Traffic management solutions for drones in Singapore's airspace
Infographics - NTU proposed concept for air traffic management solutions for unmanned aircraft systems. Credit: Nanyang Technological Univer ...
Crossing borders to crowdfund renewables
Credit: Andras Barta Today energy crowdfunding platforms and investors experience many problems if they want to finance projects that cross ...
A raincoat for houses
2016-12-28 20:00:11A raincoat for houses
Credit: Youris.com The construction industry is preparing to use textiles from the clothing and footwear industries. Gore-Tex-like membrane ...
The lie-detecting security kiosk of the future
AVATAR can detect changes in physiology and behavior during interviews with travelers. AVATAR can detect changes in physiology and behavior ...
Facebook Safety Check triggers false Bangkok bomb scare
Facebook sparked fear—and anger—among Thailand's social media users after its Safety Check feature triggered a false bomb alert in Bangkok. ...
South Korean antitrust regulator fines Qualcomm $865 million
South Korea's antitrust regulator slapped a 1.03 trillion won ($865 million) fine on Qualcomm Inc. Wednesday for allegedly violating competi ...
Ford Fusion Mercury Milan cars investigated for brake issue
The U.S. government is investigating some Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan cars because the brake pedal may lose pressure, making it hard for d ...
Cell service at Rainier: Do you want to hear me now?
In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 16, 2016, a group huddles together to take a selfie photo on a cell phone at the Paradise area at Mount Rai ...
'Profitable' Washington Post will expand newsroom
The Washington Post, purchased three years ago by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, will turn a profit in 2016 and expand its newsroom, defying the ...
Tesla Panasonic to make solar cells in Buffalo New York
Japanese electronics company Panasonic and U.S. electric car maker Tesla said Tuesday they plan to begin production of solar cells at a fact ...
Amazon sold 'millions' of Alexa speakers for holiday
Amazon said Tuesday its connected Echo speakers infused with artificial intelligence were the top-selling products over the holiday season f ...
Hack-proofing RFID-equipped personal devices
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags have become almost ubiquitous – look carefully, and you'll notice them in passports, credit cards ...
The biggest technology failures of 2016
Samsung. Credit: Thaivisa.com 2016 has been a watershed year for technology. There has been some spectacular fails that have brought a more ...
Why connecting all the world's robots will drive 2017's top technology trends
Credit: Shutterstock If you want to make predictions for the future, you need to find the trajectory of events in the past. So to work out ...
Network traffic anomaly detection
Basic architecture and procedures of the proposed algorithm. Credit: University of Electro-Communications "Diagnosing unusual events ( ...
Coding theorem defines decoding error capacity for general scenarios
The coding system over mixed channels with general mixture. Credit: University of Electro-Communications The rate at which information can ...
Improvements to a decision-making algorithm
The chain-reaction update to effectively replace existing solutions for the search of the Pareto frontier. Hiroyuki Sato at the University o ...
Speech signal processing—enhancing voice conversion models
Researchers in Japan have created a new voice conversion method using an adaptive restricted Boltzmann machine - a model capable of deconstr ...
Tesla Panasonic agree to make PV cells in Buffalo New York
Japanese electronics company Panasonic and U.S. electric car maker Tesla said Tuesday they plan to begin production of photovoltaic cells an ...
Avatar-style S. Korean manned robot takes first baby steps
Engineers test a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Technology in Gunpo, south of Seoul, on ...
New simulation software improves helicopter pilot training
Simulation of a helicopter-landing on a ship. Credit: Chair of Helicopter Technology / TUM Missions at sea, in mountainous regions or close ...
Smartphone-obsessed Finns rank tops in screen time
Finland, once a world leader in mobile telephony with Nokia, is in a class of its own when it comes to internet usage on smartphones and tab ...
Israel ministers approve bill to remove online 'incitement'
A Palestinian man looks at Facebook page with a picture depicting the "#Op_Israel" campaign launched by the activist group Anonymo ...
Thai police charge man in hacking attacks on gov't sites
Natdanai Kongdee, third from right, is interviewed at the police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Dec 26, 2016. Police in Thailand ...
Acciona returns to Dakar Rally with electric car
Driver Ariel Jatton (L) and co-driver Gaston Daniel Scazzuso of Argentina pose inside their Acciona Eco Power ahead of the 2016 Dakar Rally ...
Website charts Santa's journey around the globe
A man wearing a Santa Claus costume walks atop Jerusalem's Old City walls on December 23, 2016 An online Santa tracker run by a Canadian an ...
Arizona governor welcomes Uber fleet of self-driving cars (Update)
In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, an Uber driverless car is displayed in a garage in San Francisco. Uber has pulled its self-drivi ...
US allowing work to restart at nuke dump three years after leak
The U.S. Energy Department authorized its contractor Friday to begin disposing of radioactive waste again at the nation's only underground r ...
NJIT's 'Lead Tank' motors to a medal at the Chem-E-Car Championship
Credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology The "Lead Tank," a 25-pound driverless car with an intimidating name and an intricate ...
Stability challenge in perovskite solar cell technology
Dr. Yan Jiang holding a freshly made MAPbI3 perovskite solar cell can be seen on the left. MAPbI3 perovskite solar cells degrade, which is m ...
3-D-compatible germanium nMOS gate stack with high mobility and superior reliability
Energy band diagrams of Si-passivated Ge nFET (b) without interface dipole and (c) with interface dipole at the high-k/SiO2 interface. Inte ...
Multi-core processors for mobility and industry 4.0
ARAMiS (right) and demonstrator of an ARAMiS control unit (left) at the BMBF stand at CeBIT 2016. Credit: Georg Hofstetter Safety-critical ...
A house designed for drought
2016-12-24 00:00:14A house designed for drought
The exterior of "Our H2Ouse," the housing design submitted by the UC Davis 2017 Solar Decathlon team. Credit: UC Davis A team of ...
Robot 'learns' how to function in human environments
Join Rosy the robot as she "learns" how to function in a human environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Cred ...
'DiplomaCity'— Learning networks of cities for a sustainable future
Credit: Youris.com "I'm out to prove the obvious," says best-selling author Parag Khanna, "More connectivity is better." ...
Eye tracking technology to assist navigation and other applications
Credit: Swiss National Science Foundation Pedestrians often try to find their way about using their smartphones. The computer scientist Pet ...
Keeping tabs on aging power cables to prevent outages
Credit: Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Switzerland's power grid comprises over 250,000 kilometers of lines ...
Meet the cost-efficient wave turbine
Marmok-5, a new device using wave-powered turbines to generate up to 30kW of electricity, has recently been deployed at the BiMEP site, on t ...
Arizona governor to welcome Uber self-driving cars
In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, an Uber driverless car is displayed in a garage in San Francisco. Uber has pulled its self-drivi ...
Turkey restricts internet after release of IS video
A monitoring organization says Turkey restricted access to social media websites after the Islamic State group released a video purportedly ...
Myanmar farmers reap rewards from 3D printing
Social enterprise Proximity Designs's 3D printer is making high technology accessible to Myanmar's impoverished farmers Whizzing across a b ...
Bacteria-powered battery for resource-limited environments
Researchers at Binghamton University have created a bacteria-powered battery on a single sheet of paper that can power disposable electronics.
Uber moves self-driving cars from California to Arizona
In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, an Uber driverless car is displayed in a garage in San Francisco. Uber has pulled its self-drivi ...
Bulgarian man pleads not guilty in US cybercrime case
A Bulgarian man pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges that he used sophisticated malware designed to steal banking credentials and ...
Group: 3rd Uber driver deemed employee not contractor
A New York City advocacy group says a third former Uber driver has been deemed to have been an employee of the company, not a contractor. ...
Future 'smart cities' should be super-connected green and resilient
Robust resource allocation to build resilience into connected critical infrastructures. Credit: Walid Saad/Virginia Tech When Superstorm Sa ...
Popular mobile game 'Pokemon Go' lands on Apple Watch
The popular mobile game "Pokemon Go" is coming to the Apple Watch, squashing rumors that the game's maker was scrapping such plans ...
Road paved with solar panels powers French town
Segolene Royal and other officials walk on a solar panel road at its inauguration in Tourouvre, on December 22, 2016 France on Thursday ina ...
A smarter safer way to reduce 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 ...
Inquiry says Snowden in contact with Russia's spy services
In this Feb. 14, 2015 file photo, Edward Snowden appears on a live video feed broadcast from Moscow at an event sponsored by ACLU Hawaii in ...
System filters the arguments in texts and checks their quality
Quality check on sources: Prof. Iryna Gurevych (left) and her team. Credit: Sandra Junker There is a sea of information and argumentation o ...
How an experimental 3D-printed artwork could help save modern art
Credit: Shutterstock Many contemporary artworks are endangered due to their extremely fast degradation processes. NANORESTART—a project dev ...
From outer space to inner eye
Belgian Lambda-X developed the NIMO instrument for inspection of ophthalmic lenses based on technology the company gained from building inst ...
New record for US original television series in 2016
Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are pushing the expansion of US television series The number of scripted original US te ...
Researcher proposes parallel Intelligence a move toward the intelligent future
Nine months ago, a computer beat one of the world's best players at one of the world's oldest games, Go. That was the start of the era of ne ...
New metric shows that when building in areas prone to natural disasters it pays to make informed decisions
Debris and damage from Hurricane Ivan in Pensacola, Florida, Sept. 17, 2004. Credit: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA/Wikimedia Commons Hazard-induce ...
Turning up the thermostat in tropics shows promise for energy and comfort
The map above shows Singapore and outline of Singapore and its surrounding islands and waterways. Credit: University of California - Berkele ...
Scientists test solutions for energy-efficient grow houses
UC Davis assistant engineer Derrick Ross examines the test setup of the MSP dehumidifier at the Western Cooling Efficiency Center. Cred ...
Study asks if Uber drivers are entrepreneurs
rown students Caleb Clarke, Ryan Scottiand and Grace McCleary studied Uber's driver model in a class led by Barrett Hazeltine (center). Cred ...
High currents in graphene for ultra-fast electronics
Electrons in graphene are extremely mobile and react quickly, according to a research team from the Institute of Applied Physics at TU Wien, the Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf and the University
Use it or lose it—the search for enlightenment in dark data
How to make sense of it all? Credit: Shutterstock Big data is big news these days. But most organisations just end up hoarding vast reams o ...
Zap&Go to unveil three fast charge prototypes at CES
Zap&Go partners with three global brands to demonstrate its fast charge technology in three dynamic prototypes at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2017.
‘Safe & Sound’ wearables design challenge
Sponsored by Texas Instruments (TI), element14 invites electronic engineers, designers and makers to participate in the ‘Safe & Sound’ design challenge. To win the challenge, makers need to design
Uber pulls self-driving cars from California roads
In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Devin Greene sits in the front seat of an Uber driverless car during a test drive in San Francis ...
Sex and marriage with robots: science fiction or new reality?
"Sexbots" are a staple of science fiction, but some specialists believe the first animated lovers made of microchips, rubber and p ...
US privacy board in disarray before Trump takes office
In this June 6, 2013 file photo, the sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. A federal oversight b ...
Canada regulator declares high-speed internet an essential service
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said a new Can$750 million fund would be created to reach the goal of ...
Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement
Nokia was the world's leading mobile phone maker from 1998 until 2011 when it bet on Microsoft's Windows mobile platform, which proved to be ...
US puts Alibaba back on 'notorious markets' blacklist
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is back on the U.S. government's annual list of "notorious markets" that sell pirated goods ...
Honda Google in talks on self-driving vehicle partnership
Honda is in talks with Google to install the tech company's self-driving technology in Honda vehicles. ...
5th-grader tests 3-D printed robotic arm to help other kids
The soon-to-be 11-year-old left the Washington University School of Medicine lab with an instruction manual for her new robotic arm. Don't g ...
California adopts nation's first energy-efficiency rules for computers
The California Energy Commission has passed energy-efficiency standards for computers and monitors in an effort to reduce power costs, becom ...
Seattle's cloud-computing boom is new force driving regional economy
Western Washington state's economy has long been driven by companies that build complex systems, from Boeing's airplanes to cellular network ...
Researchers launch tool to understand spread of fake news
A Hoaxy search reveals articles that claim cannabis cures cancer. The graph on the left shows the rise in these claims over the past five mo ...
In Apple's backyard iPads ignite furor in schools
Larkmead School. Credit: CC-BY-SA-2.5,2.0,1.0 In the shadow of Apple's headquarters, an initiative requiring public middle schoolers to use ...
What is cloud computing? Its tech tentacles reach everywhere
Cloud computing, the technology-industry joke goes, is a marketing term for "other people's computers." The quip is not far from t ...
Update - Solid state battery with unmatched energy density
A garnet based solid state battery technology is being developed by researchers at the University of Maryland’s Energy Research Center and A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Canada launches online hotline to report bad drone drivers
Transport Canada cites, as examples of bad or illegal drone operation, flying close to other aircraft, near aerodromes, or at a high altitud ...
How Microsoft emerged from the darkness to embrace the cloud
The winter of 2010 brought some of Microsoft's darkest days. Bing, the search engine Microsoft built to challenge Google, was burning cash w ...
Tech on wheels: Acura NSX returns as gas-electric hybrid
This photo provided by Honda shows the 2017 Acura NSX. The Acura NSX returns for 2017 after a 12-year absence as the first gasoline-electric ...
Don't get cyber-Scrooged! Tips for safe online shopping
In this Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, photo, a person searches the internet for sales, in Miami. With the holidays fast approaching, more people ar ...
Review: Epson Powerlite Home Cinema 3700 is affordable upgrade to your home viewing experience
There's nothing like the feeling when the lights go down and the movie starts. ...
Obstacle avoidance—the challenge for drone package delivery
Credit: shutterstock.com The world's first drone deliveries have begun trial runs in the United Kingdom and the U.S. Once primarily used by ...
What drives decisions by autonomous vehicles in dire situations?
A UCI professor and colleagues have created an online survey platform called the Moral Machine to learn what people think a self-driving car ...
NIST asks public to help future-proof electronic information
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is officially asking the public for help heading off a looming threat to informati ...
A unique additive for the ideal concrete
Kumar Abhishek develops new additives in the lab. Credit: EPFL Whether it's for drying time, hardness, or uniformity, a new additive develo ...
EU court rules against UK data retention laws
The European Court of Justice has ruled that governments must not indiscriminately collect and retain people's emails and electronic communi ...
Huge solar plant beams power hope to rural Uganda
Robert Otala checks on solar panels that he uses for his home in Soroti District about 300 kilometres northeast of the capital Kampala When ...
Sodium-embedded carbon for better energy devices
Sodium-embedded carbon nanowalls have been synthesised by a research team at Michigan Tech, which it claims can improve battery electrodes.
Additional investment secured by SmartKem
UK based organic semiconductor materials and technology company, SmartKem, has received a further £3million investment to support its scale-up plans.
Convenience shop items delivered by drone in US
US drone delivery service Flirtey announced that it has started delivering convenience store items to customers' homes on December 20, 2016 ...
Report: Facebook's unmanned aircraft crashed in test flight
An unmanned aircraft that is part of Facebook's plan to send internet signals to remote parts of the world crash-landed in the Arizona deser ...
Facebook dials in live audio streaming option
Social media platform Facebook is testing a live audio streaming service that will allow users to make radio-style broadcasts Facebook on M ...
Report: Russian cybergang scored millions in fake-ad scam (Update)
A Russian criminal group is running a massive fraud that has been siphoning off millions of digital advertising dollars a day for a couple o ...
Google eyes fix after snafu on Holocaust denial
Google says it plans to weed out "non-authoritative" information following a glitch that ranked a Holocaust denial website first i ...
Report: Russian cybergang scored millions in fake-ad scam
A firm that specializes in detecting online-ad fraud says a Russian criminal group has run a massive digital-ad fraud over the past few mont ...
Online sites court procrastinators with speedy shipping
In this Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, photo, an online shopper searches a site, while logged in from Miami. Procrastinating holiday shoppers are fi ...
Maker of Signal says app is being blocked in Egypt
An encrypted messaging app often used by journalists and activists in Egypt has been blocked by authorities, its maker said late Monday. ...
NRL completes first flight of UAV with custom hydrogen fuel cell
Members of the chemistry and tactical electronic warfare divisions from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory with the Ion Tiger unmanned air v ...
Flexible OLEDs now one step closer to market
Credit: Pi-Scale Partners of the PI-SCALE project recently showcased their first pilot lines demonstrators of flexible OLEDS—providing a gr ...