Kindle Oasis For its 10th birthday, Amazon's Kindle is getting a new suit. ...
Amazon says parents can hand over the shopping keys to the kids, though they'll still have the power to put up a red light. ...
Microsoft is looking for a few good artificial-intelligence startups. ...
Google will invest $1 billion over the next five years in nonprofit organizations helping people adjust to the changing nature of work, the ...
Credit: Concordia University No matter the season, thermostat wars rage in offices worldwide. Workers bicker over the temperature, alternat ...
In this Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017 photo, Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 8 is displayed in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics says F ...
The so-called "digital laundry" industry is thriving in South Korea—a tech-savvy nation but one whose culture remains chauvinistic ...
Tesla has announced a recall of some Model X vehicles to fix a potential safety issue with rear seats which might shift in a crash Tesla on ...
Toshiba Memory Chief Yasuo Naruke, left, and Yuji Sugimoto, head of Bain Capital, attend a press conference in Yokkaichi, central Japan, Fri ...
Remote communities in the Amazon, such as here near Labrea, are being encouraged to use solar energy to power their villages In the darkest ...
Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith testified before a congressional hearing into a data breach affecting more than 145 million consumers inclu ...
Apple is teaming up with award-winning director Steven Spielberg for its first major push into TV programming. ...
The Russian intrusion detected more than two years ago used anti-virus software manufactured by the Russian firm Kaspersky Lab as an ad hoc ...
The draft text message recognised as a legitimate will by an Australian court was found on a man's phone after he took his own life aged ...
Belgian nanotechnology research centre imec has developed a pressure sensor based on micro-optomechanical systems (MOMS) technology. The device is said to exhibit excellent measurement precision over
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) believe they may have developed a MEMS based alternative to silicon based computing. According to the team, vibrating mech
A photonic integrated chip developed by researchers from the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) at the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Optoelectronics Rese
Xilinx has started shipping its Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC family to lead customers. According to the company, the parts represent a breakthrough architecture in which the RF signal chain has been integra
Plessey Semiconductors has won the Grand Prix at this year’s British Engineering Excellence Awards for its development of GaN on silicon technology and using it to create LEDs which enable new types o
FTDI Chip has just launched an online community in a move intended to extend its technical support capabilities.
Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have reported they are one step closer to developing a technology that could result in electrons being replaced with photons, solving the looming ‘speed limit’ fo
Dialog Semiconductor has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Silego Technology, a provider of configurable mixed-signal ics (CMICs). The deal values Silego at $276million.
XMOS has announced the launch of the VocalFusion 4-Mic Dev Kit for the Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS).
Over the past few years ams has changed radically having significantly reduced its historically broad portfolio of product to now specialise in the design and manufacture of advanced sensors solutions
XP Power has acquired Comdel, a US-based designer and manufacturer of radio frequency (RF) power supplies. The $23 million deal expands XP Power’s product offering into RF power, complementing its ran
A research collaboration between Osaka University and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology has, for the first time, be able to use scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) to create images of atom
Teledyne e2v has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) to supply customised Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors for the Large Synoptic Survey
In the laboratory: flexible printing pads are used to transfer individual layers of the illuminating symbol and the printing image to three- ...
This is a Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 file photo of the IKEA sign at the IKEA furnishing store in Magdeburg, Germany. Swedish furniture retaile ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A multi-disciplinary team co-led by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT has developed flexi ...
Researchers installed the soft robotic gripper on a Fetch Robotics robot in their lab. Credit: University of California San Diego How many ...
Credit: National Renewable Energy Laboratory A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NRE ...
Credit: New Zealand Defence Force. Shared under a Creative Commons license. A recent study finds that users have trouble utilizing images f ...
Atomic force microscope image of a residual indent. Credit: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laborator ...
A new flexible piezoelectric sensor is 2 by 2.5 centimeters and can be rolled up and swallowed. "For the first time, we showed that a f ...
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University While the policy debate surrounding crude oil transportation costs has emphasized accidents and spills, ...
A report says there is no way to know if votes have been manipulated with paperless machines which have no paper ballots to be recounted Ha ...
Former chairman and CEO of Equifax Richard F. Smith testifies before the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House ...
Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini, seen here in a 2012 photo at an International Consumer Electronics Show, led the chipmaker from 2005 to 2013 ...
Riyadh has set a target of 9.5 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2023, partly made up of a 300-megawatt solar project, like these solar panel ...
Microsoft is touting virtual reality headsets made by other companies in hopes of establishing personal computers running on its Windows 10 ...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers The new and rapidly evolving esports industry, while currently enjoying minimal regulatory overs ...
Former chairman and CEO of Equifax Richard F. Smith testifies before the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House ...
US online giants Google, Facebook and Twitter pledged to do more to filter out misinformation after false reports circulated on the Las Vega ...
Louisiana-based CenturyLink, the third-largest US provider of wireline telecoms services after Verizon and AT&T, announced the cash and ...
The EU is set to decide a landmark case against Luxembourg, which stands accused of giving illegal tax breaks to internet shopping giant Ama ...
US officials are studying ways to end the use of social security numbers for identification following a series of data breaches compromising ...
Experimental setup of the image acquisition system. Credit: University of Illinois When a field of soybeans is ready to harvest, speed is o ...
Max Schrems, front right, faces the media after leaving the High Court in Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday Oct. 3, 2017, as the legal case about soc ...
Design house, Plextek RFI, has announced that it has developed a multi-chip module (MCM) to cover the recently-designated European ‘Pioneer Band’ for millimetre-wave (mmWave) 5G around 26GHz.
The cascadable, vibration-driven microelectromechanical logic gate takes electrical signals as inputs and produces a logic output (1 or 0) b ...
Twitter is exploring new ways to engage sports fans, tapping into their passion as it fights its corner in the cutthroat world of social med ...
Research has shown that magnetic behaviour discovered just a few years ago holds great promise as a way of storing data and could help to overcome the fundamental limits that might otherwise signal th
Ireland's High Court ruled that the Court of Justice of the European Union must decide the rules on the transfer of data from European F ...
Some 66% of thermal engineers must wait at least a day for their thermal simulations to solve. That’s according to the new State of Thermal report from 6SigmaET, which asked 170 thermal engineers in t
University of Adelaide researchers are planning to produce simple, low-cost, self-assembly water purification kits to provide fresh drinking ...
This July 21, 2012, file photo shows signage at the corporate headquarters of Equifax Inc. in Atlanta. Credit report company Equifax said Mo ...
The new CEO of Uber will meet with London transport officials, just days after they refused to renew the cab-hailing app's license to op ...
Artist's impression of the magnetic field and current generated by the new photovoltaic device. Credit: nanoGUNE An international resea ...
In this Aug. 29, 2017, aerial photo, floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey surround an apartment complex in Houston. The same technology th ...
Equifax said Monday an investigation into the massive data breach at the credit agency discovered 2.5 million additional potential victims, ...
Members of the SEA-POL team with the radar, right before disassembly and shipment to San Diego for its voyage to sea. From left: engineer Fr ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is now saying that at least two people had their personal information stolen in the breach that happe ...
This photo provided by Uber shows the company's human resources director, Liane Hornsey. Hornsey, who was hired from her chief administr ...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets his work was used "to divide people rather than bring us together" Facebook on Monda ...
The first congressional hearing on the massive hack at credit agency Equifax is set for this week The security team at Equifax failed to pa ...
Tesla Inc. says it delivered a record number of vehicles in the third quarter even though it made fewer of its new Model 3 sedans than antic ...
General Motors is promising two new electric vehicles on Chevrolet Bolt underpinnings in the next 1 ½ years and more than 20 electric o ...
The Supreme Court is leaving in place lower court rulings against internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and others associated with his now defunc ...
The head of Uber's northern Europe operations is quitting as the US ride-sharing company faces a licensing battle in London. The head o ...
The former chairman and CEO of Equifax says the company was entrusted with personal information of 140 million Americans and "we let th ...
Analysts say the arrival of Noon.com is expected to trigger a price war in the developing regional e-commerce market and will likely alter t ...
MIT-France student intern Annie Dai (seated) says of her summer at Plume Labs: “This was probably the best summer I’ve had in my life and I ...
Systems converting energy of the body into electricity, such as this foot prosthesis, are to be used by KIT scientists to power portable ele ...
Fig. 1. Learning process. Credit: Hitachi Hitachi today announced the development of active-learning dialogue-data based AI technology to e ...
Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Ronen Polsky positions a prototype 3-D-printed microneedle holder on the arm of Sandia scie ...
Indonesia is notorious for its traffic jams. Many people spend hours commuting each day. Jakarta and other Indonesian cities have been rated ...
Emboldened by a successful IPO, Roku is reducing the price on the next generation of its best video streaming player in an attempt to fend o ...
Technology from the Public University of Navarre monitors the structural health of infrastructure (bridges, viaducts, oil pipelines, gas pip ...
SUMO is specialised software that analyses data from a satellite of the EU’s Copernicus Earth Observation programme. Credit: CORDIS The Joi ...
Czech taxi drivers are blocking a major road to Prague's international airport to protest Uber and other similar ride-hailing services. ...
FORPHEUS, a fourth-generation table-tennis robot developed by automation parts maker Omron returns a shot to a human player at a top Tokyo t ...
The man who founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and made it the world's biggest microchip producer in terms of contracts a ...
Plasma Antennas, the pioneers of plasma silicon technology, has unveiled the mmWave Plasma Silicon Antenna (PSiAN) that, according to the company, will provide huge improvements in the performance for
Panagiotis Artemiadis, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Arizona State University, with two drones in his Human-Oriented ...
Cross section of the Venturi tube. When the water flows through the uptake tube, negative pressure builds that forces the elastomer film (ce ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Technology blogs and financial news networks are buzzing about blockchain, a cryptographic, distributed trust tec ...
The fluorescence scanner – an imaging, inline measuring system – inspects components for impurities during the manufacturing process and ide ...
Chatbots need a personality. But what type? Credit: Hadrian/Shutterstock In the future, humans will interact more and more with automated h ...
The integration of microchannels into the silicon interposer allows for the first time to cool a processor also from the bottom and thereby ...
This July 16, 2013, file photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Social media giant Facebook is expected to provid ...
Google has unveiled new measures aimed at helping news organizations drive more subscriptions and generate revenues Google announced new st ...
The social networks which helped enable democracy movements are also being manipulated by authorian regimes, researchers say Just a few yea ...
Kentucky's plan to build one of the country's largest publicly owned broadband networks was touted as a cornerstone of the effort to ...
The online retailer Noon.com has launched in the United Arab Emirates after months of delays, more than $1 billion in pledged investments an ...
In this Sept. 9, 2017 file photo, Gina Kim holds the Venice Virtual Reality Prize for best VR story during the award ceremony at the 74th Ve ...
The social networks which helped enable democracy movements are also being manipulated by authorian regimes, researchers say Just a few yea ...
Many migrants—such as these men pictured in Sonora state, Mexico, in January—rely on mobile phones during their journeys A smartphone app d ...
Volkswagen says it expects to take charges of about 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion) in the third quarter to cover the costs of buying back ...
A push by France and Germany is part of a wider EU onslaught on Google and other US tech behemoths as Europe seeks ways of more tightly regu ...