Traffic accidents could be decreased with 5G technology
A 5G solution developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has been designed to bring real-time 3D views to inter-vehicle communication.
Next generation Wi-Fi security for personal and enterprise networks
The Wi-Fi Alliance has introduced its Wi-Fi CERTIFIED WPA3, the next generation of Wi-Fi security for personal and enterprise networks.
BNAs improve performance of Li-ion batteries
The effect of hierarchical Bi2MoO6 nanosheet arrays growing on 3D Ni foam synthesised by one-step template-free route has been investigated by a team form Northeastern University.
New Airbus transport aircraft BelugaXL sports whale's grin
This photo taken on Thursday, June 28, 2018 and provided by Airbus shows the first BelugaXL rolling out of the paintshop, unveiling a specia ...
California data privacy bill heads to Gov. Jerry Brown
A California internet privacy bill that experts call the nation's most far-reaching effort to give consumers more control over their dat ...
Beyond politics: Facebook to release limited info on all ads
In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. Facebo ...
Energy giant BP bets on electric car boom
BP is betting on the electric car boom British energy major BP on Thursday bought the nation's largest electric vehicle charging firm, ...
Amazon moves to disrupt pharmacy sector with new acquisition
Amazon had long been rumored to be interested in the pharmacy business Amazon set its sights on the pharmacy market Thursday with the acqui ...
Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Illegal streaming sites vulnerable to copyright enforcers
Fifty-eight per cent of a new kind of online video piracy is based in just two locations making them more vulnerable to copyright enforcers ...
Kroger to test grocery deliveries with driverless cars
This undated photo provided by The Kroger Co. shows a driverless car that the Cincinnati-based company is about to test whether it can steer ...
Zensational! Japan firm launches Buddhist sermon service
Buddhist sermon? There's an app for that Feeling uncertain about life? Need a bit of guidance? A Japanese firm is launching a new servi ...
Enhancing the competitiveness of the railway sector
Credit: Denis Belitsky, Shutterstock Enhancing the competitiveness and attractiveness of the railway sector – the core ambition of the Shif ...
A 'social' virtual assistant for migrants
Credit: Georgejmclittle, Shutterstock Migrants have been very high on the EU political agenda for the past few years. But far from the poli ...
Amazon to buy PillPack in move into pharmacy
Amazon is entering the pharmacy business with the acquisition of online retailer PillPack Amazon unveiled plans to get into the pharmacy bu ...
Natural language processing facilitates collaborative decisions
Illustration of overview summary of decisions. Credit: IBM The Decision Science, AI and Natural Language Processing team at IBM Research-Ir ...
Big data analytics for dummies
Credit: dani3315, Shutterstock Big Data is still very much an elite thing: only the most IT-savvy and wealthy businesses have a shot at scr ...
Global sales of industrial robots shoots up
Global sales of industrial robots rose by 29% between 2016 and 17, reaching a new record of 380,550 units, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
Security gaps identified in LTE mobile telephony standard
David Rupprecht, Thorsten Holz and Katharina Kohls (from left) use software-defined radios in order to test attacks on the LTE network under ...
Optimized pixel isolation technology enhances light sensitivity and color fidelity
Credit: Samsung Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today introduced its new 'ISOCELL Plus' t ...
Technology for visualizing flow of blood to aid neurosurgery in the human brain
Extracted vasculature of the mouse brain surface by using a cross-correlation analysis of time-intensity changes in fluorescent signals. B. ...
Computational intelligence-inspired clustering in multi-access vehicular networks
Integration of LTE and IEEE 802.11p with clustering (the edge cluster head nodes are generated by the first-level clustering, and the gatewa ...
Pulsed electric field technology offers new potential for food processing
University of Otago researchers are demonstrating the potential of a new technology which could see New Zealand production of a popular food ...
Renesas Electronics launches R-Car virtualization software package
Renesas Electronics has launched the "R-Car virtualization support package" that’s been designed to enable the easier development of hypervisors for the R-Car automotive system-on-chip (SoC)
A milestone on the path towards efficient solar cells
Scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are currently working on a joint research project to generat ...
Voters in Google's hometown to decide employee 'head tax'
This July 19, 2016, file photo shows the Google logo at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Voters in a Northern Califor ...
Move over UPS truck: Amazon delivery vans to hit the street
Dave Clark, senior vice president of worldwide operations for Amazon.com, talks to reporters, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Seattle, at a med ...
Apple and Samsung settle lengthy iPhone patent battle
Apple and Samsung have ended their legal battle over patented iPhone features with an undisclosed settlement Apple and Samsung have ended a ...
'Chip Builder' lets designers visualise ASIC solutions
Swindon Silicon Systems, a Sensata Technologies company and a designer and supplier of mixed signal ASICs and integrated MEMS sensors for the automotive, industrial and medical sectors, has unveiled t
Supercomputers help design mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles
Supercomputers helped study the binding of a plastic-degrading enzyme, PETase, which could lead to developing industrial-scale plastic recyc ...
End of the line for ASIMO Japan's famed robot?
Launched in 2000, the humanoid machine resembling a shrunken spaceman has become arguably Japan's most famous robot It has played footb ...
Building the future one RoboBoat at a time
The team from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITSN) located in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, launch their autonomous robotic boat dur ...
Maybe you shouldn't eat that: Novel app switches you to healthier options
A user reviews the nutritional information of a yogurt using the traffic light rating within the FoodSwitch app. Credit: Northwestern Univer ...
Laser-made aircraft parts a breakthrough for industry
Engineers testing new laser-made aircraft parts on a fighter jet. Credit: RUAG Australia Researchers are developing laser technology to man ...
Wafer demand for ‘More than Moore’ devices to grow by 10% says Yole Développement
Wafer demand for ‘More than Moore’ (MtM) devices is expected to grow by 10% between 2017 and 2023, Yole Développement, the market research and strategy consulting company, reports.
Indoor positioning using wireless network
A novel wireless local area network (WLAN) based positioning method for indoor positioning of people and objects has been devised by a team from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU).
Disney clears hurdle for Fox tie-up with US regulator approval (Update)
The Walt Disney Company saw its chances rise for a major tie-up with 21st Century Fox after US regulators approved the $71 billion sale of k ...
Lyft value jumps to $15.1 billion in new funding round
Ridesharing giant Lyft says it has raised more funds to rev up its efforts to compete with sector leader Uber Smartphone-summoned ride serv ...
Facebook Google 'manipulate' users to share data despite EU law: study
The Norwegian Consumer Council found that Facebook and Google's privacy updates clash with new EU data protection laws ordering companie ...
Ticketmaster UK says customer info may have been stolen
Ticketmaster UK says personal information and credit card data from customers in Britain and other countries may have been stolen in a secur ...
Disney's bid for Fox clears US antitrust hurdle
In this Aug. 8, 2017, file photo, the Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The Walt Disn ...
Togo launches new energy scheme with focus on renewables
Togo's ambitious "electrification strategy" will see major investment in solar energy, including the use of individual solar p ...
Sweltering Europe loses its fizz as CO2 shortage hits drinkers
It's peak season for bars and barbecues in Europe as a summer heatwave coincides with the World Cup on TV. So probably not the best time ...
First Rwandan-made Volkswagen rolls off assembly line
A new chapter for Rwanda The first Rwandan-made Volkswagen car rolled off the assembly line on Wednesday at the country's first auto fa ...
As solar energy makes headlines apartment dwellers find sustainability options
Even if you’re not a homeowner, there are ways to save energy and live sustainably, says USC expert Kelly Sanders. Credit: Illustration/iSto ...
Tiny sensors may avert earthquake damage track sonar danger 'listen' to pipelines
Tiny accelerometers being created in SFU professor Behraad Bahrenyi's Intelligent Sensing Laboratory are capable of capturing the most s ...
New coal doesn't stack up – just look at Queensland's renewable energy numbers
As the name suggests, Windy Hill near Cairns gets its fair share of power-generating weather. Credit: Leonard Low/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons, ...
Vertical retirement villages are on the rise and they're high-tech too
High-rise retirement homes in the city are the future for baby boomers. Credit: from www.shutterstock.com It is no secret people are living ...
IBM to release world's largest facial analytics dataset
Society is paying more attention than ever to the question of bias in artificial intelligence systems, and particularly those used to recogn ...
Big Data mining for better contact centre performance
Credit: GarryKillian, Shutterstock Customers generally frustrated with the experience of reaching out to contact centres may finally get to ...
A big data platform to take on the EU's seven societal challenges
Credit: George Rudy, Shutterstock Big Data is such a huge change for businesses that it can easily seem overwhelming. The BigDataEurope pro ...
VRE4EIC releases video tutorials on how to build virtual research environments
Credit: ERCIM EEIG VRE4EIC, an H2020 European research project, has released a series of video tutorials. Short online videos explain how t ...
Google prepping its Duplex bot for a summer rollout
In this Tuesday, June 26, 2018, photo Nick Fox, VP of Assistant and Search for Google, talks about the Duplex program, which allows the user ...
Facebook halts production of drones for internet delivery
Facebook is ending its Aquila drone program aimed at delivering internet to remote areas, opting instead to work with aerospace partners inc ...
Amazon Alexa devices in hotels raise privacy concerns for some
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Amazon recently announced a program called Alexa for Hospitality, bringing its digital voice assistant to hotels ...
Manufacturing process provides low-cost sustainable option for food packaging
This photo shows nanocellulose-coated PET film. Purdue University researchers created a new manufacturing process using cellulose nanocrysta ...
World's first green energy storage demonstrator
The world's first green energy storage demonstrator is now live in the UK and has brought carbon-free fuel, that can be stored or transp ...
Volkswagen to stash cars at Berlin's problem airport
Combining Germany's national embarrassments Car giant Volkswagen will stock cars awaiting strict new emissions tests at Berlin's un ...
Huawei executive warns Australia risks economy with 5G ban
Huawei Technologies Australia Chairman John Lord speaks at the National Press Club in Canberra, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Lord says Australi ...
Airbnb Uber woes show Japan does not share easily
While meal delivery service UberEATS has been a hit in Tokyo since arriving in 2016, Japan's sharing economy is a fraction of the size o ...
Broadcasters are World Cup losers owing to piracy trend in Africa
Tunisia fans cheer during a match against Belgium at the Spartak Stadium in Moscow, but some supporters back home in Africa were watching th ...
electronica 2018 increases exhibition space by 8000m2
With the addition of two newly constructed halls C5 and 6, electronica sought opportunity to expand further. For the first time, the electronic event will occupy, 17 of the 18 halls at the Messe.
Air New Zealand fined in Australia air cargo cartel case
Air New Zealand was fined over illegal price-fixing agreements with other airlines on freight services to Australia Air New Zealand was Wed ...
Rent-a-captain: S. Africa plugs global pilot shortage
South African Airways wants to lease out surplus pilots and cabin crew to other airlines to cut costs The next time you stow your tray tabl ...
Leti demonstrates new waveform for 5G low power wide area IoT network
Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, has announced that field trials of its new Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technology, a waveform tailored for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, showed signific
Robotics Barbie aims to inspire young scientists
An inspirational new version of Barbie will encourage young girls to embark on careers in engineering and the sciences, the iconic doll' ...
Twitter to confirm new accounts in spam fight
Twitter is among online platforms under pressure to do more to safeguard against being used to spread misinformation or promote division Tw ...
Flex Logix improves deep learning performance with new AI core
Flex Logic, a supplier of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, architecture and software, has unveiled a new member of its EFLXÒ4K eFPGA Core Family: the EFLX4K Artificial Intelligence (AI) eFPGA core.
Asymmetric plasmonic antennas deliver femtosecond pulses for fast optoelectronics
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have generated ultrashort electric pulses on a chip using metal antennas only a few nanometers in size, then running the signals a few millimete
Facebook eases ban on cryptocurrency ads
Facebook said Tuesday it was easing a ban on ads for cryptocurrencies while keeping a prohibition on initial coin offerings to raise assets. ...
Xilinx and Daimler to develop AI solutions
Daimler has selected Xilinx to develop artificial intelligence-based automotive applications.
electronic 2018 increases exhibition space by 8000m2
With the addition of two newly constructed halls C5 and 6, electronica sought opportunity to expand further. For the first time, the electronic event will occupy, 17 of the 18 halls at the Messe.
TPG Capital completes acquisition of Wind River
TPG Capital (TPG), the global private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, has completed its acquisition of Wind River, the IoT software provider.
Norway to sell remaining SAS airline stake
In 2016, Norway and Sweden began to sell off their shares in the airline Norway said Tuesday it would sell its remaining stake of close to ...
California lawmakers advance last-minute data privacy bill
Assemblyman Ed Chau, D-Arcadia, left, and Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, celebrate after their internet privacy bill was approved by the Se ...
General Electric breaks off health care to focus on power aviation
General Electric's chief said the company is "aggressively driving forward as an aviation, power and renewable energy company" ...
Uber wins back license in London—but is put on probation
In this Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 file photo, an Uber App is displayed on a phone in London. Uber is beginning its court case to remain on the ...
Amazon accidentally leaks Prime Day sale date
Amazon's fourth annual Prime Day will be held in July, but the company has yet to reveal exactly when it will be held. Or has it? ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why he spoke out about immigration
Apple CEO Tim Cook elaborated on earlier remarks critical of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, n ...
General Electric breaks off healthcare to focus on power aviation
General Electric's chief said the company is "aggressively driving forward as an aviation, power and renewable energy company" ...
Technological changes undermine necessity of air traffic management (ATM) monopolies
Credit: Pasuwan, Shutterstock Air traffic management services traditionally have been national monopolies, partly because of the high infra ...
Collaborative aerial robotic workers
Credit: AEROWORKS With the innovative aerial robotic team developed by the EU-funded AEROWORKS project, users can safely inspect infrastruc ...
Machine learning will redesign not replace work
New research shows that machine learning will likely replace tasks within jobs, not whole occupations. Credit: MIT Sloan School of Managemen ...
Bitcoin price manipulation puts trust in cryptocurrencies at risk
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have grown in popularity in large part because they can be bought and sold without ...
IBM's debating computer—an AI expert's verdict
Credit: IBM The competition got underway when the computer's female voice, a mix of Amazon's Alexa and Stephen Hawking's commun ...
How tech companies are successfully disrupting terrorist social media activity
Platforms for radicalisation? Credit: pixabay/7stonesgfx, CC BY In June 2017, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft announced the formati ...
How mobile phones are changing the lives of Bangladeshi women
Credit: Monash University If you happen to find a 4000-year-old clay tablet with cuneiform script, show it to Larry Stillman. He can read A ...
London court to rule on whether Uber should keep operating
In this Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 file photo, an Uber App is displayed on a phone in London. Uber is beginning its court case to remain on the ...
The discrepancy between mathematical proofs algorithms and their implementations in control systems
Engineers work in quantifiable realism—an object exists and can be measured. Sometimes, though, the certainty of the object and how it will ...
Electronic wool to take wearable tech from the catwalk to your wardrobe
Sandwiching doped zine sulphide between graphene in textiles can create glowing clothes. Credit: Dr Elias Torres Alonso, University of Exete ...
Engineers develop capabilities for more secure blockchain applications
Credit: Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt engineers have successfully developed and validated the feasibility of blockchain-based technologi ...
Working with nature can help us build greener cities instead of urban slums
Garden roofs (like these in Chengdu, in China’s Sichuan province) need maintenance and community involvement. Credit: shutterstock.com As A ...
Searching for diversity in Silicon Valley tech firms – and finding some
Credit: The Conversation Silicon Valley technology firms have had serious problems with demographic diversity, including accusations of hos ...
Do you really know what your kid's doing on that device?
Ewelina Cudzich, 13, checks her phone in her Chicago home, Friday, June 8, 2018. Cudzich, who starts high school this fall, says she underst ...
UK car sector investment collapses on Brexit impact: industry data
Investment in Britain's automotive sector collapsed by almost half in the first six months of the year, impacted by Brexit uncertainty, ...
Russian space experiments lead to a new 3-D bioprinting technique
Schematic image of an experimental setup with a "magnetic well" trap for holding bio-objects. Credit: Vladislav A Parfenov et al / ...
Confining dendrite growth
2018-06-26 04:00:06Confining dendrite growth
A porous electrolyte that effectively lengthens the route ions must take to travel from the anode to the cathode and back has been created by Snehashis “Sne” Choudhury, Ph.D. ’18 of Cornell University
A new way to improve automated systems
Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a new way to boost the performance of automated systems such as energy plants, ...
London cyber innovation centre opens
A new centre dedicated to cyber innovation, the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA), is being officially opened today.
Engineer creates new design for ultra-thin capacitive sensors
A workable, thin and flexible sensor with the least possible resistance to motion has been created by a Professor from Binghamton University – State University at New York (SUNY).
Amazon's controversial facial recognition program dropped by city of Orlando
The city of Orlando's police department has ended its test of a facial recognition program created by Amazon that has come under fire fr ...