New software can pinpoint hate groups' radicalization sites
A UConn Stamford business professor has developed software that can comb the internet, including the dark web, and identify radical, violent ...
Nanoscale magnetic circuit moves data in 3D
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, working with a team from TU Eindhoven, have used 3D nanoprinting to create a nanoscale magnetic circuit which is said to be capable of moving information in
Electric trucks emerging but still have a long haul
Electric trucks are having a moment in the spotlight, but they won't replace diesel-powered trucks in big numbers until they overcome co ...
How the technology behind virtual currencies can build global health equity
Credit: Harvard Medical School Around the globe, a staggering $455 billion intended for health care is lost every year to fraud or misuse. ...
Five new jobs for humans if robots take over the world
Credit: shutterstock By now you've probably heard how robots are going to take over our jobs. And how this will leave future generation ...
Facebook wants your nude photos to prevent 'revenge porn' – here's why you should be sceptical
Credit: Shutterstock Facebook's latest attempt to tackle the non-consensual sharing of sexual pictures (often known as "revenge po ...
Spare parts go digital—a boost for the industrial spare parts business
Credit: Aalto University Currently, 5 percent of spare parts could be stored in digital warehouses. This would make parts more quickly and ...
Subsidizing coal and nuclear power could drive customers off the grid
Solar home designed by University of Maryland students for the Department of Energy’s 2017 Solar Decathlon. Credit: DOE Solar Decathlon Wit ...
Voice impersonators can fool speaker recognition systems
Skilful voice impersonators are able to fool state-of-the-art speaker recognition systems, as these systems generally aren't efficient i ...
Extradition hearing for Russian cybercrime suspect postponed
Greece's Supreme Court has postponed until December an extradition hearing for Russian cybercrime suspect Alexander Vinnik, wanted in th ...
High speed video recording precisely measures blood cell velocity
Nailfold capillary network obtained by new system. Credit: Igor Gurov Scientists from ITMO University created a high-speed video capillaros ...
Leti demonstrates 300mm wafer-to-wafer direct hybrid bonding with pitch dimension of just 1µm
Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, together with EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, have announced the first successful 300mm wafer-to-wafer direct hybrid bonding with
Fraunhofer and EU work on 6G communications
According to the Fraunhofer Institute, it is becoming apparent that the data rates expected from 5G communications systems will not meet the needs of users and industry for very long. Looking to solve
Amazon is bringing 'The Lord of the Rings' to the small screen
A "Lord of the Rings" TV series is coming to Amazon. ...
Security company says a mask fooled Face ID on iPhone X
Less than a week after the Apple iPhone X went on the market, a cybersecurity firm said it had already defeated the new phone's vaunted ...
Facebook tells FEC it supports campaign advertising transparency
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook says it supports policy measures that promote transparency in online campaign advertising, according to ...
This bird is too sexy for Facebook
The quintessentially British holiday scene of a Christmas card featuring a robin redbreast in the snow was blocked from sale by Facebook aft ...
'Social media suicide' in spotlight after Japan 'Twitter killer'
Takahiro Shiraishi is suspected of luring his victims via social media The grisly beheading of nine young people lured by a suspected seria ...
US says North Korean malware lurking in computer networks
US authorities said Tuesday malware developed in North Korea is still lurking in many computer networks, giving hackers backdoor access to g ...
Gadgets comfort luggage: A gift guide for travelers
This undated image from the Flight 001 travel store shows the company's mini-bar kit, with tiny glass bottles and metal flasks for stori ...
US attorney general slams 'epidemic' of leaks to media
Leaks of classified information under Donald Trump's presidency have reached "epidemic proportions," US Attorney General Jeff ...
Bioengineered robotic hand with its own nervous system will sense touch
A first-of-its-kind bioengineered robotic hand will grow and adapt to its environment. This "living" robot will have its own perip ...
Cellphone data reveals Hurricane Maria's impact on travel in Puerto Rico
A U.S. Naval Aircrewman leads residents of Puerto Rico to a helicopter for evacuation following the landfall of Hurricane Maria. Credit: Sea ...
New internet TV service has $16 monthly tab and no sports
The hook of the latest internet TV service is a low price and no sports channels. ...
Sunny future for renewables thanks to China: IEA
China along with India are to help make solar the leading new source of power generation over the coming decades, says the International Ene ...
High energy costs make vulnerable households reluctant to use air conditioning: study
With a hot summer forecast, keeping cool will put a strain on financially vulnerable households. Credit: Shutterstock The trifecta of risin ...
Imec and Panasonic develop innovative nanocomposite electrolyte
Imec and Panasonic have announced that they have developed a solid nanocomposite electrolyte for next-generation batteries with a lithium ion conductivity several times greater than its liquid equival
Leti demonstrates 300-mm wafer-to-wafer direct hybrid bonding with pitch dimension of just 1-micron
Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, together with EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, have announced the first successful 300-mm wafer-to-wafer direct hybrid bonding wit
Researchers release evaluation of solar pumps for irrigation and salt mining in India
With the right business model, solar panels and pumps could be a promising sustainable irrigation approach for smallholder farmers in India. ...
'Criticality' experiments enhance nuclear safety security and effectiveness
Plutonium plates are hand-stacked onto an aluminum tray during the first LLNL-designed criticality experiment in 40 years. The "vintage ...
Taiwan's Hon Hai quarter profit falls on iPhone X costs
Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn said Tuesday its third-quarter profit dropped by more than a third, dragged by costs associated with producing ...
Driving a Tesla may not trip your defibrillator
Credit: American Heart Association Sitting in, or standing close to the charging port of a Tesla electric vehicle didn't trigger a shoc ...
Robots can help us better understand how infants learn
Credit: Radboud University Robots are a hot item and Radboud University is right on trend by using them to replicate babies' brain and ...
Twisting molecule wrings more power from solar cells
The atomic structure of organic-inorganic perovskite transitions from a tetragonal structure (top left) to a cubic structure (top right) upo ...
Unlocking the benefits of digitalisation
A report on industrial digitisation has suggested that Britain’s manufacturing sector could benefit by as much as £455billion if, over the next decade, it can unlock the benefits of the fourth industr
Samsung worker killed by brain tumor wins compensation case
In this Oct. 31, 2017, file photo, employees walk past logos of the Samsung Electronics Co. at its office in Seoul, South Korea. Overturning ...
Scientists create a prototype neural network based on memristors
The memristive chip in its casing, housed in a standard contacting device (for testing the parameters of memristive nanostructures). Credit: ...
Microsoft pledges to curb carbon emissions despite growth
Microsoft says it aims to cut carbon emissions generated from its operations by 75 percent by 2030, from 2013 levels. ...
China maintains reign over world supercomputer rankings: survey
China has not only overtaken the US in sheer numbers, but also in aggregate performance of supercomputers China now has more high-performan ...
Austrian activist can sue Facebook: EU court adviser
Max Schrems is suing Facebook's Irish division for various alleged rights violations Austrian activist Max Schrems can sue Facebook ove ...
Solution enables compact devices for telecommunications security camera applications at even higher frequencies
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new manufacturing technology for the integration of very high-frequency terahertz s ...
A fast reactor system to shorten the lifetime of long-lived fission products
Representation of the dramatically reduced half-lives of LLFPs. Credit: Satoshi ChibaTokyo Institute of Technology A team of scientists at ...
Imec expands strategic partnership with Western Digital
Imec, the research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technology, has announced that it has expanded its long-term joint research efforts with Western Digital Corporation, a leader in
Molecular magnetism packs power with 'messenger electron'
The spins of unpaired electrons are crucial to permanent magnetism, and after 10 years of design and re-design, research conducted by John Berry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has resulted in
Toshiba sells TV visual solutions unit to Hisense of China
In this April 11, 2017, file photo, a photographer is silhouetted before a press conference at the Toshiba Corp. headquarters in Tokyo. Trou ...
Samsung worker scores victory at South Korea's Supreme Court
Overturning an appeals court's decision, South Korea's Supreme Court says a family of a Samsung worker who died of brain tumor shoul ...
Uber comes of age with SoftBank tieup
Uber's tieup with Japan's SoftBank is aimed at putting the ridesharing giant on a smoother road to a public share offering Uber' ...
Amazon or Walmart? Some retailers are choosing alliances
This Thursday, June 1, 2017, file photo, shows a Walmart sign at a store in Hialeah Gardens, Fla. Walmart announced Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, t ...
More governments manipulate media with 'bots' trolls: study
A study of internet freedom in 65 countries found 30 governments are deploying some form of manipulation to distort online information, up f ...
Qualcomm spurns $130 bn Broadcom bid for big tech tie-up
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan announced at the White House on November 2, 2017 that the tech company would be moving back to the United States from ...
In Morocco a blue tourist town is turning green
A woman walks in the medina of the northwestern Moroccan city of Chefchaouen Huddling against a hillside in northern Morocco is a tourist t ...
Missouri attorney general investigating Google
Missouri's attorney general announced Monday that his office is investigating Google for potential violations of the state's consume ...
Diagnosing supercomputer problems
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Vitus Leung and a team of computer scientists and engineers from Sandia and Boston Universit ...
Scalable clusters make HPC R&D easy as Raspberry Pi
The BitScope Pi Cluster Modules system creates an affordable, scalable, highly parallel testbed for high-performance-computing system-softwa ...
AI tool quantifies power imbalance between female and male characters in Hollywood movies
In the movie Frozen, only the princess Elsa is portrayed with high power and positive agency, according to a new analysis of gender bias in ...
Lyft takes Uber challenge north to Canada
Lyft says it should be up and running in Toronto in time for the holidays US ride-sharing startup Lyft said Monday it is launching next mon ...
Facebook launches Facebook Local with some Yelp-like features
Facebook on Friday launched a new app, Facebook Local. It gives users a single place to find restaurants, bars, cafes and nearby activities ...
Qualcomm rejects Broadcom's $103 billion offer
In this Thursday, April 27, 2017, file photo, visitors look at a display booth for Qualcomm at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) ...
Experts meet at UN Geneva to discuss define 'killer robots'
Government experts, advocacy groups and academics from scores of countries are kicking off a weeklong conference focusing on lethal autonomo ...
Three ways robots can save lives in war
Military robots are not all bad. Sure, there are risks and down ...
A simple soak for a solar tune-up
Remote doping of colloidal quantum-dot solar cells by altering their light-harvesting (left) or hole-transporting layer (right). Credit: KAU ...
Watchdog warns of 'high risk' digital currency offers
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A European financial markets watchdog warned Monday of the risks to investors of putting money in Initial Coin O ...
An electronic converter that improves the electrical power output of larger wind turbines
An electronic converter developed by the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre enables the energy produced by larger wind turbines (of up to ...
Diagonal methods for expensive global optimization
The division of hypercubes. Credit: Alina Poljanina The goal of global optimization is essentially to search for optimal solutions in vario ...
New facades enhance energy efficiency of buildings
Diagram of the facade functioning in summer (left) and winter (right). Credit: Jaime Santa Cruz and César Porras Recently, two researc ...
Uber seals multibillion-dollar investment from Softbank
In this July 20, 2017, file photo, SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son, left, speaks during a SoftBank World presenta ...
Fuel removal device installed at meltdown-hit Fukushima reactor
The meltdown was the worst nuclear disaster since Fukushima Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have inst ...
High-efficiency building bloopers revealed through occupant studies
A study by Washington State University found residents of high-efficiency buildings often waste energy--in this case, by taping over a vent- ...
Privacy fears over artificial intelligence as crimestopper
A display shows a vehicle and person recognition system for law enforcement during the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, which showcases art ...
Water wizards: Dutch flood expertise is big export business
In this Nov. 6, 2017, photo, a self-raising dike is seen in the Dutch fishing village of Spakenburg. The 300-meter long dike that is raised ...
No one satisfied with new Vermont wind power sound rules
An effort by Vermont utility regulators to settle the long-standing, contentious issue of how much noise neighbors of industrial wind projec ...
Cybercrimes present unique challenges for investigators
This July 21, 2012, file photo shows signage at the corporate headquarters of Equifax Inc. in Atlanta. Attacks launched by cybercriminals wr ...
Alibaba takes record $25 bn on 'Singles Day'
Billionaire Alibaba founder Jack Ma celebrates taking $25 bn in the company's annual 'Singles Day' promotion Chinese online sho ...
E-sport popularity mushrooms but money lags behind
It is a paradox pitting popularity against relative pittances—e-sports have exploded into the global consciousness but the big money has not ...
Colossal SoftBank fund could shake up tech world
Japan-based SoftBank is sending tremors through the tech world with a massive new venture capital fund for investing in startups that's ...
'Bots battle for the ball and the globe in Robot Olympiad
The World Robotics Olympiad, being held in Costa Rica this weekend, shows human athletes still have little to worry about: sweat and glory d ...
Massive data breach has cost Equifax nearly $90 million
A massive security breach that hit Equifax has cost the US credit bureau nearly $90 million so far, a figure that is set to rise further, it ...
Data firm CEO: Reached out to WikiLeaks about Clinton emails
A data firm that worked for President Donald Trump's campaign reached out to WikiLeaks during the campaign about obtaining emails relate ...
Supreme Court takes a technological step forward
Surely but slowly, the Supreme Court is entering the 21st century. The court is making new legal filings available online starting Monday, y ...
Offshore wind 'could be a bonanza' for UK says expert
Credit: University of Manchester As the world gathers in Bonn for COP23, the UN's annual climate change conference, Professor Mike Bar ...
'Pokemon Go' creators are making a 'Harry Potter' AR game
Accio smartphone! "Harry Potter" fans will soon get a chance to explore the Wizarding World in real life with a new mobile game fr ...
Apple leadership is more than 80% white and male
Apple's leadership remains mostly white and male despite growing pressure on technology companies to diversify their workforces from the ...
IBM develops prototype 50 qubit processor
IBM has announced two quantum processor upgrades for its IBM Q early-access commercial systems. These upgrades are said to be the result of the rapid advances it has made in quantum hardware.
Russia named as likely source of Europe radioactivity spike (Update)
An apparent accident at a Russian facility is suspected of causing a recent spike in radioactivity in the air over much of Europe, according ...
UN to host first talks on use of 'killer robots'
The United Nations is set to open its first official talks on the use of autonomous weapons, but a treaty governing so-called killer robots ...
UK panel rules Uber drivers have rights on wages time off (Update)
In this Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 file photo, an Uber App is displayed on a phone in London. Britain's Employment Appeal Tribunal Friday No ...
Social media key for tracking flu Zika depression and more says new book
Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder Search the hashtag "flu" on Twitter and you'll find a free-flowing stream of commen ...
France: Russian accident caused recent radioactivity spike
The French nuclear safety agency says it thinks an apparently minor accident at a Russian facility caused a recent spike in radioactivity in ...
Argonne forms new divisions to focus on computation and data science strengths
Argonne has formed two new research divisions to focus its lab-wide foundational expertise on computational science and data science activit ...
How blockchain technology has medieval roots
Blockchain technology, in which real-world assets are symbolically represented by digital objects, harks back to medieval times when helmets ...
Project aims to restore vision through cortical stimulation
French research centre Leti has joined a DARPA funded project to develop an implantable neural interface system that restores vision by stimulating the visual cortex.
UK panel to rule on whether Uber drivers are employees
A British panel is set to rule Friday on whether Uber drivers are employees of the ride-hailing service, in a case with broad implications f ...
Researchers create gallium nitride semiconductors doped with beryllium
Sample chamber of the positron accelerator. Credit: Hanna Koikkalainen Physicists at Aalto University have discovered a microscopic mechani ...
Digital 3-D-fabrication technology for nursing and healthcare
A 3D printer used by Keio researchers to digitally fabricate objects such as a pen holder and cranial model for nursing and healthcare. Cred ...
Transfer technique produces low cost GaN sensors for range of applications
A manufacturing technique developed by Georgia Tech researchers could enable low cost wearable, mobile and disposable sensors for applications ranging from wearables to vehicle engines.
Huge solar plant aims for brighter Brazil energy output
The EDF Energies Nouvelles solar plant in Pirapora, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, will be Latin America's largest solar power facility whe ...
News Corp reports profit jump to $87 mn
US media group News Corp said Thursday it returned to profit in the past quarter, as it saw improvements in digital subscriptions at the Wal ...
Beryllium doped GaN could be ‘next generation of power electronics’
Physicists at Aalto University say they have updated methods largely discarded 15 years ago with the discovery of a way in which gallium nitride semiconductors can be used in power electronic devices.
Transfer technique produces wearable gallium nitride gas sensors
Image shows wafer-scale processed AlGaN/GaN sensors being tested. Credit: Georgia Tech Lorraine A transfer technique based on thin sacrific ...
Zuckerberg nears end of US tour wants to boost small biz
In this May 25, 2017, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Z ...