Tapered holes enable silicon photodetector
Black holes on a silicon wafer equals a new type of photodetector that could move more data at lower cost around the world or across a datacentre, say electrical engineers at the University of Califor
New efficiency record for low-cost solar cell
Professor Kylie Catchpole and The Duong. Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have achieved a ne ...
andersDX brings ARM based SBC range to the UK
andersDX is bringing a new range of ARM based single-board-computers (SBC) and human machine interfaces (HMI) to the UK market following the signing of a distribution agreement with the German manufac
Mentor targets ADAS with automated driving platform
In a move designed to help car builders create autonomous vehicles which conform to Level 5 requirements, Mentor Graphics has launched DRS360, said to be a comprehensive automated driving platform fea
Inventor of World Wide Web wins computing's 'Nobel Prize'
In this Monday, April 3, 2017, photo, Tim Berners-Lee poses outside his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Ma ...
Daimler parts firm Bosch team up to make driverless cars
Automaker Daimler AG and parts supplier Bosch Group are teaming up to make driverless cars that they say could be on city streets at the sta ...
Towards a mathematical theory of PID control
The well-known and nearly hundred years old "proportional-integral- derivative" (PID) controller is a linear feedback control meth ...
NASA Kennedy partners to help develop self-driving cars
This aerial photo of the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at the Kennedy Space Center looks southwest. Longer and wider than most commercial ...
Vehicle safety recalls: Why drivers don't heed them
A new national survey from the University of Michigan explores why many consumers don't heed vehicle safety recalls and what steps might boo ...
Swindon Silicon Systems and Dukosi to partner for batteries
Dukosi and Swindon Silicon Systems have signed an agreement to bring Dukosi’s semiconductor chip-based battery management solution to market.
Renewable energy needed to drive uptake of electric vehicles
Dr Kenan Degirmenci's study finds renewable energy is the most important factor for electric vehicle consumers. Plugging into renewable ene ...
Can better advice keep you safer online?
Who’s giving you advice? Credit: shutterstock.com Many Americans are worried about their online privacy and security. And rightly so: Nearl ...
andersDX brings ARM based SBC range in the UK
andersDX is bringing a new range of ARM based single-board-computers (SBC) and human machine interfaces (HMI) to the UK market following the signing of a distribution agreement with the German manufac
How World War I ushered in the century of oil
The Navy converted to oil from coal a few years before the U.S. entered World War I, helping to solidify petroleum’s strategic status. Credi ...
US tells companies not to overlook qualified Americans
In this March 27, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. ...
Personalization makes Pandora Premium a worthy Spotify rival
Credit: CC0 Public Domain When it comes to subscription music services, Spotify and Apple dominate the market. But a third big player in th ...
AOL plus Yahoo to equal new Oath
Verizon's purchase of Yahoo will end the internet pioneer's run of more than 20 years as an independent company AOL and Yahoo will be combi ...
Trump signs bill blocking online privacy regulation
After his press secretary blasted it as an example of rampant government overreach, President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Monday tha ...
Utah Supreme Court rules against Tesla in push to sell cars
In this April 1, 2015, file photo, shows the Tesla Motors showroom in Salt Lake City. The Utah Supreme Court has ruled against Tesla in a pu ...
US newspapers cut more than half their jobs since 2001
As employment at newspapers declines, the number of jobs at internet publishers has more than tripled More than half of the jobs at US news ...
Montana joins others in effort to bolster internet privacy
States have started writing their own legislation to protect broadband privacy after Congress voted to repeal regulations that would have re ...
Charter won't have to compete with other cable companies now
This April 1, 2015, file photo, shows a Charter Communications van in St. Louis. Now cable giant Charter won't have to compete with other ca ...
National Archives to White House: Save all Trump tweets (Update)
President Donald Trump walks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 3, 2017. (AP Photo ...
Google: machine learning may fix ad placement dispute
Google is taking fresh steps to help brands avoid having their ads paired with inappropriate content on YouTube Google on Monday said it wi ...
Multi-university effort to advance materials define the future of mobility
MIT professor Martin Bazant will use funding from TRI to leverage a nanoscale visualization technique that revealed, for the first time, how ...
National Archives to White House: Save all Trump tweets
The National Archives is telling the White House to keep each of President Donald Trump's tweets, even those he deletes or corrects. ...
Lanes at Newark airport automatically retrieve luggage bins
It's every traveler's nightmare: You're running late for a flight and the person in front of you in the security line has taken the only two ...
Twitter drops egg icon in battle with internet 'trolls'
Twitter, whose logo is seen here at its San Francisco headquarters, has eliminated the egg icon often associated with online "trolls&qu ...
Computing—quantum deep
2017-04-04 00:01:57Computing—quantum deep
This neuromorphic circuit simulation is part of a tri-fold experiment, led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, that brings together quantum, h ...
Batteries—quick coatings
2017-04-04 00:00:09Batteries—quick coatings
ORNL's Chris Janke (left) works with Stan Howell of ebeam Technologies USA to prepare material samples for electron beam curing, which insta ...
Android apps can conspire to mine information from your smartphone
Associate Professor of Computer Science Daphne Yao (left), Fang Liu, doctoral candidate (center), and Assistant Professor of Computer Scienc ...
EU tightens rules on sourcing conflict minerals
The European Union is introducing new rules to help prevent minerals being used to finance armed conflicts. ...
New study to investigate links between cybercrime and autistic traits
Our new study, launched today, will assess the links between autistic-like traits and cybercrime. Credit: University of Bath A new project ...
Visualizing scientific big data in informative and interactive ways
Wei Xu, a computer scientist who is part of Brookhaven Lab¹s Computational Science Initiative, helps scientists analyze large and varie ...
Cyborgs at work: employees getting implanted with microchips
Self-described "body hacker" Jowan Osterlund from Biohax Sweden, holds a small microchip implant, similar to those implanted into ...
Electronic synapses that can learn: towards an artificial brain?
Artist's impression of the electronic synapse: the particles represent electrons circulating through oxide, by analogy with neurotransmitter ...
More objective than human hearing
The Fraunhofer IDMT offers procedures for the end-of-line inspection of car parts, such as motors for seats, for the sake of automated quali ...
New security procedures secure the intelligent factory
At the Hannover Messe 2017, the Fraunhofer SIT demonstrates two procedures that use new approaches in the protection of industrial facilitie ...
Photonics to enable ultrafast on-chip RF systems
Radio frequency signal control has been achieved at sub-nanosecond time scales on a chip-scale optical device by researchers from the University of Sydney's Australian Institute for Nanoscale Scie
Astronaut study gives voice to people with disabilities
Testing by Portuguese company LusoVu of the eye tracking technology used in EyeSpeak glasses to help ill and disabled people with speech imp ...
Shares in UK chipmaker dive 66 pct after Apple ends contract
Shares in chipmaker Imagination Technologies have plunged 66 percent after announcing that Apple plans to stop using its products. ...
Industry academic partners team up to fight fake news
The News Integrity Initiative will launch with $14 million from Facebook, the Ford Foundation, Mozilla and others will work to combat the sp ...
Tesla reports record deliveries of vehicles in first quarter
Tesla Model S Electric car maker Tesla Inc. says it delivered a record 25,000 vehicles in the first quarter, up 69 percent from the same pe ...
Hacked New York Post app sends out 'Heil President' alert
The New York Post app has been hacked on April Fools' Day, sending out push alert notifications that included "Heil President Donald Tr ...
Samsung's assistant Bixby in tough challenge to rivals
The new Samsung S8, incorporating its virtual assistant Bixby, seen on display in New York Samsung's Bixby is the new kid on the block of p ...
What's in a Chinese name? Ancient rites and growing business
Beijing fortune-teller Mao Shandong offers Chinese parents an auspicious name for their newborn but he faces competition from tech-savvy ent ...
Dems urge Trump to veto bill blocking online privacy rule
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer of N.Y., speaks during an interview in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March ...
Next generation perovskite solar cells with new world-record performance
The schematic image above represents the LBSO powder prepared in the study, the solution dispersed in the solvent, and the thin film coated ...
German military to launch cyber command
The Bundeswehr's new Cyber and Information Space (CIR) Command, based in the former West German capital of Bonn, will start off with 260 IT ...
BlackBerry narrows loss amid focus on services
BlackBerry said Friday its loss in the past quarter narrowed as it distanced itself further from smartphone making to concentrate on softwar ...
McDonald's Canada says its website's jobs section was hacked
The jobs section of McDonald's Canada website has been hacked, compromising the personal information of about 95,000 applicants over the las ...
Three airliners in near-misses with drones at London's Heathrow
In this file photo dated Wednesday June 16, 2010, a plane takes off into the night sky from London's Heathrow Airport. Three airliners narro ...
New podcast 'S-Town' from 'Serial' creators tops charts
According to Apple's iTunes Charts, the podcast S-Town is leading the charts in Australia, Britain, Canada and Germany as well as in the US ...
Privacy concern raised over search service on Verizon phones
Is Verizon planning to spy on its customers? You might conclude ...
Shell unveils giant new high-tech research lab in India
Oil giant Shell opened Friday a high-tech research hub in southern India that is hoping to pioneer the green energy of the future, including ...
Cloud backup and storage devices—how best to protect your data
How much data do you still store only on your mobile, tablet or laptop? Credit: Shutterstock/Neirfy We are producing more data than ever be ...
A method for predicting speech intelligibility in noisy surroundings
How well can speech be understood and can that be predicted? The researchers tested their algorithm with 849 participants. Credit: RUB, Schi ...
How understanding animals can help us make the most of artificial intelligence
Autonomous cars aren’t smarter than dogs. Credit: X posid Every day countless headlines emerge from myriad sources across the globe, both w ...
Nanomagnets for future data storage
An international team of researchers led by researchers from ETH Zurich has developed a method to arrange single molecules on a solid surface to build data storage carriers.
How best to stir a steel furnace and beat corrosion
A steel panel with the new anti-corrosion treatment, after being exposed to hundreds of hours of salt spray, and showing virtually no signs ...
Growing graphene nanoribbons without metal
A way to grow narrow ribbons of graphene has been found by researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and North Carolina State University, which could help develop s
Reduced graphene oxide for transistors
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique for converting positively charged (p-type) reduced graphene oxide (rGO) into negatively charged (n-type) rGO. The technique cr
Warped reality—virtual trip to hyperbolic space
Artist M. C. Escher was famous for drawings with perspectives that defied the logic of geometry as we usually experience it. He dedicated a ...
Innovative software converts Wi-Fi data into energy savings
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre library. Credit: Lara Swimmer Photography For the first time in Canada, a University of British Columb ...
Quick memory devices for flexible and transparent apps
A technique to produce quick, small, high capacity memories for flexible and transparent applications has been developed by engineers from the University of Exeter.
Illinois moves to implement internet privacy safeguards (Update 2)
Democratic lawmakers in Illinois are considering implementing their own internet safeguards at the state level after Republicans in Washingt ...
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey gone from Facebook
Trouble-tainted Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey has left Facebook, not long after the social network was hit with a big tab in a lawsuit over ...
With new iPhone Trump still a target for hackers
Mobile devices can be hacked to allow an attacker to listen via the phone's microphone, access its camera, monitor geolocation or even take ...
Trudeau looks to make Canada 'world leader' in AI research
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said the government would spend $30 million on a new artificial intelligence research center in Toronto, Ontario ...
Feds pull financial aid tool after potential data breach
Families applying for federal student aid are facing extra hurdles this year after a potential data breach led federal officials to remove a ...
Illinois internet privacy plans OK'd by committee (Update)
An Illinois House committee has backed legislation meant to enhance internet privacy rights at a time when federal protections are being rol ...
Ford hires 400 for Canadian connected car research
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, center, and Ford Motor Company of Canada CEO Mark Buzzell app ...
Cyprus businessman suing Buzzfeed for unproven Trump dossier
A businessman based in Cyprus is suing the Buzzfeed online media outlet for defamation over its publication of an unproven dossier on Presid ...
Illinois considers strengthening internet privacy rights
Illinois lawmakers are considering several measures that advocates say would enhance internet privacy rights at a time when federal protecti ...
Twitter eases 140-character limit in replies
Twitter has found more creative ways to ease its 140-character limit without officially raising it. ...
Finding faces in a crowd: Context is key when looking for small things in images
An automated face detection method developed at Carnegie Mellon University enables computers to recognize faces in images at a variety of sc ...
Fewer malfunctions and lower costs thanks to smarter maintenance model
Credit: University of Twente Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a mathematical model for improving the maintenance sche ...
To really help U.S. workers we should invest in robots
University students experiment with human-robot interaction and autonomous manipulation, two elements of manufacturing’s future. Credit: Nik ...
Sensor warns when oil in CHP plants is no longer up to the job
Prof. Andreas Schütze (left) and Dipl.-Ing. Eliseo Pignanelli are showcasing a measuring system at Hannover Messe that continuously mon ...
The dangers of the dark web
2017-03-30 22:00:10The dangers of the dark web
Credit: Istock The dark web—which utilizes a technology created by military researchers in the 1990s to allow intelligence operatives to ex ...
Analog Devices makes GaAs and GaN technology acquisition
In a move which allows it to offer all components in the next generation cable access network signal chain, Analog Devices has bought OneTree Microdevices. According to Analog, OneTree’s GaAs and GaN
Confused by data visualisation? Here's how to cope in a world of many features
Credit: KamiPhuc/Flickr, CC BY-SA The late data visionary Hans Rosling mesmerised the world with his work, contributing to a more informed ...
Lighter more efficient safer lithium-ion batteries
Materials used for the manufacture of the ceramic electrodes of the batteries. Credit: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Researchers from Un ...
Team develops accurate contactless 3-D fingerprint identification system
A research team led by Dr. Ajay Kumar invents a 3-D fingerprint identification system of high efficiency and accuracy. Credit: The Hong Kong ...
Ceramic electrodes make Li-ion batteries safer more efficient
Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) have patented a method for making ceramic electrodes that is said to result in more efficient, c
Future of Asian luxury cars electric vehicles at auto show
Kia Motors President Park Han-woo, second from left, and Peter Schreyer, chief design officer at Hyundai Motor Group, third from left, pose ...
New smart system to reduce queues at roundabouts
The smart traffic light on one of the roundabout approaches would only be activated or turn red when the queue detector on the other approac ...
Samsung eyes rebound with Galaxy S8 phones virtual assistant
Samsung's top-line new handsets, the Galaxy S8 and S8+, were introduced in New York by Justin Denison, senior vice president of product stra ...
Westinghouse's woes spotlight US nuclear sector's decline
Westinghouse's bankruptcy announcement is the latest in a series of obstacles to the further development of nuclear power in the US Westing ...
Officials dedicate OSC's newest most powerful supercomputer
The Owens Cluster features Dell PowerEdge servers running the newest Intel Xeon processors, storage components manufactured by DDN and inter ...
Windows update will bring 3-D game tools and doodling
In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, file photo, Terry Myerson, Microsoft's executive vice president of the Windows and Devices Group, discusse ...
Samsung's Galaxy S8 phone aims to dispel the Note 7 debacle
In this Friday, March 24, 2017, photo, new Samsung Galaxy S8, left, and Galaxy S8 Plus mobile phones are displayed in New York. The Galaxy S ...
Teledyne completes e2v acquisition
Teledyne Technologies has completed its acquisition of e2v in a deal which valued the Chelmsford based high tech engineering company at £627million.
Turkish court blocks Booking.com travel website
A Turkish commercial court has ordered the blocking of travel website Booking.com over alleged unfair competition its hotel and flight reser ...
Etihad to lend US-bound passengers iPads as ban workaround
One Mideast airline affected by the ban on most electronics in the cabins of U.S.-bound flights will lend iPads to its top-paying travelers. ...
New report shines light on installed costs and deployment barriers for residential solar PV with energy storage
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are making available the most detailed comp ...
Secrecy obligation for the digital piggy bank
With their bonus cards, consumers collect bonus points when paying for purchases. Cryptographic methods help to better protect privacy. Cred ...
E-gloves to protect workers from dangerous vibration levels
Professor Dias (right) and Dr Hughes-Riley. Credit: Nottingham Trent University Gloves embedded with tiny sensors are being developed by No ...
Interior positioning system for dynamic environments
In the future, inspectors at shipyards are to directly supply digital information about the construction progress and safety deficiencies. C ...
Cubic photometer makes light in a room visible
Credit: Delft University of Technology Light determines how we see the world. Take a golf ball: we can see the shine on it, make out the st ...