Appliance giant Thermomix fined in Australia over burns defect
Thermomix was fined $3.5 million for breaching consumer laws after users of its mixers were burned by hot liquids due to a faulty seal Kitc ...
Learning computer programming with no teachers and no tuition
Software engineers are highly coveted by the top tech firms in Silicon Valley Aspiring software engineers Kevin Yook and Becky Chen are hun ...
Six takeaways from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Senate testimony on data breaches
Credit: CC0 Public Domain One Silicon Valley star witness, 44 media-hungry senators, and five hours of mostly tough questions and often amb ...
CEO Zuckerberg apologizes for Facebook's privacy failures
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesda ...
Zuckerberg says company working with Mueller probe (Update)
Apologetic Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told senators Tuesday it had been "clearly a mistake" to believe the Trump-linked data-min ...
What to do if Facebook says your info was used by Cambridge Analytica
With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg set to testify before Congress on the scandal involving data firm Cambridge Analytica, the social network ...
Airbus to offer sleeping berths down in cargo hold
Airbus wants to offer airlines the possibility of installing passenger sleeping berths in the cargo holds of its A330 jets from 2020 Soon w ...
Engineers build smallest volume most efficient wireless nerve stimulator
The small size of StimDust can be seen in comparison to a dime. Credit: Rikky Muller In 2016, University of California, Berkeley, engineers ...
Making computer animation more agile acrobatic—and realistic
UC Berkeley computer scientists developed an algorithm that uses reinforcement learning to generate realistic simulations of human and anima ...
Silicon Valley wunderkind Zuckerberg in eye of the storm
Mark Zuckerberg is seen at the Facebook developer conference in 2010, at a time of rapid growth of the social network His goal was to chang ...
Apple announces (PRODUCT)RED iPhone 8 and 8 Plus models to help combat AIDS
Apple announced red versions of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, special edition models that will be available for pre-order online on Tuesda ...
Facebook's biggest Black Lives Matter page was reportedly fake according to CNN
One of Facebook's biggest pages devoted to the Black Lives Matter movement was reportedly fake. ...
Could you do it? Trips that ban cellphones even for photos
Would you take a trip without your cellphone? A new tour compan ...
D-Day for Facebook Zuckerberg before skeptical lawmakers
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held private meetings Monday with lawmakers ahead of his congressional testimony Tuesday and Wednesday Faceboo ...
Indonesia's Lion Air buying 50 Boeing 737's in $6.2 bn deal
Founded in 1999 by brothers Kusnan and Rusdi Kirana, Lion Air is the first private airline in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago nation that ...
"I am sorry": Zuckerberg faces congressional inquisition
Life-sized cutouts depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wearing "Fix Fakebook" T-shirts are displayed by advocacy group, Avaaz, ...
Facebook sends privacy alerts to affected users
This image made from an iPhone shows a notification on the Facebook app on Tuesday, April 10, 2018, in Atlanta. Facebook said it would begin ...
Cyber centre to be developed in London’s Olympic Park
London's Olympic Park is to play host to a new world-first £13.5 million cyber innovation centre, which is hoped will help to secure the UK’s position as a global leader in the growing cyber secur
What social media platforms and search engines know about you
Cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg outside the US Capitol ahead of his testimony before Congress The Facebook sc ...
Lifespan of new solar cell technologies to increase tenfold
Kati Miettunen (l.) and Armi Tiihonen (r.) examine new dye-sensitised solar cells. Credit: Valeriya Azovskaya, Aalto Materials Platform. Ar ...
The fight for clean emissions continues
Are diesel emissions clean enough? Credit: Empa It is exactly 20 years since experts from Empa and VERT published the first test results on ...
The dark secrets of social media dark patterns
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Tweeting praise or criticism gives you more power—and can pose a greater potential threat—than you may know, acco ...
Volkswagen says considering board 'changes' may name new CEO
Going, going, gone? Matthias Mueller's fate at Volkswagen seems to be hanging in the balance Scandal-hit car giant Volkswagen said Tues ...
EU court backs France ban of Uber service without notifying Brussels
Uber has run into huge opposition from taxi companies and other competitors who accuse it of dodging costly regulations The EU's top co ...
The story of techlash and how the future might be different
Are you over social media? Are you disillusioned with a seemingly relentless pace of change? Does the future really, really worry you? You&# ...
Recovering SAS orders 50 Airbus A320-neos
SAS is aiming to streamline the number of plane models in its fleet SAS said Tuesday it had ordered 50 Airbus A320-neos for its short and m ...
Researchers develop more comprehensive acoustic scene analysis method
Predictions of sounds were achieved by an improved method developed by an international team of researchers. Credit: IEEE/CAA Journal of Aut ...
Milestone for next-gen solid-state batteries to power future long-range electrical vehicles
Credit: IMEC Imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy and digital technologies and partner in EnergyV ...
What is the optimal way to diversify an economy?
Credit: Aamena Alshamsi, Flavio L. Pinheiro, and Cesar A. Hidalgo One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify ...
Scientific challenges and opportunities for remediating radioactive waste
Understanding scientific complexities of radioactive waste stored in underground tanks at the Hanford Site could guide cleanup efforts. Cred ...
Tackling the toughest questions with NanoSIMS
It may take a village to raise a child, according to the old proverb, but it takes an entire team of highly trained scientists and engineers ...
Sensors in public spaces can help create cities that are both smart and sociable
Overflowing bins are one way to spoil the amenity of public space, but sensors can now alert councils when bins need emptying. Credit: Wikim ...
Fly with individually air-conditioned seats
The Aviation Double Seat features a combination of seat ventilation by means of fans and thermal regulation by seat heating. Credit: Genther ...
Automated lightweight construction reduces weight and costs
The Fraunhofer ENAS manufactures printed circuit boards in screen printing on a flexible plastic film. The tracks transmit electrical impuls ...
Luxoft releases PELUX 1.0 automotive software starter-kit on Open Source
The automotive division of Luxoft has launched PELUX 1.0, a base development platform designed to provide the building blocks for automotive software development projects, which is now available on Op
CFRP recycling—into the battery instead of the garbage
The Fraunhofer ICT uses recycled, small chopped carbon fibers (top) to produce bipolar plates (bottom) for batteries and fuel cells. Credit: ...
Toshiba comes under investor pressure over memory sale
Toshiba Corp. is coming under pressure from one of its investors, Argyle Street Management, who has said that the sale price that was agreed with a Bain-led consortium significantly undervalues the ch
After Uber Tesla incidents can artificial intelligence be trusted?
Credit: Missouri University of Science and Technology Given the choice of riding in an Uber driven by a human or a self-driving version, wh ...
Jet Airways rules out Air India bid
Once the country's monopoly airline, Air India has lost considerable market share to competitors Jet Airways on Tuesday became the late ...
Is Facebook really changing? Or just trimming its data haul?
In this March 26, 2018, file photo, a man poses for photos in front of a computer showing Facebook ad preferences pages in San Francisco. Lo ...
Yes Mark Zuckerberg will wear a suit for Congress testimony
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, leaves a meeting with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 9, 2018. Zu ...
Apple turns green claiming '100% clean energy'
Apple says it has achieved its goal of 100 percent clean energy for its facilities worldwide Apple said Monday it had achieved a goal of &q ...
Air France says 7 days of strikes cost company 170 mn euros
Air France estimated that one flight out of four would be cancelled on Tuesday. Air France said Tuesday that seven day-long strikes since F ...
Backpage co-founders executives indicted on prostitution charges
Backpage.com was shut down by the US authorities and two co-founders and top executives indicted for enabling prostitution and money launder ...
Ubisoft aims to rack up five billion players with Tencent deal
Yves Guillemot, chief executive of French video game developer Ubisoft, in his office at the company's headquarters in Montreuil, outsid ...
First ever plasmomechanical oscillator
By taking advantage of the interplay between light, electrons on the surface of metals, and heat, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a plasmomechanic
UK looks to harness the power of sound waves
Professor Sriram Subramanian, Professor of Informatics at the University of Sussex, has been named a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Chair in Emerging Technologies to develop novel acoustic inter
Zuckerberg prepares another apology—this time to Congress
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 9, 2018, to meet with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ...
Monsanto shares jump on report of US approval of Bayer deal
US antitrust regulators are reportedly to greenlight the mega-deal after the companies agreed to sell additional assets Shares of agricultu ...
Powering advances in wireless connectivity for the future
The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office (PPO) is overseeing two significant testing platforms for advanced wirele ...
First dynamic spine brace—robotic spine exoskeleton—characterizes spine deformities
The Robotic Spine Exoskeleton consists of two six-degrees-of-freedom parallel-actuated modules connected in series, each with six actuated l ...
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery unless you are an app developer
For every two mobile apps released, one is a clone of an existing app. However, new research published in the INFORMS journal Information Sy ...
Top MEP says Zuckerberg 'must' face European Parliament
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is due to be question at the US Congress on Tuesday over claims of data misuse Facebook chief Mark Zuckerb ...
Media deserts project creates searchable media access research atlas
Ohio University's new Media Access Research Atlas maps the circulation of daily newspapers in the United States and how much of the popu ...
Psych! Colleges teach phishing lesson by targeting their own
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Thousands of university students and employees targeted by email phishing schemes this year have taken the bait. ...
Zuckerberg set for Congress grilling as Facebook notifies users on leak
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to testify on Capitol Hill—a critical appearance by the CEO as lawmakers examine data privacy ...
Bots good or bad dominate Twitter conversation: study
Twitter logos on a computer screen in Beijing: some two thirds of all popular links pushed by the social media platform were generated by bo ...
UN reopens talks on defining 'killer robots'
Concern has grown over the threat posed by weapons that rely on machine intelligence in deciding what to kill A new round of talks on the u ...
Fund battling for Telecom Italia control gets fresh support
More than half of Telecom Italia's capital is held by funds from outside Italy, including French group Vivendi, which holds a 24 percent ...
Leading the fight against cybercrime
As the 3 days of CYBERUK kick off in Manchester, Dick Selwood profiles the UK National Cyber Security Centre, Britain’s lead agency in the fight against all forms of cybercrime.
Zuckerberg testimony to Congress: 'My mistake I'm sorry'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for meetings in the Capitol a day ahead of his testimony to lawmakers on privacy and manipulation of th ...
Hassane El-Khoury talks to Neil Tyler about his on-going plans for Cypress Semiconductor
​“The technology world has changed and it’s no longer just about the silicon,” says Hassane El-Khoury, the youthful CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. So if it’s not about silicon what is it about? “Softwa
Artificial intelligence—between scientific ethical and commercial issues
On March 18 in Tempe, Arizona, an Uber self-driving car struck and killed Elaine Herzberg, who was walking her bicycle across a street. The ...
Election security means much more than just new voting machines
In late March, Congress passed a significant spending bill that included US$380 million in state grants to improve election infrastructure. ...
Cambridge Analytica is 'only the beginning' says data expert
Breaching the security of just one 'node' can affect the whole network. Credit: Imperial College London Dr. Yves-Alexandre de Montj ...
A new JPEG format for virtual reality drones and self-driving cars
Touradj Ebrahimi, head of JPEG. Credit: group©7tin.cn The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), an international committee headed b ...
Apple co-founder protests Facebook by shutting down account
In this July 3, 2017, file photo, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gestures as he attends a conference titled 'The Innovation Summit' ...
Lufthansa cancels 800 flights Tuesday in German airport strikes
Lufthansa is cancelling more than half its scheduled flights German airline giant Lufthansa said it will cancel "more than 800" f ...
Rolls-Royce sells German unit L'Orange
Rolls-Royce, whose engines are used in Airbus and Boeing aircraft, also makes power systems for use on land and at sea British engine maker ...
Trump tariff proposals could affect electronic goods
US President, Donald Trump, has proposed to further increase the $50billion tariff he has already placed on Chinese imported products by 25percent.
Opinion: AI like HAL 9000 can never exist because real emotions aren't programmable
HAL 9000 is one of the best-known artificial intelligence characters of modern film. This superior form of sentient computer embarks on a mi ...
Trump Administration proposes 25% increase on China tariffs affecting a range of electronic goods
US President, Donald Trump, has proposed to further increase the $50billion tariff he has already placed on Chinese imported products by 25percent.
A different spin on superconductivity
A team of researchers has said it’s seen exotic superconductivity that relies on highly unusual electron interactions. While predicted to occur in other non-material systems, this type of behaviour ha
Liquid in liquid 3D printed structures
Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to 3D print structures composed entirely of liquids. They envision their all-liq
Robots that can learn like humans
Credit: University of Electro Communications Researchers say that artificial intelligence (AI) is now superior to human intelligence in sup ...
Paving the way for GaN power technology at high voltages
imec, the research and innovation hub and fabless technology innovator Qromis, have developed high performance p-GaN power devices on 200mm engineered Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE)-matched su
Facebook to send Cambridge Analytica data-use notices Monday
This Jan. 17, 2017, file photo shows a Facebook logo being displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F, in Paris. Fa ...
Child advocates ask FTC to investigate YouTube
This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the YouTube app on an iPad in Baltimore. In a formal complaint being filed Monday, April 9, child advo ...
'Ideas' conference to grapple with dark side of tech
At a conference where thinkers and luminaries gather to discuss world-changing ideas and innovations, the talk is shifting to the dark side. ...
5 questions for Mark Zuckerberg as he heads to Congress
Congress has plenty of questions for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who will testify on Capitol Hill Tuesday and Wednesday about the company& ...
Tech sector frets as US-China trade tensions simmer
With US-China trade tensions running high, critics of Beijing's policies say American tech firms face more restrictions in the Chinese m ...
Dubai splashes billions on mega projects ahead of Expo
Dubai, home to Burj Al Arab, the world's tallest building, is splashing billions in order to host Expo 2020 which authorities hope will ...
Faced with global warming aviation aims to turn green
A computer generated image of the hybrid-electric regional aircraft being developed by Zunum Aero, a start-up partly financed by US aeronaut ...
Facebook suspends Canadian firm amid data mining scandal
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook says it has suspended a Canadian political consulting firm amid media reports it had ties to Cambridge A ...
Dutch roll out 'orange carpet' to woo post-Brexit business
Efforts by The Netherlands to attract businesses leaving Britian due to Brexit got a boost last month when Unilever picked Rotterdam over Lo ...
US approves licence for Taiwan submarine plan
Taiwan currently operates a fleet of four submarines but only two of them can be deployed in the event of war Washington has agreed to allo ...
Egypt court suspends ban on Uber and Careem
An Egyptian taxi driver navigates the streets of Cairo on November 7, 2016 An Egyptian court on Saturday suspended a ruling banning the use ...
Facebook to verify identities require labels for political ads (Update)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the network will hire "thousands" of new employees to verify the identity of political advertise ...
Feds seize Backpage.com websites in enforcement action
This Friday, April 6, 2018 image shows an FBI notice on the Backpage.com website. Federal law enforcement authorities are in the process of ...
American Airlines orders 47 Boeing 787s cancels A350 order
American Airlines has ordered 47 Boeing 787 Dreamliners comprising 22 787-8s scheduled to begin arriving in 2020 and 25 787-9s scheduled to ...
Facebook to verify identities for political ads
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the network will hire "thousands" of new employees to verify the identity of political advertise ...
Best Buy warns of data breach
This photo taken Nov. 23, 2017, shows holiday shoppers pouring into Best Buy to get an early start to the Black Friday sale at Chimney Rock ...
India defence website 'hacked' three other govt websites down
Major Indian government department websites were reported either 'unreachable' or 'not found' India's defence minister ...
Leti’s silicon photonics design kit available for Synopsys Optodesigner pic design solution
Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, has announced that its silicon photonics process design kit (PDK) for photonic circuits is new available in the Synopsys PhoeniX OptoDesigner suite.
South Florida startups taste the one thing they've been missing: money
South Florida startups are finally being shown the money. A tot ...
Solar PV and wind are on track to replace all coal oil and gas within two decades
Solar photovoltaics are now the world’s leading source of new electricity generation. Credit: US Air Force Solar photovoltaic and wind powe ...
Our ongoing love-hate relationship with personality tests
We love to take personality tests, but is it time to think more about the corporate interests behind them? Credit: Shutterstock The public ...
Putting the 'smart' in manufacturing
Credit: istockphoto.com/chombosan "Although smartphones and tablets are ubiquitous, many of the companies that make our everyday consu ...
Better roads essential for safer cycling
This infographic shows factors influencing noncompliance with bicycle passing distance laws. Credit: QUT CARRS-Q A QUT-led study of Queensl ...