Experts question North Korea role in WannaCry cyberattack
In this Monday, May 15, 2017, file photo, employees watch electronic boards to monitor possible ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Interne ...
Advancing next-generation batteries towards 4S: Stable safe smart sustainable
(a) Li-S, (b) room-temperature Na-S, (c) Li-organic, (d) organic-based redox-flow, and (e) Li-air batteries. Credit: ©Science China Pre ...
Researchers solve dendrite problem boost Li-ion performance
Rice University scientists have created a rechargeable lithium metal battery which is said to have three times the capacity of commercially available lithium-ion batteries. The improvement is ascribed
New tech could prevent need to store non-working pacemakers inside the heart
UB engineers are developing a developing a piezoelectric system that converts the heart’s vibrational energy into electricity to power pacem ...
A solution for precise low-cost eye movement detection
Credit: imec Imec and Holst Centre (set up by imec and TNO) today announced the development of a sensing technology to detect eye movement ...
Philippines arrests 25 Koreans over alleged fraud gambling
Twenty-five South Koreans have been arrested in metropolitan Manila on suspicion of internet fraud or illegal online gambling, Philippine au ...
Toyota Nissan others get behind fuel cell push in Japan
In this July 14, 2014, file photo, a fuel cell hybrid vehicle is refueled from a mobile hydrogen station at the Ministry of Economy, Trade a ...
Singapore car 'vending machine' dispenses with tradition
A vending machine that dispenses luxury cars to well-heeled buyers is the latest space-saving innovation in land-starved Singapore—just don' ...
US agency votes to roll back broadband 'neutrality' rules
Proponents of net neutrality protest against Federal Communication Commission Chairman Ajit Pai outside the American Enterprise Institute be ...
The 'reality' of virtual reality pornography
Credit: Newcastle University Experts at Newcastle University, UK, are investigating how virtual reality is changing the experience of porno ...
FCC vote kicks off a battle over regulation of the internet
In this Feb. 26, 2015, file photo, Federal Communication Commission Commissioner Ajit Pai speaks during an open hearing and vote on "Ne ...
Fiat Chrysler in talks with government over diesels
Fiat Chrysler says it's in discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over claims the comp ...
Vote kicks off battle over regulation of internet
In this Feb. 26, 2015, file photo, Federal Communication Commission Commissioner Ajit Pai speaks during an open hearing and vote on "Ne ...
Twitter's privacy update: what it means for you
This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows the Twitter icon on a mobile phone, in Philadelphia. On Thursday, May 18, 2017, Twitter announce ...
Cyberattacks prompt massive security spending surge
In what experts called an unprecedented mass cyberattack using ransomware, more than 200,000 computers around the world were hacked beginnin ...
Lithuania court delays extradition ruling in cybertheft case
Suspected Lithuanian hacker Evaldas Rimasauskas is seen before a court session in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, May 18, 2017. A court in Lit ...
Antivirus firm warns of cyberattacks on home appliances
Internet security became a hot topic when a ransomware attack hit more than 300,000 computers worldwide, affecting the likes of Britain's Na ...
Researchers create a T-shirt that monitors the wearer's breathing rate in real time
Researchers at Université Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and its Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers have created a sm ...
A recipe for concrete that can withstand road salt deterioration
Credit: Drexel University Road salt, used in copious helpings each winter to protect them from ice and preserve safe driving conditions, is ...
Alibaba quarterly profits almost double to $1.55 bn
Alibaba, which has made billionaire founder Jack Ma one of China's richest men, is a dominant player in online commerce and its robust earni ...
Wal-Mart's online sales surge tops 1Q expectations
In this Thursday, June 4, 2015, file photo, a sign is displayed at a Wal-Mart pickup grocery location in Bentonville, Ark. Wal-Mart Stores I ...
EU moves toward greater freedom for watching online content
The European Union has taken a major step that will allow subscribers to online movies and television to watch the content throughout the 28 ...
Candy Crush maker banned from gathering staff ethnic data
King, the gaming company that owns Candy Crush, is banned from collecting statistics on the ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientation of emp ...
New tools safeguard Census data about where you live and work
In October 2012, as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the densely populated U.S. East Coast, the state of New Jersey needed information fast. Sta ...
Not all cool pavements are created equal
Berkeley Lab Heat Island Group researchers Pablo Rosado (from left), Ronnen Levinson, and Mel Pomerantz are shown. Credit: Marilyn Chung/Ber ...
EU fines Facebook 110 mn euros over 'misleading' info in WhatsApp takeover
The European Commission fines US social media giant Facebook $120 million for providing incorrect and misleading information on its takeover ...
Hackers steal 17 million users' data from Indian restaurant app Zomato
Zomato, which boasts 120 million user visits a month, said it was "plugging any security gaps" and would further enhance its secur ...
India's IT industry body slams mass layoff reports
Indian software trade body Nasscom on Thursday dismissed widespread media reports of mass layoffs in the country's hugely important informat ...
Swedish police successfully test electric cars
Swedish police say their testing of nine electric cars has sparked "positive reactions," saying units that operated the vehicles w ...
Enhanced efficiency of simple inexpensive solar cells could transform energy-starved communities
Affordable solar cells would power communication devices, provide sterilization of medical equipment and offer hygeinic cooking in underdeve ...
Paper could enable flexible displays
Today’s flexible electronic prototypes are generally built using polymer thin films, but the cost of these films becomes a factor when they are scaled up. To address this issue, a team from the South
Cathode material boosts Li-S battery performance
While lithium-sulphur batteries provide a potential replacement for Li-ion technology, issues with the chemistry mean the battery’s capacity declines over multiple charging cycles as a result of the ‘
Second generation TPU boasts 180TFLOPs
Google has announced its second generation Tensor processing unit (TPU), aimed at machine learning and similar applications. While the first generation was designed to accelerate machine learning mode
They predicted the 'WannaCry' ransomware cyberattack so how come few listened?
Misha Govshteyn and his colleagues at the cybersecurity start-up Alert Logic dropped all their projects about a month ago, except for one th ...
Cisco Systems announces 1100 more layoffs
This Wednesday, May 9, 2012, file photo, shows an exterior view of Cisco Systems Inc. headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Cisco Systems Inc. ...
Google unveils latest tech tricks as computers get smarter
Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about Google Lens and updates to the Google Assistant during the keynote address of the Google I/O conference ...
Inspired by geckos researchers engineer soft gripping system that outperforms current adhesion methods
The soft adhesion-based gripping system holds a pair of cherry tomatoes weighing 41 grams. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers a ...
Advancing cancer immunotherapy with computer simulations and data analysis
A scanning electron micrograph of a human T lymphocyte (also called a T cell) from the immune system of a healthy donor. Immunotherapy fight ...
Syrian refugees in Jordan's desert get solar power
Officials from the IKEA Foundation, and the U.N. refugee agency tour a newly inaugurated solar energy plant, that will provide about 20,000 ...
Talks on airplane laptop ban end with no ban more talks
In this Aug. 11, 2006 file photo, passengers en route to London check in at Biarritz airport, southwestern France. U.S. and European officia ...
Ford to cut jobs as sales level off stock price lags
In this Tuesday, May 16, 2017, photo, the logo for the Ford Motor Company appears above a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. ...
In battle of digital assistants Google heads to Apple turf
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the 2017 Google I/O Conference, where he stressed the importance of art ...
At a Glance: Some of Google's new features seem ... familiar
Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address of the Google I/O conference, Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Mountain View, Calif. Google ...
Business leisure travelers ponder flying without laptops
In this Saturday, April 17, 2010, file photo, a traveler from Malaysia uses his laptop computer at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ...
Virtual victories: Marines sharpen skills with new virtual-reality games
Marines test out the HoloLens during a training exercise geared towards the development and strengthening of small unit-decision making at C ...
Guidelines for implementation of Industry 4.0
Both production and products will supply data at tomorrow's factory. Credit: KIT The internet of things, artificial intelligence, networked ...
NRL tests autonomous 'soaring with solar' concept
Holding the photovoltaic (PV) UAV based on the SBXC sailplane, are members of the 'Solar-Soaring' research flight crew (l-r) Dan Edwards and ...
Electronic tattoos: Using distinctive body locations to control mobile devices intuitively
Using ultra-thin, electronic tattoos at distinctive body locations, users can control mobile devices. Credit: Universitt des Saarlandes Com ...
As Uber and Waymo duke it out in court the ugly battle over driverless cars is underway
It's big. It's nasty. It's the fight for dominance in the burgeoning market for driverless cars - and the service they'll provide. ...
Romania foreign ministry target of 'surgical' cyberattack
A Romanian cyber intelligence official has confirmed the foreign ministry had been the target of a "surgical, targeted, specialized&quo ...
GE Appliances to get Google voice control option
GE Appliances announced a deal with Google Wednesday enabling the US tech giant's voice control home hub to be used for cooking, cleaning an ...
Exoskeleton helps soldiers carry heavy gear
Lockheed Martin developed the Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) for the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Cent ...
Apple Qualcomm spat intensifies manufacturers drawn in
In this Sept. 16, 2016 file photo, The Apple iPhone 7 is displayed at the Apple Store at the Grove in Los Angeles. Mobile chip maker Qualcom ...
Development engineers support sustainability through self-sufficiency
The finished ModRoof material is installed on a home in Gomtipur, an area in the city of Ahmedabad. Credit: ReMaterials How do you help som ...
IBM builds its most powerful universal quantum computing processors
IBM Research Staff Member Katie Pooley, a Physics PhD from Harvard who recently joined IBM, pictured at the Thomas J Watson Research Center, ...
Bitcoin's popular design is being exploited for theft and fraud
The very design features that make Bitcoin technology appealing to its users are also weaknesses being exploited for the theft of the crypto ...
Another large-scale cyberattack underway: experts
Adylkuzz is believed to have infected more computers than WannaCry, using the same vulnerabilities Another large-scale, stealthy cyberattac ...
Li-air battery has ’15 times’ the capacity of Li-ion
A research team from Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) says it has developed lithium-air batteries with a storage capacity 15 times that of conventional lithium-ion batteries.
Amazon refreshes lineup of low-cost tablets new kids model
Amazon is offering a thinner and lighter version of its cheapest, 7-inch tablet, while shaving $10 off the price of an 8-inch model. ...
New computation tools enable much faster and cheaper product development
Faster, more accurate and agile computation tools and methods have been developed through the SEMTEC project, led by VTT Technical Research ...
IBM develops 17 qubit processor
IBM says it has built and tested its most powerful universal quantum computing processors, which will be used in IBM Q early-access commercial systems.
Are public sector organisations more at risk from cyber-attacks on old computers?
Small firms don’t have IT departments to protect them. Credit: Shutterstock Hospitals across Britain were crippled by the recent ransomware ...
ASIC supply chain outsourcing development
Austrian sensor specialist ams has announced a further expansion of its Foundry Ecosystem in which it will work with Fraunhofer IIS and RoodMicrotec to provide IC development, assembly, test and quali
Intel sharing at heart of US Europe talks on laptop ban
In this Aug. 11, 2006 file photo, passengers en route to London check in at Biarritz airport, southwestern France. U.S. and European officia ...
Lawsuit: Google makes billions by failing to properly police rampant 'click fraud' on ads
It may be hard to imagine that an ad offering "Welder b-tonis" - something with no connection to reality - would get clicks from p ...
What's next after 'massive disruption' from cyber-attack? A view from the trenches
Credit: Public Domain As the cyber-attack continues to spread around the globe causing massive disruption and damages for universities, hos ...
Domino's stock is up about 5000 percent since 2008. One reason: You can order and track pizzas online
As the severe recession took hold in 2008, Domino's Pizza Inc. was sinking as well. ...
Diamond based transistors ‘closer to reality’
A research team from Japan’s National Institute for Materials Sciences is developing diamond-based transistors, a move which is said to bring ‘hardened electronics’ closer to realisation.
Instagram copies another Snapchat feature: Face filters
Instagram continued to play copycat to Snapchat, launching on Tuesday its own version of face filters - a feature popularized on Snap Inc.'s ...
FlexEnable partnering with Merck for complex display shapes
Flexible display pioneer FlexEnable has partnered with Merck in a move which is intended to enable the creation of novel display shapes. According to the partners, the combination of FlexEnable’s orga
Scientists propose better battery system for smart home use
Smart homes need smart batteries. Current systems overuse power, which can shorten the life of batteries and the devices they power. Future ...
Dubai firm dreams of harvesting icebergs for water
This Jan. 14, 2015 satellite image provided by NASA shows the shattered remains of a colossal iceberg known as B-15 on the Ross Ice Shelf in ...
Federal appeals court upholds Google trademark
A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit that aimed to cancel Google's trademark by arguing that "google" is now synonymous ...
Twitter shares rise on word of Biz Stone's return
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, at center in 2013 photo at the New York Stock Exchange debut of the social network, is flanked by co-founders ...
US Europe discuss new laptop ban on flights
Boeing 737-700 jet airliner. Credit: Wikipedia/Arcturu U.S. and European officials will discuss Wednesday plans to broaden a U.S. ban on in ...
Google poised to roll out arsenal of services gadgets
This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows a Google icon on a mobile phone, in Philadelphia. Google is about to provide the latest peek at ...
What we currently know about the global cyberattack
In this May 13, 2017, file photo, a screenshot of the warning screen from a purported ransomware attack, as captured by a computer user in T ...
Australia considers banning laptops from airliner cabins
Australia's prime minister says his government is considering following the United States and Britain in banning laptops from inbound airlin ...
3-D-printed soft four legged robot can walk on sand and stone
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first soft robot that is capable of walking on rough surfaces, such a ...
Public divides over environmental regulation and energy policy
A 54% majority of U.S. adults believe that "government regulations are necessary to encourage businesses and consumers to rely more on ...
UK prison moves to stop drone deliveries of contraband
A British prison will install anti-drone technology to stop contraband being smuggled through the skies, the jail's governor told AFP on Tue ...
Under cyber attack: UH researchers look at how to catch a 'phisher'
As cybersecurity experts scramble to stop another wave of ransomware and malware scams that have infected computers around the world, comput ...
Cyber kid stuns experts showing toys can be 'weapons'
Reuben Paul addresses the World Forum cyber security conference in The Hague An 11-year-old "cyber ninja" stunned an audience of ...
France fines Facebook for data protection breaches
France fines Facebook 150,000 euros ($160,000) for collecting information on users without their knowledge France's data protection agency ...
Disney Research transforms movie-quality animations for interactive viewing
Cinema-quality animations and virtual reality graphics that need to be rendered in real-time are often mutually exclusive categories, but Di ...
Experts see possible North Korea links to global cyberattack
In this Wednesday, April 22, 2015, file photo, Stijn Vanveerdeghem, left, an engineer with Cisco, shows graphics with live wireless traffic ...
Why using AI to sentence criminals is a dangerous idea
Guilty. Credit: Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock Artificial intelligence is already helping determine your future – whether it's your Netflix v ...
Bathroom scales will inform about life threatening conditions
Multifunctional scales created at KTU Institute of Biomedical Engineering can inform about potentially life threatening conditions. Credit: ...
Global ransomware attacks—the impact and the response
Credit: Northeastern University A global cyberattack unleashed Friday has reportedly affected more than 200,000 computers across more than ...
Delphi joins BMW-Intel-Mobileye autonomous car partnership
In this March 22, 2006, file photo, Delphi's World Headquarters is shown in Troy, Mich. Automotive parts and electronics maker Delphi Corp. ...
Amazon's streaming software powers new smart TVs
Amazon's streaming TV software will appear on a new line of smart TVs designed to blend streaming TV services and over-the-air channels, but ...
Family TV viewing and SMS texting could help cut internet energy use
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scrapping automatically-playing videos in apps and reversing trends of instant messaging and on-demand services c ...
HP Enterprise unveils computer 'for era of Big Data'
Meg Whitman, chief executive of HP Enterprise, said, "The secrets to the next great scientific breakthrough, industry-changing innovati ...
Thermal hydraulic researchers build largest transparent fuel test assembly in the world
Credit: Texas A&M University Advanced reactor technologies have generated interest for their potential to reduce fossil fuel emissions, ...
Cancer researchers tap human intuition of video gamers in quest to beat cancer
Lauren Ammerman, a first-year Ph.D. student in cellular and molecular biology and also working in the Center for Drug Discovery, Design and ...
Microrobots inspired by nature
Microrobots offer a wide range of potential treatments in healthcare, from delivering drugs to target sites to fighting heart disease and ca ...
Expert discusses the future of human-centered robotics
"The new frontier is learning how to design the relationships between people, robots, and infrastructure," says David Mindell, the ...
World's first thin-silicon implantable chip for high-precision haptic prosthetics
Credit: IMEC Imec announced today its success in fabricating a prototype implantable chip that aims to give patients more intuitive control ...
Self-learning neuromorphic chip that composes music
Credit: IMEC Today, at the imec technology forum (ITF2017), imec demonstrated the world's first self-learning neuromorphic chip. The brain- ...
Interview: Surfer worked from bedroom to beat cyberattack
British IT expert Marcus Hutchins who has been branded a hero for slowing down the WannaCry global cyber attack, during an interview in Ilfr ...