Samsung's flagship S8 smartphone incorporates its virtual assistant Bixby, which competes in a crowded field that includes Apple's S ...
VW's reputation has been muddied by the diesel scandal. Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday pledged a billion euros to help German citie ...
Credit: Rolls-Royce/Flickr The Yara Birkeland isn't an ordinary cargo ship. If all goes well then the vessel, currently being built for ...
The UK government has announced six areas in the UK that will shortly be trying out broadband technology that provides data at speeds approaching one gigabit per second (gbps).
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Scientists at the University of Sussex have developed a new algorithm that will enable smartwatches to detect and record an individual’s movements, without being told beforehand what to look for.
Credit: University of St Andrews An innovative technology, created by researchers at the University of St Andrews, can allow your smartphon ...
A silver micron-particle sintering joining technology has been developed by scientists at The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently recalled approximately 465,000 pacemakers made by the company Abbott's (formerly St. ...
Figure 1: Virtualized project room concept in manufacturing. Credit: Fujitsu Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that it has expanded its ...
Figure 1: Portable paper solar cells based on foldable, lightweight, transparent, conductive cellulose nanofiber paper. Credit: CC-BY Macmil ...
As Tipsy methodically unfolds an arm to select a glass, retrieve ice and mix a drink, it's all a far cry from the flashy swagger of Tom ...
In this Monday, June 26, 2017, photo, Sophie Li, of Cupertino, Calif., offers to dance with a K5 robot made by Knightscope, Inc., at Westfie ...
In this April 2017 photo provided by GiveDirectly, GiveDirectly basic income recipient Irine Ogolla poses in front of her home with her son ...
Play time at the Sony booth at the IFA Consumer Electronics Fair in Berlin. The Toio—still a prototype—will allow techy kids armed with tabl ...
Honesty turned out to be the best policy for this Saudi programmer Fizzing with boyish exuberance, Saudi programmer Zainalabdin Tawfiq coul ...
US and Indian scientists measured how man-made particles floating in the air and deposited as grime on solar panels combined to seriously im ...
Huawei's first mobile digital assistant, Kirin 970, will systematically respond to three questions: Where is the user? Who are they and ...
In this Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, file photo, a driver displaying Lyft and Uber stickers on his front windshield drops off a customer in downt ...
Video streaming player pioneer Roku is going public, hoping to raise money to expand into more households and fend off competitive threats f ...
To get Windows 10 adopted quickly, Microsoft plans to give it away as a free upgrade for a year after its release Microsoft on Friday annou ...
Tinder's rise to become the top-grossing app in Apple's App Store came after it rolled out a new "Gold" service Tinder fo ...
EgyptAir said in a statement the British ban on personal electronic devices in aircraft cabins "will be lifted tomorrow (Sept ...
Through automatically generated entities and their relationships, computers can answer complex search queries. Credit: MPI Almost every wor ...
Google's effort to acquire a broad swath of downtown San Jose properties for a massive new tech campus is triggering a sharp jump in sel ...
The delivery wars keep getting hotter. Deliv, a Menlo Park, Ca. ...
Stadium Group is continuing to expand its power portfolio, with the latest move being the acquisition of PowerPax UK, which manufactures and distributes power supplies, battery chargers and LED produc
Credit: Vojko Kalan/public domain Smart phones and water just don't mix, as thousands of people in Texas are learning to their distress ...
Recording TV shows for later viewing is something almost everyone who subscribes to pay TV can do. ...
The way Girls in Tech founder Adriana Gascoigne sees it, revelations about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley technology firms are a double ...
While some cybersecurity threats are easy to spot, others can be more challenging. Now, consider identifying those same threats with a visua ...
A South Carolina couple is suing online retailer Amazon over what they claim were faulty pairs of eclipse glasses that resulted in eye injur ...
Self-repairing dispenser for engine production developed within the EU-funded SelSus research project by project partner Manufacturing Techn ...
Words are more than their dictionary definition. Credit: Amir Ridhwan/Shutterstock The words "extreme","extremist" and ...
A device being developed by Washington State University physicists could turn the heat generated by an array of electronics into a usable fuel source.
A way to stop frequency fluctuation in buck converters has been found by a research team of scientists from Golestan University in Iran, US Concordia University, and Delft University of Technology in
Credit: University of St Andrews Researchers at the University of St Andrews have thrown down the gauntlet to computer programmers to find ...
A customer tries out a facial recognition payment system at a KFC fast food restaurant in Hangzhou, China The operator of KFC in China is r ...
A new study from UC Berkeley's Green Economy Program shows that joint union-employer apprenticeship programs have helped people of color ...
Glass half empty? Chinese crooks looking for a quiet pint at a beer festival were nabbed by cops using facial recognition at the festival ...
In this Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, photo, Jack Bishop, lead pilot for Propel, demonstrates the company's new "Star Wars" Starfigh ...
The growth of humanity is limited by our tools. Each era of human development, from caves to the Industrial Revolution to sending Curiosity ...
Buck converters, also known as step down converters, are chatty Cathys. The systems produce less power than they receive, and the tracking s ...
The power it takes to bring a Boeing 747 from a resting state on the airport tarmac to speeding across the sky is enormous. The jet can cont ...
Pop culture predicts a wide array of robots to aid humans, from the Jetsons' housekeeper, Rosie to the adorable (and helpful) R2-D2 and ...
Screen shots from the NoiseCapture application. Credit: CNRS-IFSTTAR. Anyone who owns an Android smartphone will soon be able to contribute ...
Could 2017 be smartwatches' turn to be a hit with the general public after years being seen as a gimmick? With just a few months to go ...
A California Department of Motor Vehicles website on Thursday showed that the South Korean consumer technology giant's name had been add ...
Amazon launched its first Echo device in 2014 and has already sold millions of the smart speakers, according to industry trackers Ordering ...
Increasingly tech-savvy buyers are less interested in the size of the screen and more in its resolution No-one wants to watch Game of Thron ...
Many of those living in shanty towns around the world have no address, meaning they cannot receive mail, or even have a pizza delivered—but ...
A first-ever Apple media event at the Steve Jobs Theater on September 12 is expected to star iPhone models marking the tenth anniversary of ...
Two Penn State professors have received $300,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop technology that will enable digital devices ...
There was a time during World War II when pigeons almost became the next war heroes... until scientists at NIST grounded them -- thanks to s ...
Apple's faithful fans and investors won't have to wait much longer to see what the iPhone maker has in store next. ...
Services at British banks Lloyds and Barclays were disrupted by cyber attacks in January A British man was due in court on Thursday after b ...
Florence is an online personal health assistant that helps users to manage their health & wellness care. This "virtual friend" ...
Sandia National Laboratories materials physicist Paul Clem holds a sample of nanoparticle coated glass. Thermochromic nanoparticles switch f ...
Disruptive technology is starting to transform our cities, societies and lives. Credit: Shutterstock Emergent technologies are poised to ra ...
Credit: Steffen Thoma/Public Domain When management upheaval, allegations of corporate espionage, and revelations of sexual harassment sent ...
STMicroelectronics says it has strengthened its ecosystem with the launch of a partner programme designed to connect customers with qualified technical specialists who can provide strategic support fo
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ComText allows robots to understand contextual commands such as, “Pick up the box I put down.” Credit: Tom Buehler/MIT CSAIL Despite what y ...
Credit: Shutterstock It's so hard to speak to a real person on the phone these days. Almost any time you need to call your bank, doctor ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The technologies driving artificial intelligence are expanding exponentially, leading many technology experts and ...
In this Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, file photo, Rhonda Worthington talks on her cellphone with a 911 dispatcher as she gets out of her car after ...
An eye specialist checks the eyes of an elderly patient in Juba In the developing world, basic healthcare is often a challenge—let alone ex ...
Toshiba said Thursday that three groups are vying for its memory chip business, as reports said Apple has jumped into the race with a consor ...
While speaking with Uber workers, Khosrowshahi shared his opinion that the private company should go public, hinting that could happen in 18 ...
Volunteers try out the Selection for UAS Personnel, or SUPer. Developed with support from the Office of Naval Research, SUPer is a series of ...
A way to simultaneously control diverse optical properties of dielectric waveguides by using a quasi 2D two-layer coating has been found by a team of Penn State electrical engineers.
Perovskite crystals can change shape in response to light according to researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. They believe the crystals could form the heart of novel light-
Brian Matthys honed his internal instincts for when he had gotten too much sun during his years as a teenage lifeguard. ...
Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their trip ends, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday a ...
In this Feb. 4, 2009 file photo, Dennis-Anthony Wyrzykowski of Carmel Laboratories LLC, poses in front of an alter in a chapel at a Carmelit ...
The 600 million euro figure from Microsoft is the second-largest amount France has sought in unpaid taxes from a high-tech multinational, af ...
Adding a high-tech twist to eternal rest, robotic Buddhist priests are now offering up their services for funerals in Japan. ...
Magnetic tomography developed at HZDR is an important prerequisite for controlling mold injection in continuous steel casting. Credit: HZDR ...
Under a deal with Microsoft, Amazon Echo device users will be able to ask Alexa to bring in Cortana as a "guest" to tend to tasks ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have ...
In this Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, file photo, a man shops for avocados at a Whole Foods Market, in New York. The splashy price cuts Amazon made ...
What's nice about Amazon's new drone patent is the prospect of having a little chat with your aerial-delivery vehicle when it's ...
After nearly 10 years of collaborative research from the Army, industry and academia, the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology, or MAST, ...
While online networking sites enable individuals to increase their professional connections, to what extent do these ties actually lead to j ...
A Muslim pilgrim takes a selfie at the Grand Mosque in the holy Saudi city of Mecca, early on August 30, 2017, on the eve of the start of th ...
People wade through chest deep water down Pine Cliff Drive as Addicks Reservoir nears capacity due to near constant rain from Tropical Storm ...
In this May 1, 2016 file photo, members of Banolim, an advocacy group for workers in the electronic industry, perform during a rally against ...
Silicon in lithium-ion batteries shows great promise. Credit: Timo Ikonen Silicon – the second most abundant element in the earth's cru ...
Credit: IBM In the Moore's Law race to keep improving computer performance, the IT industry has turned upward, stacking chips like nano ...
Within the past decade, 3-D printers have gone from bulky, expensive curiosities to compact, more affordable consumer products. At the same ...
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland studied the implementation of a logistics robot system at the Seinäjoki Central Hospital in So ...
Senior mechanical Technician Rich Moore (left) and Mechanical Designer Kevin Morris lower an alignment mechanism into a vessel that confined ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international scientific collaboration has successfully integrated a sub-micron thin, nanophotonic silicon fil ...
Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland say that, by replacing graphite anodes with silicon, it is possible to quadruple anode capacity in lithium-ion batteries.
Antennas that are up to 1000 times smaller than currently available could be enabled by research conducted at Northeastern University in the US. “A lot of people have tried hard to reduce the size of
The magnitude and sign of the thermoelectric voltage across atomic-scale gold junctions can be controlled by applying a mechanical strain to deform the contact minutely and accurately while the struct
A volunteer presents an app-supported coffee machine at the booth of De'Longhi at last year's IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) e ...
San Francisco-based Uber said it was cooperating with an investigation into possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act The US ...
A new approach to advanced sensor and energy harvesting devices based on controlling domain alignment in nanostructured ferroelectric materials has been developed by a team from Nagoya University.
In this photo provided by the Kalashnikov company and made available on Tuesday, Aug. 29 2017, Russia's Kalashnikov company, the maker o ...