Samsung Apple dominate chip purchases in 2016
Between them, Samsung and Apple made more than 18% of all chip purchases in 2016, according to Gartner, with combined orders said to be worth $61.7billion; $400million more than in 2015. Although this
Amazon profit jumps while revenue misses mark (Update)
While Amazon is known for its huge online retail operations, it is also a major provider of cloud computing Amazon reported on Thursday tha ...
Snapchat parent Snap to raise up to $3 bn in IPO (Update)
California-based Snap Inc. was expected to be one of the biggest tech company market debuts in recent years with a valuation likely to top $ ...
Research review shows that nuclear safety is valued too low
New research has shown that the benchmark used by the Office for Nuclear Regulation for judging how much should be spent on nuclear safety h ...
Uber chief quits Trump advisory group after uproar
A #DeleteUber campaign on social media urged people to dump the service and switch to rival Lyft after riders and drivers raged against CEO ...
Univision networks back on for Charter customers for now
Millions of Charter cable customers can watch Univision again, although it may just be a temporary fix. ...
Sensors to measure electric fields in semiconductor devices
A new method for sensing electric fields in operating semiconductor devices has been reported by a group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the National
Snapchat parent Snap to raise up to $3 bn in IPO
California-based Snap Inc. was expected to be one of the biggest tech company market debuts in recent years with a valuation likely to top $ ...
Amazon profit jumps while revenue misses mark
While Amazon is known for its huge online retail operations, it is also a major provider of cloud computing US online colossus Amazon on Th ...
Amazon increasingly wants to be its own deliveryman
In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, file photo, Amazon.com boxes are shown stacked near a Boeing 767 Amazon "Prime Air" cargo plane on ...
Apple keeps lead in slumping tablet market
According to IDC, Apple and the iPad held 24.7 percent of the tablet market Apple remains the leader in a global tablet computer market whi ...
Reddit bans forum for white nationalists from its website
Reddit has banned a forum for white nationalists from its social news website, citing the company's rules against posting personal informati ...
Spain: 4 engineers investigated over 'Phineas Fisher' hack
In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, a computer screen shows an archived copy of the Twitter feed belonging to Phineas Fisher, a hacker who ...
RS extends PCB schematic and footprint agreement
RS Components has extended its agreement with SamacSys and will now offer direct access from its new PCB Part Library service to the latter’s schematic symbols and footprints for all PCB components.
Study suggests choice between green energy or economic growth
Poverty, unemployment and zero economic growth are the likely outcome for countries which choose renewable energy sources over fossil fuels, ...
Paper: Mexico's natural gas and electricity industries still far from a competitive marketplace
Credit: shutterstock.com/Rice University The recent reform in Mexico's natural gas and electricity industries is hampered from ushering in ...
After oil and gas Denmark's Dong ditches coal
Green energy giant Dong's stock listing in June 2016 was one of Europe's biggest IPOs last year Danish green energy giant Dong said Thursda ...
Battling corrosion to keep solar panels humming
Sandia National Laboratories researchers, left to right, Eric Schindelholz, Olga Lavrova, Rob Sorensen and Erik Spoerke examine points that ...
Team identifies better lithium-ion electrolytes
By running hundreds of simulations using the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a team from the California Institute of Technology has found new electrolytes which c
Imaging pioneers win Queen Elizabeth Prize
Four engineers responsible for the creation of digital imaging sensors have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Between them, the four – Eric Fossum, George Smith, Nobukazu Teranishi and Mi
Liquid crystal could triple sharpness of displays
An international team of researchers has developed a blue-phase liquid crystal that could enable screens and displays to pack more pixels into the same space while reducing power consumption.
FRAM for auto and demanding industrial applications
A FRAM developed by Fujitsu Electronics Europe is said to be the first in a new product group designed to operate in temperatures of up to 125°C. Qualified to AEC Q100, the part is targeted at a range
Discovery could lead to electrolyte-free batteries
Russian researchers believe a discovery about the crystal lattice structures of antiferroelectric lead zirconate could be the first step towards the creation of electrolyte free batteries.
Mercedes-Benz luxury cars fuel fat profits at Daimler
In this Jan 28, 2015 file picture an employee attaches a Mercedes emblem as he assembles a Mercedes-Benz S-class model at the plant in Sinde ...
Infineon makes ‘good start’ to 2017 FY
Infineon has had a good start to its new fiscal year, according to CEO Dr Reinhard Ploss, pictured. First quarter revenue and earnings were better than expected, driven by strong demand for automotive
Facebook vows aggressive investment as earnings surge (Update)
The number of people using Facebook monthly increased 17 percent to 1.86 billion Facebook shares bounced Wednesday with word that profit mo ...
Facebook's Oculus facing $500 million bill in copyright case
In this June 11, 2015, file photo, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey holds up the new Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for photographers follo ...
Japan court rejects 'right to be forgotten' on Google
Japan's Supreme Court has rejected a man's demand that news search results of his arrest on sex charges be deleted from Google, ruling that ...
Nokia reports 766 million euro loss in 2016
Nokia was the world's top mobile phone maker between 1998 and 2011 but was overtaken by South Korean rival Samsung after failing to respond ...
Arkansas bill aimed at forcing Amazon to collect sales taxes
Forcing Amazon and other e-commerce companies to collect Arkansas sales taxes could generate up to $100 million annually in extra revenue, a ...
H&R Block adds IBM's Watson to its tax team
H&R Block Inc. is working IBM's Watson supercomputer this tax season. ...
Self-driving car prototypes need less human help data show
This May 13, 2014, file photo shows a row of Google self-driving Lexus cars at a Google event outside the Computer History Museum in Mountai ...
Advanced robotic bat's flight characteristics simulates the real thing
The robotic 'bio-bat' demonstrates self-contained autonomous flight by mimicking morphological properties of flexible bat wings. Credit: Cov ...
Facebook beats Street 4Q earnings revenue forecasts
The number of people using Facebook monthly increased 17 percent to 1.86 billion Facebook blew past Wall Street's expectations yet again wi ...
Millions of Charter cable customers lose Univision channels
Spanish-language broadcast network Univision and the company's cable channels have gone dark for millions of Charter customers because of a ...
Dutch ballots to be counted by hand amid hacking fears
The Dutch government announced Wednesday it is scrapping computer software used to tally and transmit election results amid reports that the ...
Data: Self-driving cars needing less human help than in past
Self-driving car prototypes appear to be getting better at negotiating California streets and highways without a human backup needing to int ...
Sandia's solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement
Scientist Murat Okandan left Sandia National Laboratories to start mPower Technology Inc., whose primary product is Dragon SCALEs, small, li ...
Reporters' spy saga gives glimpse of UK surveillance culture
In this photo dated Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, journalist Julia Breen works on a story in the newsroom of The Northern Echo newspaper in Darli ...
Analysis software uses algorithms to visualize complex learning processes
Fraunhofer HHI’s analysis software uses algorithms to visualize complex learning processes (schematic diagram). Credit: Fraunhofer HHI Neur ...
Complex 3-D data on all devices
A new web-based software platform is swiftly bringing the visualization of 3D data to every device, optimizing the use of, for example, virt ...
Consumers have poor understanding of tracking methods used by online advertisers
A recent study published by researchers from the School of Information Studies (iSchool) reveals that the general public has a poor understa ...
Why Bill Belichick cast down his tablet
As the New England Patriots' 10th appearance in a Super Bowl approaches, sports fans are eager to see the legendary pairing of quarterback T ...
Automatically darkening windows in a wide range of colors
Organic monomers mixed into a special resin darken window glass. Credit: Fraunhofer IAP Electrochromic glass darkens automatically when the ...
Nokia updates IoT management platform
Nokia has updated its Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things (IMPACT) solution and says the improvements will make it easier to deploy new services and business models in such IoT ve
Tesla BMW electrics fall short of highest crash-test rating
This Sept. 20, 2016, photo provided by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows a 2017 BMW i3 before crash safety testing. The car e ...
Making the switch to polarisation diversity
A new kind of integrated optical switch, made using silicon photonics technologies, has been developed by researchers from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
'Dieselgate' drags on for VW and Bosch with new payouts
Volkswagen admitted in September 2015 to building so-called "defeat devices", designed to reduce harmful emissions during regulato ...
New project transforms social housing into energy efficient smart homes
(l-r) Professor Lubo Jankovic from Birmingham City University and Ron Beattie from Beattie Passive, handover the building to Birmingham City ...
Infrared links to simplify data centre communications
A team of engineers from Penn State, Stony Brook University and Carnegie Mellon University is proposing to substitute wires in data centres with infrared free-space optics.
How a larger windscreen could improve lorry safety
Credit: University of Leeds The size of a lorry's windscreen can have a dramatic impact on the safety of other road users, according to a s ...
NY attorney general sues internet provider over speed claims
New York's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Charter Communications alleging that the cable and internet provider failed to deliv ...
Compiler modified to boost parallel processing efficiency
According to researchers from MIT, code written explicitly to take advantage of parallel computing usually loses the benefit of a compiler’s optimisation strategies. The reason, they say, is because m
Lack of cyber security poses threat to modern cars
Credit: Shutterstock Cars are becoming increasingly smarter and are connected with each other and their surroundings to an increasing exten ...
Researchers from the UGR develop a new software which adapts medical technology to see the interior of a sculpture
Credit: University of Granada A student at the University of Granada (UGR) has designed software that adapts current medical technology to ...
How the drone went from the latest must-have tech toy to a billion-dollar cultural phenomenon
An airbourne drone. Credit: www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA Of the many technologies to have captured our imaginations over the last five ye ...
Czech foreign minister: Emails hacked by foreign state
In this Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, Lubomir Zaoralek, speaks during a joint press confe ...
What are the minds of non-human creatures really like?
Credit: University of Cambridge It is often talked about as the ultimate prize of artificial intelligence: a machine that can think like a ...
New Cheyenne supercomputer triples scientific capability with greater efficiency
From a simulation run on the Yellowstone supercomputer, these contour lines and isosurfaces provide valuable information about turbulence an ...
Low cost Terahertz emitter to be miniaturised
High performance and low power driven THz emitters can now be mass-produced at low cost claim researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Institute of Materials Research and Engin
Austrian hotel ditching key cards after hackers strike
An Austrian luxury hotel says it's ditching electronic room cards for old-fashioned locks and keys after having their systems frozen by blac ...
Rohde & Schwarz introduces 6GHz lab oscilloscope
A 6GHz bandwidth model has been added to Rohde & Schwarz’s RTO2000 series, which are suitable instruments for demanding measurement tasks such as power integrity measurements, fast communications
Tech firms unite to challenge Trump on immigration
Demonstrators protest against US President Donald Trump and his administration's ban of travelers from seven countries by Executive Order, d ...
FBI: Hacking tool info could be of use to 'hostile entities'
In this Feb. 17, 2016 file photo an iPhone is seen in Washington. The FBI is defending its decision to withhold information on how it unlock ...
Water based and biocompatible 2D material inks
A method of producing water based and inkjet printable 2D material inks has been developed by researchers at the University of Manchester, which could make 2D crystal heterostructures a reality.
CEOs push back against Trump temporary immigration ban
In this April 4, 2016 file photo, General Electric Co., CEO Jeff Immelt speaks during a news conference in Boston. The heads of Apple, Ford ...
Cathay Pacific to cut emissions with switch to biofuel
Cathay Pacific is to use biofuels made from landfill rubbish on flights from the US to Hong Kong Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific will ...
Latest version of Autodesk EAGLE released
Distributor element14 has announced the latest version of Autodesk EAGLE.
Nintendo's third quarter profit jumps on Pokemon game sales
In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 file photo, journalists wait outside the venue for the presentation of the new Nintendo Switch in Tokyo. Japan ...
India IT stocks slip amid worries about stricter H-1B visas
In this Jan. 18, 2016 file photo, Wipro Ltd. employees walk inside the company's compound during a break at their headquarters in Bangalore, ...
Thermoelectric organic transistor could enable heat controlled circuitry
Researchers in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University say they have created a thermoelectric organic transistor in which a temperature rise of a single degree is sufficient to c
Device to start heavy equipment at temperatures as cold as −60 C
Credit: The National University of Science and Technology MISIS Together with TEEMP (a company in the RENOVA group), a group of NUST MISIS ...
Starbucks launches voice ordering via app Amazon's Alexa
This Dec. 20, 2010, file photo, shows signage at a Starbucks store in New York. Starbucks is launching voice ordering though its iPhone app. ...
Academics build ultimate solar-powered water purifier
From the top left corner, moving clockwise, the four images depict: University at Buffalo students performing an experiment, clean drinking ...
New smartwatch software may now verify your signatures
Credit: Tel Aviv University The handwritten signature is still the most widely accepted biometric used to verify a person's identity. Banks ...
Storing solar power increases energy consumption and emissions study finds
Solarkraftwerk Waldpolenz, the first Solar 40-MW CdTe PV Array installed by JUWI Group in Brandis, Germany. Credit: JUWI Group Homes with s ...
GM Honda team up to develop advanced hydrogen fuel cells
General Motors Co. and Honda Motor Co. took a big step toward putting out vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells by forming a joint venture ...
'Trump & Dump' program aims to profit off Trump tweets
The "Trump & Dump" artificial intelligence program identifies Trump's market-moving tweets, assesses instantaneously whether t ...
New York Times launches daily podcast show
The New York Times plans a new daily podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro Best known for its print coverage, The New York Times is this week b ...
Snapchat parent to offer shares on NYSE: reports
The parent company of hit mobile-messaging service Snapchat is expected to make its debut as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange ...
Components embedded in 3D printed PCBs
Two weeks after claiming to have 3D printed rigid PCBs with flexible connectors, Nano Dimension says it has now printed PCBs with electrical components embedded within them.
NIST partners 'cutting the cord' (and wires) from factory communication networks
Rick Candell (seated) and Murat Aksu (standing) examine how wireless communications perform in a virtual chemical processing plant created b ...
Absorbing electromagnetic energy without heating
Electrical engineers at Duke University have created an electromagnetic metamaterial made without metal. The device's ability to absorb electromagnetic energy without heating has applications in i
Electronic properties found in boron chains
A Rice University team that simulated one-dimensional forms of boron is said to have found they possess unique properties. If the metallic ribbons of boron are stretched, they morph into antiferromagn
Compound Semi Institute gets £13m from Europe
Cardiff University’s Institute for Compound Semiconductors has received £13million from the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) to help build, equip and run a cleanroom on the Institute’s Innovation
Metallic hydrogen for room temperature semiconductors
Nearly a century after it was theorised, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating atomic metallic hydrogen. In addition to helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the nature of mat
Modifying the 'middle end' of a popular compiler yields more-efficient parallel programs
“Everybody said it was going to be too hard, that you’d have to change the whole compiler,” MIT professor Charles E. Leiserson says. “And th ...
Keysight signs $1.6bn deal to acquire Ixia
Keysight has entered a definitive agreement to acquire communications test and security specialist Ixia in a $1.6billion deal.
With or without a driver vehicles are able to cooperate
EPFL researchers have developed an algorithm for automated vehicles to operate in traffic alongside manually-driven vehicles. This is a key ...
It's pedal to the metal for driverless cars
When a May 2016 crash killed the person operating a Tesla Model S driving in Autopilot mode, advocates of autonomous vehicles feared a slowd ...
Dialog Energous launch ASIC for WattUp power transmission
Following the formation of a strategic partnership, Dialog Semiconductor and Energous have unveiled what they say is the first ASIC RF transmit chip, a move which could simplify implementation of Watt
Wearable 'watches' to monitor your blood pressure
A close-up of one end of the fake wrist. Credit: National Institute of Standards and Technology What if there were a wearable fitness devic ...
Designing the best car antenna
Discussing antenna gains. Keerthi Nagalapur, PhD student at Chalmers and Mikael Nilsson, Technical Expert Volvo Cars. Credit: Henrik Sandsj& ...
Placing buildings in a landscape with computational mathematics
Simulation results from models with overlapping meshes for the project titled: Computational Design of Settlement Layouts A research projec ...
Keeping antennas at peak performance
Advanced statistical techniques developed by KAUST researchers have enabled an efficient method for detecting the partial antenna failures t ...
Smaller states rejoice as Amazon finally collects sales tax
Many online shoppers in the United States have for years had to pay state sales taxes whenever they buy goods from Amazon. But the Seattle e ...
A commuter's dream: Entrepreneurs race to develop flying car
This artist rendering provided by Airbus shows a vehicle in their flying car project, Vahana. Even before George Jetson entranced kids with ...
Apple joins group devoted to keeping AI nice
Apple is the latest tech giant to join the non-profit "Partnership on AI," which will have its inaugural board meeting in San Fran ...
EU wants Trump reassurances on data protection: commissioner
The EU is hoping for reassurances from new US President Donald Trump that he will stick by a hard-won personal data protection accord with E ...
Mark Zuckerberg dropping lawsuits seeking to buy Hawaii land
This Jan. 15, 2017 file photo shows public Pilaa Beach, center, below hillside and ridge top land owned by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, nea ...