GM to close Canadian factory putting 3000 jobs at risk: report
GM has announced plans to reduce its workforce across North America to save money through voluntary redundancies General Motors is expected ...
DesignSpark Mechanical 3D CAD design software gets an upgrade from RS
RS Components has unveiled a new version of DesignSpark Mechanical, the free-for-download 3D CAD modelling tool. Now available in Version 4.0 –the first update of the tool for three years – is said to
Infineon’s Blockchain security 2Go starter kit
With its new Blockchain Security 2Go starter kit, Infineon Technologies looks to provide FinTechs and blockchain designers a fast and easy way to build hardware-based security into their systems.
Swiss voters back insurance company spying
Campaign posters in Geneva draw attention to the three issues on which Swiss are called to vote—including safeguarding cow horns Swiss vote ...
Video gaming fiends with an itch hit Twitch
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, speaking to AFP at the annual Web Summit technology conference, saw streaming video games as a "huge opportuni ...
Ex-Nissan chief Ghosn denies allegations: media
Carlos Ghosn was sacked as Nissan chairman Thursday, a spectacular fall from grace for the once-revered boss whose arrest and ouster have st ...
'Green fuel': Bananas to help wean Angola off oil
Angola is aiming to expand its agricultural sector, which could provide many with employment Boxes of still-green bananas were shifted one- ...
Foldable electronics require robust conductive materials in touch displays Heraeus says it has the answer
For a display to be foldable at all, each of its components must be extremely robust and flexible. With the fundamental shift from glass to plastic in displays, the main challenge is to employ mission
Israeli sues Airbnb over ouster of settler rentals
San Francisco-based Airbnb said it would remove West Bank homes from its site, prompting Israel's tourism ministry to threaten legal act ...
Nissan CEO tells staff feels 'dismay' at Ghosn scandal
What is known so far about the unfolding scandal involving Carlos Ghosn Nissan chief Hirohito Saikawa spoke of his "resentment and dis ...
Retailers look to millennials for holiday shopping cheer
Shoppers walk the aisles at a Big Lots store open early with Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day in Alhambra, California on November 22, ...
Walmart's mobile 'Check out with Me' to speed up paying for small purchases not big ones
Anthony Todd is one popular guy during the holidays. His job at ...
PS4 Xbox One or Nintendo Switch: Which console should you buy?
One of the biggest staples of holiday sales aren't just the fancy new 4K TVs, it's what you can play on them. ...
US urging allies to shun Huawei: WSJ
The US reportedly views Huawei equipment as a security risk The United States is trying to persuade wireless companies and internet provide ...
French drone maker Parrot cuts more jobs as sales nose-dive
A Parrot "Bebop" quadcopter drone French drone specialist Parrot said Friday that it would cut around 100 jobs after its third-qu ...
Discovery of child pornography leads to Tumblr's removal from Apple's App Store
The social networking service Tumblr announced Monday that its iOS app had been removed from Apple's App Store after child sexual abuse ...
Don't ask Siri about Donald Trump today
Politics are bound to be a topic of conversation at Thanksgiving meals across the country today. Whether someone at your meal decides to sha ...
Buying a new 4K HDR TV this holiday season? Read this first
Look through early Black Friday ads at Best Buy and Target, and you'll find plenty of eye-catching TV deals. ...
Private LTE market predicted to exceed $27bn by 2024
The private LTE market is anticipated to exceed $27billion by 2024, says Global Market Insights.
Outlook remains bright for automotive electronic systems growth
Sales of automotive electronic systems are forecast to increase 7.0% in 2018 and 6.3% in 2019, the highest growth rate in both years among the six major end-use applications for semiconductors, accord
Spanish Amazon workers in 'Black Friday' strike
Spain's CCOO union accuses Amazon of having changed employees' working conditions Workers at Amazon's biggest logistics centre ...
Patent talk: New-car smell removal courting consumers in China
Credit: CC0 Public Domain "Mmm. Love the smell of a new car!" How often have you heard from that from a starstruck passenger gett ...
Drone industry leaders pool their expertise to solve challenge of ‘out of sight flying’
Following on from the release of the first drone standards, yesterday (22 November 2018) London’s City Hall played host to a meeting of leading drone industry stakeholders. The group gathered to discu
Samsung apologizes over sicknesses deaths of some workers
Kinam Kim, President & CEO, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics bows in apology in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018. Samsung ...
Ghosn's income under-reporting 'may reach $71 million'
Brazil-born tycoon Carlos Ghosn is now reportedly set to face a new charge from Japanese prosecutors Nissan's disgraced former chairman ...
Bollywood's T-Series to take YouTube top-spot from PewDiePie
The success of T-series is down to soaring smartphone ownership in India  A Bollywood music giant is on course to overtake controversi ...
EnSilica declared company of the year at annual TechWorks Awards
EnSilica was named company of the year at last night’s annual TechWorks Awards in London.
Shining a light on electronics
The UKESF (UK Electronics Skills Foundation) has launched the TurnOnToElectronics initiative, which is to be fronted by Gadget Show presenter Georgie Barrat.
Facebook to pay 100m in Italian fiscal accord
A 100 million-euro accord between Facebook and Italy aims to "end the disagreement relating to tax enquiries undertaken by the financia ...
Artificial intelligence improves highway safety in Las Vegas
Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas' busiest highway. ...
A holiday miracle? Stores try to cut down on long lines
In this Nov. 9, 2018, photo, Walmart associate Shanay Bishop, left, checks out customer Carolyn Sarpy on the sales floor as part of the &quo ...
Amazon opens US store for Aussie shoppers again: reports
Amazon launched in Australia last year and is hoping to make inroads in a huge market for online retail Global online retail giant Amazon w ...
Ion drive space engine used on aircraft for first time
Credit: Steven Barrett/MIT Imagine an aircraft engine that has no moving parts, produces no harmful exhaust and makes no noise. That's ...
A decade after the invention of the smartphone we're about to find out how we use our time
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Much has changed since 2006 about the way we use our time. ...
Text visualization: researchers develop system for medical records
An overview of a complex patient with preset filters in Doccurate. Highlights on “alcohol”, “intoxication”, “alcohol withdrawal” and “deliri ...
UD invention aims to improve battery performance
At UD, Prof. Thomas H. Epps, III and his team have patented an idea to improve lithium battery performance. Credit: University of Delaware ...
Google tightens political ad rules ahead of Europe elections
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google said Thursday it's expanding stricter political advertising requirements to the European Union as part ...
Broadband researcher believes lack of access offers opportunity
According to more than 5 million tests, only a small portion of Pennsylvania (those in green on the map) meet the FCC's minimum speed fo ...
Millimeter waves for the last mile
The high oscillation frequencies of light waves make them suited to fast data transmission, they can be sent through optical fibres and carry hundreds of billions of bits (Gigabits) per second.
Startup PlateJoy sends users personalized meal plans to help them achieve health goals
PlateJoy's platform sends recipes straight to users' phones and also features educational videos on topics such as sleep, nutrition, ...
Meet Michael the supercomputer designed to accelerate UK research for EV batteries
The new supercomputer 'Michael' funded by the Faraday Institution and designed to speed up research on two of the UK's most impo ...
Outgoing Facebook exec takes fall for hiring opposition firm
This Feb. 19, 2014, file photo, shows a Facebook app icon on a smartphone in New York. Facebook's outgoing head of communications, Ellio ...
Spain approves contested data protection law
The Spanish senate approved a law which aims to make Spanish law comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation Th ...
Amazon says some customer email addresses exposed
US online retail giant Amazon says names and email addresses of some customers have been exposed by a website glitch Amazon on Wednesday sa ...
Nissan board to vote on Ghosn's dismissal
If Nissan's board remove Chairman Carlos Ghosn from his post, it would be a staggering reversal of fortune for the once-revered manager ...
Facebook appeals its UK fine in Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook has appealed its 500,000-pound ($644,000) fine for failing to protect the privacy of its users in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, ...
Capturing the frugal beauty of complex natural tessellations
Amelia Earhart's Flight Suit (10M?) with 10 000 seeds, the resulting cells are visualized in different colors. A close-up of the cell di ...
Materials that harvest heat and turn it into electricity could lead to more cost-effective devices
A flexible thermoelectric device embedded in a glove for generating electricity by body heat. Credit: Dr Song Yun Cho, Korea Research Instit ...
Study sheds light on scourge of "fake" news in Africa
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Concerns about "fake news" have dominated discussions about the relationship between the media and poli ...
Making composite electrical aircraft a reality
Credit: Aedka Studio, Shutterstock Researchers with the EU-funded EPICEA project are developing computer tools that will help aircraft manu ...
Blockchain systems are tracking food safety and origins
It looks good, but where did this pork come from? Credit: Artem Shadrin When a Chinese consumer buys a package labeled "Australian bee ...
Utilities encourage energy savings with smart thermostats
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As temperatures drop and winter looms, homeowners and property managers are sweeping chimneys, insulating pipes a ...
Renault-Nissan alliance shaken but divorce would be costly
Many investors worry about the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance after Carlos Ghosn's arrest When Carlos Ghosn began laying the ground ...
A new generation of organic light-emitting diodes
Producing an OLED in a laboratory at the University of Bayreuth. Credit: Norbert Achtelik, Bayreuth. Another major success for the Universi ...
Projection mapping technique developed to reduce shadow
Figure 1. (Left) normal projection mapping, (Right) proposed shadow-less projection mapping. Credit: Osaka University Projection mapping sy ...
A/B testing: how offline businesses are learning from Google to improve profits
What A/B testing looks like. The market testing that helped give us the Google search we know today is being emulated by industries from ho ...
Record-breaking solar cells get ready for mass production
Technology developed by two German institutes set a new record efficiency for solar cells of 26.1%. Image credit: Institute for Solar Energy ...
New standards provide public assurance on safety security and etiquette for use of drones
The first ever worldwide standards for the drone industry are being released by the International Standards Organisation (ISO).
European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google
In this Tuesday, Nov, 13, 2018 photo, Andreas Wiebe, founder of Swiss privacy-focused search engine Swisscows, is photographed in London. In ...
How Chile accomplished its renewable energy boom
Chile is currently undergoing a renewable energy boom. Today, it's the second largest market for renewable energies in Latin America, an ...
Facebook's Zuckerberg says he is not considering resigning
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing a new firestorm over the social network's handling of Russian misinformation efforts in the 2016 ...
Ghosn scandal: What we know
2018-11-21 02:00:10Ghosn scandal: What we know
Nissan said it had uncovered "numerous significant acts of misconduct" including a sustained under-reporting of Carlos Ghosn's ...
Nissan crisis deepens as 'charges loom' over Ghosn case
Carlos Ghosn was probably the best-known foreign CEO in Japan The crisis at Nissan deepened Wednesday as it emerged the Japanese car giant ...
In Quebec Canada's newest hydroelectric dams nearly ready
A view of Hydro-Quebec's Romaine 1 dam floor in Canada—the huge construction project, ongoing for a decade, is nearing completion On a ...
Why merchants still require signatures for credit card buys when it's not needed
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Are you still signing for credit card purchases? In most cases, you don't have to be. ...
2018 Gift Guide: Ideas for cord-cutters and wannabes
If there's one topic that people can't get enough of, it's cord-cutting. ...
Imec and CEA-Leti join forces on Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing
The Belgian research centre imec and the French research institute CEA-Leti, two leading research and innovation hubs in nanotechnologies for industry, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)
Plastic Logic achieves breakthrough in mass production of flexible plastic displays
Plastic Logic, a specialist in flexible plastic electrophoretic displays (EPD), has developed a new mass production-capable technology and manufacturing process in collaboration with the organic elect
Novel machine learning technique for simulating the every day task of dressing
Computer scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google Brain, Google's artificial intelligence research arm, have devis ...
How reliable are search terms for SEO and SEM results?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain With billions of dollars spent each year on search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM), t ...
Bots actually target and pursue individual influencers
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research co-authored by assistant research professor and associate director of Informatics at the University ...
Boeing insists will share info with clients after Indonesia crash
Investigators examine engine parts from the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610, after they were recovered from the bottom of the Java Sea Boe ...
Smart car technologies save drivers $6.2 billion on fuel costs each year
Credit: CC0 Public Domain On one of the busiest traveling holidays of the year, drivers may be focusing on getting to grandma's house f ...
As Facebook faces fire heat turns up on No. 2 Sandberg
In this Sept. 5, 2018, file photo Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on 'Foreign In ...
Facebook access hit by unspecified problems
Facebook said unspecified issues were keeping internet users from accessing the social network and its applications Facebook said Tuesday u ...
EU turns eye to 'fake' Google shopping rivals
Google's search results are prized internet real estate with the US giant controlling roughly 90 percent of the search market in Europe, ...
$3M reward offered in case where US device was used in IEDs
Federal authorities are offering a $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man wanted for illegally obta ...
Glamour embraces digital drops regular print edition
Glamour Editor-In-Chief Samantha Barry announced the change in an email to staff Glamour, the fashion and beauty magazine popular with youn ...
Who lives with you? Facebook seeks to patent software to figure out profiles of households
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook Inc. is applying to patent software that it could use to create profiles of users' households by mak ...
Tactile Excel sheets and graphics to boost job prospects for blind people
Advances in digital braille devices could help the 30 million blind or partially sighted people in Europe gain better access to technology. ...
Stopping cancer with a smartphone
From left: Esther Freeman, director of global health dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital; Dongkyun "DK" Kang, University ...
Toward net energy wastewater treatment using current technology
Credit: Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH Municipal wastewater treatment in Europe consumes the energy equivalent of around two power st ...
New technology paves the way for fewer orange barrels and safer quicker road repairs
A Purdue University team developed a method and equipment to better repair paved roadways and highways using electrical resistance measureme ...
Twitter bots had 'disproportionate' role spreading misinformation in 2016 election: study
The spread of an article that claimed 3 million illegal immigrants voted in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The links show the article& ...
Siemens to build new London Underground trains
German engineering giant Siemens is to build nearly 100 trains for London Underground's Piccadilly Line German manufacturing conglomera ...
Combining real virtual worlds improves driverless vehicle testing
An image of the screen in the Michigan Traffic Lab while a virtual train (in green) travels through a rail crossing at Mcity. Real (red) and ...
Will algorithms predict your future?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A report from Cardiff University reveals the extent to which public service provision is now being influenced by ...
New fingertip sensors to help veterans feel through their prosthetics
Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder Today's prosthetic limbs are tools – literal attachments to the body. ...
EasyJet logs soaring annual profit
No-frills airline EasyJet reported strong annual results EasyJet's annual net profit jumped by almost a fifth on strong sales and recor ...
Amazon HQ expansion means tough fight for talent
This May 20, 2015, file photo, shows New York's Financial District, foreground, the Brooklyn Bridge and East River, center, and in the d ...
S. Korea's Jeju Air in $4.4 bn 40-plane Boeing order
Jeju Air is placing firm orders for 40 B737-MAX 8 models, with deliveries running from 2022 to 2026, with options for 10 more South Korean ...
Twitter CEO Dorsey sparks India social media storm
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was photographed in India holding a poster which outraged some Hindus Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been accused of i ...
Star to fallen idol: The Japanese rise and fall of Carlos Ghosn
The once-revered Carlos Ghosn's life was even made into a manga comic but soon after Monday's arrest his successor at Nissan referre ...
Instagram ousting fake followers from accounts
Instagram is cracking down on fake accounts that can boost the number of followers and make some users appear more popular Instagram on Mon ...
Nissan shares plunge as Ghosn faces ouster after arrest
Going, going Ghosn: Nissan and Mitsubishi look set to oust charistmatic chairman Carlos Ghosn after his arrest for alleged financial miscond ...
Pickering invests £5m in UK and Czech Republic facilities
Now in its 50th year, The Pickering Group is undergoing an expansion at its UK and Czech Republic sites.
Mouser's announces additional distribution space which will stock inventory of more than 1m different parts
Mouser Electronics is preparing to break ground on another large expansion of its global headquarters and distribution centre.
VIA and Lucid deliver AI-based depth sensing capabilities to cameras
VIA Technologies is partnering with AI vision startup Lucid, to deliver AI-based depth sensing capabilities to more dual- and multi-camera devices in the security, retail, robotics and autonomous vehi
Imec Ghent University and SEED demonstrate electronics in hydrogel-based soft lenses
At the imec technology forum Japan (ITF Japan 2018), imec, the innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, the Ghent University and contact lens manufacturer SEED announced that they h
Toshiba unveils 130nm Fit Fast Structured Array development platform
Toshiba Electronics Europe has made the first customer shipment of a new 130nm manufacturing process node based FFSA (Fit Fast Structured Array) development platform. This high performance System-on-C