University of Southampton invents a new way for designing electronics
According to a team from the University of Southampton, they have invented a new way for designing electronic systems that incorporates the best from both analogue and digital paradigms.
How traffic signals favour cars and discourage walking
The settings on traffic lights make pedestrians wait longer by giving higher priority to vehicle traffic. Credit: Abaconda Management Group/ ...
UK’s 5G landscape is “active and growing rapidly” says Digital Catapult
Digital Catapult has published what it claims is the UK’s first 5G landscape report and online reference tool, which highlights what it describes as a “lively, active and growing” 5G ecosystem in the
New international standard for consumer IoT in development
The Business Standards Company (BSI) is running the secretariat for an ISO Project Committee that is developing a new standard aimed at protecting consumer’s domestic privacy, ISO 23485 Consumer prote
New research alliance to drive innovation in the automation of transport and logistics
A new Research Alliance for Autonomous Systems (RAAS) has been launched by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Aalto University, Tampere University of Technology and eight other universities and
Silicon provides a way to control quantum bits for faster algorithms
A discovery of an enhanced spin-orbit interaction in silicon could be used to manipulate quantum bits. The hope is this could lead to faster and longer-lived information processing via quantum computi
Cryptocurrencies tumble after S. Korea hack
Bitcoin was among a number of cryptocurrencies that plunged in Asian trade following news of the hack on South Korean exchange Coinrail Cry ...
China's Xiaomi announces pioneering listing plan
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi is expected to raise about $10 billion in a Hong Kong IPO Smartphone maker Xiaomi on Monday became the firs ...
US tariffs on car imports are a double-edged sword
Threatened US tariffs on imported vehicles pose a risk to domestic as well as foreign manufacturers US President Donald Trump's threat ...
Swiss vote to block foreign-based gambling sites
Around three-quarters of those who voted backed the new gambling law but voted down a "sovereign money" initiative, which would le ...
Blockbuster antitrust trial impact to go beyond AT&T Time Warner
The outcome of the antitrust challenge to the AT&T tie-up with Time Warner could have far-reaching implications With a judge set to rul ...
Berlin's punk-rock district charges into battle against Google
Activists in Kreuzberg are pulling no punches in their battle against Google Global cities from Seoul to Tel Aviv have welcomed Google with ...
US tariffs threat a headache for foreign automakers
An employee works on the doors for a Mercedes-Benz C-Class, at the Mercedes-Benz US International factory in Vance, Alabama US President Do ...
Apple where's the smarter Siri in iOS 12?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Apple this week had every opportunity to show off new voice skills for Siri, the personal digital assistant, and ...
Writers Guild of America West signs deal with Apple
The Writers Guild of America West said Thursday it had signed an agreement with Apple Inc., underscoring the union's long-standing goal ...
Facebook Starbucks Ernst & Young are among top U.S. companies for professional development
When joining a company, young employees try to refine their skills and grow as professionals. According to Comparably, a compensation, cultu ...
Startup product could detect concussions win contest
Jessie Garcia's fortitude is a subject of occasional, exasperated observation by her Grandma Hortensia. ...
Facebook shared user data with select companies
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook shared personal information culled from its users' profiles with other companies after the date when ...
Facebook out to lure eSports fans with online portal
Facebook is ramping up efforts to be the destination for live streaming of video games, or eSports, ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Ex ...
ORNL launches Summit Supercomputer—America's new top supercomputer for science
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveiled Summit as the world's most powerful and smartest scientif ...
Cyprus starts work on building 'Europe's biggest' casino
This handout illustration released by Melco PR shows the "City of Dreams Mediterranean" casino complex to be built by 2021 in the ...
Verizon names former Ericsson chief as new CEO
Hans Vestberg, the incoming CEO of US telecom giant Verizon, is seen at a January 2018 appearance at the Consumer Eletronics Show in Las Veg ...
Sky darkens for broadcasters afters Amazon online assault
Amazon acquired two rounds of live Premier League matches for three years from the 2019/2020 season, the league announced Amazon's acqu ...
Kia recalls over 500K vehicles; air bags may not inflate
Kia is recalling over a half-million vehicles in the U.S. because the air bags may not work in a crash. ...
The nuclear industry is making a big bet on small power plants
NuScale Power aims to build the nation’s first advanced small modular reactor. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Until now, generating nucl ...
Preventing a plane crash—research helps pilots train for aerodynamic stalls
U of T Engineering's Peter Grant practices responding to an aerodynamic stall in a flight simulator at the University of Toronto Institu ...
'Jurassic park' made a dinosaur-sized leap forward in computer-generated animation on screen 25 years ago
Computer-generated dinosaurs walk the Earth. Credit: Universal Pictures Studios With 25 years of hindsight, Jurassic Park marks a pivotal p ...
How to reduce rail chaos using maths
David Ingham. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The British train timetables changed on May 20. Since then, there has been chaos across t ...
Recycling quartz from mining waste
Credit: iStock An EPFL engineer has discovered a way to extract value from mining waste by recycling the quartz it contains to make composi ...
Foxconn unit becomes most valuable China-listed tech company
Foxconn Industrial Internet ended the day with a market value of $61 billion after the biggest IPO in China in nearly three years A unit of ...
Embattled Air India seeks 'urgent' loan
Air India has failed to pay staff their salaries on time for the past three months, according to multiple reports Air India has announced i ...
Airbus deal with Canada's Bombardier set for take-off
The C Series is a state-of-the-art aircraft largely built from composite materials Aviation giants Airbus and Canada's Bombardier on Fr ...
Google rules out using artificial intelligence for weapons (Update)
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google, said the US tech giant would avoid any artificial intelligence applications for weapons as ...
UK telecoms group BT says chief executive to step down
BT last month said it plans to axe thousands more jobs to slash costs BT, the British telecoms and television broadcasting company, said Fr ...
Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg to address MIT graduates
In this Jan. 17, 2017, file photo, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, delivers a speech during the visit of a start-up co ...
China's Ant Financial raises $14bn to become biggest fintech firm
Ant Financial's Alipay has profited as consumers increasingly go online to order goods and services Chinese digital payments giant Ant ...
Report: ZTE chairman promises no more violations apologizes
In this May 8, 2018, file photo, a woman passes by a ZTE building in Beijing, China. Chinese tech giant ZTE Corp.'s chairman promised no ...
Imagination looks to add low-cost AI capabilities on edge devices
Imagination Technologies has unveiled two neural network cores, the AX2185 and AX2145, that have been designed to enable high-performance computation of neural networks at very low power consumption
Swiss to place bets on gambling law in high stakes referendum
The gambling law has already been passed by both houses of parliament, and now is being put to a high-stakes referendum Swiss voters will d ...
Texas Instruments remains largest industrial semiconductor supplier in 2017
Worldwide industrial semiconductor revenues grew by 11.8% year over year, reaching $49.1billion in 2017, with Texas Instruments maintaining its top spot position as the largest industrial semiconducto
Transparent conductive films for flexible screens
Researchers have demonstrated large-scale fabrication of a new type of transparent conductive electrode film based on nanopatterned silver, using an approach known as colloidal lithography.
RS Components and IBM Cloud establish innovation partnership
RS Components (RS) has unveiled a beta-version of a new digital community platform, DesignSpark Marketplace using the IBM Cloud.
UK Institute to harness disruptive technology to transform drug discovery
The UK Government has announced funding for a series of ambitious technology projects that will transform the way medicines are discovered, enabling the pharmaceutical industry to develop groundbreaki
Direct IoT connectivity via GEO satellite demonstrated
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS has successfully demonstrated the direct transmission of sensor data from multiple transmitters via a geostationary satellite.
Imec demonstrates compact low-power 140GHz CMOS radar with on-chip antennas
Imec, the research and innovation hub, based in Leuven, Belgium, has announced the world’s first CMOS 140GHz radar-on-chip system with integrated antennas in standard 28nm technology.
Feds: Tesla accelerated didn't brake ahead of fatal crash
In this March 23, 2018, file photo provided by KTVU, emergency personnel work at the scene where a Tesla electric SUV crashed into a barrier ...
Google won't use artificial intelligence for weapons
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google, said the US tech giant would avoid any artificial intelligence applications for weapons as ...
Amazon unveils nearly hands-free streaming TV device
This undated image provided by Amazon.com, Inc. shows an Amazon Fire TV Cube. Amazon unveiled the new voice-controlled Fire TV device, which ...
Facebook admits privacy settings 'bug' affecting 14 million users
Facebook says it fixed a glitch that may have made some posts public instead of private for some 14 million users Facebook acknowledged Thu ...
Italy fines Ryanair for mass flight cancellations
Italy's AGCM said Ryanair initially failed to inform passengers correctly of their right to financial compensation, as provided for by E ...
Auction of Brazil's pre-salt oil fields earns $807 million
Brazil's Petrobas, whose Presidente Bernardes refinery in Cubatao, Sao Paulo, is pictured, has daily output of 2.8 million barrels of oi ...
Amazon to livestream Premier League in online shakeup
The Premier League acquired a new television broadcaster when on-line giant Amazon bought the rights to show two rounds of matches. Amazon ...
Drone forensics gets a boost with new data on NIST website
Kaitlyn Fox, a laboratory assistant at VTO labs, inspects an aerial drone while VTO chief technology officer Steve Watson reviews data from ...
New BlackBerry phone aims to revive faded brand
BlackBerry's new handset, the latest effort to revive the faded brand, includes a physical keyboard There's a new BlackBerry smartp ...
Google faces EU anti-trust fines over Android: sources
The internet giant may be on the hook for billions of euros in fines The EU's powerful anti-trust authority is set to decide in the com ...
Not read a book lately? Blame Netflix says study
The long-held truism that every second German is a book buyer no longer seems to hold up Are you all caught up on your favourite Netflix sh ...
BuzzFeed to shut French website
All 14 staff at BuzzFeed France, which like its US equivalent publishes both viral content such as quizzes and traditional news stories, are ...
Honda GM to develop electric vehicle batteries together
Honda Motor Co. of Japan and U.S. automaker General Motors Co. agreed Thursday to work together in developing batteries for electric vehicle ...
Germany's Bayer completes purchase of Monsanto
German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG says it has completed its purchase of U.S. seed and weed-killer maker Monsanto Co. ...
Boston other cities to work to curb renewable energy costs
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh is hoping to work with other cities to drive down the cost of renewable energy by asking developers for price esti ...
Operations resume at underground US nuclear waste repository
Routine operations have resumed at the U.S. government's only underground nuclear waste repository following an evacuation in May that w ...
New report highlights how drones can be used for good of society
Credit: University of Sheffield A new report demonstrating how drones can come to the rescue in natural disasters, help starving people in ...
Forgotten corner of Europe brought back to life thanks to artificial intelligence
18th century map of the Inner Austrian districts of Görz and Trieste created between 1789 and 1797. Credit: University of Bristol A lo ...
Youtube partly liable for copyright breaches: Austrian court
Video-sharing platform YouTube can be held partly liable for copyright breaches in videos uploaded by its users, an Austrian court has ruled ...
Airbnb says forced to cancel bookings under new Japan law
AirBnb said Japan's government had required it to cancel all reservations with hosts that have not yet registered, even if they were in ...
Refund ordered for Austrian car buyer over Dieselgate
Volkswagen admitted in 2015 that it had equipped 11 million diesel cars with software capable of falsifying the results of anti-pollution te ...
US in deal to ease sanctions on China's ZTE: top official
US officials reached a deal Thursday to ease sanctions which threatened to cripple Chinese smartphone maker ZTE, Commerce Secretary Wilbur R ...
France seeks to send 'signal' with mobile phone ban in schools
Credit: CC0 Public Domain French lawmakers began debating Thursday a ban on mobile phones in public schools, one of President Emmanuel Macr ...
Educational coding kits from Premier Farnell
Premier Farnell is providing kits and support to help the next generation of digital engineers learn the fundamental skills of coding.
Texas Instruments leads the way as the largest industrial semiconductor supplier in 2017 according to IHS
Worldwide industrial semiconductor revenues grew by 11.8% year over year, reaching $49.1billion in 2017, with Texas Instruments maintaining its top spot position as the largest industrial semiconducto
Retrofitting roofs in Pennsylvania's Rust Belt
A team of researchers are investigating how to create a composite roofing material to retrofit buildings like this commercial building locat ...
Shareholders reject bid to link Google diversity to exec pay
In this Feb. 14, 2018, file photo the logo for Alphabet appears on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. Google parent Alphabet Inc ...
Bayer-Monsanto merger creates agrichemical juggernaut
Executives are betting big on projections that around 10 billion people will live on Earth by 2050, meaning more food must grow on the same ...
Uber decries ride-hailing price cap passed in Honolulu
Uber driver Joshua Oh drives in Honolulu on Wednesday, June 6, 2018. Honolulu's city council is scheduled to vote on a bill that won' ...
End-to-end blood testing device shows capacity to draw sample and provide diagnostic results
Researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Department at Rutgers University have developed an end-to-end blood testing device that integrat ...
British cyber expert accused of lying to FBI about malware
In this May 15, 2017, file photo, British cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins, branded a hero for slowing down the WannaCry global cybe ...
Flying car startup backed by Google founder offers test flights
Google founder Larry Page's startup Kitty Hawk , testing flying taxis such as this model in New Zealand, is moving a step closer to mark ...
Bonjour Alexa: Amazon digital assistant heads to France
Amazon Echo devices will be shipping soon to France, offering French users the personal digital assistant Alexa Amazon on Wednesday announc ...
No agreement yet between US China on ZTE: Trump aide
Washington has banned the sale of US components to Chinese telecoms giant ZTE The United States and China have not yet reached a deal on Ch ...
Conrad introduced MAKERFACTORY to Maker Faire in Berlin
The Maker Faire in Germany, Berlin returned for a 4th year, with Michael Schlagenhaufer, senior Director Corporate Purchasing Business Unit Private Label at Conrad describing it as “the ideal setting”
Plessey and KiWi Power inaugurate energy-saving battery storage system at Plymouth facility
Plessey has opened a 2MW behind the meter (BTM) battery storage solution, which is installed at its flagship manufacturing and R&D site in Plymouth, Devon.
Electric test plane crashes in Hungary killing two
The remains of an electric plane powered by Siemens that crashed during a test flight in Hungary, killing both pilots An electric plane pow ...
Facebook announces first original news shows with partners
Facebook announced its first original video news shows for its Facebook Watch platform in partnership with CNN, Fox and others Facebook on ...
Amazon's TV deal with Jordan Peele among the highest-profile to date for streaming service
When it comes to enticing A-list production talent to the world of streaming television, Amazon Studios is showing that two can play this ga ...
Qualcomm aims to spark virtual reality market with its first standalone AR/VR chip
Qualcomm is rolling out a dedicated chip targeting virtual reality/augmented reality headsets in hopes of driving the nascent market into th ...
It's not all rainbows for Chicago's $1 billion tech 'unicorns'
The office space in the old Montgomery Ward catalog warehouse where cancer-fighting data startup Tempus set up shop almost three years ago c ...
Tech behemoths Facebook Google planning big Chicago office expansions
Facebook and Google are mapping big expansions in Chicago, where real estate searches by two of the nation's other technology giants hav ...
Twitter to be added to S&P 500 index shares jump on news
Social media platform Twitter will be added to the S&P 500 stock index before the start of trading Thursday, a move that will expand the ...
Insects supply chitin as a raw material for the textile industry
After pupae shed their skin, pupal exuviae remain as residual stream. Credit: Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechno ...
Three steps toward safer and sounder software
Credit: MIT Sloan School of Management How confident are you that your software will perform the way it is meant to in the moment of truth? ...
Sites want your (anonymized) social media data
Balancing personal privacy with detailed insights. Credit: Dawn Hudson/Shutterstock.com Social media sites' responses to the Facebook-C ...
Microsoft sinks data centre off Scottish archipelago
The Northern Isles data centre consists of a 40-foot (12.2 metre) long white cylinder containing 864 servers and can lie on the seabed for u ...
Facebook to fund original news shows from ABC CNN others
This March 28, 2018, file photo shows the Facebook logo at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook says it will fund e ...
Facebook deals with Chinese firm draw ire from US lawmakers
Some lawmakers say Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, seen here at an April congressional hearing on personal data protection, should return to e ...
Artificial intelligence trained to analyze causation
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The causes of real-world problems in economics and public health can be notoriously hard to determine. Often, mul ...
Ryanair recognises cabin crew unions for first time
Ryanair's flight cancellation crisis led to at least 20,000 flights being axed Ryanair has for the first time reached an agreement to r ...
China's Huawei says it hasn't collected Facebook user data
In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs after testifying before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capi ...
Former head of Cambridge Analytica to testify
The former head of the defunct political consultant Cambridge Analytica is due to testify to British lawmakers investigating the use of Face ...
Fungi-produced pigment shows promise as semiconductor material
A promising possibility for semiconductor material may lie in a highly durable organic pigment known as xylindein, which has been used in artwork for centuries.
£8m fund to support reuse and recycling of electrical and electronic waste
Over £8 million, generated by the use of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive Compliance Fee in 2017, is to be spent on projects that will support higher levels of reuse and