India's top e-commerce company Flipkart announced Monday it had raised $1.4 billion in a record funding round that shores up the online reta ...
London, UK. Well researched journalism is more important than ever. Around the world there are squeezes on press freedom from all directions ...
UK and US share a similar mindset when it comes to horizontal drilling for shale energy, say Cardiff University researchers and colleagues ...
When researchers searched Facebook for the public accounts of all urologists who graduated from US residency programs in 2015, they found th ...
IBM researchers Ping Zhang (left) and Jianying Hu (right) have been granted U.S. Patent 9,536,194 for an invention that could accelerate dis ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, talks to his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull during the ceremonial reception at the Indi ...
Hybrid inks allow electronic circuits to be applied to paper directly from a pen. Credit: INM Research scientists at INM – Leibniz Institut ...
Engineers at MIT claim to have found a way to make graphene with fewer wrinkles, and to iron out those that do appear. Conventional fabrication processes often generate wrinkles, which can derail an e
The innovative radar scanner from Fraunhofer IAF enables defects in the material composition of the wind turbine blades to be detected with ...
How’s this setting? Credit: Shutterstock Your photos aren't safe online. Repeated incidents of celebrities having their internet accounts h ...
An optomechanical device that is said to boost the coupling between light waves and mechanical waves has been developed by a group of researchers at the University of Campinas in Brazil.
Inspecting election results is best done with a dash of randomness. Credit: Boonyen/shutterstock.com Democratic societies depend on trust i ...
An ultrathin multilayer film, created by a team of scientists at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Faculty of Engineering, could use skyrmions as information carriers for storing and proces
Italian space launcher company Avio SpA has become the first in its category to go public, seeking to boost its growth ambitions. ...
The wife of a Russian computer scientist arrested in Spain has reportedly been told by police he is being held over a computer virus linked ...
In this Friday, April 7, 2017, photo, a prototype of the Ford Fusion police hybrid car sits along 11th Avenue in New York. Ford Motor Co., w ...
In this Feb. 14, 2017 photo, Yusuke Asakura, who heads a Tokyo-based angel network of entrepreneurs investing in global startups, speaks dur ...
Credit: Steffen Thoma/Public Domain Back in 1995, the NavLab 5 team at Carnegie Mellon University launched an autonomous vehicle on a trip ...
Credit: Wikipedia Now that Congress has given internet service providers the green light to keep tabs on your online activities and do as t ...
The finalized prototype of Google self-driving car. First, it was just a dream. Then it became a quirky research project undertaken by a ha ...
Credit: George Hodan/Public Domain When it comes to cybersecurity, Americans recognize the need for strong passwords and know that public W ...
From the fifth-floor office of his internet startup, Kazz Watabe can see the sea bass jump in the bay as he works on his fishing website to ...
Thousands flocked to Amsterdam from around Europe this weekend to meet their online video heroes and mingle with young fans, eager to learn ...
The Fessenheim nuclear plant, whose scheduled closure was officially announced by France on Sunday, has been a long-running source of fricti ...
A secretive group that published a trove of hacking tools allegedly used by U.S. spies has released a password that it says can unlock relat ...
Big US corporations have identified a new strategy for managing irate investors at annual shareholder meetings: Going virtual. ...
Hackers struck the sirens Dallas uses to alert residents to take shelter from inclement weather, triggering intermittent false alarms for ab ...
Uber said it was shocked by an Italian court's ruling banning use of its smartphone app and that it would appeal immediately An Italian cou ...
Uber is scoffing at claims that its expansion into self-driving cars hinges on trade secrets stolen from a Google spinoff, arguing that its ...
This March 23, 2010, file photo, shows the Google logo at the Google headquarters in Brussels. A government investigation into how much Goog ...
The Navy has since 2014 been testing a 30-kilowatt laser on one of its warships, the USS Ponce A sci-fi staple for decades, laser weapons a ...
BGU researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to compromise a driver’s private information stored in the cloud for UBI programs. Cre ...
A surge in global use of lithium, a key component in electric batteries, is leading to the revival of a centuries-long mining tradition in t ...
A new waterproof motorized wheelchair that runs entirely on compressed air was unveiled today at Morgan's Wonderland, a 25-acre theme park i ...
In this June 1, 2014 file photo, people cycle towards the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. Officials and cycling campaigners in Berlin h ...
Alpha-tin, commonly called grey tin, exhibits a novel electronic phase when its crystal structure is strained, say researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This phase is said t
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google is adding a fact-checking tag to search results globally, its latest initiative to help curb the spread o ...
Driverless cars are hitting the headlines across the globe but for the foreseeable future we will still have drivers. The pressure then is h ...
A method to make transistor-type active-matrix pressure sensors using foldable substrates and air-dielectric layers has been developed by researchers from the Korean Ulsan National Institute of Scienc
Why were so few complaints about wind farms investigated further? And who made these complaints anyway? Credit: www.shutterstock.com Nation ...
The researchers conclude that there is significant potential for social media monitoring to be included in mainstream disease surveillance a ...
The v-shaped structure on the roof guides wind into a series of turbines to generate energy. Solar cells are washed by a rainwater cooling a ...
A thin nanomaterial with superconducting properties has been developed by experimental physicists at Saarland University. They claim that below -200°C the materials conduct electricity without loss, l
Printed transistors consisting entirely of 2D nanomaterials have been made for the first time, say researchers at AMBER, the materials science research centre hosted in Trinity College, Dublin.
Samsung's new flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone received good reviews when it was unveiled in New York last month. Better-than-expected earnings ...
Facebook, which has its own artificial intelligence research lab, announced M in 2015 as an experiment, and the expansion to Messenger is an ...
Twitter took its free-speech battle against the US government to court as it seeks to protect the identity of one of its account holders cri ...
Google-owned YouTube is curbing advertising on some channels as it seeks to reduce pairing ads with inappropriate content YouTube on Thursd ...
Germany faces criticism from some of the web's biggest names over plans to weaken encrypted communication and fine social media sites for ha ...
In this June 11, 2014, file photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook annou ...
Taser International was officially re-branded as Axon Thursday as the company broadens its focus from its controversial stun guns to police ...
As the cost of clean technology continues to fall, the world added record levels of renewable energy capacity in 2016. A UN-backed report fi ...
At the end of 2016, Twitter had some 319 million monthly active users, up just four percent from a year earlier Twitter on Thursday unveile ...
This March 29, 2017, photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Comcast will start selling cellphone plans called Xfinit ...
If driverless cars live up to the safety hype, they could result in a significant reduction in the number of court cases dealing with human- ...
Dr Micheal Harre is thinking through how the AI future will work. Credit: University of Sydney A tsunami of change is already arriving. Art ...
“People always talk about robots taking over and replacing us, but you can actually use them to improve the human condition, especially that ...
Elastic, touch-sensitive fibres that can interface with electronic devices have been created by researchers from North Carolina State University.
Ultralife has increased its Thin Cell range of primary lithium manganese dioxide (Li-MnO2) pouch-cell batteries. The batteries are said to be suitable for use in the next generation of internet-connec
A team of scientists from the Netherlands has built a supercomputer the size of four pizza boxes. The Little Green Machine II has a computin ...
A method to fabricate and integrate flexible memory devices into low performance applications has been developed by a group of researchers at Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) and INRS-EMT
Australia's consumer watchdog has taken Apple to court for violating laws by allegedly refusing to look at or repair some iPads and iPhones ...
Massachusetts officials say more than 10 percent of drivers for ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft have failed a required background check ...
Users trying to share pictures after they have been removed as revenge porn will see alerts explaining the images violate Facebook policy an ...
In this March 29, 2017, file photo, FBI Director James Comey speaks during the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Leadership Dinner ...
Amazon has won streaming rights for Thursday night NFL games. This 2016 picture shows Deiondre Hall of the Chicago Bears. Amazon announced ...
Honda's Accord Hybrid has returned for 2017 as a roomy, comfortable mid-size sedan that's the most fuel-efficient gasoline-electric hybrid f ...
A technology has been developed by engineers at Duke University to cool hotspots in high performance electronics.
A team of researchers from RMIT University, the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney, has devised a way of implementing large-scale interferometers that they claim will miniat
Britain's High Court ruled Wednesday that it can decide what mobile phone makers should pay to use patented technology that is essential to ...
In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, file photo, YouTube CEO Susan Wojicki speaks during the introduction of YouTube TV at YouTube Space LA in Lo ...
Massachusetts officials say more than 10 percent of people who applied to drive for ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft failed a required b ...
A glass tube sensor developed by engineers at the University of California, Riverside will allow scientists to weigh tiny biological samples ...
Transistor-type active-matrix 3-D pressure sensors with air-dielectric layers. Credit: UNIST A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has crea ...
The lawyer for a Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails said Wednesday he has taken steps to ensure his client won't flee if ...
Germany has launched a new military unit dedicated to thwarting cyberattacks and responding if necessary. ...
Britain's High Court has ruled that it can decide what mobile phone makers should pay to use patented technology that is essential to make m ...
Picture represents scatterplot of pressure and temperature variables from the Hurricane Isabel dataset. The standard design (left) loses fid ...
Dima Kozakov, right, and Dzmitry Padhorny, co-author and graduate student, continue to work on ClusPro, the server that enables researchers ...
You can ‘walk’ through the Musée d’Orsay in Paris using the Google Arts & Culture platform. Credit: Google Arts & Culture Peop ...
The German government has approved fines of up to 50 million euros ($53 million) against online giants that fail to remove hate speech and f ...
A Russian man who faces charges in the United States of hacking and stealing information from computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and other San F ...
Credit: National Research University Higher School of Economics Researchers from the Higher School of Economics (HSE) have developed a nove ...
The researcher Oscar Barambones behind some solar panels at the University of the Basque Country. Credit: Nuria Gonzlez (UPV/EHU) The Advan ...
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has developed a novel lens for super-resolution ima ...
According to a study by computer science researchers at Karlstad University, few people know how their personal data are collected, used, sh ...
Flinders Mathematical Sciences Laboratory director Associate Professor Vladimir Ejov, software engineer Serguei Rossomak ...
Purdue researchers are developing technology that could allow users to quickly determine the health of plants in the field and of fruits and ...
A Purdue University-developed technology that can be woven into a specially designed fabric could help harness human body heat and provide e ...
To achieve a better range of functionalities in a photonic crystal circuit, a group of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) researchers in Japan has developed an approach using a sub-wavelength nanowi
Netflix's video-streaming service is scrapping its familiar star-rating system, hoping to make it easier for its 94 million subscribers to s ...
A Z Corp 3-D Printer-Spectrum 2 at Binghamton University's Innovative Technologies Complex. Credit: Binghamton University A team of researc ...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers Thought leaders in both cloud computing and big data examine the factors driving increasing numb ...
It keeps a constant eye on the condition of the machine, it carries out diagnostic analyses and it notifies the operator when a part needs t ...
An aircraft manufacturer that intends to build two-seat, amphibious planes designed in Finland for the North American market is poised to be ...
Facebook has lost a legal fight against a New York City prosecutor who sought search warrants for hundreds of user accounts. ...
Volkswagen admitted in 2015 to having installed software in 11 million diesel engines worldwide to circumvent emissions tests EU lawmakers ...
Tim Berners-Lee, pictured in 2013, is critical of moves in the United States to reduce net neutrality, the principle by which broadband prov ...
A year ago Mendocino Farms didn't offer delivery at any of its 15 Southern California locations. Now Ellen Chen, co-founder of the artisanal ...
A US regulator successfully argued that Amazon failed to get parental permission before letting children buy apps on tablets Amazon has dro ...