Protein produced with electricity to alleviate world hunger
Credit: Lappeenranta University of Technology A batch of single-cell protein has been produced by using electricity and carbon dioxide in a ...
Researchers test 3-D-printed water quality sensor
Professor Mina Hoorfar, Director of UBC Okanagan's School of Engineering. Credit: UBC Okanagan Researchers at UBC's Okanagan campus have de ...
Swim robot probes Fukushima reactor to find melted fuel
An underwater robot has captured images and other data inside Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on its first day of work. ...
LPWAN module supports LoRa SigFox
Murata says its collaboration with STMicroelectronics and SigFox has enabled it to become the the first major vendor to offer an LPWAN module that supports the LoRa and SigFox protocols.
Want to escape Sao Paulo's traffic? Take a flying taxi
Airbus' subsidiary Voom gives an alternative for those willing to avoid Sao Paulo's heavy car traffic, offering a helicopter service similar ...
Hi Bixby: Samsung phone's voice assistant now speaks English
Samsung Electronics says its Bixby voice assistant for smartphones will start speaking English but only in two countries: South Korea and th ...
Microsoft cloud to help Baidu self-driving car effort
Rather than develop its own self-driving car, Microsoft has been playing to its strength in software by working with automotive companies on ...
MRI device could bridge neuro-technologies for medical diagnostics increase safety
Researchers from Purdue’s College of Engineering are developing a device that when placed into existing MRI machines could allow medical pro ...
Target CEO unfazed by Amazon-Whole Foods deal
US retail giant Target's chief executive Brian Cornell on Tuesday played down Amazon's massive deal to acquire grocery chain Whole Foods, ar ...
Google Glass reborn for the workplace
Google Glass, put on hold in 2015, is now back for a limited program with business applications After spending two years on the sidelines, ...
Ready-to-cook meals from Amazon in bid to expand groceries
Amazon has begun selling ready-to-cook meal packages for busy households in a bid to expand its groceries business. ...
Daimler to recall 3 million vehicles to ease diesel doubts
In this Feb. 5, 2015 file photo the logo of a Mercedes car is photographed during an annual press conference of Daimler AG in Stuttgart, Ger ...
Making lab equipment on the cheap
A 3-D model of FlyPi (left) and the assembled FlyPi with single micromanipulator and light-emitting diode-ring module, diffusor, and Petri d ...
Detecting dangers with crowdsourcing
Credit: Harvard University By the time officials in Flint, Mich., declared a state of emergency in response dangerously high levels of lead ...
Bluetooth to support mesh networking
Bluetooth technology now supports mesh networking, says the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). The new mesh capability enables many-to-many device communications and is optimised for creating lar
Empowering robots for ethical behavior
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robot ...
Facebook has plans to expand New Mexico data center
Facebook's plans for New Mexico now call for a half-billion-dollar investment and a data center that will span an area equal to 17 football ...
Bluetooth mesh solution to help cut time to market
A suite of software and hardware that supports the new Bluetooth mesh specification has been announced by Silicon Labs.
China users report WhatsApp disruption amid censorship fears
In this March 10, 2017, file photo, WhatsApp appears on a smartphone in New York. Users of WhatsApp in China and security researchers report ...
Researchers describe pneumatic actuator that generates cyclical motion
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers A new study demonstrated the design, potential applications, and advantages of an innovative mul ...
Chinese bike-sharing startup aims at US with new model
Rapidly growing bike-sharing startup Mobike already has 100 million users in China. And it's now looking to the US and Europe in the hope it ...
Why has healthcare become such a target for cyber-attackers?
Credit: Shutterstock More than 16m patient records were stolen from healthcare organisations in the US and related parties in 2016. That ye ...
Fast method to make supercapacitor electrodes
A fast and inexpensive process for manufacturing supercapacitor electrode materials that meet stringent industrial demands has been developed by a team of engineers at the University of Washington. Ap
Optical fibre that preserves the properties of light
A new type of optical fibre that has a large core diameter and preserves the properties of light has been developed by scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Rus
Robot can inspect water or gas pipes from the inside to find leaks long before they become catastrophic
Researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in pipes with pinpoint precision, no matter what ...
Semiconductor distributors merge to increase market share
Semiconductor distributor BCD Microelectronics has announced its merger with Munich based Atlantik Elektronik. The new company will be named BCD-Atlantik and is to remain an independent company but wi
Cameras with inbuilt detective skills to catch rural criminals
Police forces are testing hidden cameras to catch crimes in rural areas. Credit: Jonathan Hutchins and licensed for reuse under CC BY-SA 2.0 ...
Japanese engineers develop headset-less VR system
The 8K:VR Ride resembles a cross between a theme park ride and a miniature IMAX theatre A virtual reality "space ride" in which v ...
Ericsson plans more cost cuts as shares plunge after poor Q2
Ericsson shares have plunged by around 10 percent after the Swedish mobile networks company reported a second-quarter loss with sales fallin ...
Samsung to recover rare metals components in Galaxy Note 7s
A man passes by advertisements of Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note Fan Edition at a mobile phone shop in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 18 ...
Two Iranians charged in US over hacking defense materials
Two Iranian men have been indicted for hacking a Vermont-based defense contractor and stealing weapons design software, and then distributin ...
Qualcomm CEO sees settlement with Apple
Qualcomm Inc. CEO Steve Mollenkopf delivers keynote address at CES 2017 at The Venetian Las Vegas Qualcomm chief executive Steve Mollenkopf ...
Michael Dell takes long view with 'Dell 2.0'
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, says going private has allowed him to take a longer-term focus to grow the company His first compan ...
Team develops fast cheap method to make supercapacitor electrodes for electric cars high-powered lasers
Slice from x-ray computed tomography image of a supercapacitor coin cell assembled with the electrode materials. The thin layers -- just bel ...
New research tracks global IT's shift from cost-cutting to revenue-boosting
Information technology is often credited for its role in helping companies cut costs. However, new research by Professor Sunil Mithas at the ...
Netflix shares jump as subscriptions top 100 million
Most of Netflix's subscriber growth came from outside the United States, where the company has invested heavily in establishing itself as a ...
Judge: Govt. asked Google for too much data in gender case
In this Thursday, April 12, 2012, file photo, a Google logo is displayed at the headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. On Friday, July 14, 20 ...
Lithuania to extradite $100 mn email fraud suspect to US
Evaldas Rimasauskas is pictured in district court in Vilnius in May 2017 A Lithuanian man who allegedly swindled $100 million (87 million e ...
A better approach to disease prediction through big data analytics
Big data holds great promise to change health care for the better. However, much of the technology that will someday transform health care a ...
Ultra-high-contrast digital sensing
MIT researchers have developed a sampling scheme that is unconstrained by bandwidth, allowing analog-to-digital conversion without “clipping ...
Researcher discusses the future of the electric utility
MIT Energy Initiative Director of Research Francis O'Sullivan is pondering decarbonization, decentralization, and the smart electric grid of ...
The blockchain could have better security than the banks
There are ways to improve the online ledger blockchain by taking some security notes from banks. If people could use both two-step verificat ...
Fluorine grants white graphene new powers
Fluorine turns an insulating ceramic known as white graphene from an insulator into a wide-bandgap semiconductor with magnetic properties, say Rice University scientists. They claim that because the a
Somalia's internet returns after 3-week outage caused outcry
Somalia's internet has returned after an outage of more than three weeks cost the Horn of Africa nation about $10 million a day, authorities ...
Is America's digital leadership on the wane?
Is America’s digital economy facing a stormy future? Credit: Filipe Frazao/Shutterstock.com American leadership in technology innovation an ...
Researchers develop transistor concept
A new way of producing transistors has been discovered by researchers at the University of Hamburg.
Smooth surfaces to improve rechargeable batteries
Smooth surfaces on solid electrolytes could improve rechargeable lithium batteries, found MIT researchers.
Researchers prove the security of the Vector Stream Cipher
Kyoto University demonstrates the security of a cipher based on chaos theory. Credit: Kyoto Univeristy / Eiri Ono How do we know if the ele ...
US to create independent military cyber command
In this May 9, 2017, file photo, U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers testifies on Capitol Hill in ...
Estonia to open world's first virtual data embassy
Data security is essential for the functioning of the country's services, says Estonia's Prime Minister Juri Ratas Cyber-savvy Estonia has ...
Elon Musk talks cars—and humanity's fate—with governors
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responds to a question by Nevada Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval during the closing plenary session entitled & ...
Telegram blocks terror content after Indonesia threatens ban
The messaging app Telegram is displayed on a smartphone, Saturday, July 15, 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand. Indonesia says it's blocking web ver ...
S.Africa's white enclave eyes move to e-cash
A whites-only enclave in South Africa has resisted the country's multi-racial reality for more than two decades, even adopting its own paper ...
Rapper Akon to buy 50% of African music download service
Akon, whose real name is Aliaune Badara Thiam, announced in Dakar he would become the majority shareholder in the service, describing M ...
Self-fueling boat sets off from Paris on 6-year world trip
In this Tuesday, July 4, 2017 file photo, the Energy Observer, a former race boat turned into a autonomous navigation with hydrogen, sails o ...
Indonesia limits access to Telegram app readies total ban
Indonesia say it's blocking web versions of the Telegram instant messaging app and will block the app completely if it continues to be a for ...
Five tech tips for unplugging on vacation
With summer travel kicking off, we're offering several tips on how to really disconnect from work electronically. After all, isn't taking a ...
15 awesome 'Google Home' tricks
Whether you already own one or have thought about it, you probably know Google Home ($129) is one of those popular voice-activated personal ...
Helping robots learn to see in 3-D
When fed 3-D models of household items in bird's-eye view (left), a new algorithm is able to guess what the objects are, and what their over ...
Security mistakes prompt changes to Georgia election system
Georgia's top elections official says his office will take over managing the state's elections technology after a major security lapse at th ...
Prime Day broke records Amazon says
Amazon.com said its third Prime Day, held Tuesday, broke records and was the biggest day of sales in the company's history. ...
Citrix pivoting from growth mode to profit-taking in CEO change analysts say
Software company Citrix Systems promoted its chief financial officer to CEO on Monday, and for good reason, analysts say. ...
AT&T could create media division after Time Warner merger: report
AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson (L) and Time Warner chief executive Jeff Bewkes defend the proposed mega-merger of the companies ...
Silicon Valley reeling in wake of sexual harassment storm
It started with a few women speaking up, reporting a suggestive text message, an invitation to a hotel room, an unwanted touch under a table ...
Two UK police forces team up to launch drone unit
Two British police forces have combined efforts to create what they say is the nation's first police unit dedicated to using drones. ...
Computational imaging on the electric grid
Hallway scene: click to see digital separation to components and relighting. Credit: American Technion Society Researchers at the Technion- ...
Thailand to check monks' bad habits with 'smart ID cards'
Thailand's Buddhist monks could soon be issued "smart ID cards" flagging any drug or criminal records, in the latest move by the j ...
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Explainer: Bitcoin's possible financial panic
In this Monday, April 7, 2014, file photo, a man enters the Inside Bitcoins conference and trade show, in New York. A civil war between the ...
India's Infosys eyes artificial intelligence profits
Indian IT giant Infosys said Friday that artificial intelligence was key to future profits as it bids to satisfy clients' demands for innova ...
Australia to compel chat apps to hand over encrypted messages
Internet firms such as Telegram that use data encryption to guarantee user confidentiality cannot currently be compelled to hand over messag ...
Topological insulator functions at room temperature
A topological insulator that can function at room temperature had been developed by physicists from the University of Wuerzburg.
Nanoporous sponge could cut data storage energy consumption
Researchers from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), in collaboration with the Catalan Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), have developed a nanoporous material based on a cop
Windows Phone 8 fades out as Microsoft mulls mobile strategy
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore shows off features of Windows Phone 8 in 2012. The tech giant is ending support for that ver ...
Server outage at Brazil foreign ministry after rogue emails
Two employees of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry say the agency briefly suffered an unspecified computer outage after a flurry of suspicious ...
New suit can enhance athletes' performance with data
MARS employs real-time motion capture and visualization, using vibration sensors to measure the micro-movements in each of the wearer’s musc ...
India's TCS profits fall by 6 percent
India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services reported a nearly 6 percent fall in quarterly earnings Thursday owing to a streng ...
Uber cedes control in Russian market with Yandex tie-up
Uber is ceding control of the Russian market by agreeing to merge its ridesharing business in the country with Yandex, the Russian search-en ...
Flying cars and no more pilots in flight revolution: Airbus
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Pilotless aircraft, flying electric vehicles and bespoke air cabins are the future of flight, Airbus said Thursd ...
Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries
Sandia National Laboratories engineers Joe Pratt, left, and Myra Blaylock discuss recent modeling results that can inform accurate regulatio ...
Turing researchers get Cray supercomputer for data analytics
Big Data researchers at the Alan Turing Institute will now be able to perform large scale data analytics on Cray Urika-GX supercomputer hosted at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. Provided via
The end of sneakernet?
2017-07-13 20:00:13The end of sneakernet?
Credit: University at Buffalo Not everyone marvels at the speed of the internet. ...
More driving on city streets less on country roads
Credit: University of Michigan Despite a plethora of alternative transportation modes—buses, trains, bicycles—city dwellers are driving mor ...
Researcher studies cross-laminated timber as seismic retrofit tool
Cross-laminated timber. Credit: Oregon State University Safer historic buildings and more jobs for the timber industry are the goals of a p ...
EPSRC puts £91million into Prosperity Partnerships IAAs
Two major investments in research partnerships have been announced by Jo Johnson, Minister for Universities and Science. Both investments are said to show the importance of engineering and the physica
Apple unveils iCloud data centre in China as cyber laws tightened
After announcing its first data centre in China, the US giant sought to allay fears data-security could be monitored or compromised by China ...
Daimler manipulated emissions in one million cars: report
Investigators suspect that Daimler—the world's largest luxury carmaker—used a similar so-called "defeat device" to rival Volkswage ...
eSports league announces franchises for 'Overwatch' competition
Visitors play the video game "Overwatch" at the 2016 Paris Games Week. Game developer Activision is creating an eSports league aro ...
Layer transfer technique for thinner GaN layers
A layer transfer technique called ‘controlled spalling’ that creates many thin layers from a single gallium nitride (GaN) wafer has been demonstrated by researchers from IBM Research.
Conductive electrodes key to better batteries
A new battery electrode design which could potentially allow cell phones to charge in a few seconds has been unveiled by researchers at US Drexel University and Université Paul Sabatier in France.
Harnessing hydrogens for high efficiency OLEDs
A novel design strategy for efficient light-emitting molecules with applications in next-generation displays and lighting has been revealed by researchers at Kyushu University in Japan.
Apple to open data center in China with government ties
In this Friday, May 13, 2016, file photo, a man uses his mobile phone near an Apple store in Beijing. On Wednesday, July 12, 2017, Apple ann ...
Nevada DMV nabs criminal with facial recognition technology
A man who fled federal custody more than 25 years ago couldn't escape new-age crime fighting, thanks to facial recognition technology. ...
Security lapse leaks data from millions of Verizon customers
A security researcher says a lapse has exposed data from millions of Verizon customers, leaking names, addresses and personal identification ...
French court annuls Google's $1.27 billion back tax bill
In this file photo dated Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address for the Google I/O conference in Mou ...
ISPs surprise net neutrality fans on protest day
This image shows a banner, top, on the Netflix website defending net neutrality, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. On Wednesday, Netflix joined othe ...
Personal computer market continues to slump
Analysts expectconsumer demand for PCs to remain under pressure, but see potential boosts from the growing popularity of powerful computers ...
Low-cost smart glove wirelessly translates the American Sign Language alphabet into text
Overview of the gesture-decoding glove. Credit: Timothy O'Connor et al (2017) A glove fitted with wearable electronics can translate the Am ...
Tech review: Samsung QLED TV is picture perfect
It's time to make a confession about my television. I only have one TV in my house, and it's a 10-year-old, 42-inch Panasonic plasma set. ...
Hyperloop startup moves closer to near-supersonic rail
A tube which is part of the test system for high-speed rail startup Hyperloop One is seen in a 2016 photo. The company said Wednesday it com ...