People touch specially woven Project Jacquard fabric being used in new 'smart' Levi denim jackets A young man in a white t-shirt pulls on a ...
In this Monday, May 1, 2017 photo, Ali Raad, a taxi driver who workes for the ride-hailing app Ujra, receives a call from a customer, in Bag ...
Credit: Petr Kratochvil/Wikipedia The tablet craze from a few years ago showed more signs of fading this year, with most major producers re ...
Congress should consider authorizing the U.S. Department of Energy to study encasing much of the nuclear waste at the nation's largest waste ...
An unmanned aerial vehicle launches from a multi-utility tactical transport vehicle after exiting an autonomous assault amphibious vehicle d ...
The State Department wants to review social media, email addresses and phone numbers from some foreigners seeking U.S. visas, as part of the ...
Must we become passive observers to the destruction of one of Melbourne’s most culturally diverse and socially rich suburbs? Author provided ...
Credit: Shutterstock When dealing with the otherness of disability, the Victorians in their shame built huge out-of-sight asylums, and thei ...
The newly-developed smart lenses with built-in pressure-sensing and glucose-monitoring sensors. Credit: UNIST A recent study, affiliated wi ...
A scheme of SS-WMS platform for detecting water motion. Credit: UNIST A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has engineered a self-sustainin ...
Turns out, Facebook still needs humans after all. Credit: www.shutterstock.com Facebook has recently been under fire for not doing enough t ...
Imagination Technology has decided to put its MIPS and Ensigma business units on the market in a move intended to concentrate its resources on PowerVR and to strengthen its balance sheet.
This undated photo provided by The Strong shows the four inductees for the 2017 class of the World Video Game Hall of Fame. From left to rig ...
Researchers from the University of Exeter have devised a way in which graphene can generate complex and controllable sound. In essence, says the team, a speaker, amplifier and graphic equaliser can be
Google and the Italian Revenue Agency have reached a settlement, resolving a tax inquiry for a period between 2002 and 2015 without litigati ...
A Chinese man walks by a cabinets displaying Chinese encyclopedias at a book store in Beijing, Thursday, May 4, 2017. China is compiling a f ...
The European Union's competition watchdog says it accepts commitments made by online giant Amazon to change part of its e-book contracts to ...
Emma Reidy investigated whether emojis are evolving into a unique language by asking college students to translate the pictograms into words ...
Figure 1: An X-ray diffraction image of a chip package containing four multi-stacked silicon die. The thickest silicon die (300 µm thic ...
‘No, I absolutely do not wish to change my password, thanks.’ Credit: Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com It's normally in the final seconds of a TV ...
Metadata is not ground truth. In the space of all possible partitions of a real-world social network, the lower peak corresponds to the soci ...
What if you could unlock your smartphone this way? Credit: Janne Lindqvist, CC BY-ND Nearly 80 percent of Americans own a smartphone, and a ...
A Google spokesperson said action had been taken to protect users against a 'phishing' scam email impersonating Google Docs A 'phishing' sc ...
This Wednesday, April 14, 2016, file photo, shows a push-button landline telephone, in Whitefield, Maine. According to a U.S. government sur ...
In this Oct. 27, 2016, file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an announcement of new products in Cupertino, Calif. Apple will invest $ ...
In this April 12, 2016, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference i ...
William Dutton is director of MSU's James and Mary Quello Center in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. Credit: Michigan State U ...
Facebook on Wednesday reported its quarterly profit jumped just over $3 billion as its ranks of monthly users closed in on two billion. ...
Tesla said Wednesday that revenues more than doubled in the past quarter compared with a year ago, as the electric carmaker prepared for pro ...
Jiranuch Trirat's 11-month-old daughter was murdered by her father in a crime broadcast live on Facebook before he committed suicide Facebo ...
A graphical representation of a swath of Facebook users illustrates the distributed nature of this research. The nodes represent Facebook ac ...
The New York Times has attributed some of its readership gains to renewed interest in its aggressive coverage of the Trump administration T ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Chicken is a favorite, inexpensive meat across the globe. But the bird's popularity results in a lot of waste tha ...
A novel input method expands the input space to the back of the hand and the 3-D space above it. Credit: Oliver Dietze It relies on a depth ...
Facebook said Wednesday it would add 3,000 people to screen out violent content as the social media giant faces scrutiny for a series of kil ...
Prototype of the hand that sees. Credit: Newcastle University A new generation of prosthetic limbs which will allow the wearer to reach for ...
A bone implant constructed using a 3-D printer. Credit: Duke University Two groups of undergraduate students at Duke University have been c ...
Researchers from Aalto University, University of Birmingham and University of Oslo present results paving the way for computers to learn psy ...
The sulfur-based technology for the storage of solar energy will be tested at the Jülich solar power tower. Credit: DLR Researchers of ...
Slightly more than half of all U.S. adults pay for news, with roughly half of those subscribing to a newspaper, according to a study conduct ...
Gonzalo Rodrigo has just completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University. Credit: Gonzalo ...
Ultrahaptics has completed a series B investment round, raising £17.9million. According to the company, the cash will support global expansion and entry into virtual and augmented reality markets. Alo
Piezo sensors that can continuously monitor components as hot as 900°C have been realised by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC.
Credit: ESA–G. Porter What is the best way to control a robot from afar as you circle a planet with your mechanised alter ego doing precise ...
Apple, whose Fifth Avenue in New York is shown here, reported a rise in profit in the past quarter despite a dipin iPhone sales Apple repor ...
In this Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, photo, a Honda technician works on an airbag during a free airbag replacement event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ...
An aerial view of the Apple's new headquarters in Cupertino, California, seen on April 28, 2017 It is a sign of Apple's success but also a ...
Sites blocked due to their content or sensitivity, among them Facebook and Twitter, cannot be accessed in China without special software tha ...
A United Nations Environment Program report has found there was almost 50million tons of electronic waste in 2017. Looking to address the issue, Stanford engineer Professor Zhenan Bao and her team hav
China plans to launch its own online encyclopaedia next year, hoping to build a "cultural Great Wall" that can rival Wikipedia as ...
Looking to improve the range of electric vehicles without increasing the size of the battery, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) in Dresden and its par
The small nuTonomy self-driving cars on Singapore's streets are soon to joined by larger Peugeot 3008 SUVs. French automaker PSA said Wedne ...
Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and other newspapers, has warned about 18,000 current and former employees that hackers may have had acc ...
Fig. 8 and 9 show a photograph and measured 3-D image of a 150-mm diameter transmission pump display. Credit: doi:10.1117/1.OE.55.7.074110 ...
Using a novel controllable chemical method, Graphene Flagship researchers have created hybrid heterostructures that can be tailored to have particular electronic, magnetic and optical properties.
This Thursday, May 19, 2016, file photo shows the Apple logo on the side of the Apple Union Square store, in San Francisco. Apple reports ea ...
Indiana Gov. Eric J. Holcomb, right, greets Dr. Vishal Sikka, CEO of Infosys, following an announcement at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, T ...
Credit: Microsoft Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a Surface laptop and streamlined operating software in a move aimed at regaining ground in ...
Refugees living in camps could benefit from improved living conditions as a result of a new collaborative research project led by the Univer ...
Capacitor withstands temperatures of up to 300 degrees Celsius. Credit: Fraunhofer IMS Heat, dust and moisture damage electronic components ...
Many people in aged care facilities have swallowing disorders and particular dietary needs. Credit: shutterstock.com It's hard to imagine f ...
Davide Cucci and Jan Skaloud, from Geodetic Engineering Laboratory. Credit: Alain Herzog/EPFL Developing a good, high-resolution 3-D map is ...
How secure are you? Credit: Rawpixel.com via shutterstock.com The first Thursday in May is World Password Day, but don't buy a cake or send ...
Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Solar cells based on perovskites reach high efficiencies: They convert more than 20 percent of th ...
Per capita peak electricity demand and estimated contribution from cooling. Credit: Michael Waite Cities in the developing world may soon s ...
The next step in human evolution. Credit: Shutterstock Neuralink – which is "developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces ...
High-temperature ultrasonic transducer. Credit: Fraunhofer ISC Technical systems must be regularly checked for defects, such as cracks. Up ...
A forest with beetle-killed trees as seen from Mt. Fraser, British Columbia. Credit: Themightyquill/Wikimedia Commons The mountain pine bee ...
Inkjet-printed batteries bring us closer to smart objects. Credit: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) The race is o ...
A self-contained neural network DSP IP core from Cadence has been optimised for vision, radar/lidar and fused sensor applications. Targeted at those companies developing SoCs for the automotive, surve
Production of the bipolar electrode on a pilot scale. Credit: Fraunhofer IKTS You cannot get far today with electric cars. One reason is th ...
A project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is looking to find materials other than lithium which can be used in rechargeable batteries.
Prototype sheet glass with very small radii, produced using the new laser-based glass forming technology. Credit: Fraunhofer IWM A new Frau ...
A new way to split the energy levels between the valleys in a 2D semiconductor has been discovered by a team from the University at Buffalo.
With the new infrared 3D scanner, people can be measured without disturbing projections. Credit: Fraunhofer IOF Infrared 3-D scanners have ...
A material which incorporates atomically thin layers of water can store and deliver energy much more quickly than the same material without the water, say researchers at North Carolina State Universit
Amplifier module: The low-noise, high-sensitivity microwave amplifiers of the Fraunhofer IAF can already detect signals of only a few nanowa ...
Twitter hopes a collaboration with Bloomberg will help it expand its user base Twitter is launching a 24-hour streaming news channel in pa ...
In this April 18, 2017 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif. A ...
City Attorney Dennis Herrera, left, smiles while walking with San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, right, after announcing a settlement ag ...
GM expects to become the first auto manufacturer to make a profit of electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Bolt EV pictured here US auto ...
A federal appeals court said Monday it won't reconsider its ruling to uphold the government's "net neutrality" rules that require ...
Large screens are more effective for promoting the hedonic (perceived attractiveness) and pragmatic (perceived control) qualities of smartwa ...
Paper-based plasma generators -- consisting of laminated assemblies of honeycomb-patterned, metallized paper -- are capable of sanitizing su ...
The model of full-length p53 protein bound to DNA as a tetramer. The surface of each p53 monomer is depicted with a different color. Credit: ...
The WGN Radio sign appears on the side of Tribune Tower, Monday, May 1, 2017, in downtown Chicago. TV station operator Tribune Media is at t ...
Credit: www.cafecredit.com When it comes to identity theft, you need to protect the mailbox at your house as much as your email inbox, acco ...
The nation's first offshore wind farm is powering more of Rhode Island. ...
WiGait uses wireless signals to continuously measure a person's walking speed. Credit: Jason Dorfman, MIT CSAIL We've long known that breat ...
Twitter hopes a collaboration with Bloomberg will help it expand its user base Twitter is launching a 24-hour streaming news channel in par ...
A federal appeals court says it won't reconsider its ruling to uphold the government's "net neutrality" rules that require interne ...
Reactions to new measures designed to tackle problem gambling online have so far been mixed. The federal human services minister, Alan Tudge ...
Internet connected hair brush. Credit: Withings If ever proof were needed that not everything is improved by connecting a device to the Int ...
Shares of Tribune Media are surging before the opening bell Monday on reports that 21st Century Fox and Blackstone may make a joint takeover ...
Yik Yak, a mobile application which gained popularity for allowing users to make anonymous comments and which sparked debate on cyber bullyi ...
Credit: North Carolina State University A study comparing acceptance rates of contributions from men and women in an open-source software c ...
Brisbane cycle path signage: Slow! Credit: Michael Coghlan, CC BY-SA Peter Jackson employed an intricate approach to the stage design of Lo ...
Research sponsored by a multinational IT service provider in 2010 suggested that up to 75% of all produced data is duplicated. Credit: Waveb ...
Tech billionaire Scott Farquhar has bought a Sydney waterfront mansion for an Australian record Aus$75 million (US$56 million), a report sai ...
The chip makes batteries smaller and low power electronics work more efficiently. Credit: UTSA Ruyan Guo, Robert E. Clark Endowed Professor ...