The Latest: Complaints vs Google Facebook under new EU law
In this July 1, 2013, file photo, a communication technician works at a phone and internet cable closet, at the European Council building in ...
Health care CEOs lead the way in pay
In this Jan. 8, 2018, file photo, a certified pharmacy technician fills a syringe for use in an I.V. at a hospital in Toledo, Ohio. The heal ...
Some US news websites blocked by EU data law
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Several major US news websites including the Los Angeles Times were blocked in Europe on Friday after the EU' ...
Ultrasound-firewall for mobile phones
Ultrasound-firewall for mobile phones. Credit: St. Poelten UAS / Matthias Zeppelzauer The permanent networking of mobile devices can endang ...
Amid confusion EU data privacy law goes into effect
The founder and CEO of "My Nametags" Lars Andersen, originally from Norway, poses for photographs by a sheet label "weeding m ...
Imec develops new fast eye tracking technology
Imec, the research and innovation hub, based in Leuven, Belgium has demonstrated a new wireless eye-tracking technology based on electro-oculography (EOG), an ophthalmology technique used to examine e
Molecular switch to facilitate development of electro-optical devices
An international research team led by physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed molecules that can be switched between two structurally different states using an applied vol
XP Power acquisition of Glassman High Voltage expands market and product portfolio
XP Power, a developer and manufacturer of critical power solutions for the electronics industry, has acquired the business and assets of Glassman High Voltage, a US-based designer and manufacturer of
Automotive IT security research project set up
As more electronics find their way into cars, the more important it is to protect them against cyber attacks. As a result 15 partners from industry and academia are to work together over the next thre
Landmark EU law is new weapon for data protection campaigner Schrems
Max Schrems is launching new cases against Google on Android, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook As a young Austrian law student, Max Schrems ...
Tesla in Autopilot sped up before Utah crash
In this Friday, May 11, 2018, photo released by the South Jordan Police Department shows a traffic collision involving a Tesla Model S sedan ...
Jury tells Samsung to pay big for copying iPhone design
A jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple more than $500 million in a retrial of a seven-year-old case for damages for infringing on iPhone patent ...
EU's new data protection rules come into effect
The EU's so-called General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on Friday The European Union's new data protection l ...
Australia's Wesfarmers sells struggling Britain's Homebase for £1
Wesfarmers will offload Homebase for £1 just two years after paying £340 million for it Australia's Wesfarmers has sold its a ...
Indigenous communities moving away from government utilities
Indigenous communities are rejecting non-indigenous energy projects in favour of community-led sustainable energy infrastructure. ...
California court: Defendants get crack at some social media
In this June 11, 2014, file photo, a man walks past a mural in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. The California Supreme ...
AFP to launch fact-checking sites in English Spanish and Portuguese
"We are delighted with this new (fact-checking) contract (with Facebook), which is testament to AFP's expertise and credibility in ...
Facebook to label election-related 'issue ads' in US
This Nov. 1, 2017, file photo shows some of the Facebook ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process and stir u ...
Global Facebook users to get 'good' EU-style safeguards: Zuckerberg
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Europe's history had made its citizens particularly wary when it comes to data collection Faceb ...
Facebook Twitter tighten rules for political ads
Facebook and Twitter are both tightening rules for political ads in response to concerns that the online platforms were manipulated during t ...
Facebook won't pay compensation for Cambridge Analytica case
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the EU Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. European Union lawmakers plan to press Zuckerber ...
Rush to comply with new EU data law
The EU's so-called General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on Friday Companies made a last-minute rush Thursday to ...
Novel Kinect system helps keep Parkinson's patients moving
Credit: Brunel University London A new system which helps people with Parkinson's disease overcome debilitating walking problems has be ...
Canada blocks China purchase of construction firm Aecon
Canada's Aecon Group helped build Toronto's iconic CN Tower Canada has blocked Chinese state-owned CCCC's acquisition of constr ...
Macron wants to make France gateway to Europe for tech firms
A show tech goer takes a selfie with French President Emmanuel Macron, center, as Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, second right, stands s ...
France to pump 65 million euros into African startups
France will plough 65 million euros ($76 million) into startups in Africa, President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday at a technology conf ...
Feds: Uber self-driving SUV saw pedestrian; did not brake
This file image made from video March 18, 2018, of a mounted camera provided by the Tempe Police Department shows an interior view moments b ...
China's Tencent: Tech world must tackle privacy concerns
Seng Yee Lau , senior executive vice president of Tencent, China's biggest tech company, answers the Associated Press, in the Royal Monc ...
NI accelerates university engineering education
National Instruments (NI) has announced the NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) III, created to help prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers. 
Company: Industrial hacking group has targets beyond Mideast
A U.S. cybersecurity company says the hacking group behind a worrying breed of destructive software is operating well beyond the Middle East ...
Funding and support available for manufacturing with printed and flexible electronic technologies
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), a UK-based technology innovation provider for process manufacturing, is a key partner in supporting the latest phase of a project encouraging companies to acce
New technology and app could help endangered primates slow illegal trafficking
New facial recognition software and app invented at Michigan State University can help protect endangered primates -- more than 60 percent o ...
Electrocomponents acquires IESA
Electrocomponents has acquired IESA, a provider of value-added services to industrial customers, for a cash consideration of £88million in a plan to build out its value-added service proposition.
Cyclist/motorist crashes worse at stop/give way junctions
Credit: Queensland University of Technology Cyclists are being more seriously hurt in crashes with motor vehicles at intersections with  ...
Anti-theft sticker protects your valuables without revealing their location
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Streamr have developed a prototype adhesive ID tag based on blockchain technology, which enable ...
Advanced mobile technology to manage underground utilities
Credit: Aisyaqilumaranas, Shutterstock Utility companies from the UK alone create over 1.5 million street holes each year, often causing da ...
Engineers aim for the stars with new rocket engine
Credit: University of Glasgow A 'self-eating' rocket engine which could place small satellites in orbit more easily and more afford ...
Capturing CO2 using heat pumps
By using a new concept for CO2 capture employing renewable heat recovery technology, the energy requirement for CO2 capture from cement plan ...
Silicon breakthrough could make key microwave technology much cheaper and better
Using powerful supercomputers, a team of researchers claim to have found a way to generate microwaves with inexpensive silicon, which could lead to dramatically reduced costs and improved devices such
Versions of Han Solo's blaster exist – and they're way more powerful than real lightsabers would be
Harrison Ford as Han Solo with his blaster in the old Star Wars triology. Credit: BagoGamesFlickr, CC BY-SA People who think physics is bor ...
German officials order recall of Mercedes diesel vans
Automaker Daimler says it is being told to recall models of its Mercedes-Benz Vito delivery van by Germany's motor vehicle authority, wh ...
Using deep neural network acceleration for image analysis in drug discovery
Intel collaborates with Novartis on the use of deep neural networks (DNN) to accelerate high content screening – a key element of early drug ...
Volkswagen rejects 'protectionism' after US car tariff threat
"Only free and fair trade secures increased prosperity," a spokesman for VW said Car behemoth Volkswagen warned Thursday against ...
Ikea recalls bikes over safety issues
IKEA has sold some 6,000 SLADDA bicycles since the model was launched in 2016 Swedish home goods giant Ikea on Thursday announced a recall ...
Lenovo posts $189 mn full-year loss on one-time write-off
Lenovo said it will combine its PC group, smart devices and mobile business into an 'intelligent devices group' Chinese technology ...
How local communities can transition to sustainable energy systems
What makes for a successful transition to a low-carbon energy system? Local involvement, perceived fairness and information sharing, accordi ...
GOEPEL Electronics webinar on embedded JTAG Solutions is available on-demand
Yesterday afternoon, GOEPEL Electronics, Application Engineer, Lester Tseng, discussed how to get started with embedded JTAG Solutions in an informative webinar session.
Uber ends self-driving program in Arizona after fatal crash
In this March 20, 2018, file photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, investigators examine a driverless Uber SUV that fa ...
US disrupts Russian botnet of 500000 hacked routers
US Justice Department seizes "VPNFilter" botnet set up by a hacking group variously called APT28, Pawn Storm, Sandworm, Fancy Bear ...
Indonesia ride-hailing app GoJek says expanding abroad
Go-Jek operates a fleet of motorcycle taxis, private cars and other services, from massage and house cleaning to grocery shopping and food d ...
California high court to rule on social media access
In this June 11, 2014, file photo, a man walks past a mural in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. The California Supreme ...
Using 3D X-rays to measure particle movement inside lithium ion batteries
Using 3D X-ray tomography of an electrode, researchers from the University of Illinois (U of I) claim they are able to better understand the inner workings of a lithium ion battery, which they hope wi
Trump can't block his critics on Twitter judge rules
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump's move to block Twitter users who disagree with him on the social media platform viola ...
FBI overstated encryption problem with cell phones
FBI Director Christopher Wray, right, arrives for a meeting at the White House, Monday, May 21, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ...
Microsoft's new Xbox controller courts gamers with disabilities
Mike Luckett had been having trouble controlling his Xbox controller. His diminished finger dexterity after a spinal cord injury meant it wa ...
Study highlights environmental cost of tearing down Vancouver's single-family homes
Joseph Dahmen, UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Credit: David Niddrie Rising property values in Vancouver have result ...
Uber puts brakes on self-driving car operation in Arizona
Uber is ending its operation of self-driving cars in Arizona more than two months after a woman was struck and killed by one of its vehicles ...
Foxconn says no changes planned for Wisconsin project
Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group said Wednesday that it remains committed to its $10 billion Wisconsin manufacturing facility, rejectin ...
Digital Life: Cutting back on a constant smartphone habit
In this Sept. 16, 2017, file photo, a person uses a smart phone in Chicago. For many of us, a smartphone addiction is not so much a debilita ...
The scandals bedevilling Facebook
Facebook has faced a range of scandals over privacy, the use of data and fake news As Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg pursues a tour of Euro ...
Comcast challenges Disney for control of 21st Century Fox assets
Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal and is the largest US cable TV operator, says it is preparing an all-cash offer for media-entertainment ass ...
Hamburg is first German city to order diesel bans
Hamburg is banning some diesel vehicles from two major arteries to improve air quality Authorities in Hamburg said Wednesday they would ban ...
Berlin agrees to compensate power firms for nuclear exit
Merkel's government decided in the wake of Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster to immediately close eight of Germany's oldest nuclea ...
Tata Motors profit halves over $4.5bn investment
Chief executive officer of Jaguar Land Rover, Dr. Ralf Speth, speaks at a press conference to announce the fourth-quarter and full year resu ...
Twitter to add special labels to political candidates in US
This undated image provided by Twitter shows an example of a special label that Twitter says they are adding to the accounts of and tweets f ...
United Technologies plans to hire 35000 people
United Technologies plans to hire 35,000 people and invest more than $15 billion in the U.S. over the next five years. ...
Macron presses tech giants on taxes working conditions
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the bosses of other tech companies accused of hoovering ...
FBI misstated number of encrypted phones due to error
FBI officials say a programming error led them to vastly overstate the number of cell phones that investigators could not access because of ...
How situation awareness could save your life
Credit: shutterstock In December 1972, three days before New Year, Eastern Airlines flight 401 from New York crashed on approach to Miami w ...
State crash data shows seat belt use critical in saving lives
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Those involved in auto crashes while not wearing seat belts are 40 times more likely to die than those who buckle ...
Single-system solar tech cuts clean energy costs in half
UT's solar farm located on Pickle Research Campus UT Cockrell School of Engineering Communications. Credit: University of Texas at Austi ...
Novel organ-on-chip platform for drug screening
Credit: imec Imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technologies, presents this week at its te ...
New robots set to transform farming
Credit: EAKNARNARIN JITONG, Shutterstock European consumers expect a clean supply chain and biodiversity to be conserved. Therefore, reduci ...
New mobile app for healthier food choices when dining out
Credit: Heather Hartwell Over the last few years, the frequency of dining at restaurants or other out-of-home dining establishments in Euro ...
Pairing AI with optical scanning for real-world product authentication
IBM Crypto-Anchor Verifier, an AI-enabled scanner for visual clues that prove an item’s authenticity. Today IBM Research is introducing IBM ...
As more solar and wind come onto the grid prices go down but new questions come up
Solar lowers prices and shifts when daily peak demand hours are. Credit: Duke Energy, CC BY-NC-ND Wind and solar energy are growing rapidly ...
Ergonomic eye-tracking technology for high-quality AR/VR experiences
Credit: IMEC Imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technology, will demonstrate today at its ...
France's Macron takes on Facebook's Zuckerberg in tech push
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the EU Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. European Union lawmakers plan to press Zuckerber ...
MH370 search under review may be scrapped: Mahathir
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people onboard while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing The hunt for mis ...
Researchers develop reprocessable thermosets for sustainable 3-D printing
3D printing reprocessable thermosets (3DPRTs) make 3D printed structures reshapeable, repairable and recyclable. Credit: Kavin Kowsari 3-D ...
NI looks to simplify development and debugging of automated test systems
National Instruments (NI) HAS announced the release of its InstrumentStudio software for NI PXI modular instruments.
PCBDM Live strikes the right note
Inaugural PCB Design and Manufacturing Live show gets the thumbs up from visitors and exhibitors alike.
Researchers make a two-neuron network
A single neuron on a microplate (SEM image) and two adjoining neurons that were physically connected. Credit: 2018 Shoji Takeuchi, Institute ...
Ocado’s robot swarm
2018-05-23 04:00:10Ocado’s robot swarm
Andover factory contains 400 robots controlled by “world’s densest” mobile communications network based on 4G technology.
Imec unveils accurate and secure localisation solution
Imec, the research and innovation hub, has developed a new secure proximity technology that enables an accuracy as good as 30 centimeters (cm).
Ultra-scaled EUV-enabled surrounding gate transistor SRAM cell
Imec and Unisantis, a developer of Surrounding Gate Transistor (SGT) semiconductor technology, have revealed significant progress in the development of a process flow targeting an SGT 6T-SRAM cell wit
Drivers brace for Egyptian ride-hailing laws
Ramez Wagih, an accountant in the morning and Uber driver in the afternoon, in his car in Cairo New legislation regulating ride-hailing ser ...
Tiny African start-ups draw interest after slow start
The lack of a secure electricity supply has seen some Kenyans install solar panels African high-tech startups are minuscule compared with t ...
World Cup fever causes sleepless nights for Bangladesh flagmakers
While it is traditionally a cricket country, Bangladesh—whose national team is ranked 197th out of 202 in the world by FIFA—goes World Cup c ...
Foxconn unit to raise $4.2bn in China IPO
The Foxconn Industrial Internet IPO would be one of the biggest on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since the market collapse in 2015 A unit of ...
Wyoming makes rush for hyped new tech results still virtual
In this March 8, 2018 photo Wyoming state Rep. Tyler Lindholm poses next to computer servers in an office building in Cheyenne, Wyo. Lindhol ...
'Overwatch League' eSports dreams of rivaling mainstream
The Los Angeles Gladiators prepare to play Boston Uprising during Stage 3 of Overwatch League Inaugural Season videogame play at Blizzard Ar ...
Imagination appoints PowerVR veteran to lead business unit
Imagination Technologies has announced the appointment of Nigel Leeder as executive vice president of its PowerVR business unit.
Collaboration to simplify next-generation semiconductor and RF development
Cadence Design Systems and NI have announced a broad-ranging collaboration to improve the overall semiconductor development and test process of next-generation wireless, automotive and mobile integrat
Amazon urged not to sell facial recognition tool to police
In this March 12, 2015, file photo, Seattle police officer Debra Pelich, right, wears a video camera on her eyeglasses as she talks with Ale ...
Facebook chief faces EU grilling over his 'digital monster'
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, right, welcomes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg upon his arrival at the EU Parliament in Brussels ...
Decoding digital ownership: Why your e-book might not feel like 'yours'
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Despite stereotypes that paint millennials as "all technology, all the time," young people may still pr ...
Porsche recalls car model aimed at the very young
German car maker Porsche has recalled a wooden toy car for children due to a possible choking hazard Luxury German automaker Porsche on Tue ...
Pentagon adopts new cellphone restrictions
After months of debate, the Defense Department approved Monday new restrictions for the use of cellphones and some other electronic devices ...
ACLU: Amazon shouldn't sell face-recognition tech to police
This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo. The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy activists are asking Amazon to s ...