Economists find improved electricity storage leads to innovation efficiency
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Research recently published in the European Economic Review shows that improved electrical storage technology spu ...
Isolation by the West fuels a tech startup boom in Iran
In this Sunday, May 22, 2017, photo, staffers of the Bamilo online shopping site attend a meeting at their office in Tehran, Iran. Iran rema ...
New smart speaker expected as Apple kicks off conference
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Apple appears poised to unveil a voice-activated, internet-connected speaker that would create a new digital pipe ...
First farmer lawsuit on deck against Syngenta over China trade
The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits will go to trial on Monday in Kansas against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its deci ...
Q&A: Internet extremism and how to combat it
The Union flag flies at half mast in Whitehall, central London, Sunday June 4, 2017, after Saturday night's terrorist incident on London Bri ...
System aims to recreate challenging mountain climbs in gym
In this combo of images from video provided by Dartmouth College, a climber ascends an outdoor rock face, left, on Dec. 12, 2015 in Rumney, ...
Laptop ban hot topic as airlines meet in Cancun
US and British bans on laptops on certain commercial flights is a hot topic at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual mee ...
Blockchain seen as tool in food safety
The food industry is turning to the same technology used by virtual currencies to strengthen food safety and inventory management by trackin ...
Takeoff and cruise: Toyota making 'flying car' luxury boat (Update)
Members of Cartivator carry propellers of the test model flying car in Toyota, central Japan, Saturday, June 3, 2017. Cartivator Resource Ma ...
Toyota ends electric-car ties with Tesla: report
Two years later they jointly developed sport utility vehicles with electric-power engines and sold some 2,500 units in California and other ...
Bahrain minister briefly hacked after Qatar cyber attack
Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa addresses a press conference in Kuwait City on April 16, 2017 Hackers temporar ...
Walmart touts investment in people technology as advantages (Update)
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon speaks during the Walmart shareholders meeting Friday, June 2, 2017, at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Ark. (Ja ...
'Tallinn Manual 2.0'—the rulebook for cyberwar
The Tallinn Manual was among the hot topics this week as over 500 IT security experts from across the globe gathered at NATO's Cycon cyber s ...
Takeoff and cruise: Toyota making 'flying car' luxury boat
Toyota Motor Corp. is working on a "flying car." Cart ...
Waymo turning tech talent to self-driving trucks
Former Google car division Waymo, whose CEO John Krafcik is seen at the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, will use its ...
Walmart touts traditional retailing roots as an advantage
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon is touting the company's traditional retailing roots as a competitive advantage as it seeks to take sales away fro ...
Hackers break into centralized password manager OneLogin
In this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. Hackers have gained access to OneLogin, an online passw ...
Google moves to block 'annoying' ads in browser
Google is stepping up efforts to filter out annoying online ads as part of an effort to improve the browsing experience Google is working t ...
How can we better protect crowds from terrorism?
It’s almost impossible to adequately protect soft targets like public gatherings. Credit: www.shutterstock.com If it seems like every week, ...
3-D models of faces developed by researchers could help in reconstruction surgery
Credit: Imperial College London Researchers are scanning 6,000 volunteers for a project that aims to create 3-D computer face models for re ...
Snapchat's 'Spectacles' go on sale in Europe
Snap announces that its Spectacles sunglasses have gone on sale in Europe Snap, parent company of the mobile application Snapchat, said Fri ...
North Korea cyberattacks and 'Lazarus': What we really know
In this Monday, May 15, 2017, file photo, employees watch electronic boards monitoring possible ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Interne ...
Advances in Bayesian methods for big data
(a) This is an illustration of the Bayesian inference with Bayes' rule. (b-f) Regularized Bayesian inference under an optimization framework ...
Artificial transpiration for solar water purification
(a) This is a schematics of traditional two dimensional solar steam generation with direct water contact. (Here, the conduction loss means t ...
Research identifies methods to protect against online privacy attacks
A team of Princeton researchers has developed a method to detect and defend against attacks on the Tor system, which provides anonymity to i ...
Review: Prepare for the crash: Synology box keeps your data safe
Synology might not be a company you've heard much about. The technology firm makes network attached storage appliances that can make your co ...
U.S. now can ask travelers for Facebook Twitter handles
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Travelers wishing to visit the United States can now be asked for their social media handles and email addresses ...
Lyft's first diversity report shows it's mostly white and male
Lyft's first diversity report, published Thursday, came with few surprises: The ride-hailing company's workforce - excluding its drivers, wh ...
India's mobile internet use increases ninefold
Despite regulatory and technical obstacles, India's mobile internet market has huge growth potential with hundreds of millions expected to g ...
Material to enable tougher and faster smart devices
A material which is light, durable and easy to manufacture, could be used to create hybrid devices that conduct electricity at unprecedented speeds, claim researchers from Queen's University.
Germany finds emission-cheating gear on 24000 Audis in Europe (Update)
Emissions cheating devices were found on Audi vehicles in Germany - the latest revelation in the "dieselgate" scandal German auth ...
Official: Audi used software to cheat diesel emissions tests
Germany's transport minister says luxury automaker Audi used software to cheat on diesel emissions tests, an allegation that has already cau ...
Study shows U.S. consumers want to know when their power is coming from renewable sources
Around 15 percent of US power was generated from renewable energy sources in 2016, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Cr ...
Sears says that some Kmart stores targets of security breach
Sears Holdings Corp. says some of its Kmart stores were targeted by hackers, leading to unauthorized activity on some of its customers' cred ...
'Expert in a suitcase' cuts power bills 10 percent in small commercial buildings
The Sensor Suitcase packs the knowledge of a seasoned energy efficiency professional into a high-tech suitcase, which contains easy-to-use s ...
Apple readying Siri-powered home assistant: report
Apple is set to launch its own home hub powered by digital assistant Siri, in a challenge to Amazon's Alexa-powered devices, according to a ...
Berlin homes to be heated with energy from wind power
Swedish utility company Vattenfall is investing almost 100 million euros ($112 million) to build a power-to-heat facility in the German capi ...
Interview: France warns of risk of war in cyberspace
The director general of the cyber defense agency known in France by its acronym, ANSSI, Guillaume Poupard, poses for a photographer during a ...
Saving lives and money: the potential of solar to replace coal
By transitioning to solar photovoltaics (PV) in the US, up to 51,999 American lives would be saved at $1.1 million invested per life. Credit ...
JetBlue Delta will test biometric boarding passes
Boarding passes could someday become quaint relics for air travelers. ...
Scientists slash computations for deep learning
Ryan Spring (left) and Anshumali Shrivastava. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University computer scientists have adapted a widely ...
Flying metal detectors? Navy tests new unmanned mine-detection system
Cory Stephanson, president and CEO of Broadband Discovery Systems, Inc., launches a small quadrotor platform as Dr. Rosemarie Oelrich, scien ...
Online game Words with Friends adds 'covfefe' to its list
This screen grab shows a tweet from President Donald Trump which has social media trying to find a meaning in the mysterious term "covf ...
Apple says payouts from App Store total $70 bn
The Apple logo at a store in the central business district of Sydney. Apple holds its Worldwide Developers Conference next week in Californi ...
Alleged Russia hacker appeals extradition to Russia
A Russian man who faces charges of hacking computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and other American companies has appealed a Czech court decision t ...
Single cells lined up like ducks in a row
The new microhole chip can be populated with 200,000 single cells, each held in place in separate holes. Credit: Fraunhofer IBMT The higher ...
Avoiding material inclusions such as dross in wind turbines
Dross in thick-walled cast iron with spheroidal graphite: casting surface after the fluorescent magnetic powder test. Credit: Fraunhofer LBF ...
Sensor boutique for early adopters
Demonstrator of the miniaturized laser source consisting of a quantum cascade laser chip and a MOEMS grating scanner. Credit: Photo Fraunhof ...
Roofline model boosts manycore code optimization efforts
In the Roofline Model, the starting point for assessing performance is the peak computation rate, which is represented by a horizontal line ...
A marker-free system for tracing mass components
With its “Track & Trace Fingerprint“ Fraunhofer IPM has developed a marker-free system for the traceability of mass components. Credit: ...
Facebook Google crack down on hate speech: EU
Facebook is among US internet giants who have cracked down on online hate speech, according to a top EU official Facebook, Google and other ...
Dutch testing tube unveiled for Hyperloop transport system
People look at a hyperloop test facility unveiled by a tech startup and a construction company in Delft, Netherlands, Thursday, June 1, 2017 ...
Changing spin direction increases capacitance
Capacitance can be altered by manipulating spins in the opposite way from ‘normal’ magnetocapacitance, shows a team from Brown University. This discovery could play an important role in developing cap
Walk this way with Detour app: 150 audio tours
If you're looking for a knowledgeable traveling companion, consider installing the Detour app on your smartphone. ...
Design student turns waste plastic shopping bags into skateboards
Credit: Jason Knight A compact press that turns plastic shopping bags into skateboards has been designed by a student at Brunel University ...
How flattening our dimension can bring better graphics into the fold
In order to create 3-D models in the field of computer graphics, thin sheets of material are layered together to create a single object. Dr. ...
Trump's cellphone use worries security experts
In this Jan. 28, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval ...
Renewable energy expected to continue growth despite Trump
In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, a plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. President Donald Trump may aba ...
The art of everyday objects growing like mushrooms
What is nicer after a long day than sinking your feet into comfortable slippers? But one Italian designer is hoping to show that shoes made ...
Unusual metal could enable mid-infrared detectors
A new phenomenon, found by MIT physicists in an unconventional metal, could provide a new way of making highly sensitive detectors – including night vision, thermal sensing, and environmental monitor
First robotic cop joins Dubai police
The world's first operational police robot stands to attention in front of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest tower in the world, on May 31, ...
Analogue RF and microwave signal generator launched
The SMA100B is the most powerful analogue signal generator on the market, Rohde & Schwarz claims, offering a frequency range of up to 20GHz.
Generation green: smart cities bring new eco-friendly jobs
Credit: Youris.com Smart cities across Europe are pioneering all sorts of cutting-edge technologies to reduce pollution and boost energy ef ...
Europol using everyday objects to trace child sex abusers
A Europol police agent looks at the onscreen logo of a new website launched by Europol at the Europol headquarters in The Hague on May 31, 2 ...
Investors pick Tesla's promise over GM's steady profits
In this Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., introduces the Model X car at the company's headquarters in Fremont ...
UK campaigner takes on Facebook 'dark ads' during election
Louis Knight-Webb has created a browser plug-in that tracks how political parties target people with advertising on Facebook From a tech hu ...
Support for tidal energy is high among Washington residents
The best areas for tidal energy in Puget Sound are shown. Credit: Craig Hill/University of Washington Puget Sound is one of the best places ...
'Harder better faster stronger'-tethered soft exosuit reduces metabolic cost of running
A system of actuation wires attached to the back of the exosuit provides assistive force to the hip joint during running. Credit: The Wyss I ...
Cold conversion of food waste into renewable energy and fertilizer
Researchers from Concordia's Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) in collaboration with Bio-Terre Systems Inc. ...
Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
New algorithms power a prototype system for helping visually impaired users avoid obstacles and identify objects. Credit: Massachusetts Inst ...
Dual band radio delivers ‘coexistence’ in crowded spectrum
Cypress has launched a wireless device that is said to deliver advanced coexistence, combining IEEE802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity.
FPGA IP core targeted at 16nm processes
Flex Logix has completed the design of its second-generation IP core for use in devices to be made on TSMC’s 16FF+ and 16FFC processes. Enabling embedded FPGA arrays with more than 100,000 LUTs, the l
Sub threshold processor developer gets more cash
Sub threshold processor developer Minima has completed the second stage of its seed funding round. According to the Finnish company, Lifeline Ventures is the latest investor, joining earlier investmen
World-first technology reduces harmful diesel emissions
Credit: Loughborough University An industry-first technology developed by Loughborough University has the potential to significantly cut ni ...
Social media users adapt personas specifically for platforms
Researchers at King's College London, working in collaboration with Penn State University, have found that social media users adapt their be ...
German court denies parents access to dead teen's Facebook account
Facebook has faced increased scrutiny in Germany, where authorities have proposed heavy fines if online social networks fail to wipe illegal ...
Saudi king earns more retweets than Trump study says
Saudi Arabian King Salman may not tweet often, but he gets a bigger response than Donald Trump's regular posts Donald Trump may be lighting ...
Google expands paid carpooling across California
Google is expanding its paid carpool service throughout California, building on an effort to get more traffic-weary drivers to share their r ...
Twitter's inadequte plan to help young people not get too overwhelmed by bad news
We live in a chronically anxious era, seemingly being bombarded with negative news at every turn. Social media allow us to not only read abo ...
China postpones portion of cybersecurity law
China has postponed enforcement of part of a cybersecurity law that companies warn violates Beijing's free-trade pledges but says most of it ...
Continental partners with Baidu on connected cars
Baidu tested its first automated car prototype in Beijing in 2015, and recently launched an open platform known as Apollo where it will shar ...
Exploring the use of algorithms in the criminal justice system
Using an algorithm to help set bail could keep many defendants out of jail without increasing the risk of flight to avoid trial. Credit: Sto ...
The evolution of computational linguistics and where it's headed next
Natural language processing is a key part of the artificial intelligence revolution. Credit: Stefani Billings Earlier this year, Christophe ...
Study looks at impact of information overload from road signs
A CARRS-Q study has looked at whether freeway signage is too complicated for drivers. This is an example of where three signs are positioned ...
New uses for RFID and security for the internet of things
Sanjay Sarma. Credit: David Sella On the 25th anniversary of the universal barcode in 1999, the barcode community gathered around Sanjay Sa ...
Magnetoelectric memory cell uses less power
A magnetoelectric random access memory (MELRAM) cell based on the stress-mediated magnetoelectric effect has been developed by a team of researchers from France and Russia. They claim the memory cell
Ensuring the security of digital information
Jiqiang Lu with the GPGPU used to crack the A5/1 cipher. Credit: A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research Every day we store and transfer sen ...
Superscalar processor cores launched
The DesignWare ARC HS4x and HS4xD processor family from Synopsys is targeted at high performance embedded applications. Featuring five variants, each available in single, dual and quad core configurat
Model found for 2D materials based memory
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) has been synthesised using graphene/hexagonal-boron-nitride/graphene (G/h-BN/G) van der Waals structures by researchers at the Lanza Laboratory located at Sooch
A 'miracle material' for spintronics
A class of materials called organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites could be a game changer for future spintronic devices, according to a University of Utah led team. The material could potentially proce
Toshiba's future imperiled by shaky ethics nuclear fiascos
In this April 11, 2017, file photo, Toshiba Corp.'s President Satoshi Tsunakawa bows during a press conference at the company's headquarters ...
Toshiba's future imperiled on nuclear woes dubious ethics
In this April 11, 2017, file photo, Toshiba Corp.'s President Satoshi Tsunakawa bows during a press conference at the company's headquarters ...
Layoffs rile India's flagship IT sector
Experienced Indian techie Raghu Narayanaswamy lost his job recently and fears he may not get another, as analysts warn of massive layoffs ac ...
Nest wants your home security camera to recognize you
This photo provided by Nest Labs shows the Nest Cam IQ. Nest Labs is adding Google's facial recognition technology to a high-resolution secu ...
Study shows big smart meter investment yielded 'very small' electricity savings
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Smart meters and time-of-use electricity pricing have only modestly reduced residential energy demand during the ...
Drone vs. truck deliveries: Which create less carbon pollution?
These heat maps show carbon dioxide emission differences between drone and truck deliveries as a drone's energy requirements (measured in wa ...
Plastic surgery clinics hacked; 25000 photos data online
Police in Lithuania say more than 25,000 private photos and personal data—including nude pictures—were made public Tuesday following the hac ...
Android software creator unveils 'Essential' phone
Andy Rubin, pictured at a conference of the New Economy Summit 2013 in Tokyo, says his newly developed Essential smartphone allows the devic ...
Uber fires autonomous car researcher involved in lawsuit
In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's self-driving program, speaks about their driverless car in San Franci ...
Court: Russian hacker can be extradited to US or Russia (Update)
A Czech court ruled Tuesday that a Russian man who faces charges of hacking computers at American companies can be extradited either to the ...