Extending interconnects beyond the 3nm technology node
imec, the research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technology, has used its Imec Technology Forum, in San Francisco, to report on the potential of using ruthenium (Ru) as a disruptiv
Generating electrical power from waste heat
A small silicon-based device that can harness ‘waste heat’ and turn it into DC power has been created by a team from Sandia National Laboratories.
BMW to make electric MINIs in China with Great Wall Motor
BMW Group and China's biggest SUV brand, Great Wall Motor, have announced a partnership to produce electric MINI vehicles in China. ...
Printing a house from a novel peat material
After determining the humic and fulvic acid content in peat and conducting the XRD analysis of elements and minerals, the possible test mixt ...
How Apple's app store changed our world
In this Jan. 6, 2009 file photo, a poster touting applications available for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch is seen at the Macworld Confe ...
WhatsApp offers tips to spot fake news after India murders
The slick adverts in leading English and Hindi language newspapers, entitled "together we can fight false information", listed 10 ...
Biosensor chip detects single nucleotide polymorphism wirelessly with higher sensitivity
A chip that can detect a type of genetic mutation known as a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and send the results in real time to an electronic device, such as a smartphone, has been developed by
Singapore's Temasek reports record $235 bn portfolio
Temasek has since 2011 increased its investment focus on technology, life sciences, agribusiness, non-bank financial services and consumer s ...
Digi-Key announces 1.0 release of the KiCad Library
Global distributor, Digi-key, has announced that it has tagged the open source, Digi-Key KiCad symbol and footprint library with a 1.0 status on their GitHub Repository.
Artificial intelligence helps researchers predict drug combinations' side effects
Marinka Zitnik and colleagues designed a system to predict billions of potential drug combination side effects. Credit: L.A. Cicero Last mo ...
YouTube aims to crack down on fake news support journalism
This image provided by Google shows a page of Local news in the free YouTube app for TV screens. Google's YouTube says it is taking seve ...
Management shift begins at US nuclear weapons lab
The U.S. government on Monday cleared the way for a new management team to begin taking over one of the nation's top nuclear weapons lab ...
SoftBank raises stake in Yahoo Japan in purchase from Altaba
In this June 15, 2018, photo, people walk under the logo of Japanese internet company SoftBank Corp. at its mobile phone shop in Tokyo. Soft ...
Elon Musk says in Thailand with mini-sub
Entrepreneur Elon Musk offered a mini-sub as a potential savior for the Thai boys still trapped in a flooded cave American space entreprene ...
TTI acquires Compona
2018-07-09 16:00:13TTI acquires Compona
TTI announced the acquisition of privately held Compona of Switzerland and the company’s German subsidiary Cosy Electronics.
Uber joins scooter wars with Lime investment
A Lime electric scooter is seen in Paris, one of 70 cities in the US and Europe where the California startup has operations Uber made a mov ...
Twitter shares fall on worries about user base
Twitter shares took a hit following a report it is suspending more accounts as part of a crackdown on misinformation Twitter shares tumbled ...
North American automakers call for NAFTA talks to resume
North American auto industry groups released a joint statement urging their governments to update the North American Free Trade Agreement in ...
Appeals court backs $10B Volkswagen emissions cheating deal
This Sept. 21, 2015, file photo, shows the Volkswagen logo on a car for sale at New Century Volkswagen dealership in Glendale, Calif. A U.S. ...
China's CATL to build first EU electric car battery plant in Germany
BMW is to buy nearly $5 billion worth of batteries from CATL Chinese firm CATL will build a battery factory in central Germany to supply th ...
Samsung opens world's biggest smartphone factory in India
Moon (4L) and Modi (4R) inaugurated the giant assembling plant in the city of Noida Samsung opened the world's largest smartphone facto ...
Researchers demonstrate how to make modern living sustainable with new eco-housing
UN Environment and Yale University in collaboration with UN Habitat today unveiled a new eco-housing module, to spark public discussion and ...
Fitness app revealed data on military intelligence personnel
Finnish-based Polar has become the latest firm whose fitness app has leaked sensitive data on military personnel around the world, raising c ...
Amazon may put out a toy catalog a holiday tradition up for grabs after Toys 'R Us bankruptcy
It seems like you might find a little extra in your Amazon box as the holidays near. The Seattle e-commerce giant may be putting out a toy c ...
France sees red after Spanish rose wine found in domestic bottles
French investigators found that millions of bottles of rose actually contained Spanish wine Summer is the ideal time for breaking out a bot ...
Armband mimics a person's touch
Heather Culbertson, an assistant professor in computer science, designed a low-cost haptic sleeve device that simulates human touch. Credit: ...
Novel synaptic architecture for brain inspired computing
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The brain and all its magnificent capabilities is powered by less than 20 watts. Stop to think about that for a s ...
Magnetic force
2018-07-09 06:00:10Magnetic force
Jacob Hunkeler, who is majoring in management information systems, runs an advertising company out of his home using car magnets, bar codes ...
Amazon to bring 1700 jobs to Italy in 2018
Amazon is boosting its workforce in Italy and Britain Amazon will bring 1,700 new jobs to Italy by the end of the year, the online commerce ...
China's CATL to build electric car battery plant in Germany
BMW is to buy nearly $5 billion worth of batteries from CATL Chinese firm CATL will build a battery factory in central Germany to supply th ...
Semiconductor quantum transistor opens the door for photon-based computing
Researchers from the University of Maryland claim to have demonstrated the first single-photon transistor using a semiconductor chip.
Nissan admits falsifying emissions data on cars made in Japan
Nissan said tests on exhaust emissions and fuel economy had 'deviated from the prescribed testing environment' Nissan admitted Mond ...
ams laser arrays bring face recognition to Android-based smartphones
ams has announced that its low-power IR VCSEL laser emitter, the PMSIL, is being used in the world’s first implementation of face recognition in a smartphone based on the Android platform.
Blu Wireless streams ultra-fast Gbps video through central Bristol
Blu Wireless Technology, a specialist provider of unlicensed mmWave networking solutions, has announced its 5G-ready technology has been used to stream video through Bristol’s historic centre.
Cyber innovation centre opens
London cyber innovation centre opens and welcomes first cohort of UK-based cyber security businesses.
Compact and flexible supercapacitor developed using simple spray coating method
Credit: Indian Institute of Science A lightweight, compact and efficient supercapacitor printed on a flexible plastic sheet has been develo ...
High-power thermoelectric generator utilises thermal difference of only 5°c
A silicon-nanowire thermoelectric generator has been developed by a team of researchers from Waseda University, Osaka University, and Shizuoka University.
Smart bandages designed to monitor and tailor treatment for chronic wounds
A prototype bandage designed to actively monitor the condition of chronic wounds and deliver appropriate drug treatments to improve the chances of healing has been developed by Tufts University engine
Musk proposes mini-submarine to save Thai cave boys
After garnering headlines with initial ideas of installing a giant air tube inside the cave complex and using his firm's penetrating rad ...
Motivating gamers with personalized game design
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of multidisciplinary researchers at the University of Waterloo has identified three basic video game playe ...
Shares in China's Xiaomi dip on Hong Kong debut
Despite being one of the most anticipated Chinese technology IPOs this year, Xiaomi saw a disappointing valuation of US$54 billion, well bel ...
'Hard' Brexit could see Philips quit British factory: CEO
Chief Executive Officer of Philips Semiconductors, Frans Van Houten, said he was "deeply concerned about the competitiveness of our ope ...
As facial recognition use grows so do privacy fears
A display shows a facial recognition system for law enforcement during the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in 2017 in Washington The uniqu ...
Bitcoin exchange brings on technology chief
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, seen at the premiere of the film Ocean's 8 in New York, have been seeking to make bitcoin more popular wit ...
Families of girls killed in fire sue hoverboard distributors
The families of two girls killed in a Pennsylvania fire that was blamed on a hoverboard have filed a lawsuit against the distributors of the ...
Training artificial intelligence with artificial X-rays
On the left of each quadrant is a real X-ray image of a patient's chest and beside it, the syntheisized X-ray formulated by the DCGAN. U ...
AI and the future of oil
2018-07-06 08:00:13AI and the future of oil
IBM and Galp, a Portuguese energy group with a global footprint, have developed an AI-based advisor to enhance seismic interpretation in the ...
Researchers use AI to add 4-D effects to movies
Fourth-year computer engineering undergraduate Yuhao Zhou (right) and U of T postdoctoral fellow Makarand Tapaswi are using neural networks ...
Team develops an ultra-thin sensor that makes inflammation testing and curing 30 times faster
Members of the research team (from left): Mr. Ji Xudong, Dr. Paddy Chan Kwok-leung and Professor Gilberto Leung Ka-kit. Credit: @The Univers ...
High-power thermoelectric generator utilizes thermal difference of only 5C
Conventional thermoelectric generator (left) and newly developed thermoelectric generator (right). Credit: Waseda University A team of Japa ...
New model for large-scale 3-D facial recognition
Credit: University of Western Australia Researchers from The University of Western Australia have designed a new system capable of carrying ...
Innovative music recommendation software to predict brand-fit music
The ABC_DJ project investigates and develops the future of Audio Branding. Researchers from ABC_DJ have created a powerful algorithm that au ...
New superconductor technology for the transmission grid
Graphic representation of the superconducting cable studied by KIT for partial underground cabling. Credit: ITEP/KIT The German energy tran ...
Global collaboration gives rise to 3-D printed field test kit
Credit: Flinders University A three-cornered collaboration between South Australia, Texas and Ethiopia is using 3-D printed technology and ...
Leti Transdev and IRT Nanoelec announce pilot program to assess new perception sensors for autonomous vehicles
A pilot program to characterise and assess LiDAR sensors to improve performance and safety of autonomous vehicles has been announced by Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, Transdev, a provider of
Siemens and Synopsys settle Mentor Graphics patent litigation and team up to expand and extend EDA collaboration
Siemens PLM Software and Synopsys have agreed to work together, settling their five-years of patent quarrels between Synopsys and Mentor Graphics.
High-power electronics keep their cool with new heat-conducting crystals
A collaboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and The University of Texas (UT), Dallas has resulted in an optimised crystal-growing process of boron arsenide. This is a materi
Humans need not apply
2018-07-06 04:00:12Humans need not apply
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Will automation, AI and robotics mean a jobless future, or will their productivity free us to innovate and explor ...
Merging antenna and electronics boosts energy and spectrum efficiency
By integrating the design of antenna and electronics, Georgia Tech researchers say they have boosted the energy and spectrum efficiency for a new class of millimetre wave transmitters.
Let the Games begin: Netflix releases first Indian series
"Sacred Games", a Netflix adaptation of Vikram Chandra's 2006 novel of the same name, releases Friday Netflix's first ori ...
Samsung Electronics flags 5.2% rise in Q2 profit
Samsung's forecast indicates an end to the firm's record-setting run in increasing operating profits South Korean telecom giant Sam ...
Rolls-Royce sells commercial marine unit
Rolls-Royce is implementing a massive cost-saving plan British engine maker Rolls-Royce announced Friday it has agreed to sell its loss-mak ...
California senators reach agreement on net neutrality bill
California Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, second from right, speaks at a news conference at the state Capitol as Assemblyman Ro ...
Six major wealth funds agree to encourage greener economy
The sovereign wealth funds of major oil-producing countries have agreed upon a common roadmap to encourage investments toward a greener econ ...
Six-year boom pushes New York to mull Uber regulation
It's a rare New Yorker whose smart phone is not hooked up to market leader Uber or several of its biggest competitors—Lyft, Juno and Via ...
Thyssenkrupp CEO resigns after Tata merger deal
Heinrich Hiesinger, chief executive of German industrial group ThyssenKrupp, has announced his resignation after the merger of steelmaking o ...
Establishing system for 911 video calling poses design challenges
Implementing 911 video calling may not be far off, with the CRTC asking for new 911 infrastructure to be in place by 2020 -- a new study led ...
Google says Google Documents is secure despite Russian issue
This July 19, 2016, file photo shows the Google logo at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Voters in a Northern Califor ...
Should police use computers to predict crimes and criminals?
In this June 29, 2012 file photo, Jeff Brantingham, anthropology professor at the University of California Los Angeles, displays a computer ...
Zambia planning social media clampdown
"It is evident that social media in Zambia has become a catalyst for the detachment of members of the Zambian society from our cultural ...
Snooze mobiles: How vibrations in cars make drivers sleepy
Volunteers were tested on a virtual simulator that can be vibrated on different frequencies. Credit: RMIT University New research has found ...
Boeing taking over Embraer's commmercial jets in joint venture deal
Embraer was founded as a state company in 1969 before being privatized in 1994 Boeing is taking over the commercial jet business of Brazil& ...
Facebook creates three Bay Area job hubs of three million square feet
Facebook has created three Bay Area work hubs that each total at least one million square feet, following big leases with two legendary deve ...
Fibre-optic transmission of 4000km made possible by ultra-low-noise optical amplifiers
Researchers from the Chalmers University of Technology and Tallinn University of Technology, have been able to demonstrate a 4000km fibre-optical transmission link using ultra low-noise, phase-sensiti
Trust the machines? Funds run by artificial intelligence
This undated photo provided by ETF Managers Group shows Sam Masucci, founder and CEO of ETF Managers Group. Masucci recently talked to the A ...
EU Parliament rejects controversial copyright law
Music legend Paul McCartney was among those pushing to make online platforms legally liable for copyrighted material put on the web by users ...
India's richest man unveils broadband plan
Reliance sparked a price war in India's telecoms market when it launched its Jio network in September 2016 India's richest man Muke ...
Road block for Uber-Grab deal in Singapore
Singapore-based Grab in March agreed to buy Uber's food and ride-hailing business in Southeast Asia Singapore on Thursday threatened to ...
Russian search engine alerts Google to possible data problem
A Russian Internet company says it has received complaints that its search engine was turning up some Google documents that appeared to be m ...
Data science can tell us which political party is dominating
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Young scientists from the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington have come up with a novel ...
Robotic exoskeleton allows disabled people to eat or drink by themselves
Credit: Asociación RUVID Researchers of the Biomedical Neuro-engineering group of the Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH) of Elche ...
Cambridge Analytica used our secrets for profit – the same data could be used for public good
How could we put the same strategy used by Cambridge Analytica to better use? Credit: AlexandraPopova/Shutterstock Ever since it was reveal ...
UK and France sign 5-year agreement to work together and improve digital services
The UK and France are strengthening their ties in artificial intelligence (AI) and data, with Digital Secretary Matt Hancock visiting Paris today (5 July) to announce a package of measures.
GE's Latin American CEO 21 others arrested in Brazil for fraud
Daurio Speranzini Junior only became GE's Latin America chief executive in January Brazilian police arrested General Electric's Lat ...
Brazil police search Philips office in fraud probe
Police searched the offices of Philips in Brazil on Wednesday and detained two people linked to the Dutch company as part of an investigatio ...
Munich officials want train station to have air taxi parking
A group of city counselors in Munich say they want the southern German city's main train station to have a landing pad for flying taxis. ...
Jim Rossman: We found your new favorite gadgets including a nifty way to carry keys and tools
Every so often I accumulate a desk full of gadgets that might not warrant a full review, so I save up a few and run them together. ...
Gadgets: Universal docking station works with all devices
While many universal gadgets claim to do it all, the udoq 400 universal docking station is true to its word and does it well. ...
Renewable energy push in sunny Arizona draws political fight
In this photo taken Wednesday, June 27, 2018, environmental activist & billionaire Tom Steyer poses at his offices in San Francisco. Ari ...
Wikipedia down in several countries in EU law protest
Wikipedia chief Jimmy Wales and Greens MEP Julia Reda, a leading campaigner on the issue, insist that the website would fall within the scop ...
Under pressure afraid to take bathroom breaks? Inside Amazon's fast-paced warehouse world
Working at an Amazon warehouse in the U.K., James Bloodworth came across a bottle of straw-colored liquid on a shelf. It looked like pee. ...
Amazon Prime Day: One million deals kick off July 16 with offers at Whole Foods too
Amazon's fourth annual Prime Day will kick off at 3 p.m. on July 16 and run for 36 hours with more than 1 million offers. ...
Facebook and Apple disagree on how to curb fake news for midterms
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Apple and Facebook have figured out how to keep us glued to their devices and platforms. But they haven't fig ...
Why technology puts human rights at risk
Credit: Spainter_vfx/Shutterstock.com Movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and The Terminator brought rogue robots and comput ...
Edmunds rounds up latest full-size pickups
This Jan. 15, 2018, file photo shows the 2019 Ram 1500 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Ram shook up the truck worl ...
UAE further delays launch of first nuclear reactor
The first unit at the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in Al-Dafrah is seen in a handout picture released by the United Arab Emirates News Agenc ...
Russia makes new request to Greece for cybercrime suspect
Russian authorities have sent a new extradition request to Greece for a Russian cybercrime suspect also sought on criminal charges by the U. ...
Premier Farnell signs contract for “state-of-the-art” order fulfilment solution for new Leeds Distribution Centre
Premier Farnell has signed a contract with SSI Schaefer, an innovator in the intralogistics sector, to equip the company’s new Leeds Distribution Centre with a “state-of-the-art” order fulfilment solu
How suppliers of everyday devices make you vulnerable to cyber attack – and what to do about it
Normal IT security practices might not protect you from malicious attacks that enter your system through everyday devices, such as USB keys. ...
Researchers sharpen predictions of where lost cargo will wash up
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The UNSW team tracking cargo lost from a ship near Port Stephens are now predicting the path of the containers da ...