdoing during his tenure as Nissan chief Former Nissan boss C ...
Computer virus hits Tribune Publishing Los Angeles Times
A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country. ...
French start-up offers 'dark web' compass but not for everyone
Through the dark web, brightly For years criminal websites shrouded in secrecy have thrived beyond the reach of traditional search engines, ...
China's top court to handle intellectual property appeals
China is mulling a series of steps to strengthen protections against IP theft China's top court will rule on intellectual property case ...
Austria to press ahead with digital tax: chancellor
Austrian leader Kurz said his finance minister was working out the details of the new tax and will unveil the basic framework in January Au ...
Chinese firms offer subsidies on Huawei phones in show of support
The surge of patriotism began after Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, was detained in Canada on December 1 on a US extradi ...
US investigating CenturyLink internet outage 911 failures
U.S. officials and at least one state said Friday that they have started investigations into a nationwide CenturyLink internet outage that h ...
Ryanair cabin crew in Spain to strike in January
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has been hit by a series of strikes in recent months in several European countries Unions for Ryanair's ...
Zuckerberg sees 'progress' for Facebook after tumultuous year
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, seen at a congressional hearing in 2018, said in his annual message that the social network has ...
Tesla names independent board members in SEC settlement (Update)
In this Oct. 2, 2012 file photo, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison gestures while giving a keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Tesl ...
Spotlight on role of automated trading amid Wall Street swoon
Some critics question whether the stock market's recent swoon has been exacerbated by automated trading The recent tumult in financial ...
Tesla names two directors as part of Musk US fraud settlement
Tesla tapped Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Walgreens Boots Alliance Executive Vice President Kathleen Wilson-Thompson for its board of ...
Vietnam court orders ride-hailing app to compensate taxi firm
The Singapore-based app disrupted the market which it launched in Vietnam in 2013 A Vietnam court Friday ordered ride-hailing app Grab to p ...
Researchers develop 128Mb STT-MRAM with world's fastest write speed for embedded memory
(a) Mock-up image of 128Mbit-density STT-MRAM. (b) Shmoo plot for write speed versus supply voltage, which shows the measured operation bit ...
Researchers link realism to blockchain's promise
Princeton researchers are answering fundamental questions about blockchain to explore its full potential. Credit: Beatrice Trinidad Dependi ...
AI robotics automation: The fourth industrial revolution is here
For Chinese guests at Marriott International hotels, the check-in process will soon get easier. The hotel giant announced last summer that i ...
The development of a hybrid micro mixer for biological and chemical experiments
Components of the mixing system (scaled). All measurements are in mm. Credit: Majid Warkiani An international team of scientists including ...
Historic UK music retailer HMV collapses due to digital surge
HMV can no longer compete against a streaming onslaught in music and film British music retailer HMV, which was launched by English compose ...
New hydraulic actuator will make robots tougher
This figure shows a seven-axis hydraulic robot arm breaking concrete slabs, each 30 mm thick. This is a prototype for comparison with a four ...
Deep learning for electron microscopy
The same image shown using different analysis methods. a) Raw electron microscopy image. b) Defects (white) as labelled by a human expert. c ...
Army looks for a few good robots sparks industry battle
In this Aug. 28, 2018 photo, software engineer Nicholas Otero, of Woburn, Mass., speaks with a colleague about features on a Centaur robot, ...
Instagram blames 'bug' for design change that prompted backlash
Instagram angered many users with a design change requiring them to scroll horizontally through their feed, but quickly rolled back the chan ...
Lighter load: Laundry detergents shrink for Amazon
This Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, photo shows Seventh Generation laundry detergent in New York. Laundry detergent bottles are heavy, bright-colo ...
Researchers develop novel 3-D printing method for transparent glass
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers A novel additive manufacturing platform was used for the digital fabrication of transparent glas ...
Chasing Amazon: The store of the future is already here as retailers up their tech game
Robots roaming the aisles. Windows that allow you to tap and shop while the store is closed. ...
After scandal-filled year what's next for Facebook?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook is closing out 2018 the same way it began the year: in defense mode. ...
London's Gatwick airport sold to French Vinci conglomerate (Update)
London Gatwick Airport, Britain's second busiest, saw traffic disrupted last week due to reports of mystery drone sightings nearby Fren ...
Amazon Walmart face hit from new India e-commerce rules
The new rules could force global giants such as Amazon and Walmart to rethink their Indian operations Traditional traders and local players ...
Huawei expects 21% revenue rise despite 'unfair' treatment
Huawei has been under fire this year, with Washington leading efforts to blacklist the firm internationally Chinese telecoms giant Huawei e ...
For 2019 smartwatches are sleeker slicker and getting more affordable
A friend recently looked at the smartwatch on my wrist and said, "Why are you wearing that?" He held up his cellphone. "This ...
Hello Alexa. Hey Google: Getting your smart speaker up and running
Credit: CC0 Public Domain If you just got a new smart speaker from Amazon or Google, you'll be barking commands out loud, and people ar ...
Gadgets: Mixcder E7 active noise-canceling headphones great escape
When you look at the Mixcder E7 active noise-canceling headphones, they appear fancy and expensive. ...
How to set up your new phone for iOS and Android—and get used to Apple's X series iPhones
Perhaps you have been using one of the older iPhone models, like a 6, 7 or 8, and just found yourself with a shiny new iPhone XR or XS model ...
France's Vinci to buy majority stake in London's Gatwick
London Gatwick Airport, Britain's second busiest, saw traffic disrupted last week due to reports of mystery drone sightings nearby Fran ...
Britain voices 'grave' concerns over China's Huawei
British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has warned of his "very deep concerns" about Chinese technology giant Huawei being invo ...
NEC to buy Danish IT firm KMD for $1.2 billion
NEC is buying Denmark's KMD as part of efforts to expand its European and global businesses Japan's NEC said Thursday that it would ...
'Tech addicts' seek solace in 12 steps and rehab
In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, photo, Robel, an 18-year-old tech addict from California, leaves a barn after helping feed animals at the Ris ...
Digitally enhanced: Estonia plots the end of bureaucracy
This photo taken on Thursday, Nov. 15 2018, shows an exhibition in Tallinn presenting Estonia's digital achievements. The Baltic nation ...
Israeli anti-drone company sees spike in interest
Product manager Asaf Lebovitz from the Israeli anti-drone company Skylock, explains their system's main unit at the company's office ...
As TikTok videos take hold with teens parents scramble to keep up
TikTok's video-sharing app was the most downloaded on Apple's App Store in the first half of 2018, beating out Facebook, Instgram an ...
Court orders bail for Nissan executive linked to Ghosn case
The Tokyo District Court said it had approved a request by lawyers for Greg Kelly and set bail for his release at 70 million yen ($635,000) ...
Did 2018 usher in a creeping tech dystopia?
In this April 10, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Com ...
Idaho lab protects US infrastructure from cyber attacks
In this September 2018 photo provided by the Idaho National Laboratory, INL interns Armando Juarez Jr., left, and Jordan Mussman work in the ...
How Miami's Amazon reseller army serves shoppers worldwide—and makes millions
Credit: CC0 Public Domain If you bought your Christmas presents on Amazon this year, there is a decent chance someone in South Florida was ...
Apple tweaks app rules to allow users to gift in-app purchases
Just in time for the holidays, Apple added a new gifting option that will allow you to give the gift of in-app purchases to your friends and ...
Australia to beef up technology for drone 'crackdown'
Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) plans to roll out new drone monitoring equipment at major airports across the co ...
South Korea to fine BMW $10 mn over engine fires response
BMW vehicles bursting into flames made headlings in South Korea earlier this year, prompting a massive recall South Korea said Monday it wi ...
China's Huawei faces new setbacks in Europe's telecom market
In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 file photo, an information board for employees' shuttle bus is on display near the Huawei office building ...
India's no-frills hotel giant eyes European markets
Ritesh Agarwal's startup helps connect budget hotels with tourists looking for cheap but clean accommodation An Indian startup is turni ...
Slack: Some accounts mistakenly deactivated during update
Slack says it mistakenly deactivated accounts for some of the users of its work-focused messaging service this week as it implemented a syst ...
Connected cars accelerate down data-collection highway
In this April 22, 2014, file photo, a worker cleans a Tesla Model S sedan before an event to deliver the first set of cars to customers in B ...
Brazil court overrules injunction on Boeing-Embraer tie-up
Under the planned deal, Boeing is to take an 80 percent stake in Embraer's commercial business, thus allowing it to offer planes with ca ...
Flights suspended again at London Gatwick after drone report
An EasyJet plane on its final approach before landing at Gatwick airport near London, Friday Dec. 21, 2018. Flights resumed at London's ...