During bombings robots played key role for Austin police
On the morning of March 21, a white Austin police bomb squad truck pulled out of an obscure city facility near Austin-Bergstrom Internationa ...
Facebook says it should have audited Cambridge Analytica
IN this Jan. 22, 2018 file photo, Operating Officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg attends a meeting with France's President Emmanuel Macr ...
German carmakers worst hit by China tariffs: study
An employee conducting a final inspection on a Mercedes-Benz C-Class at the Mercedes-Benz US International factory in Vance, Alabama, last y ...
Up to 2.7 million Europeans affected by Facebook data scandal: EU
Facebook has admitted it may have "improperly shared" the personal data of up to 2.7 million people in the European Union, the blo ...
Enhanced primary reference clock standards for precision time raises the performance bar for atomic standards
Microsemi has completed certification of its portfolio of Cesium clocks to be compliant with the new G.811.1 recommendation.
Toyota's Plano-based CEO talks self-driving cars and the real reason the automaker suspended testing
When a woman crossing an Arizona street was struck and killed by a self-driving Uber car late last month, it sparked a swift public reckonin ...
Double perovskites in environmentally friendly solar cells
Weihua Ning (Left) and Feng Gao (right) are discussing their lead-free devices. Credit: Thor Balkhed Researchers have taken a step toward m ...
IoT Security Foundation launch professional membership
The IoT Security Foundation (IoTSF) has created a professional membership category to cater for individuals who have a personal interest in cyber security in IoT applications.
More accurate biopsy by augmented reality
Credit: University of Twente The University of Twente is currently developing a smartphone technology based on the usage of Simultaneous Lo ...
Amazon and Lidl are creating upheaval for big Charlotte grocers new report shows
The arrival of Lidl and Amazon's massive purchase of Whole Foods last summer appear to have put pressure on the area's top grocers l ...
Samsung Electronics flags record $14.7 bn Q1 operating profit
Samsung Electronics flagged a first-quarter operating profit of 15.6 trillion won ($14.7 billion), a record for any-three month period, as i ...
As Trump tweets Amazon seeks to expand its business empire
President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One for a trip to White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., for an event on tax policy, Thursday, Ap ...
Facebook: Most users may have had public data 'scraped'
In this April 18, 2017, file photo, conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference, in S ...
Japan's hacked crypto exchange Coincheck bought out
Coincheck executives are bowing out Japanese online broker Monex Group said Friday it would buy virtual currency exchange Coincheck, which ...
Facebook's facial recognition violates user privacy watchdog groups plan to tell FTC
Already under siege over loose privacy controls and Russian manipulation, Facebook is about to be challenged on another issue: facial recogn ...
Refill app: This company will bring the gas pump to you
If you could use an app to send someone to fill your car's empty gas tank while you were at work, would you do it? ...
Russian regulator moves to block Telegram messaging app
Telegram's Russian founder has vowed to reject any attempt by the security's services to gain backdoor access to the app Russia' ...
Facebook faces Indonesia investigation over privacy breach
Indonesian government said Friday it is investigating Facebook over the privacy breach of its Indonesian users. ...
£1.36bn raised in 4G/5G spectrum auction
Ofcom has announced the results of the principal bidding stage for its 4G/5G spectrum auction.
UK regulator investigating Facebook over political campaigning
Facebook admitted the personal data of up to 87 million users, mainly in the United States, was improperly shared with UK political consulta ...
Footsteps to preventing falls
One of four elderly persons falls every year in the United States. With more than 37 million hospitalizations every year, roughly one millio ...
French court condemns lastminute.com for 'parasitism' of Ryanair website
Ryanair welcomed the ruling for putting a halt to the 'free ride' of its website without consent The Paris commercial court has ord ...
HSBC leaker Falciani freed on bail in Spain
Herve Falciani, seen here in 2015, is known as the "the man who terrifies the rich" for leaking documents that alleged HSBC helped ...
Samantha's suffering—why sex machines should have rights too
Credit: Fossiant/Shutterstock.com Late in 2017 at a tech fair in Austria, a sex robot was "molested" repeatedly and left in a &qu ...
Daniel Ek Spotify's tenacious and taciturn CEO
"Quite Swedish": Daniel Ek is said to be shy and pragmatic Spotify's billionaire CEO Daniel Ek, who revolutionised on demand ...
Mobile operators pay Ofcom £1.4bn for 5G spectrum
The UK’s leading mobile operators have paid £1.4billion to secure spectrum to launch next generation 5G services.
How smart is your city?
2018-04-05 08:00:33How smart is your city?
Smart Cities are much more than technology. It’s about using technology sustainably and in a way that improves the lives of the people that ...
Understanding Facebook's data crisis—5 essential reads
Most of Facebook's 2 billion users have likely had their data collected by third parties, the company revealed April 4. That follows rep ...
World added far more solar than fossil fuel power generating capacity in 2017
Global investments in renewable energy of $2.7 trillion from 2007 to 2017 (11 years inclusive) have increased the proportion of world electr ...
New underwater geolocation technique takes cues from nature
Two peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus) wrestling. Credit: Marshall laboratory / The University of Queensland Marine animals s ...
Green technologies environmentally and profit friendly
Companies looking to reduce their environmental impact without negatively affecting profits may want to consider increasing their investment ...
Twitter: 1 million accounts suspended for 'terrorism promotion'
Twitter says more than one million accounts have been suspended since 2015 for "promotion of terrorism" Twitter said Thursday it ...
1.5 bn sensitive documents on open internet: researchers
Researchers say that vast amounts of sensitive files on the open internet makes it easier for hackers and others to steal data Some 1.5 bil ...
UK car sales slide for 12th month: industry body
Two British built-cars, a Bentley Flying Spur and a Range Rover, pictured in London in 2015 New car sales in Britain fell for a 12th month ...
Spain judge releases HSBC leaker on bail
Herve Falciani, seen here in 2015, is known as the "the man who terrifies the rich" for leaking documents that alleged HSBC helped ...
Online privacy must improve after the Facebook data uproar
Credit: Shutterstock I, like millions of others, have willingly given up some of my privacy to Facebook to achieve a sense of connection ac ...
What makes a faster typist?
2018-04-05 06:00:18What makes a faster typist?
Credit: Cytonn Photography on Unsplash The largest-ever dataset on typing speeds and styles, based on 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 v ...
Training computers to recognize dynamic events
Aude Oliva (right), a principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Dan Gutfreund (left), ...
Facebook scandal affected more users than thought: up to 87M (Update)
In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Cal ...
Australia privacy chief to probe Facebook over data breach
The European Union has given Facebook until next week to answer questions over the harvested data Australia is investigating Facebook over ...
Automated prep of MS-sensitive fluorescently labeled N-Glycans with a pipetting robot
Contour map showing the summed total labeled N-glycan recovery from cetuximab over a range of temperatures for protein denaturation (60C to ...
Congress' dilemma: tame Facebook or just accept its apology?
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 ...
Broadcom moves back to the US
Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom, which recently failed in a bid to buy US rival Qualcomm, has transferred its headquarters from Singapor ...
Sodium-ion battery packs a punch
ISEM research fellow Dr Wenbin Luo (centre) with full-cell sodium-ion battery pouch. Credit: University of Wollongong A new sodium-ion batt ...
'Far Cry 5' record sales buoy gamemaker Ubisoft's shares
"Far Cry 5" sees players pitted against a dangerous cult in the US French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft saw its share price surge ...
Single board computing kits aim to make programming fun
Stadium Group has announced a partnership with Maker Life, a developer and provider of simple build-your-own computer project kits designed to educate parents, teachers and children around the world a
Uber scales back Greek operations after law clampdown
Like in many other cities, Uber's presence has prompted protest in Athens Ride-hailing service Uber on Thursday said it would suspend o ...
Turning plastic insulator into heat conductor
Plastics are excellent insulators — a quality that can be an advantage in something like a coffee cup sleeve. But it is less desirable in products such as plastic casings for laptops and mobile phones
Quality assurance for autonomous systems
Franz Wotawa, Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Methods for Quality Assurance of Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems at TU Graz. Cr ...
Microsoft to make $5bn investment into IoT
Microsoft has announced it will invest $5 billion in the IoT over the next 4 years in an effort to ‘give every customer the ability to transform their businesses, and the world at large, with connecte
Facebook scandal affected more users than thought: up to 87M
In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Cal ...
Air Force looking to additive manufacturing to expand hypersonic flight capabilities
A sample of additively manufactured silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) material is tested at Arnold Air Force Base. The testing was conducted as part ...
Facebook revamps privacy policy in heels of scandal
In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Cal ...
Tuning in to magnetic ink
2018-04-04 10:00:09Tuning in to magnetic ink
An ink containing iron-oxide nanoparticles can be turned into fully printed and versatile components for cellular networks, says a team from KAUST.
Minding the gap ahead of future fuels
Tad Patzek has been the architect of many breakthroughs in waterflood, foam injected and steam-based oil and natural gas recovery processes. ...
It's time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shadows
Personal data has been dubbed the “new oil”, and data brokers are very efficient miners. Credit: Emanuele Toscano/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Faceb ...
Why we should all cut the Facebook cord—or should we?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain I wrote my dissertation on the political economy of scholarly communication, and the transformative potentials of ...
Facebook data harvesting—what you need to know
A waxwork of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: Shutterstock Facebook makes most of its money from advertising, and – as the Cambridge ...
House panel says Facebook's Zuckerberg to testify April 11
In this April 18, 2017 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Cali ...
Body-worn cameras will help reduce police use of force but the problem runs much deeper
Professional policing is one of the great inventions of modernity. Police are there to help people feel safe. A police force is therefore a ...
Sales of diesel cars in Germany drop after court permits ban
German officials say there's been a sharp drop in sales of new diesel cars, following a court decision that allows cities to ban the use ...
Telematics technology steering toward smarter EU roads
Credit: petrmalinak, Shutterstock If we are to have truly smart cities our transport systems will have to be more cost-effective, safer and ...
Driverless cars are already here but the roads aren't ready for them
The recent deaths of a woman struck by a car Uber was testing in driverless mode and of a man whose Tesla Model X crashed when his hands wer ...
Human factors research accelerates mission planning
GTRI researchers analyze the mission planning task. Shown are Senior Research Engineer John Huggins, Research Scientist Elizabeth Weldon, Re ...
Origami poised to improve smart clothing
Researchers believe a form of origami that involves cutting folder pieces of paper, known as kirigami, has inspired a way to build malleable electronic circuits.
Advanced driver aids aren't just for luxury cars
In this Sept. 12, 2017, file photo, a man films a Toyota C-HR concept on the first media day of the International Frankfurt Motor Show IAA i ...
3 shot in YouTube office attack; suspect 'hated' company
Officers stand in front of a YouTube sign near offices in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. A woman opened fire at YouTube headquar ...
Major technical obstacles in magnesium-metal batteries overcome
A new approach for developing a rechargeable non-aqueous magnesium(Mg)-metal battery has been discovered by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
India's Jet Airways to buy 75 Boeing jets in multi-billion dollar order
A Jet Airways Boeing 737 pictured in 2015: the airline has announced an order for 75 Boeing 737 MAX planes Indian airline Jet Airways has e ...
Scholarly snowball: Deep learning paper generates big online collaboration
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Bioinformatics professors Anthony Gitter and Casey Greene set out in summer 2016 to write a paper about biomedica ...
Share buybacks: good bad or ugly?
Investors like the share price rise that buybacks almost always bring Share buybacks are all the rage among the world's companies, to t ...
Spotify soars in $26 billion stock debut
Traders work on the floor during the Spotify IPO at the the New York Stock Exchange on the day the music streaming service begans trading it ...
US auto sales spring to life in March (Update)
March numbers from major automakers suggested US consumers were in a buying mood The American consumer returned in force to automobile show ...
Spotify wins more fans in stock market debut as shares surge
A trading post sports the Spotify logo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Spotify, the No. 1 music streami ...
APNewsBreak: US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC
This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows the StingRay II, a cellular site simulator used for surveilla ...
Apps to keep children safe online may be counterproductive
Mobile apps designed to help parents keep their children safe from online predators may actually be counterproductive, harming the trust bet ...
Fox says Disney may buy Sky News in fresh takeover twist
Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has for a long time has sought to buy the 61 percent of British pay TV giant Sky that it does not alre ...
Tesla raises production but falls short of Model 3 goals (Update)
In this March 31, 2016, file photo, Tesla Motors unveils the new lower-priced Model 3 sedan at the Tesla Motors design studio in Hawthorne, ...
Half of European flights face delays after computer failure
Several of the EU's biggest airports, including Amsterdam's Schiphol, warned of problems because of the computer breakdown European ...
US auto sales spring to life in March
March numbers from major automakers suggested US consumers were in a buying mood The American consumer returned in force to automobile show ...
Facebook asks users if they think it's 'good for the world'
This March 28, 2018, file photo shows the Facebook logo at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook is asking users whe ...
Eyes on Spotify as music innovator debuts on stock market
Traders work on the floor during the Spotify IPO at the the New York Stock Exchange on the day the music streaming service begans trading it ...
TPG to acquire Wind River from Intel
It has been announced that the global alternative asset firm TPG is to acquire Wind River from Intel.
Spring forward: European grid fixes lag that slowed clocks
One excuse fewer for being late: electricity grid operators in Europe have fixed a glitch that had slowed down countless clocks across the c ...
Tesla boosts Model 3 production but still short of goal
Tesla produced just under 30,000 vehicles in the first quarter of the year, and by the end of March was getting closer to its weekly goal fo ...
iOS 11.3 lets you monitor your iPhone battery and stop Apple from slowing it down
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Apple has released the highly anticipated software update for the iPhone that promises to give you greater visibi ...
Tech's design goal: get users to click 'yes'
Three years ago when Facebook Messenger users opened the app on an Android device, they were greeted by an adorable cartoon yeti. It was sho ...
Cambridge Analytica's secret psychographic tool is a ghost from the past
Credit: Book Catalog/Flickr, CC BY The novel ways in which marketers and also political institutions can now harvest our social-media data ...
Why the business model of social media giants like Facebook is incompatible with human rights
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook has had a bad few weeks. The social media giant had to apologise for failing to protect the personal dat ...
Dating website matches you based on your DNA
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sick and tired of looking for love? There's now a website that does it for you, using your DNA. ...
Why bodycam footage might not clear things up
Police bodycam image of Lamar Wright, who was recovering from surgery when he was pepper-sprayed and zapped with a stun gun by two officers ...
Transmitting measuring data wireless in real time
A sensor transfers the vibration spectra of the blisk via 5G with sub millisecond latency to a software. Credit: Fraunhofer IPT Sensors con ...
All-purpose talent in aircraft manufacturing
The mobile robot is processing the tail-fin of an Airbus 320 aircraft. Credit: Fraunhofer IFAM In aircraft manufacturing, much of the milli ...
From the quantum level to the car battery
Even tiny objects can be depicted in detail: here an atomistic model of the tobacco mosaic virus. The tubular virus is about 300 nm long and ...
Cognitive system for the predictive maintenance of production facilities
Demonstrator Hanover Trade Fair: configured wireless sensor nodes (in the foreground) send status messages of the axial piston pump (left) t ...
Atomically thin 'drumheads' support ultra-low power communications and sensory devices
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing atomically thin "drumheads" able to receive and transmit signals across a radio frequency range far greater than what we can hea
Toshiba CEO promises turnaround in five years beefed up ethics
Toshiba Corp., Chairman and CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani speaks during an interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 3, ...
Strings of electron-carrying proteins may hold the secret to 'electric bacteria'
Scientists claim that a bacterium, known as Shewanella oneidensis, could be nature's microscopic power plant.
Robot designed to defend factories against cyberthreats
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology It's small enough to fit inside a shoebox, yet this robot on four wheels has a big mission: kee ...
Dissipating heat from electronic devices with non-toxic filamentous virus
Researchers have discovered the film created through assembly of a nontoxic filamentous virus, is able to function as a heat dissipation material, which they expect to elucidate the mechanism of new h