A new recruiting platform combines talent-seeking tech with psychology
Celectiv, a recruiting platform that combines talent-seeking tools with analytical tech like organizational psychology assessments, is comin ...
Mercedes-Benz to invest $1 billion in Alabama add 600 jobs
In this file photo dated Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, a loading station for Mercedes electric cars at the IAA Car Show in Frankfurt, Germany. Ger ...
Mayo Clinic offers first aid assistance via Amazon's Alexa digital assistant
Alexa, forget my grocery list and morning traffic reports. Tell me about CPR. ...
The ATM at 50: How it's changed consumer behavior
In this Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, photo, automated teller machines are lined up during the manufacturing process at Diebold Nixdorf in Green ...
Tesla denies claims that it tried to block unionizing effort
Tesla Inc. is denying claims that it threatened to fire pro-union workers at its Fremont, California, factory and tried to prevent them from ...
Fed agency urging corporate cybersecurity upgrades is hacked
In this March 23, 2017, file photo, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman nominee Jay Clayton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washi ...
Hack of US regulator a blow to confidence in financial system
The hack disclosed at the US Securities and Exchange Commission deals a fresh blow to confidence in the security of the financial system wee ...
Mercedes to invest $1 billion at Tuscaloosa add 600 jobs
Germany's Daimler AG says its Mercedes-Benz luxury car division will invest $1 billion to set up electric vehicle production at its Tusc ...
Review: Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is the phone Note 7 users have been waiting for
We interrupt the iPhone mania of late to remind you there are other flagship phones on the market, including the much-anticipated Samsung Ga ...
Don't want the new iPhone? Try these smartphone alternatives
Three new versions of the iPhone have just been announced, and while they may be light years ahead of Apple's previous models, they may ...
Leaders to tech firms at UN: Remove terror posts in 2 hours
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to British Prime Minister Theresa May as they leave a high level Security Council meeting on United ...
Dutch appeals court upholds ban on former Dutch Uber service
An appeals court has upheld the Dutch government's ban on a former Uber ride-hailing service in the Netherlands. ...
Review: iTunes video upgrade makes the new Apple TV worth it
In this Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 photo, the Apple TV is displayed, in New York. The new Apple TV streaming device heralds the onset of ultra h ...
Baidu announces $1.5 bln fund for autonomous driving
This photo taken on April 21, 2016 shows a woman walking past the Baidu booth at the China (ShangHai) International Technology Fair in Shang ...
StoryCorps' Thanksgiving Listen asks kids to record elders
In this Nov. 27, 2015, file photo, Rhiannon Leonard interviews her boss, Gary Himes in Weverton, Md., for StoryCorps' Great Thanksgiving ...
Amazon reviewing its site after bomb-making materials report
Amazon says it is reviewing its website after a British TV report said that the online retailer recommended purchasing ingredients together ...
ATM at 50: An oddity then but it changed consumer behavior
An automated teller machine. The cash machine. In Britain, a cashpoint. ATMs, known for spitting out $20 bills (and imposing fees if you pic ...
They're coming for our jobs but can giant fighting robots save TV?
Megabots, coming soon to sports channels? Credit: Screenshot from Youtube Robots fighting for human entertainment may sound like something ...
Dating apps make men unhappy and provide a platform for racism
Credit: shutterstock As the dating app Tinder turns five, new research shows men who regularly use the app have more body image concerns an ...
Infineon sells IR site in South Wales
Infineon Technologies has signed a definitive agreement with a company called Neptune 6 under which the latter will acquire the old International Rectifier (IR) site in Newport.
Researchers design robots to assist with disaster relief
Credit: Northeastern University Cities and towns all across the globe are reeling from a spate of hurricanes, earthquakes, and typhoons. Hu ...
Delphi chooses BlackBerry OS for automated driving system
Delphi Automotive has signed an agreement to use the BlackBerry operating system in its Centralised Sensing Localisation and Planning (CSLP) concept. The turnkey automated driving solution, planned to
Google acquires part of HTC's smartphone operation
Google is to acquire part of HTC’s smartphone operations in a deal said to be worth about $1billion.
Google buys HTC's Pixel team in $1.1B bet on devices
Rick Osterloh, senior vice president of hardware for Google, second from left, and Cher Wang, chairperson of HTC, shake hands during a press ...
Tech dreams live or die on startup battlefields
Tech startups vie for investors, fans and media attention at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco Fearing failure but driven by ...
Automatic code reuse system claimed
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a system called CodeCarbonCopy that allows code from one program to be inserted at a particular poin
Japanese video gaming adapting new tech for familiar titles
Visitors try out a game with a virtual reality headset device at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, near Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. The Jap ...
Apple shares slip on smartwatch reviews
Apple shares fell ahead of its release this week of an updated smartwatch and new iPhone 8 models, with a high-end iPhone X set for release ...
Interview: Japan's emoji creator saw nuance in pictures
In this Sept. 14, 2017, photo, Django Co., Ltd. Director Shigetaka Kurita writes a pictograph during an interview at his office in Tokyo. Th ...
Nevada quake lab tests new bridge design after Mexico quake
Researchers and invited dignitaries watch gathered at the University of Nevada, Reno's new Earthquake Engineering Laboratory in Reno, Ne ...
Google to buy part of smartphone maker HTC for $1.1 billion: Taiwan firm
Taiwan's struggling smartphone maker HTC is selling part of its smartphone business to US technology giant Google Taiwan's struggli ...
Germany on guard against election hacks fake news
Hacking worries have hovered over Germany's election campaign As the clock ticks down to elections Sunday, Germany's cyber defence ...
Nest looks to shake up home security
Nest co-founder Matt Rogers discusses an array of new home-security devices, including a video-camera doorbell and outdoor security cameras ...
Apple says its new watch has cellular connectivity problems
In this Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about the new Apple Watch Series 3 at the Steve Jobs Theater on the ne ...
Nest Labs adds doorbell that can recognize familiar faces
Michelle Turner, general manager of security products for Nest Labs, talks about the Hello doorbell during an event Wednesday, Sept. 20, 201 ...
Facebook tightens ad policies after 'Jew-hater' fiasco
Facebook is apologizing for letting advertisers use phrases like "Jew-haters" as a targeting criteria and for not noticing it unti ...
Dockless bike-share hits US capital following craze in China (Update)
Dockless bike-sharing, a trend which has taken China by storm, arrived in the US capital Wednesday with the launch of new services aimed at ...
Nevada experiment mimics earthquakes to test bridge designs
A day after a deadly earthquake struck Mexico City, University of Nevada scientists will mimic quakes to test new bridge designs developed t ...
Attorneys: Portions of Foxconn law could be unconstitutional
Nonpartisan attorneys for the Wisconsin Legislature are warning that portions of a newly signed law speeding up legal appeals related to a p ...
Toshiba sells memory business for $18bn
Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding on 13 September, Toshiba has apparently concluded a deal to sell its semiconductor business to Bain Capital for $18billion. Bain is thought to ha
Apple CEO defends 'dreamers' program
Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the government program that protects young immigrants in the U.S. illegally and called immigration the "big ...
Review: Apple Watch goes solo but don't dump your phone yet
In this Sept. 15, 2017, photo, the non-cellular version of the Apple Watch Series 3 is displayed in New York. The new watch comes out Friday ...
New Army models predict number of cyberattacks that pierce company networks
Dr. Nandi O. Leslie was part of an Army Research Laboratory team that studied empirical data on actual successful cyber intrusions committed ...
Scientists prevent hacker attacks on cars
Dr. Stefan Nürnberger. Credit: Stephanie Bremerich (CISPA) Today, many cars are offering a digital gateway which hackers can misus ...
Alexa what do you see? Amazon said to be working on glasses
In this May 17, 2017, file photo, an Amazon Alexa device is switched on for a demonstration of its use in a ballpark suite before a Seattle ...
Report: Iran group hacks aviation petrochemical industries
Stuart Davis, a director at one of FireEye's subsidiaries speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, Wednesday, Sept ...
Chinese dockless bike-share giant launches US beachhead
Chinese bike-sharing giant Mobike on Wednesday launched in the US capital, bringing its "dockless" system which has swept China an ...
Fabric like supercap could bring safer energy storage
A fabric-like material electrode developed by a team from Drexel University could help to make energy storage devices less susceptible to leaks or meltdowns. The supercapacitor – described as a ‘furry
'Overwatch' eSports league to debut in December
The eSports league for "Overwatch" is set to make its debut in December, cashing in on a growing trend of video gaming as a specta ...
Chinese man pleads guilty in global software piracy case
A Chinese businessman has pleaded guilty to his role in an international, multimillion dollar software piracy case. ...
Some of the best parts of autonomous vehicles are already here
Don’t overlook immediate safety in a search for something better. Credit: sraphotohut/Shutterstock.com Fully automated cars are still many ...
Opinion: A 'cleanish' energy target gets us nowhere
Credit: Shutterstock It seems that the one certainty about any clean energy target set by the present government is that it will not drive ...
Innovative fuel manufacturing process moves closer to market
First steps toward the additive manufacturing of U3Si2 fuel. Credit: Idaho National Laboratory INL researchers are working with industry pa ...
More than 80% of children have an online presence by the age of two
Credit: Shutterstock A toddler with birthday cake smeared across his face, grins delightedly at his mother. Minutes later, the image appear ...
Equifax breach brings renewed attention to information security vulnerabilities
The recent Equifax breach, which compromised the personal data of more than 143 million American consumers, was a frequent topic of conversa ...
Toshiba board decides on chip sale to Bain Capital group
Toshiba's board signed off Wednesday on selling its computer chip business to a group led by Bain Capital Private Equity, but the deal&# ...
8 new cars SUVs coming to the US in 2018
This photo provided by Porsche shows the 2019 Porsche Cayenne that was shown at the 2017 Frankfurt auto show. Fully redesigned for the 2019 ...
London parrot does online shopping by mimicking owner
A pet parrot managed to place an online shopping order by mimicking its owner on a voice-controlled smart speaker, a British newspaper repor ...
Seaweed-fueled cars? Maybe one day with help of new tech
PNNL is developing two different technologies that could one day enable cars and trucks run on biofuel made from seaweed grown in the open o ...
electronica 2018 to occupy 16 halls
Announcing plans for 2018, the organisers of electronica say the world’s largest electronics exhibition will occupy 16 halls at Messe Munich; three more than in 2016. One of the new halls will see SEM
Expert discusses advances in aircraft air quality
Credit: Imperial College London Professor Peter Childs from the Dyson School of Design Engineering discusses air quality in aircraft cabins ...
Flexible device could provide efficient cooling of electronic devices
Engineers and scientists from UCLA Henry and non profit R&D organisation SRI International have created a thin flexible device whiuch they believe could keep smartphones and laptop computers from
Drones can almost see in the dark
Drone with an eye-inspired camera. Credit: UZH UZH researchers have taught drones how to fly using an eye-inspired camera, opening the door ...
3-D printers—a revolutionary frontier for medicine
Surgeons at the University of Saskatchewan use a 3D printed human brain to plan complex neurosurgical procedures for patients with movement ...
Saudi Arabia to unblock internet calling apps
Saudi Arabia will lift its ban on internet calling applications on Wednesday, such as Skype, easing restrictions online as the conserva ...
Apple Amazon go different ways but reach the same conclusion: The tech businesses owe nothing to the U.S. city
In journalism, the competition to pick the new editor of a magazine or newspaper is often called a "bakeoff." (The oven is now pre ...
Security cameras are vulnerable to attacks using infrared light: study
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have demonstrated that security cameras infected with malware can receive covert signal ...
Study suggests risks vary widely in drone-human impacts
Researchers collect drone impact data at an athletics facility on Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus under the direction of the Virginia ...
Equifax says it had a security breach earlier in the year
This Saturday, July 21, 2012, photo shows the corporate headquarters of Equifax Inc. in Atlanta. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ...
Four things to know about Apple's iOS 11 software update
In this Sept. 15, 2017, photo, the iOS 11 control center is displayed on the iPhone 8 Plus in New York. The control center offers easy acces ...
Can cycling be safer if bikes are smarter and 'talk' to cars?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Jake Sigal wants to make biking safer. To do that, Sigal and his Detroit-area software company, Tome, plan to mak ...
If Google invests in Lyft what does that mean for Uber?
Uber was the indisputable No. 1 player in the domestic on-demand transportation industry. And by its workforce size, passenger count and cap ...
Equifax says 100000 Canadians' data hacked
"We believe that the incident involves potential access to the personal information of approximately 100,000 Canadian consumers," ...
Video streaming pioneer Roku aims to raise up to $252 million with IPO
Roku Inc., the leading maker of devices for streaming internet video on televisions, hopes to raise up to $252 million with an initial publi ...
Self-driving Uber fleet returns to service following crash
Uber has resumed self-driving vehicle service in Pittsburgh following a crash. ...
Researchers' work pushes battery tech forward
Researchers Zhao Li, Kyle Marcus, Kun Liang, Assistant Professor Yang Yang, Guanzhi Wang and Wenhan Niu are developing new energy technologi ...
Research sparks new way to predict movie-goers' facial expressions
Professor Greg Mori from SFU's School of Computing Science is part of a research team working with Disney Research to develop a new way ...
Twitter touts victories in war on extremist content
Twitter says it is making progress in filtering out extremist content even before being asked by governments Twitter on Tuesday touted vict ...
Could carbon nanomaterials replace scarce metals?
A survey at Chalmers University of Technology shows that there are potential technology-based solutions that could replace many scarce metals with carbon nanomaterials, such as graphene.
EU to launch cybersecurity 'safety labels'
"Cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, imaginative and global," Andrus Ansip, the European Commission Vice President for the Di ...
Researchers working on ways to power the next generation of prosthetic limbs
Dr Robert Kerr and a team from BatTRI-Hub are working on ways to power a unique robotic hand. Credit: Deakin University Scientists from Dea ...
A pirate site explores a new way of paying for the internet that doesn't involve ads
What if ads disappeared? Credit: Eddie J Rodriquez/Shutterstock To say that advertising as the main business model of the internet is in a ...
Words With Friends adds 50000 pop culture words
This image released by Zynga shows the Words With Friends app. Game developer Zynga said Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, that it is adding 50,000 i ...
Kohl's to start accepting Amazon returns at some stores
Kohl's, which is opening some in-store Amazon shops, will start accepting returns for the online retailer at some of its stores in Los A ...
Revealing the cause for high air content in concrete
A study carried out in Aalto University showed that the effectiveness of the mixing process has a great significance when newer plasticizing ...
Chip giant has invested $1bn in AI
Intel has invested over $1bn in artificial intelligence (AI) supporting start-ups and investing in companies such as Mighty AI, DataRobot, Lumiata and AEye, among others.
Bike-sharing schemes might seem like a waste of space but the economics makes sense
In the outskirts of Beijing, this shared bike lies abandoned among vehicles. Credit: Reuters Have you ever walked past (or tripped over) a ...
Accelerator company develops product to help wind turbines
Sharks swimming deep in the ocean, geckos climbing up trees and wind turbines towering over West Texas don't have a lot in common. At le ...
Fujitsu develops world's first wearable hands-free speech translation device
Figure 1: The newly developed wearable, hands-free speech translation device. Credit: Fujitsu Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the deve ...
Connected Lighting Test Bed advancing smart adaptive lighting
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers at the Connected Lighting Test Bed study and advance smart and energy-efficient connected ...
Music piracy on increase worldwide: industry group
Music piracy is on the increase and internet search engines are making it easier, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry ...
Review: Glitzy iPhone X aside the iPhone 8 is fine for most
In this Sept. 15, 2017, photo, the iPhone 8 Plus rests on a wireless charger in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) The difference between A ...
NY AG presses TransUnion Experian for cybersecurity details
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is pressing TransUnion and Experian to explain what cybersecurity they have in place to protect ...
How VR is revolutionizing the way future doctors are learning about our bodies
The virtual-reality program used by UCSF medical students allows them to go through the human body layer by layer, deconstructing and recons ...
The sublime challenge of jet noise
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Humans make a lot of noise. The riffs of heavy metal bands like Metallica and Kiss have soared to levels in the 1 ...
Soft robotics: self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle without the need of externals
(L) The electrically actuated muscle with thin resistive wire in a rest position; (R) The muscle is expanded using low power characteristics ...
The person named most dangerous online might surprise you
In this Feb. 14, 2016 file photo, Avril Lavigne arrives at the 2016 Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cybersecurity firm ...
Facebook may be facing an 'era of accountability'
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook has unwittingly allowed groups backed ...
'Car nation' Germany distrustful of driverless vehicles
Visitors to the IAA can be taken for a spin in driverless cars German carmakers are showing off their self-driving cars at the IAA internat ...
Startup Pi out to slice the charging cord
Pi co-founders Lixin Shi, left, and John MacDonald tout their invention as the world's first wireless charger that does away with the ne ...