IMF chief tells central bankers to not dismiss bitcoin (Update)
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, left, talks with Christine Legarde the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, d ...
Poland to roll out mobile phone ID cards in 2018
Soon Polish citizens will be able to carry ID cards on their phone Polish citizens will be able to carry around electronic versions of thei ...
Government internet shutdowns cost Africa dear: report
Shooting the messenger: Government internet shutdowns are costing Africa hundreds of millions Government shutdowns of the internet have cos ...
Whole Foods says customer payment information was hacked
Whole Foods says the credit and debit card information of customers who bought meals or drinks at its in-store restaurants or bars were expo ...
Using AI to help aging populations live better
IBM Research and UC San Diego have announced a multi-year commitment to enhance quality of life and independence for aging populations. Cred ...
Counting every person on Earth to eradicate poverty and empower women
The number one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to eliminate poverty, leaving nobody behind. Researchers in the United Kingdom ...
How to safeguard vulnerable metro systems against terrorist attacks
Mad rush, Manila. Credit: FotoGrazio/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Since the start of the millennium, hundreds of passengers have been killed and tho ...
Using deep learning to forecast ocean waves
SWAN Model: Physics-based model forecast of wave height Scientists have made amazing advances enabling machines to understand language and ...
AI can predict whether your relationship will last based on how you speak to your partner
I’m TALKING. Credit: Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock Any child (or spouse) who has been scolded for their tone of voice – such as shouting or ...
IMF chief tells central bankers to not ignore Bitcoin
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has a message for the world's central bankers ...
Developing sensors to defend aircraft against lasers
The LASSOS display screen highlights the laser strike event in live sensor imagery on the left and generates a 3D model of the laser streak ...
Researchers develop smart tattoos for health monitoring
Smart tattoo ink changes color to monitor dehydration and blood sugar. Credit: HMS Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ...
Sensible driving saves more gas than drivers think
ORNL researchers examined several previous studies, developed a new vehicle energy model and applied it to two similar mid-sized sedans: a h ...
'Angry Birds' maker spreads wings in market debut
Angry Birds maker Rovio walked on air in its stock market debut Finland's Rovio, creator of the popular smartphone game "Angry Bir ...
Uber boss to meet London transport chief over ban
Uber's new boss hopes to "make things right" with London's authorities New Uber boss Dara Khosrowshahi will visit London ...
VW's dieselgate bill jumps on 'complex' US recalls
Volkswagen's bill for emissions cheating keeps growing as a new charge in the US adds to the tab Volkswagen on Friday said it was setti ...
Greece opens Russian cybercrime suspect's extradition case
A Russian man identified as Alexander Vinnik, center, is escorted by police officers to the courthouse at the northern Greek city of Thessal ...
Travel anywhere in under an hour: Elon Musk's new plan
Getting anywhere on the planet in under an hour—one of the more intriguing possibilities that Elon Musk, the billionaire innovator, raised a ...
‘Simple’ process developed for flexible electronics manufacture
A development by the University of Wisconsin-Madison is claimed to allow manufacturers to add smart wireless capabilities to any object that curves, bends, stretches or moves.
Lighting a path to smarter homes roads and bridges
If you're worried about carbon monoxide poisoning, you might purchase a detector for your home. But what if your house itself could sens ...
Scientists change the fundamental properties of light
Scientists at King’s College London have developed a new method for rapidly changing the polarisation of light, one of its fundamental properties. The research, published in Nature Photonics, could le
FAA bans drone flights near major US landmarks
The Federal Aviation Administration is banning drone flights within 400 feet (122 meters) of several national landmarks, including the Statu ...
Twitter execs talk to House Senate in Russia probe
Twitter's Colin Crowell, head of global public policy, arrives for the closed door meeting with the House Intelligence Committee on Capi ...
GoPro out to ride online video creation wave
GoPro also showed off a new Fusion camera designed with spherical lenses to capture everything around it, letting users later choose viewpoi ...
EU leaders look to digital future
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the EU's most powerful leader, has indicated her support for French President Emmanuel Macron's vis ...
Can this guy help Intel catch the AI wave?
To get a sense of computer scientist Naveen Rao, just take a look at his hands. ...
New Expedia CEO has a hard act to follow
Mark Okerstrom sat 6 feet to the right of his boss, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, for more than five years. ...
Review: Could Fabriq's Chorus be a better way to talk to Alexa?
Amazon's Echo line of products is pretty popular. The origi ...
Russian group spent $274000 on Twitter ads during US election
Researchers said US voters in the swing states in the 2016 election were disproportionately targeted by Twitter "bots" and fake ne ...
Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook into a behemoth whose power he underestimates
Credit: CC0 Public Domain When it comes to business, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is undeniably a visionary. ...
Gadgets: Nothing to sneeze at! Desktop device monitors indoor air quality.
I recently tested the Awair, Air Quality Monitor, which tracks the five key factors of air quality including chemicals such as volatile orga ...
Team builds flexible new platform for high-performance electronics
Literal flexibility may bring the power of a new transistor developed at UW-Madison to digital devices that bend and move. Credit: Jung-Hun ...
China's Baidu police crack down on 'rumours'
Baidu, known as China's answer to Google, said artificial intelligence tools would monitor and identify "rumours" on its servi ...
TV-gadget maker Roku's stock soars after IPO raises $219M
In this May 19, 2014, file photo, Roku CEO Anthony Wood poses for a portrait, in Saratoga, Calif. Shares of Roku, an early player in streami ...
Microsoft's Nadella gives some glimpses behind the curtain in 'Hit Refresh'
The day he introduced himself to his Microsoft co-workers as their new chief executive, Satya Nadella knew he faced a skeptical audience. ...
Microsoft makes a 'crazy' bet on fuel cells to feed power-hungry data centers
In an industrial space tucked off a side street in Seattle's Sodo District, Microsoft is trying to reinvent the data center. ...
Ikea to buy on-demand services platform TaskRabbit
Ikea is making moves so you don't have to assemble a sofa or bookcase yourself. ...
TV-gadget maker Roku climbs after IPO raises $219M
Shares of Roku, an early player in streaming-video gadgets, are soaring after its initial public offering of stock raised $219 million. ...
New Equifax CEO: Sorry for the hack and bad customer service
Equifax, under pressure from a massive data breach, is apologizing and trying again to make amends to consumers. Its new interim CEO—install ...
Uber will start paying drivers extra for UberPool trips
Uber pitched its carpooling service as a way for passengers to save cash. But for drivers, UberPool felt like a raw deal because taking on e ...
Snap ups its game with sports weather data
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Snapchat isn't a resource many turn to for weather and sports scores, but it's spending increasing amount ...
Microsoft replacing Skype for Business with Teams
Microsoft is ending Skype's foray into business communications, packaging its communications tools into Microsoft Teams, the company' ...
Skip the checkout lines: Whole Foods Walmart and other stores embrace online grocery shopping
Grocery shopping can feel like you're navigating through an obstacle course filled with crowded parking lots, long lines and screaming k ...
Software glitch caused check-in delays at airports worldwide
Authorities say passengers at airports around the world have suffered some delays because of a problem with check-in systems. ...
Invention could avert disaster on railroad crossings
Derek Plant demonstrates his award-winning Ghost Train Generator at the National Innovation Summit in May. In the background are Fermilab’s ...
Printed meds could reinvent pharmacies drug research
Graduate student research assistant Siddharth Suresh Borsadia prints fluorescein crystals onto a cooled glass plate using organic vapor jet ...
Delivery by drone: Switzerland tests it in populated areas
Drones will help deliver toothbrushes, deodorant and smartphones to Swiss homes this fall as part of a pilot project, the first of its kind ...
German police arrest another Audi employee over 'dieselgate'
The Volkswagen emissions scandal has prompted another arrest at Audi German prosecutors on Thursday said they had arrested a second employe ...
Biodegradable microsensors for food monitoring
The sensor also adheres to fish skin and would help monitor the freshness of a cargo. Credit: Salvatore et al, Adv. Func. Materials, 2017 A ...
Big data conquers legal analysis
Credit: Swiss National Science Foundation Researchers supported by the SNSF have set up a free and accessible integrated database of legal ...
Demystifying social entrepreneurship—a data-driven approach
Figure 1: Phrases used frequently by Echoing Green fellowship finalists in their applications. Social enterprises present solutions to majo ...
Software glitch causes check-in delays at airports worldwide
Credit: Petr Kratochvil/public domain Authorities say passengers at airports around the world have suffered some delays because of a proble ...
China delays electric car quota until 2019
Beijing announced plans earlier this month to phase out petrol vehicles by an unspecified date, but it has also been preparing rules to impo ...
Turbocharging engine design
2017-09-28 20:00:20Turbocharging engine design
Argonne’s Sibendu Som explains how the VERIFI team – along with the Aramco Research Center, Detroit – reduced engine design time from months ...
Drones could be used to monitor babies in neonatal care
Credit: The Lead Drone technology is being developed to perform routine health checks remotely in a bid to reduce infection spread in neona ...
Bandgap in superlattices can be created to order says research team
New research conducted at the University of California Santa Barbara is said to have brought a ‘major advance’ in the creation of precision superlattice materials. The team claims its tunable direct b
Progress claimed in developing photonic synapses
Scientists at the University of Exeter, working with colleagues from the Universities of Oxford and Münster believe they have made a crucial step towards developing chips that can mimic the way the hu
ByteSnap gets the nod from NXP
Birmingham based electronics consultancy ByteSnap Design has become the first UK based Approved Engineering Consultant for NXP Semiconductors. According to the company, NXP Approved Engineering Consul
Troubled Toshiba Bain finalize sale of memory-chip business
Toshiba and a consortium led by Bain Capital Private Equity signed a deal Thursday for the sale of the Japanese electronics company's co ...
European consortium completes VCSEL project
Philips Photonics, a specialist developer and supplier of VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers) technology solutions for data communications, consumer and industrial applications, has announ
Twitter to talk to House Senate in Russia probe
Social media giant Twitter will visit Capitol Hill Thursday as part of the House and Senate investigations into Russian interference in the ...
Amazon turns up the volume on rivals with Echo price cut (Update)
David Limp, senior vice president of Devices and Services at Amazon, smiles as he displays a new Amazon Echo during an event announcing seve ...
House Senate inviting social media giants to testify
In this April 18, 2017, file photo, conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference, in S ...
Zuckerberg fires back at Trump over Facebook barb
This file photo taken on July 13, 2017 shows Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., attending the fourth day ...
Underground air-raid shelter feeding London restaurants
An old World War II shelter in Clapham, which could protect up to 8,000 people from Nazi German bombs, consists of two large tunnels that we ...
Airbnb enters restaurant reservation business
Airbnb has teamed up with Resy to offer table reservations at 700 restaurants in 16 US cities Rent-a-room giant Airbnb is now in the restau ...
At risk?: Equifax hack has businesses uneasy about security
Towne & Country Building Inspection owner Scot McLean looks at his calendar outside his Fox Point, Wis., home Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. ...
Delphi plans split into tech traditional companies by April
The auto parts maker Delphi plans to split itself into two companies early next year. ...
Amazon slashes price of new Echo speaker to $100
This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon unveils new devices, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. (AP Phot ...
Fuel-cell cars cruise onto the market
Fuel-cell powered cars that emit only water vapor when driven have been in the works for decades, but progress seemed to keep stalling. Now, ...
Google to create 'separate' shopping unit to avoid EU fines
Google's search results are prized internet real estate with the US giant controlling roughly 90 percent of the search market in Europe, ...
Trump won't get expanded tweet space for now
US President Donald Trump is not part of the group testing a new 280-character limit for tweets, according to Twitter US President Donald T ...
Q&A: How Apple's Face ID facial recognition works
In this Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, file photo, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, announces features of ...
Twitterverse atwitter over expanded tweet limit
Twitter's test of an expanded 280-character limit is aimed at luring new users, but some of the social network's passionate loyalist ...
Loihi: Introducing self-learning chip from Intel to rev up AI
Credit: Intel (Tech Xplore)—A self learning chip from Intel designed to work like the human brain has been announced. ...
Swiss people may be ready to live car-free under certain conditions
Fast moving walkways. Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne The findings of PostCarWorld, a cross-disciplinary study into Swiss ...
How am I feeling? Ask my house
KU and Panasonic developed a radar-based device that could instantaneously and accurately measure the body's vital signals. The new mode ...
Chinese dominate eSports at Asian Indoor Games
Members of the Chinese eSports team compete in the eSports tournament at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Turkmenistan's capit ...
Ford to integrate autonomous cars with Lyft network
Ford is working to integrate its autonomous cars with Lyft's ride-hailing software so someday Ford can carry Lyft passengers. ...
At risk? Equifax hack has businesses uneasy about security
The Equifax breach is reminding small business owners that they may be vulnerable to cybercriminals. ...
Delphi follows Autoliv separates high tech and traditional
The auto parts maker Delphi plans to split itself into two companies early next year. ...
Uber in London court in employment case
Uber lawyers are in a London courtroom trying to overturn a ruling that its drivers are employees of the ride-hailing service—not independen ...
Ransomware attacks 'global epidemic' says Europol
An "epidemic" has erupted in global ransomware attacks, taking over computers as well as internet-linked devices like routers and ...
EU police agency calls for better action against cybercrime
In this Jan. 16, 2015 file photo, the head of the European Union's police agency Europol, Rob Wainwright, answers questions during an in ...
How old does your computer think you are?
Credit: Public Domain Computerised face recognition is an important part of initiatives to develop security systems, in building social net ...
IBM unveils a new high-powered analytics system for fast access to data science
IBM today announced the Integrated Analytics System, a new unified data system designed to give users fast, easy access to advanced data sci ...
Q&A about Watson the iHuman supercomputer
In 2011, a faceless, emotionless voice named Watson famously defeated two of the greatest champions of Jeopardy!, an American TV gameshow. ...
Researchers design soft flexible origami-inspired robot
Credit: Russell Lee A Case Western Reserve University researcher has turned the origami she enjoyed as a child into a patent-pending soft r ...
Drones in disaster zones could prove a lifesaver
Credit: University of South Australia Pioneering research from the University of South Australia has shown for the first time that drones c ...
New algorithms for high speed and low cost 3-D imaging
Model used for testing the new algorithm. Credit: University of Electro Communications Ultrawideband millimeter-wave radar devices are prom ...
Advanced molybdenum selenide near infrared phototransistors
Scanning electron microscopy image of the near-infrared photodetector based on few-layered MoSe2. Credit: University of Electro Communicatio ...
Electric car-sharing service to roll into Singapore
The electric Bluecars in Singapore An electric car-sharing service will be launched in Singapore in December, in what the company behind th ...
Engineers to pioneer unprecedented high speed wireless data coverage
A major new international research programme is responding to the overwhelming demand of internet traffic to develop ubiquitous wireless dat ...
Stereophonic device enables objects to 'talk' to users
NEC Corporation today announced the development of acoustic augmented reality (AR) technology that gives a "voice" to objects that ...
Computer scientists address gap in messaging privacy
Credit: University of Birmingham Researchers have developed a solution to a longstanding problem in the field of end-to-end encryption, a t ...
Uber appeals UK court case on drivers' rights
Uber drivers are currently paid for each ride and are considered self-employed which means they are not entitled to benefits including paid ...
It’s a kind of magic says computing research team
A type of ‘magic dust’ which combines light and matter could be used to solve complex problems, says an international research team, adding the approach could eventually surpass the capabilities of ev
Tesla Model 3 isn't only affordable EV on market
The Tesla Model 3 has captured the interest of both mainstream car buyers and electric vehicle enthusiasts alike. The Model 3's combinat ...
EU project to exploit mmWaves beyond 100GHz
According to the recently launched Ultrawave project, only millimetre wave frequencies will be able to support data rates in excess of tens of Gbit/s needed in the future by 5G networks. But it says t
SK Hynix to put 395 billion yen in Toshiba's chip unit sale
SK Hynix Inc. says it will invest 395 billion yen ($3.5 billion) partly through convertible bonds to purchase Toshiba's memory chip unit ...