The sky is the limit for new low-cost 3-D printer
Torbjørn Ludvigsen, the inventor of the HangPrinter, is surveilling his 3D printer in action. Credit: Linnéa Therese Dimitrou. Sl ...
Europe-wide raids against suspects in online banking fraud
Police in three European countries have raided homes and offices linked to a gang of suspected cyberthieves that targeted online banking cus ...
WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of 'CIA hacking'
WikiLeaks claims the CIA has been involved in intensive hacking operations. Credit: EPA/Dennis Brack WikiLeaks today released what it claim ...
Apple Samsung vow to fix flaws after CIA hacking report
Apple and Samsung vowed Wednesday to quickly fix any vulnerabilities in their products following WikiLeaks' disclosure of an alleged CIA hac ...
Assistive tech for people with visual impairments to identify scientific images on a computer screen
Ting Zhang (left), graduate student in the Purdue School of Industrial Engineering, assists David Schwarte, assistive technology specialist ...
Mechanical engineers help disabled through Braille labels for consumer products
Credit: Texas A&M University Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University are making it easier ...
Counting microbes on a smartphone
Using a watershed algorithm, the APD Colony Counter App developed by A*STAR researchers can cheaply count the bacterial colonies on a cultur ...
New process for manufacturing PV cells means cheaper solar power
Credit: Shutterstock A major roadblock to the mass use of solar energy are photovoltaic (PV) solar cells. This is because the cost, ineffic ...
Sensor fusion design centre for Bracknell says On Semi
ON Semiconductor is establishing a new sensor fusion design centre in Bracknell. The move is said to reinforce its position as a leading supplier of image sensors for automotive ADAS and viewing appli
Seven tips for surviving the apocalypse
Apocalypse soon? Credit: Shutterstock Billionaires who have made their fortunes in Silicon Valley seem to be worried about the future. So w ...
Game-changing heat pipe technology answers global waste problem
Brunel University London and Mission Resources limited are developing an innovative low-temperature pyrolysis treatment to convert household ...
Embedded tools vendors unite to address complex design challenges
The Embedded Tools Alliance (ETA) has been created to help engineers to select the best components from a number of different suppliers, with the knowledge that the components have been proven to work
Australia Malaysia hope MH370 will be found one day
Relatives of passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 demand for the Chinese government to continue the search with banne ...
Polymer coated silicon nanosheets are ‘graphene alternative’
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have produced a composite material combining silicon nanosheets and a polymer that is UV resistant and easy to process.
WikiLeaks CIA files: Are they real and are they a risk?
WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents that the anti-secrecy organization said were classified files revealing scores of secrets abo ...
Developing tools for reproducibility
The concept of reproducibility is vital when it comes to research, as it provides transparency and ensures clarity for findings. However, re ...
Digital receiver consumes less than 1.6mW
Nanoelectronics research centre imec, along with the Holst Centre, has developed a novel phase-tracking receiver which is said to bring further power and cost reduction for next generation Bluetooth a
Crash test dummies sacrifice lives for car safety
A technology-packed, 180-pound (80 kg) crash test dummy sends a vast array of data from its sensors to show how he fared in the crash Clad ...
WikiLeaks reveals CIA trove alleging wide-scale hacking
This is Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 file photo of the new CIA Director Michael Pompeo, as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. WikiLeaks ...
Trump set to roll back federal fuel-economy requirements
In this Feb. 21, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to employees of the EPA in Washing ...
Uber seeks a second-in-command to steady the wheel
Embattled Uber co-founder and chief executive Travis Kalanick, pictured in December 2016, faces pressure after a series of missteps Uber on ...
New kids streaming service will have 'Scooby Doo' 'Jetsons'
This image provided by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. shows a still from video subscription service Boomerang's "Dorothy and the Wizar ...
WikiLeaks: CIA has targeted everyday gadgets for snooping
This is Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 file photo of the new CIA Director Michael Pompeo, as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. WikiLeaks ...
WikiLeaks publishes trove purportedly taken from CIA
This is Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 file photo of the new CIA Director Michael Pompeo, as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. WikiLeaks ...
Austrian official: Turkish cyberattack on foreign ministry
Austria's foreign ministry says that Turkish hackers have again attacked its internet pages amid simmering tensions between the two countrie ...
Computer linguists are developing an intelligent system aid for air traffic controllers
With a simulated air traffic controller station, Marc Schulder and Dietrich Klakow are testing their intelligent system aid. Credit: Oliver ...
Forget Trump; Slovenian president rules Instagram
Slovenia's president Borut Pahor talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Monday, March 6, 2017. Slovenia ...
What fax machines can teach us about electric cars
No common standard: CHAdeMO, CCS and Tesla Supercharger plugs. Credit: CHAdeMO: C-CarTom; CCS: Hadhuey; Tesla: Paul Sladen, CC BY-SA Imagin ...
Oh Snap? After bursting out of the gate shares give way
In this March 2, 2017 file photo, a banner for Snap Inc. hangs from the front of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. Snap's stock may ...
WikiLeaks publish 1000s of what it says are CIA documents
WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents that it says come from the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence, a dramatic release that appea ...
Black cab trade needs overhaul to compete with Uber say researchers
Credit: University of the West of England London's traditional black cab industry needs regulatory reform to respond to the emergence of Ub ...
Designing the fuel-efficient aircraft of the future
Tow-steered composites can reduce the structural weight of an aircraft by 10 percent while reducing fuel burn by 0.4 percent. NASA is buildi ...
Dual core lockstep processor IP for safety critical applications
In a move intended to simplify the development of safety critical applications and to accelerate certification of automotive SoCs to ISO26262, Synopsys has added dual core lockstep processors to its D
System enables people to correct robot mistakes using brain signals
A new system from CSAIL uses EEG brain signals to detect if a person notices robots making a mistake. Credit: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL For r ...
Manufacturing system may stem cost effects
High costs of production and labor, combined with high rates of technological change, often cause manufacturers in developed countries to ta ...
Building a nomad pavilion out of novel recovered materials
Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Could recovered materials play a key role in tomorrow's civil engineering? EPFL researcher ...
German court to rule in refugee's Facebook lawsuit
A court in southern Germany will rule on a case brought against Facebook by a Syrian refugee who wants the company to seek and delete posts ...
Signaling success for 5th gen communications
An efficient wireless signal optimization scheme will allow arrays of many antennas to be used for high-performance 5G mobile communications ...
How to protect your private data when you travel to the United States
What do you do if a border official asks for your phone PIN? Credit: Ervins Strauhmanis/Flickr, CC BY-SA On January 30 – three days after U ...
Bubble recoil to cool microchips
Bubbles that form on a heated surface have been shown to create a tiny recoil which could be used to cool high power microelectronics in space and other applications, according to researchers at the U
Improved charge for lithium-sulphur batteries
Lithium-sulphur batteries show promise for high energy storage applications according to researchers from the University of Delaware.
Deep-ultraviolet LED to replace mercury-based solutions
With wavelengths of between 200 and 280nm, deep-UV mercury-based lamps are known for killing harmful organisms, such as viruses, bacteria, mould and dust mites, by penetrating their membranes and atta
Analog’s acquisition of Linear set to close
Having received regulatory approval from the China’s Ministry of Commerce, Analog Devices expects to complete its acquisition of Linear Technology on 10 March 2017. The approval of the Chinese ministr
Business group: China tech plan threat to foreign firms
In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, a worker tests LED lights at a factory in Suining city in southwestern China's Sichuan province. ...
Uber skids have Lyft steering for passing lane
Lyft took a stand in January 2017 against US President Donald Trump's first anti-immigration executive order, announcing a million-dollar do ...
A new approach to improving lithium-sulfur batteries
Bingqing Wei and colleagues are working to build a better lithium-sulfur battery. Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson/University of Delaware Recharge ...
Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently
Brown University undergraduate Eric Rosen lays out items on a table for Baxter the robot to retrieve. A new algorithm Rosen helped to develo ...
Pennsylvania Senate Democrats resist ransom in cyberattack
Pennsylvania's top state Senate Democrat said Monday that no ransom has been paid to resolve a cyberattack that shut down the caucus' networ ...
One in 5 residents overuses electricity at neighbors' expense
Credit: Wikipedia Household electricity use falls by more than 30% when residents are obliged to pay for their own personal consumption. Th ...
Google vows fix for 'inappropriate' search results
Google has a "feedback" link to flag or remove inappropriate content from its search results Google said Monday it was working to ...
Descriptions of cloud services affect our reality
Cloud services are now quite taken for granted in many people's everyday lives. What most people probably do not realise is that how we talk ...
From teenager to pensioner—the green energy crowdfunders
Credit: WakWaka Boosting the use of renewable energy has long been an ambition in Europe, but some efforts have powered down amid an ever-c ...
Fitbit tracks your steps; now it wants to chart your Zs too
In this March 1, 2017 photo, women wear Fitbit's new Alta HR on their wrist while working out at a Swerve fitness center in New York. Fitbit ...
GM sells European brands to France's Peugeot
In this Feb.14, 2017 file photo, nn Opel car, in front, is offered for sale by a Peugeot dealer in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. General Motors Co ...
Crunching "sustainable" cookies
Galletas Gullón production line. Credit: Anna Giamporcaro The bakery industry is a large supplier of jobs and revenue, but on the othe ...
Imaging the inner workings of a sodium-metal sulfide battery for first time
Jun Wang (sitting), Christopher Eng (standing), Jiajun Wang (left, laptop screen), and Liguang Wang of Brookhaven National Laboratory used t ...
The Darknet protects itself by being more robust against attacks
Structural analysis of Internet and Darknet topologies. Force-directed visualization of the Internet and the Darknet in 2015, with nodes col ...
Norway says half of new cars now electric or hybrid
Somewhat paradoxically, Norway, the biggest oil producer in Western Europe, has adopted a generous policy to encourage the purchase of clean ...
Space energy technology restored to make power stations more efficient
Schematic sketch of the thermionic energy convertor prototype with a graphene collector. Credit: Elsevier Satellite-powering technology tha ...
New deep learning techniques analyze athletes' decision-making
Sports analytics is routinely used to assign values to such things as shots taken or to compare player performance, but a new automated meth ...
Post-print customization of 3-D prints
CC0 Public Domain Three-dimensional printing makes all conceivable varieties of layered, three-dimensional objects possible, a benefit appr ...
The promise of driverless cars
Look! No driver in the Mercedes F 015 concept car shown at the 2015 North American International Auto Show. Credit: Shutterstock/Steve Lagre ...
New approach for matching production and consumption of renewable electricity
Schematics of the ReSOC concept. It is the missing link between the power grid and the fuel or the chemical feedstock for the industry. Cred ...
Scientists show cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play
The first study to both show and measure the effects of cognitive-enhancing drugs such as modafinil, methylphenidate (best known under the t ...
Europe ‘only region’ to see semi sales growth in January
Sales of semiconductors in Europe amounted to $2.836billion in January 2017, an increase of 4.8% compared to January 2016 and 1.2% more than in December 2016.
Smiths to drop brand names use Smiths Interconnect
Following a strategic reorganisation intended to make it more agile, Smiths Interconnect is to rename its various technology brands as Smiths Interconnect. The existing brands – EMC Technology, Hypert
Russian library digitizes collection of the oldest printed books
Credit: Tomsk State University Scientists at the TSU Research Library have digitized and issued a collection of 26 incunabula—early printed ...
Imec claims alternative to MOSFET for low voltage chips
Nanoelectronics research centre imec is presenting a paper at the CS International Conference in which it describes a tunnel FET (TFET) made only using InGaAs. According to imec, the device has a sub
Artificial data give the same results as real data—without compromising privacy
Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Although data scientists can gain great insights from large data sets—and can ultimately use ...
IBM aims for 50 qubit quantum computer ‘in next few years’
IBM has announced an initiative to build commercially available quantum computing systems. Called IBM Q, the systems and services will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform.
Virtual reality training for 'safety-critical' jobs
A man wearing a virtual reality headset. Credit: Cineon Training New virtual reality training could help prevent accidents in "safety- ...
Hypercars mingle with station wagons at Geneva auto show
This undated photo released by car manufacturer Daimler AG shows a Mercedes-AMG E 63 S 4Matic + T-Modell car. The car will be shown at the G ...
US suspends fast-track processing for highly skilled H-1B visa
US authorities are temporarily suspending the speedy, premium processing of a visa which is often used by tech firms to recruit foreign skil ...
Carmakers rev up emissions cuts as tough rules loom
Every gram of CO2 counts as carmakers race to cut emissions before tough new rules kick in Global carmakers, stung by emissions scandals, a ...
Elon Musk: tech dreamer reaching for sun moon and stars
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has an estimated current net worth of $13.4 billion from interests in transport, payments and space technology Sendi ...
Secret Uber software steers drivers from stings
Uber on Friday acknowledged the use of a secret software program to steer drivers away from trouble, including sting operations by local aut ...
Gizmo Guy: Alexa does makes us happy ... some of the time
How much excitement can one tech product - the voice-activated Amazon Echo and its smaller siblings Echo Dot and Tap - generate before the & ...
When tech companies go public employees can strike it rich—or not
Five years ago when Facebook went public, employees of the social network were glued to office televisions airing CNBC, waiting for the comp ...
Comcast's NBCU discloses $500 mn stake in Snap
Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal disclosed it has taken a $500 million stake in Snap, the messaging service which launched its big public offerin ...
Nintendo Switch's big challenge: luring casual gamers
David Flores, 34 years old, right, and his wife Nao Imoto, 31 years old, show off Nintendo's newest computer game consoles "Switch" ...
Can Snapchat visionary keep the app cool?
Four years ago, Evan Spiegel made the bet of his life, rejecting Facebook's $3 billion offer for his fledgling video messaging app, Snapchat ...
Silicon Valley high school makes $24 million from Snap IPO
A banner for Snap Inc. hangs from the front of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, March 2, 2017, in New York. The company behind the pop ...
Pi Zero W adds Wi-Fi Bluetooth 4.0
Five years since the Raspberry Pi burst on to the scene, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched Raspberry Pi Zero W. The wireless LAN enabled version of the Raspberry Pi Zero will cost just $10.
A techie takeover in an old-school industry
Think about the last time your air conditioner failed you. You didn't go to Home Depot and walk out with a compressor on your cart. The hear ...
Continuous-flow electrically-triggered single cell-level electroporation
3-dimensional rendering of a cell passing through the electroporation zone while a pulse is being applied. The electric field lines which no ...
Post-election business is booming for these startups
Many Silicon Valley tech leaders continue to challenge the man they never wanted to see in the White House, labeling his ideas - particularl ...
Review: Drobo can store all your data and keep it safe
Data. We all create it every day, and there is likely a decent amount of it you'd like to store long-term. ...
High school makes $24 million from Snap IPO
A banner for Snap Inc. hangs from the front of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, March 2, 2017, in New York. The company behind the pop ...
Europeans get more digital but continent divided
The European Union says Europeans' online connections and skills are improving but there's still too large a gap between the Nordic front-ru ...
Virtual simulation will test new transport services
Credit: University of the West of England As part of the Mobility on Demand Laboratory Environment (MODLE) project, Transport Systems Catap ...
35 percent of UK jobs may be at risk from automation
Credit: Shutterstock Fear of losing our jobs to those who can perform tasks faster, cheaper and perhaps with more creativity, has been long ...
High areal capacity battery for renewable energy storage
Researchers at The City College of New York’s CUNY Energy Institute say they have developed a low cost, rechargeable high energy density battery that supports the further development of solar and wind
Ditch computers to save democracy: ethical hacker
(From left) PvdA Party leader Lodewijk Asscher, CDA Party leader Sybrand Buma and D66 Party leader Alexander Pechtold file in the 'Stemwijze ...
Smartphones have you pegged and for better or worse they'll soon ID you
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The things that make human beings unique - fingerprints, irises, facial features - have become the preferred way ...
DSTL uses HALO systems to test video processing algorithms
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has taken delivery of two HALO Rapid Prototype Development Systems from RFEL. The systems will be used to evaluate video processing algorithms from
Want the yachting life even for a day? Miami startup will hook you up
Nicholas Cardoza, co-founder and designer of YachtLife, is vice president of the luxury yacht company VanDutch and has been involved in yach ...
Researchers measure Big Ben's bong
The Elizabeth Tower containing Big Ben. Credit: Carl Vivianб University of Leicester A team from the University of Leicester's Department o ...
Spotify extends streaming lead with 50 million subscribers
Spotify has maintained its edge as music-streaming leader despite concerted efforts from competitors such as Apple and Tidal Spotify has ex ...
Big leap for Snap as messaging app debuts on Wall Street
Snapchat owner Snap Inc rode a wave of euphoria in its Wall Street debut Thursday as investors sent shares of the popular messaging app soar ...
Team develops sustainable high energy density battery
Gautam Yadav with the low cost, rechargeable high energy density battery developed at CCNY's Grove School of Engineering. Researchers at Th ...