Bayer: won't use Monsanto buy to force GM seeds on Europeans
The CEO of Germany's Bayer AG is promising it won't use its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. to force genetically modified crops on skept ...
Investor-owned utilities may be better prepared to handle catastrophic weather
Credit: Shutterstock Investor-owned utility companies may be better prepared than municipal utility companies to deal with catastrophic wea ...
Twitter: 17M-plus tweets sent about the debate most ever
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the second presidential debat ...
Ambipolar material for more sensitive readings of biological signals
Scientists from Imperial College London are said to have created a material that measures signals in a different way to traditional organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) and believe this could p
A future world full of driverless cars... seriously?!
Will the reality match the hype that’s promised from a future with driverless cars? Credit: Shutterstock/Karsten Neglia Driverless cars are ...
Scientists build world's smallest transistor
A team of scientists is said to have set a record by creating the world's smallest transistor with a 1nm gate using a pair of novel materials: carbon nanotubes and molybdenum disulphide. The combi
AT&T halts replacements of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall on September 15, 2016 of the Galaxy Note7, the newest smartphone by Samsung Electr ...
Samsung changes Note 7 output schedule after fire reports
South Korean high school students try out Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note 7 smartphones at the company's shop in Seoul in Seoul, South Korea ...
Shared workspaces hit the Indian startup scene
In this Aug. 19, 2016 photo, young Indian entrepreneurs and freelancers work inside Innov8, a lax co-working space in New Delhi, India. As I ...
Facebook pays more UK tax after outcry
Facebook paid £4.17 million ($5.18 million, 4.63 million euros) in British corporation tax last year, up from just £4,327 in 2014, ...
Drones carrying medicines blood face top challenge: Africa
In this July 27, 2016, file frame from video provided by Vayu, Inc., residents from Ranomafana, Madagascar, watch before a drone containing ...
Tech giants race for edge in artificial intelligence
Google Assistant software is being built into new Pixel handsets—aiming to outdo Apple's Siri Major technology firms are racing to infuse s ...
Brothers behind Ubisoft locked in real-life battle for control
Ubisoft co-founder Yves Guillemot poses for a photo at the company studios in Montreuil, outside Paris, in 2013 Nothing in the farming back ...
South Africa basks in continent's first solar-powered airport
George, a town of just 150,000 residents on South Africa's south coast, is home to Africa's first 'green' airport to be powered by the sun ...
Germany conducting inquiry into Tesla autopilot system
Der Spiegel reports conclude the autopilot function represents "a considerable danger for traffic" Germany said Saturday it was s ...
New Hampshire college heats campus with used cooking oil
Things are heating up at New Hampshire's Keene State College, which is now using 100 percent used cooking oil to keep more than a third of i ...
Baltimore Police took 1 million surveillance photos of city (Update)
Baltimore Police on Friday released data showing that a surveillance plane secretly flew over the city roughly 100 times, taking more than 1 ...
Facebook launches smartphone app for event seekers
More than 100 million people daily use Facebook's events section to discover activities they can take part in with friends, according to a F ...
Hacking the election: questions and answers
The US government's accusation that Russian government-directed hacking aimed to disrupt the November election comes amid fears about the se ...
Intel's Stratix 10 FPGAs SoCs Sampling  EE Times
Devices like Stratix 10 FPGAs will help satisfy the insatiable demand for higher computational capabilities, lower latency, greater system flexibility, and increased power efficiencies.
Verizon cuts jobs in stores as wireless growth slows
This Monday, July 25, 2016, photo shows signage at a Verizon store, in North Andover, Mass. Verizon has cut jobs in stores across the countr ...
US blames Russia for hacking political sites
In this Oct. 5, 2016, photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during the opening session of the newly elected State Duma, Russia's l ...
Baltimore police release flight logs for surveillance plane
Baltimore Police have released data showing that a surveillance plane secretly flew over the city roughly 100 times, taking more than 1 mill ...
New NIST test bed makes the 'digital thread' accessible
Researchers at the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have launched the Smart Manufacturing Sy ...
Apple wins appeal $120 mn award from Samsung restored
Apple's lawsuit contends that Samsung infringed on patents for "slide to unlock" and autocorrection, among others A US appeals co ...
Thomson Reuters to open tech hub in Canada add 400 jobs
The Thomson Reuters news agency and financial information group will open a technology center in Toronto, adding 400 jobs over the next two ...
US surgeon general warns of possible computer breach
The Health and Human Services Department is investigating a possible breach of a computer system holding personal information of more than 6 ...
Pokemon Go vows to remove monsters from Dutch dunes
Pokemon Go players gather at the beach in Kijkduin on August 10, 2016 The US makers of Pokemon Go have promised to remove their virtual mon ...
Electrons in graphene behave like light
Researchers from the University of Virginia, Columbia University and Columbia Engineering claim to have confirmed a 2007 prediction that electrons mimic light in graphene. The team are said to have ob
Engineers transform brewery wastewater into energy storage
Equipment at a brewery. Credit: FTGallo / Wikipedia. University of Colorado Boulder engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturin ...
Intel starts sampling Stratix 10 for data centres and networking
Intel has revealed that it is starting to sample its Stratix 10 FPGA, which uses the company’s 14nm tri-gate (finfet) process.
Researchers develop system to monitor industrial food processing in real time
Credit: Shutterstock The EU MUSE-TECH project has developed an innovative new system to monitor industrial food processing in real time by ...
The BEEAs names Lightpoint Medical as the Grand Prix winner
Medical device company, Lightpoint Medical, has been named as the winner of the Grand Prix prize at the 2016 British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs) held yesterday at the HAC in London.
T-Mobile says 'calling issues' resolved
T-Mobile says it has resolved "calling issues" that prompted numerous social media postings early Friday of cellphone service prob ...
Algorithmically challenged: the computers driving trading
Algorithms mean currencies and stocks can be bought and sold at specific prices in a matter of seconds When the British pound fell off a cl ...
Renesas unveils V2X solutions for the autonomous-driving era
Renesas Electronics is making its extensive lineup of V2X solutions available globally in a move designed to help accelerate the arrival of autonomous driving.
New technology using radar can identify materials and objects in real time
A revolutionary piece of technology, created by researchers at the University of St Andrews, can detect what an object is by placing it on a ...
A layer of diamond can prevent high-power electronic devices from overheating
A test sample comprised of a thermal chip, a heat spreader and a microcooler demonstrates the efficiency of diamond for removing heat from h ...
Blappy a new Bluetooth chat app for people with sensory disabilities
A new Bluetooth chat app is for people with sensorial disability. Credit: UC3M Blappy is a smartphone application that enables fluid commun ...
Facebook's Oculus pushes virtual reality with new gear (Update)
Facebook has invested more than $250 million in developing content for Oculus virtual reality gear, and has committed another $250 million t ...
Snapchat eyes 2017 share offering: report
Snap estimates it has more than 100 million users globally of the service for sending videos, images and text messages which vanish after be ...
Police tracking social media during protests stirs concerns
Increasingly common tools that allow police to conduct real-time social media surveillance during protests are drawing criticism from civil ...
FCC proposal: internet providers must ask to share your data
In this Feb. 25, 2014, file photo, a Samsung Galaxy S5 is demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade ...
Judges question if life term too harsh for Silk Road founder
A federal appeals panel in New York City is questioning whether the life prison term given to the founder of the drug-selling website Silk R ...
Facebook's Oculus to start selling hand controllers
Hand-held controllers that Facebook says will make its Oculus virtual-reality games more appealing go on sale Dec. 6, months after the heads ...
How XSEDE's ECSS program is helping researchers understand tornados with scientific visualization and data mining
Negative gradient threshold (blue) depicts primary (big part) and low-level (lower tube part) updrafts, Strong vorticity (red) is wrapping i ...
Novel tensor mining tool to enable automated modeling described in big data
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers Tensors and tensor decompositions, a powerful set of new data mining tools that can be used to m ...
Researchers build first tetherless hopping robot
Credit: Disney Research One-legged hopping robots have long been used to study balance issues, but their dependence on off-board power has ...
Efficient organic solar cells with very low driving force
Research fellow Feng Gao, Linköping University. Credit: Photo Gran Billeson Researchers at Linköping University, together wit ...
Record for perovskite/CIGS tandem solar module
Prototype tandem solar module made up of a semitransparent perovskite solar module (on top) and a CIGS solar module (below). Credit: imec/ZS ...
Study offers insight into detecting multiple hackers
Security efforts to combat hackers usually focus on one method of attack, but computer scientists at UT Dallas have developed a strategy mor ...
Hydrogen-powered passenger ferry in San Francisco Bay is possible study says
An artistic rendering of the proposed San Francisco Bay Renewable Energy Electric Vessel with Zero Emissions (SF-BREEZE). A Sandia Nati ...
Researchers create non-invasive sleep research system for mice
A company founded by two University of Kentucky professors, Signal Solutions LLC, has successfully created a complete system for collecting ...
New supercomputer could dramatically cut the time taken to bring products and services to market
The Cirrus supercomputer at the Advanced Computing Facility, Easter Bush. Credit: Callum Bennetts/Maverick Photography Businesses could dra ...
50-year-old Electrovan was first fuel cell technology transfer from JFK's moonshot challenge
The General Motors Electrovan celebrates its 50th anniversary as the world’s first hydrogen-power fuel cell vehicle in October. It was the f ...
Fallen US biotech star Theranos to close test labs
Theranos, a onetime star Silicon Valley startup focused on health technology, is closing its consumer blood-testing facilities amid its stru ...
Wal-Mart plans to slow new store openings invest in online
This Sept. 19, 2013, file photo, shows the sign of a Wal-Mart store in San Jose, Calif. Wal-Mart said Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, it plans to sl ...
Samsung to 'review' split plan shares hit record high
In a detailed proposal, Elliott Management laid out a strategy for streamlining Samsung, splitting the company in two Samsung Electronics ...
Reported Yahoo email scanning revives surveillance concerns
In this Tuesday, July 19, 2016, photo, flowers bloom in front of a Yahoo sign at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo respo ...
US flight evacuated after another Samsung phone fire
A passenger's Galaxy Note 7—described as a replacement in Samsung's global recall of the device—apparently caught fire on a Southwest Airlin ...
Spanish agency to probe Facebook/WhatsApp data swap deal
Spain's data protection agency says it will investigate whether the recently announced exchange of personal data between WhatsApp and Facebo ...
Exoskeleton gets disabled people back on their feet
Thanks to an exoskeleton developed at EPFL, people with paraplegia can stand up, walk and even climb steps. The prototype will be put to use ...
Environmental scientist discusses transformation of U.S. energy
Headlines focus on international agreements, sea levels, melting ice, and superstorms, but climate change is most of all an energy problem. ...
Future extends Cypress disti deal to include Broadcom IoT products
Future Electronics has extended its worldwide distribution agreement with Cypress Semiconductor to include the IoT product lines recently acquired from Broadcom.
Twitter shares dive after Google rules out bid
Twitter shares, which had taken flight on the New York Stock Exchange early in the day and ended formal trading up nearly six percent, dove ...
Samsung buys AI firm founded by Siri creators
Samsung said the acquisition of Viv Labs would bolster voice-based services across the full range of its electronics products Samsung said ...
Samsung joins digital assistant race with acquisition of Viv
Samsung Electronics is joining the race to create the smartest digital assistant by acquiring Viv, a Silicon Valley startup launched by the ...
Mini 'Pepper' robots start new jobs in Taiwan
Cathay Life Insurance, Taiwan's biggest insurer, introduced its first Pepper into its Taipei branch on October 6, 2016 A shiny new cohort j ...
Lam Research KLA-Tencor end merger cite antitrust views
Lam Research Corp. and KLA-Tencor are scrapping their merger agreement due to antitrust regulators' opposition to the deal that would have c ...
'Atomic sandwiches' for 100 times less energy consumption
Researchers at the University of Michigan have engineered a magnetoelectric multiferroic material that they claim could lead to a new generation of computing devices with more computing power and less
Review: Apple's iPhone 7 is best model yet but some may wait for better
Credit: Apple It's been an interesting iPhone release season. ...
Review: No need to say 'Allo' to Google's new chat app
If you're looking for a quick way to fire off a message to a friend or family member from your phone or computer, you have a bewildering arr ...
How Experian is turning big data into big dollars
At Experian DataLabs, a team of scientists is thwarting bad guys with math. ...
When startups fail: What happens when the cash runs out
Silicon Valley has long lured ambitious entrepreneurs into shiny co-working spaces and startup accelerators, promising them the chance to cr ...
Yahoo denies surveillance claims amid privacy outcry
The report by Reuters news agency, citing former employees of the internet firm as sources, said Yahoo had built a custom program in 2015 wh ...
Tech's future is likely to be in goods
It's easy to imagine a future in which products as mundane as toasters and window blinds will be connected to the internet and controlled by ...
Wireless 'data center on a chip' aims to cut energy use
A Washington State University research team has designed a tiny, wireless data center that someday could be as small as a hand-held device a ...
Honda brings back Ridgeline pickup for 2017 adds features
This photo provided by Honda shows the 2017 Honda Ridgeline. After a more than two-year hiatus, Honda's Ridgeline pickup truck is back for 2 ...
Albania police with electric cars but no recharging spots
New electric cars on display to be used by the Albanian police in the capital Tirana, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. Interior Minsiter Saimir Tahi ...
Halloween attractions: virtual reality and interaction
This undated image provided by Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia shows a scene from the site's "Terror Behind the Walls" ...
Amid privacy outcry Yahoo denies surveillance allegations
The report by Reuters news agency, citing former employees of the internet firm as sources, said Yahoo had built a custom program in 2015 wh ...
Amazon expands Dash ordering wand to entire catalog
Amazon has updated its barcode-scanning Dash shopping wand so you can now buy anything with it, not just groceries. ...
Official: Hackers who hit French TV station are still active
A French official says the hackers who knocked a French television station offline last year are still regularly trying break in to French g ...
Researchers call for global grand challenge strategy to develop clean energy
The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is an 845 MW wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon. Credit: Steve Wilson / Wikipedia. In a comment in thi ...
Sled track simulates high-speed accident in B61-12 test
A B61-12 test unit slams into a target at the end of Sandia National Laboratories’ 10,000-foot rocket sled track in a complex forward ballis ...
Keyboard-monitoring technique can detect Parkinson's symptoms at home
Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the developed wor ...
Solar is a rapidly growing energy source
Credit: Delft University of Technology "The sun is a solution," concluded Prof. Arno Smets in his inaugural address given at TU D ...
New advances in solar cell technology
A comparison of grain boundaries in MAPbI3 perovskite films following thermal annealing (a), DMF solvent annealing (b), and methylamine post ...
Your next nurse could be a robot
The human-like and the non-human-like trajectories were performed in a random order (10 human-like and 10 non-human-like). Credit: Dr. Elena ...
MagniV MCUs to speed and simplify motor control systems
NXP has announced the expansion of its family of automotive motor control MCUs and has introduced a portfolio of hardware, software and integrated motor control solutions designed to speed time to mar
2D wavy borophene for flexible electronics
According to Rice University scientists, two-dimensional materials like graphene may be too flat and hard to stretch to serve in flexible, wearable devices. ‘Wavy’ borophene, an atom-thick layer of bo
Online software helps citizen scientists solve real-world problems
Credit: Michigan State University With proper training and recently launched online software and web-portal, citizen scientists can follow ...
Amazon launches 'unlimited' reading for Prime members
Amazon said the "Prime Reading" program would include "over a thousand popular books" US online giant Amazon on Wednesd ...
Researchers reconstruct beautiful house in Pompeii by using 3-D technology
By combining traditional archaeology with 3-D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Po ...
Google scraps 100000-euro bill run up by Spanish kid
Google has written off a 100,000-euro ($112,000) bill run up by a 12-year-old Spanish boy who mistakenly believed he was earning money throu ...
Darwin's demons—better video games through natural selection
If you've played a video game you know what I'm talking about. Getting past the first levels is all about memorizing the landscape, remember ...
'World Robot Summit' coming to Japan in 2020
The robot olympics are coming to Japan in 2020, the same year that the eyes of the world will be on the summer games in Tokyo The robot oly ...
'Smart speakers' are angling to colonize your living room
In this July 29, 2015, file photo, an Amazon Echo sits on a table in New York. The gadget, which listens to you, answers questions and carri ...
Samsung's bio-drug unit to raise $2 bn in upcoming IPO
Samsung's drug-manufacturing unit plans to raise as much as $2.0 billion in November with what looks set to be South Korea's third-largest i ...
New FBI head in San Francisco was key figure in iPhone hack
In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, FBI Special Agent Jack Bennett answers a question while posing in one of the bureau's modernize ...