Light sensor to spot Legionella in minutes
The European group POSEIDON, (or ‘Plasmonic-based automated lab-on-chip sensor for the rapid in-situ detection of Legionella’) has developed a biophotonic light sensor capable of detecting Legionella
Thermal raises issues for electronics design engineers
A report from the 6SigmaET team at Future Facilities highlights how thermal considerations are too often neglected – particularly early in the design process.
Giant machine shows how a computer works
[from L-R] Richard Grafton, Professor David May and Sam Russell, in front of the Big Hex Machine. Credit: University of Bristol A giant, fu ...
How Twitter bots affected the US presidential campaign
Who’s behind that Twitter feed? Credit: shutterstock.com Key to democracy is public engagement – when people discuss the issues of the day ...
GoPro recalls new Karma drone
GoPro said it is recalling all of the approximately 2,500 Karma drones it has sold due to instances when power cut out during flight GoPro ...
Line sticks to the global shadows despite splashy IPO
Line Corp. president and chief executive officer Takeshi Idezawa rings the bell during ceremony for the company's listing at the Tokyo Stock ...
Review: Roku Express is a streaming video bargain
No matter who you are, if you're looking for a way to stream video from the internet to your living room TV, Roku hopes to have you covered. ...
Tech firms aim to be video gateways
Facebook and Snapchat have overtaken the home pages of Yahoo and Google as the front door to the Internet for hundreds of millions of people ...
Big data shows people's collective behavior follows strong periodic patterns
Social network diagram. Credit: Daniel Tenerife/Wikipedia New research has revealed that by using big data to analyse massive data sets of ...
Researchers question if banning of 'killer robots' actually will stop robots from killing
By looking at killer robots we are forced to address questions that are set to define the coming age of automation, artificial intelligence ...
People power: Technology allows smartphone-based water testing
A crowd of pond water protists overlook an ostracod (seed shrimp) having a buffet of spirogyra (long string-like chlrophyll structure).Micro ...
Hovering aircraft raises suspicion that it's Google co-founder's flying car
Even from a few hundred yards away, the aircraft made a noise strikingly different from the roar of a typical plane. ...
Don't think of Amazon Echo as just a speaker. It's a whole new way of life
Stephanie Palermo wasn't interested in living in a "smart home" outfitted with web-connected appliances controlled remotely by pho ...
Mall of America is stepping up its digital game with virtual reality robots
It is hard to convey the spectacle that is Mall of America in a PowerPoint presentation. ...
Russian hackers target cash before politics
Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky has estimated that there are over 1,000 hackers in Russia specialising in financial crime Ju ...
For the first generation to grow up on Facebook online identities hold both promise and pitfall
Credit: Jacob Lund/Shutterstock Despite suggestions that young people are losing interest in the platform, its 1.5 billion users still puts ...
Energy storage project to help homes be less reliant on grid
Credit: University of Nottingham A new project to install ground-breaking solar energy storage technology in The Meadows area of Nottingham ...
Fighting the water army of fake reviewers
Fake reviews do nothing for the confidence of customers buying products and services online, they also damage company reputations and can le ...
Paving the way for fast low-energy data communications
Anders Larsson, professor at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience – MC2 – at Chalmers University of Technology. Credit: Anette ...
Fujitsu leverages AI to develop highly accurate recognition technology for strings of handwritten Chinese characters
Figure 1: Recognition results for a string of characters with existing deep learning models. Credit: Fujitsu Fujitsu today announced the de ...
'Spearphishing' roiled the presidential campaign—here's how to protect yourself
Not this kind of spearfishing – the kind that involves a computer. Credit: shutterstock.com Never in American political history have hacked ...
Graphcore raises $30m to launch intelligent processor
Graphcore, a machine learning company which emerged from XMOS in the last few months, has completed a $30million funding round. According to CEO Nigel Toon – who is also chairman of XMOS – the funding
Clean vehicle rebates benefit wealthy white Californians study finds
Changes in rebate rules are taking place this month. Credit: Marcin Winchary, courtesy of Wikimedia Have you applied for and received a reb ...
Future announces expanded agreement with NXP
Future Electronics has announced an expanded worldwide distribution agreement with NXP Semiconductors. This agreement will enable Future Electronics to support the full portfolio as a result of NXP’s
Dubai Hyperloop One to study potential for Abu Dhabi line
An Emirati takes a photograph of the Hyperloop One logo with his mobile phone in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. The fut ...
India trying to fix hacked websites of 7 of its embassies
Indian officials were trying Tuesday to restore the websites of seven Indian embassies in Europe and Africa that were hacked and had data du ...
Newspaper woes drag News Corp to loss
Weakness in newspaper advertising dented quarterly results of News Corp., which swung to a loss in the past quarter of declines in advertisi ...
Tesla to end unlimited free use of supercharging stations
This undated file photo shows Tesla Motors charging stations neat Truckee, Calif. Electric car maker Tesla Motors says it will end free use ...
Researchers want to use hardware to fight computer viruses
Dmitry Ponomarev, professor of computer science at Binghamton University, State University of New York, is the principal investigator of a p ...
From the Panama Papers to an intelligence service for your own business
In 2016 more than a hundred newspapers and others published revelations on tax avoidance and evasion. They were based on the Panama Papers, ...
Print newspapers are dead? Not after historic elections
In this Nov. 5, 2008, file photo, people line up outside of the Washington Post newspaper to purchase special election editions in Washingto ...
Software 'bots' distort Trump support on Twitter: study
Of 20 million tweets analyzed between September 16 and October 21, 2016 by 2.8 million distinct users, about 400,000 of those accounts are & ...
Report of different Samsung phone model exploding
In this Oct. 5, 2016 file photo, the corporate logo of Samsung Electronics Co. is seen at its shop in Seoul, South Korea. Nearly 3 million S ...
Tesla to end free use of supercharging stations
Electric car maker Tesla Motors says it will end free use of its worldwide charging station network. ...
emocha platform selected for miniaturised diagnostic labs
miDIAGNOSTICS has announced a collaboration with emocha Mobile Health to enable mobile health solutions based on the miniaturised products under development by the former company.
CyLab researchers create network traffic visualization tool to help thwart cyber attacks
Last month, tens of websites including Amazon, Netflix and others fell victim to one of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) att ...
Researchers discover solar heat island effect caused by large-scale solar power plants
Credit: University of Maryland Large-scale solar power plants raise local temperatures, creating a solar heat island effect that, though mu ...
Robots likely to be used in classrooms as learning tools not teachers
Humanoids have the ability to provide real-time feedback to students. Credit: www.shutterstock.com Robots are increasingly being used to te ...
emocha platform selected for miniature diagnostic labs
miDIAGNOSTICS has announced a collaboration with emocha Mobile Health to enable mobile health solutions based on the miniaturised products under development by the former company.
Toshiba advances deep learning with extremely low power neuromorphic processor
Figure1: Time Domain Neural Network Toshiba Corporation continues to build on its commitment to promoting the Internet of Things and Big Da ...
New system lets nonexperts optimize programs that run on multiprocessor chips
A system developed by researchers at MIT and Stony Brook University should make it easier for researchers to solve complex computational pro ...
NASA's NavCube to support X-ray communications in space
A new technology, called NavCube, combines NASA's SpaceCube 2.0 – a reconfigurable and fast flight computing platform said to be 10 to 100 times faster than traditional flight processors – with th
EBV and Maxim sign EMEA distribution agreement
Maxim Integrated has announced a distribution agreement with Avnet company, EBV Elektronik. EBV will distribute Maxim’s product portfolio in the EMEA region starting January 2017.
20000 defrauded as UK's Tesco Bank hit by hack attack
Tesco Bank confirmed 40,000 account holders had seen suspicious transactions over the weekend, while money had been fraudulently withdrawn f ...
China passes controversial cybersecurity law
China's new cybersecurity law requires companies to verify a user's identity, effectively making it illegal to go online anonymously China ...
Forget the TV: How to follow Election Day online
In this Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016, file photo, moments before boarding an arriving train to Manhattan, a morning commuter uses his smartphone ...
German prosecutors probe Facebook hate incitement claim
Facebook and Twitter have seen a rise in anti-migrant commentary in Germany, as public misgivings grow in some corners over the almost 900,0 ...
Samsung to offer digital assistant service in Galaxy S8
In this Oct. 21, 2016 file photo, a Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S7 is displayed as customers wait in line to buy Apple's iPhone 7 at a mobil ...
Web Summit is windfall for Portugal's economy
A view from Web Summit in 2014 held in Dublin, Ireland, as Portuguese government officials expect the upcoming edition to inject 200 million ...
'Bots' step up for 2016 election news coverage
Credit: CC0 Public Domain If you're reading about the US election, some of that news is likely to come to you from a "bot." ...
GM starts producing 200-mile electric Chevrolet Bolt
A battery is lifted into place for installation in the Chevrolet Bolt EV at the General Motors Orion Assembly plant Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in ...
Activision Blizzard wants eSports to be big league
Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick said the launch of a team-based shooter game called "Overwatch", aims to create greater prom ...
A remote-controlled drone helps in designing future wireless networks
By using both the aerial photographs taken by the drone and photogrammetry software, researchers were able to create highly detailed 3-D mod ...
Samsung to recall 2.8 million washing machines in US
Samsung is recalling 2.8 million washing machines with a potential for a dangerous detachment of its top lid, the South Korean company and U ...
There really is a link between your Facebook posts and your personality
What do you mean, risk-taker? Credit: Shutterstock Privacy campaigners this week applauded Facebook's decision to block big UK insurance fi ...
Preventing infant deaths in hot cars
Students Risham Dhillon (left) and Phoebe Stoye developed Chirp to help prevent infant deaths in hot cars. Credit: Adam Zewe/SEAS Communicat ...
Virtual reality app makes haptics as immersive as visuals
Disney Research has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application that enables users to enhance their experience by adding customized h ...
Demographic change depresses tax revenues
By 2060, income tax revenues will be between 12 and 21 percent lower than in a scenario without demographic change, whereas sales tax revenu ...
Trace metal recombination centres kill LED efficiency
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have demonstrated the mechanism by which transition metal impurities – iron in particular – can act as non-radiative recombination cen
Debunking the myth of password security
When U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was found to have used a private email server for government business as Secretary of State, ...
3D nanostructures made of pure gold
A way to fabricate pure gold nanostructures has been unveiled by researchers from TU Wien (Vienna) using an additive direct-write lithography technique. According to the team, patterned gold nanostruc
Increased access to data could bring many benefits but faces significant challenges
Data Valley. Credit: MIT Libraries Although we currently live in the "Information Age" what we actually generate, and most of the ...
Ubuntu Core 16 lays foundation for securer IoT
Canonical has released the Ubuntu Core 16 for the IoT, with regular and reliable security updates, and app stores for intelligent connected devices.
WikiLeaks founder denies Russia behind Podesta email hacking
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied Thursday that the Russian government or any other "state parties" were his group's source ...
Android gets record 87.5% of smartphone market: survey
The survey by Strategy Analytics found Android's share increase to 87.5 percent from 84.1 percent in the same period a year ago Google's An ...
Huawei takes jab at Samsung with 'no explosion' phone
Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, presents the new Huawei Mate 9 in Munich, southern Germany, on November 3, 2016 Chinese ...
Lattice Semiconductor to be Acquired for $1.3 Billion  EE Times
Having serious investment from Canyon Bridge may allow Lattice Semiconductor to evolve and grow its niche and become a major player.
Automated cars could threaten jobs of professional drivers
In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, Uber employees test a self-driving Ford Fusion hybrid car, in Pittsburgh. After taking millions ...
Facebook skids on growth worries after blowout quarter
Facebook said it can no longer keep boosting the number of ads delivered without harming the user experience Facebook shares tumbled Thursd ...
Google rejects new EU anti-trust charges
Google net profit climbed 27 percent to $5.1 billion in the third quarter of 2016 US Internet search giant Google on Thursday rejected new ...
White House announces US electric car recharging network
Currently there are more than 16,000 charging stations around the United States, up from 500 in 2008, but still dwarfed by the number of gas ...
Hydrogenation of graphene could enable new applications
Adding hydrogen to graphene could improve its future applicability in the semiconductor industry, according to researchers at the Korean Institute for Basic Science’s Center for Multidimensional Carbo
Lattice bought by private equity group
Lattice Semiconductor has entered into a definitive agreement to be bought by Canyon Bridge Acquisition for approximately $1.3billion, inclusive of Lattice’s net debt.
Break through the hype of unlimited data plans
Cellphone carriers are going all in on unlimited data. T-Mobile ...
Can radioactive waste be immobilized in glass for millions of years?
Glass produced from a high level radioactive waste simulant. Credit: Albert Kruger/U.S. Department of Energy How do you handle nuclear wast ...
Data traffic system switches control to network administrators
Torrents of information flow through computer data centers, driving the operations of financial markets, communications systems, commerce an ...
NICE framework provides resource for a strong cybersecurity workforce
The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework provides building blocks for a trained workforce. Credit: Natasha Hanacek/NIST The U.S. Commerce ...
Simulation brings global 100% renewable electricity system alive for the first time
Credit: Lappeenranta University of Technology, LUT A new model developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) shows how an electr ...
Safe navigation through the Northwest Passage
A German-Canadian research project aims to navigate ships safely through the Northwest Passage in the future. Credit: Lee Carson, NORSTRAT C ...
Google speaker is secretary radio ... and work in progress
In this Oct. 4, 2016 file photo, the new Google Pixel phone is displayed next to a Google Home smart speaker, left, following a product even ...
Cambridge Nanotherm expands manufacturing capability
Cambridge Nanotherm, the thermal management specialist, has added significant additional capability and capacity to its MCPCB manufacturing base to meet rising demand for its thermal management soluti
Mining digital crumbs helps predict crowds' mobility
Getting urban planning right is no mean feat. It requires understanding how and when people travel between different places. This knowledge, ...
Abaco expands UK manufacturing capacity
Abaco Systems has broken ground on the construction of an expanded manufacturing facility in Towcester. When completed in mid 2017, the facility will offer more than 100,000sq ft of floor space. The c
Nanosensors on the alert for terrorist threats
A schematic representation of a binary sensor based on two metal oxides, with the nanoparticles of the catalytically active component (1) in ...
Facebook gold streak continues in 3Q boosted by video
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook reports financial results Wednesday, N ...
Facebook quarterly profit soars lifted by mobile ads (Update)
Facebook said said that profit leapt 166 percent to $2.4 billion on revenue that rose to $7 billion from $4.5 billion during the same third- ...
Virtual reality: Hybrid Virtual Environment 3-D comes to the cinema
Professor Tomás Dorta compared the virtual reality experience with two different systems: the one with VR headsets versus one with an i ...
Facebook gold streak continues in 3Q thanks partly to video
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook reports financial results Wednesday, N ...
Alibaba sales growth soars into the cloud
Alibaba is China's dominant player in online commerce Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's sales soared 55 percent in the last quarter, thank ...
Facebook quarterly profit soars lifted by mobile ads
Facebook said said that profit leapt 166 percent to $2.4 billion on revenue that rose to $7 billion from $4.5 billion during the same third- ...
New US Robotics Roadmap calls for increased regulations education and research
Credit: University of California - San Diego A new U.S. Robotics Roadmap released Oct. 31 calls for better policy frameworks to safely inte ...
Fuel from sewage is the future—and it's closer than you think
Sludge from Metro Vancouver's wastewater treatment plant has been dewatered prior to conversion to biocrude oil at Pacific Northwest Nationa ...
Chip maker Broadcom in $5.9 bn deal to buy Brocade
Chip maker Broadcom on Wednesday announced a $5.9 billion deal to buy computer network company Brocade Communications Systems as consolidati ...
Make America tweet again
2016-11-03 02:00:10Make America tweet again
A screenshot from estorm.org showing Twitter sentiment toward or against the major presidential candidates. Credit: estorm.org We know how ...
New 'digital life' initiative aims to create 3-D models of all living creatures
Irschick and colleagues initially created the Beastcam technology to create 3-D models of Philippine skink lizards and similar animals, but ...
US average fuel economy at record high of 24.8 mpg
In this June 30, 2016 file photo, nozzles pump gas into vehicles at a BP gas station in Hoboken, N.J. Fuel economy is at a record high as ne ...
Volvo replaces stodgy S80 with sleek S90 luxury sedan
Volvo has replaced its stodgy S80 sedan with the sleek, elegant and quiet S90, which has industry-first safety features designed to reduce o ...
Safety chief: Honda must do more to fix dangerous air bags
Honda must do more to track down owners of 300,000 cars with highly dangerous Takata air bag inflators and make sure they are repaired, the ...
UCLA led team opens ‘new avenues’ into topological insulator research
A research team from UCLA says it has made a major step forward in developing and using topological insulators, which conduct electricity on their surface, but not in their interior.
Battery made from scrap metal rivals lead-acid performance
Using scrap metal and a common household chemical, a team from Vanderbilt University has developed a high performance battery.“The tons of metal waste discarded every year could be used to provide sto