Top trends at Berlin's IFA tech fair
Wireless headphones make silent dance parties possible Europe's biggest tech fair, Berlin's IFA, opens its doors Friday with a floo ...
Hackers? No human error plagues Arizona primary voting
For all the worries about Russian hackers and other cyber-vandals, voting problems this week in Arizona served as a reminder that one of the ...
Panasonic to move UK headquarters on Brexit fears
Panasonic plans to move its European headquarters from Britain to the Netherlands due to concerns over potential tax issues related to Brexi ...
Air raid warning tech gives Syrians life-saving minutes
A member of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, checks messages on his mobile phone Khaled al-Idlibi was still speed ...
Vacuum maker Dyson plans expansion for UK electric car site
Dyson, the British company best known for its ground-breaking vacuum cleaners, said Thursday that it has submitted a planning application to ...
S. Korea police raid BMW office over car fires
South Korea this month temporarily banned from the streets BMW cars that had not yet passed safety checks South Korean police raided German ...
TPG Telecom and Vodafone Hutchison Australia in $11 bn merger
Vodafone Hutchison Australia and TPG Telecom announced plans to merge into a Aus$15 billion (US$11 billion) unit to take on key rivals Telst ...
Trump idea on regulating Google 'unfathomable'
Google says it does not use political ideology to determine its search rankings His attacks on Google drew headlines, but President Donald ...
Robot butlers are coming to this downtown hotel. Is Miami ready for robo-room service?
Welcome to the 21st century, where a request for extra towels in your hotel room may be answered by a roughly 4-foot-high purple robot on wh ...
Philly refiner plans $120M plant to convert food scraps to fuel for trucks and buses
Too much fatty, gassy food in your diet? A renewable methane pr ...
Welcome to Codeverse where kids learn to build games and hack light fixtures
Eight-year-old Cillian Rhodes was hosting a dance party. He hac ...
Amazon Go opens second cashier-less convenience store
The bright orange wrapping is coming off the new Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle, the first expansion of the cashier-less convenience st ...
Researchers enable real-time forensic analysis with new cybersecurity tool
ORNL cybersecurity researchers Jared Smith (left) and Elliot Greenlee (right) participate in a demonstration day event to showcase how Akato ...
Russian carmaker seeks niche in luxury market
Aurus, the makers of President Vladimir Putin's new limousine, unveiled two models aimed at Russia's super rich A new state-owned R ...
Memory chip maker Micron announces $3B expansion in Manassas
One of the world's largest semiconductor companies is making a $3 billion investment in northern Virginia to expand its manufacturing fa ...
Tesla's next big thing: Could it be with Apple?
If Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk thought putting an end to his plan to take the electric-car maker private would calm down all the attenti ...
Microsoft launches monthly Xbox subscription fee to buy new game consoles
Microsoft is launching a two-year Xbox subscription plan that lets gamers pay for a console and two online streaming services with one month ...
UN urges Facebook to 'proactively' fight hate speech
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein is due to step down from his post as UN High Commissioner for Hu ...
Study identifies distinct groups interested in types of electric vehicles
Plug-in hybrid vehicles charging in San Francisco in 2009. Credit: Felix Kramer via Creative Commons on Flickr Drivers considering plug-in ...
New Texas supercomputer to push the frontiers of science
Image from a global simulation of Earth's mantle convection enabled by the NSF-funded Stampede supercomputer. The Frontera system will a ...
How mindfulness can help prevent hacks and four more cybersecurity tips
Ryan Wright, the C. Coleman McGehee Professor of Commerce at UVA, specializes in cybersecurity and works with UVA’s information security tea ...
Ryanair's Laudamotion to double fleet next year
There are more of these coming as the latest airline venture of Formula One race driving legend Niki Lauda and Ryanair expands its fleet Ry ...
Detecting 'deepfake' videos in the blink of an eye
It’s actually very hard to find photos of people with their eyes closed. Credit: Bulin/Shutterstock.com A new form of misinformation is poi ...
Mystery of the cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies
Credit: Shutterstock Think of a dangerous cargo and toxic waste or explosives might come to mind. But granular cargoes such as crushed ore ...
The first low-cost sensor that can accurately measure skin friction drag
Surrey's 'artificial whisker' sensor. Credit: University of Surrey Researchers at Surrey have developed the first low-cost sens ...
007 carmaker Aston Martin gears up for London stock market float
Aston Martin was founded in 1913 Aston Martin on Wednesday said it plans to float one quarter of the British company on the London stock ma ...
China probes suspected customer data leak at Accor partner
Huazhu, one of China's biggest hoteliers, said the release of the data had caused a 'vicious impact', and that it was conducting ...
007 carmaker Aston Martin announces stock market float
Aston Martin is to list a quarter of its shares on the London stock market Aston Martin, the British luxury car brand favoured by fictional ...
Russia's Kalashnikov branches out from rifles to robots and e-cars
The prototype electric car, called the CV-1, produced by Russian arms maker Kalashnikov, which is seeking to diversify A recent pledge by K ...
Robot teachers invade Chinese kindergartens
Children watch a Keeko robot at the Yiswind Institute of Multicultural Education in Beijing, where the intelligent machines are telling stor ...
Facebook rolls out video service worldwide
Facebook is rolling out its video service, Watch, worldwide Facebook said Wednesday it is rolling out globally its Watch video service, whi ...
Texan says he's selling 3D-printed gun plans after ruling
In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo, Cody Wilson, with Defense Distributed, holds a 3D-printed gun called the Liberator at his shop in Austin, ...
Instagram adds verified accounts to 'stop bad actors'
MENLO PARK, CA: An attendee takes a photo of the instagram logo during a press event at Facebook headquarters on June 20, 2013 in Menlo Park ...
Cheap fares costly fuel send India's airlines into a tailspin
Indian airlines operate in a hyper-competitive market, and are scrambling to cut costs Bargain-basement fares, high oil prices and a tumbli ...
AI to seep further into everyday life at Berlin's IFA
Smart refigerators like this Samsung model are likely to be among the products on display at IFA tech trade fair in Berlin Electronics manu ...
Explainer: How Google search results work
A cursor moves over Google's search engine page on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, in Portland, Ore. Political leanings don't factor into Go ...
Telegram says to cooperate in terror probes except in Russia
Telegram snubs Russia in an update to its privacy policy in which it says it may share some information about users if ordered by a court as ...
Tesla wins green rebate lawsuit against Canada's Ontario province
Tesla wants the Ontario province Tory government to honor green energy rebates offered to customers by the previous Liberal administration ...
Rights groups urge Google not to bend to China censors
Human rights groups and other advocacy organizations Tuesday urged Google to abandon any plans to craft a censored version of its search eng ...
New sensor could help doctors monitor patient progress from a distance
A self-powered sensor developed at the University of Waterloo could allow doctors to remotely monitor the recovery of surgical patients. ...
Trump says Google is 'rigged' with bad news about him
President Donald Trump took aim Tuesday at Google, claiming that news search results were "rigged" against him, which prompted a W ...
As Tesla deals with internal woes rivals make their move
In this April 25, 2018, file photo journalists and visitors look at the Jaguar electric-powered I-Pace model showcases at the China Auto Sho ...
Italian pilots approve deal with Ryanair
Ryanair lands a deal on working conditions with its Italian pilots Italian pilots have approved an agreement over working conditions with R ...
Judge tosses suit against Southwest Airlines on fingerprints
A Chicago federal judge has tossed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging Southwest Airlines violated the law by requiring that certain em ...
Semantic cache for AI-enabled image analysis
Block diagram of semantic cache service. Credit: IBM The availability of high-resolution, inexpensive sensors has exponentially increased t ...
The same but different—what passengers like about Uber
Many people take Uber not just because they want a ride, but because they want to contribute to a social good. Credit: Shutterstock Uber ...
Advertising just got micro-personal – why we don't care
Credit: CC0 Public Domain With all the buzz and hysteria about how consumers are being cunningly "micro-targeted" in a bid for mi ...
Sprint T-Mobile merger means 28000 jobs lost including 4500 at HQs union claims
Organized labor officially opposed the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile on Monday, saying it would cost more than 28,000 jobs, including 4 ...
If military robot falls it can get itself up
Dr. Chad Kessens, a roboticist with the US Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., comes up with innovative ideas for futu ...
Renewable energy sources can take up to 1000 times more space than fossil fuels
Credit: Leaflet/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 To generate renewable energy takes more space than one might think. New research by environmental sc ...
Facebook has introduced a user trustworthiness score – here's why it should go further
Facebook wants to improve trust. Credit: Shutterstock Facebook has reportedly started giving users a secret trustworthiness score in its at ...
Toyota pours $500 mn into driverless car tie-up with Uber (Update)
Uber, which has scaled back its driverless car program, could ramp up efforts as part of a reported alliance with Japanese auto giant Toyota ...
Leading journalists join call for EU copyright reform
The plans have been firmly opposed by big US tech firms such as Google and Facebook, as well as advocates of internet freedom Leading journ ...
Crippling costs of war reporting and investigative journalism
A total of 50 journalists have been killed so far this year according to RSF The cost of war reporting and investigative journalism is beco ...
Brussels gripped by lobbying war over copyright law
Music legend Paul McCartney (R with Dave Grohl) as well as major music labels and film studios have lobbied politicians urging them to back ...
Google's search tool to help job-seeking veterans
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new Google search tool will allow service members transitioning to civilian life to include their military occu ...
Startup delivers groceries in self-driving cars
Startup AutoX on Monday announced the Silicon Valley debut of a service that will turn self-driving cars into mobile grocery shops summoned ...
Facebook move on Myanmar raises thorny political questions
Facebook's ban on Myanmar military leaders raises questions on how the social network will handle repressive regimes using the platform ...
Judge blocks online plans for printing untraceable 3-D guns
In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo, Cody Wilson, with Defense Distributed, holds a 3D-printed gun called the Liberator at his shop in Austin, ...
What's Facebook Watch and will you like it?
What is "Facebook Watch?" If you said, "another ingenious/devious way for Facebook to consume every last second of my life,&q ...
Toyota set to team up with Uber on driverless cars: report
Uber, which has scaled back its driverless car program, could ramp up efforts as part of a reported alliance with Japanese auto giant Toyota ...
'We are totally happy' says paid Amazon workers on Twitter
In this Aug. 3, 2017, file photo, workers prepare to move products at an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore. Amazon is paying workers to ...
All aboard the neutron train—mapping residual stresses for more robust rails
A section of used rail shows how much steel has worn away on the left side of the rail head after roughly 4 years in testing. Credit: ORNL/G ...
Experts assemble for UN-hosted meeting on 'killer robots'
Peter Asaro, left, of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and Jody Williams of the Nobel Women's Initiative speak to rep ...
UTSA enters Guinness World Records with smallest medical robot
UTSA professors Amar Balla and Ruyan Guo hold up the certificate signifying the robot's spot in the record books. Credit: University of ...
Hungary: Opposition party seeks Microsoft graft case probe
A Hungarian opposition party is formally asking authorities to investigate an alleged corruption scheme involving the sale of Microsoft prod ...
Judge blocks online plans for printing untraceable 3D guns
In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo, Cody Wilson, with Defense Distributed, holds a 3D-printed gun called the Liberator at his shop in Austin, ...
Amid blackout scare stories remember that a grid without power cuts is impossible... and expensive
Sources of supply interruptions in the NEM: 2007-08 to 2015-16. AEMC 2017, Reliability Frameworks Review, Interim Report (page 54) Last Fri ...
Experts meet at new UN-hosted talks about 'killer robots'
Experts from scores of countries are meeting to discuss ways to define and deal with "killer robots"—futuristic weapons systems th ...
Tesla shares slip after company decides to stay public
In this Aug. 24, 2018, file photo a Tesla vehicle Supercharging station in Seabrook, N.H. Shares of Tesla slipped on Monday, Aug. 27, the fi ...
Foxconn giving $100 million to UW-Madison for partnership
Foxconn Technology Group announced Monday that it will invest $100 million in engineering and innovation research at the University of Wisco ...
New platform by NYU Tandon Frick brings art history research into the digital age
ARIES, created at NYU Tandon's data and visualization research center with The Frick Collection, provides an intuitive web-based softwar ...
Testing new tech in cars of the future
Credit: Queensland University of Technology Early warnings about pedestrians crossing a signalised intersection, red light violations and t ...
Improved efficiency and stability of CQD solar cells using an organic thin film
Figure 1. The schematic of the equilibrated structure of the amorphous organic film. Credit: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Tec ...
Sludge: How corporations 'nudge' us into spending more
People put off exploring alternatives to the default. Credit: Shutterstock Small changes in how choices are presented or designed can have ...
Nissan launches China-focused electric car
Reporters take pictures of a Nissan Sylphy Zero Emission, the Nissan's first all-electric vehicle built in China, at the Nissan factory ...
Cryptominers dreaming  of rebound after price crash
Two technicians inspect bitcoin mining at Bitfarms in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec, in this file photo taken on March 19 Surrounded by the crypt ...
Apple Pay comes to Costco but Walmart remains a holdout
Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article misidentified who gets a cut of the transactions if Walmart joined Appl ...
Insider Q&A: AT&T entertainment exec on future of video
This undated photo provided by AT&T Inc. shows David Christopher, who runs AT&T's wireless and entertainment businesses. The Ass ...
Functioning Apple computer built in 1970s up for auction
This August 2018 photo provided by RR Auctions shows a vintage Apple Computer. This Apple-1, which will be auctioned in September 2018, is o ...
Automaker Tesla to remain a public company CEO Musk says
Tesla chief Elon Musk says the pioneering electric vehicle company will remain publicly traded Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Friday that the com ...
Airbnb sues New York over 'government overreach'
Airbnb sued the city of New York on Friday, denouncing as "an extraordinary act of government overreach" a new law forcing home-sh ...
NAFTA talks with US 'very far' along: Mexico's Guajardo
US and Mexican negotiators are "very far" along in efforts to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement but some issues will ...
US taps ex-prosecutor as watchdog over China's ZTE
A former US federal prosecutor will serve as the legal watchdog over Chinese telecoms giant ZTE, which narrowly avoided collapse after being ...
Google tells Toomey hackers tried to infiltrate staff email
In this May 18, 2017, file photo, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., responds to questions on Capitol Hill in Washington. Google has alerted Toome ...
Fires floods and other calamities fuel this app's popularity
On the morning a fire forced the evacuation of her daughter's school, Ruth Kobayashi found out about it when her smartphone bleated out ...
Verizon: No internet speed restrictions for first responders
A nationwide telecommunications company that slowed internet service to firefighters as they battled the largest wildfire in California hist ...
Tech giants aim to coordinate fight on misinformation: report
Major tech firms were reportedly gathering at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters to discuss coordinating efforts to counter foreign mi ...
French tomato grower takes on Monsanto over weedkiller
Tomato farmer Jean-Claude Terlet has blamed Monsanto's flagship weedkiller Round Up for causing his prostate cancer Weaving through the ...
Control system simulator helps operators learn to fight hackers
This flow chart shows data flows within a simulated chemical processing facility. Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology A simulator that ...
Mandarin language learners get a boost from AI
CISL researchers demonstrate an AI-assisted Mandarin Chinese language learning aid. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute IBM Research a ...
Brexit nightmare: Video game shows grim vision of life after EU
Endgame: The new video game "Not Tonight" is set in a dystopian post-Brexit Britain Set in a dystopian post-Brexit Britain, a new ...
World Bank says demand for blockchain bond tops expectations
Bitcoin mining is viewed at BitFarms in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec in 2018 The World Bank raised Aus$110 million ($80.9 million) in the first- ...
Siemens could cut up to 20000 jobs: report
Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser sees potential to cut up to 20,000 jobs at the engineering giant as part of a major cost-cutting drive, a German maga ...
Report confirms wind technology advancements continue to drive down wind energy prices
Wind Project Performance Boosted by Technology Advancement. Credit: Berkeley Lab Wind energy pricing remains attractive, according to an an ...
Sony to release AI-infused robotic pups in the US
The latest Sony robot dog "Aibo," seen in Tokyo in January, is coming to the United States later this year with artificial intelli ...
Samsung's $1000 Note 9 is great—but so is the cheaper S9
In this Aug. 7, 2018, file photo the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and stylus are shown in New York. The stylus now acts as a remote control for tri ...
Novel process to 3D print graphene developed
Researchers from Virginia Tech and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed an innovative method to 3D print graphene, which until now has only been available in 2D sheets or basic struct
Philly start-up Kapsul is making a quieter air conditioner thanks to $2.3 million from crowdfunding
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The summer months when air conditioning is considered a necessity are winding down, but a Philadelphia start-up i ...
Man in Germany killed when AA-battery charger explodes
Police say a man in Germany has died after a battery-charging device exploded, firing an object into the man's chest. ...