Deutsche Telekom saved 1.7 billion euros in taxes following Donald Trump's tax reforms in the US German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom ...

After years of job cuts and other cost-cutting measures, Air France staff are demanding a 6% pay rise Half of Air France's long-haul fl ...

A machine that can disassemble two mobile phones per minute could help give raw materials a second life. Credit: Sascha Pohflepp, licensed u ...

Credit: Swiss National Supercomputing Centre Economists have previously made little use of high-performance computers (HPC) in their resear ...

A higher performing, smaller alternative to the inductor is to said have been developed using a material-based approach.

Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm are expanding their foundry relationship to incorporate EUV lithography. The agreement includes the manufacture of Snapdragon 5G mobile chipsets on Samsung’s 7nm LPP p

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Europe's flight safety authority has published its first proposal on the safe operation of small drones, to s ...

A man digs through some mine waste searching for left over cobalt near Kolwezi In global markets the price of cobalt, a mineral used in bat ...

The impact of the German court ruling on old diesel cars in cities is expected to be huge Judges are to rule Thursday on whether German cit ...

This undated artist rending provided by Walmart shows part of Walmart's new online home shopping experience that will let shoppers disco ...

Calls are mounting for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to be regulated, and prices have fluctuated in recent months amid concerns over ti ...

Researcher Rob Schmidt and his team are using neutrons at HFIR’s CG-1D imaging instrument to study the development of dendrites with hope of ...

Uber's express car pool option uses software to calculate the most direct path to the final destination and then has its customers meet ...

Twitter said it is cracking down on "bots" or automated accounts such as those which sought to manipulate sentiment during the 201 ...

This July 25, 2017, file frame grab from video shows the Nest Cam IQ camera. Google's voice-activated assistant is branching out to Nest ...

Twenty-two per cent of embedded system developers working on IoT projects do not list security as a product requirement for their current project, while 25% of developers designing products for the Io

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan is seen at a November 2017 White House meeting with President Donald Trump where he announced the Singapore-based firm ...

The number of people who both pay to shop at Costco and pay for free shipping from Amazon has grown rapidly in the last five years. ...

Amsterdam's Schiphol is close to its maximum capacity The Dutch government Wednesday postponed plans to expand Amsterdam's second a ...

Cybercrime costs are rising due to increased sophisication of attackers, a new report found The annual cost of cybercrime has hit $600 bill ...

A Facebook official said Tuesday that the social network had finished "scrubbing" personal information from Kremlin-linked ads pla ...

As Amazon continues its quest to shrink delivery times and add warehouses in Illinois, the e-commerce behemoth is eyeing technology that cou ...

Every once in a while, I review products in what I call the "guilt" category. You know, those products that aren't really fun— ...

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks at Singapore's inaugural Cyber Week in 2016: the defence ministry has now held an unusual contest ...

Renesas has updated its Synergy Platform website and Solutions Gallery in order to make it easier for users to take advantage of the Synergy ecosystem. In addition, it says users now have ‘streamlined

Credit: CC0 Public Domain California was on track to meet Gov. Jerry Brown's initial goal for putting 1.5 million environmentally frien ...

80 percent of the most popular health applications available on Android do not comply with standards intended to prevent the misuse and diss ...

Inchworm-like walking. Credit: Waseda University Scientists at Waseda University may have come a step closer to innovating soft robots to c ...

An energy efficient, nonvolatile logic-in-memory circuit is said to have been successfully developed by using a memristor.

VW's 120,000 workers in Germany will see their pay increase by 4.3 percent in May Workers at the world's largest carmaker Volkswage ...

In a move intended to meet the low power requirements of IoT and on chip AI applications, start up Semiwise has developed a flat field transistor (FFT) technology that is said to be applicable to bulk

German car parts supplier Bosch is buying US carpooling startup, Splitting Fares The world's largest car parts supplier Bosch leapt int ...

A lens technology that could be produced using standard computer-chip equipment is said to be in the works and may replace the bulky layers and complex geometries of traditional curved lenses. 

Normally, autonomous computer programmes known as bots trawl the internet, for example, to help search engines. However, there are also prog ...

Cobalt prices are surging as investors bet on huge demand from the automobile industry Cobalt is hitting historically high prices fuelled b ...

Banks such as Germany's public-sector Sparkassen are having to rethink their business models as customers increasingly go online, rural ...

The Seabed Constructor ship used in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 which disappeared in 2014 Salvagers are confident debris ...

Last year, robotics and AI entrepreneurs—including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking—petitioned the United Nat ...

The South Korean giant will unveil its new smartphone in Barcelona, with leaks suggesting the biggest changes will be to its camera Samsung ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Not all phishing campaigns work, but when an attacker perseveres with a strategy that does it is the key to their ...

A team of scientists are aiming to make significant improvements in the way in which cellulose is produced, as part of an EU-funded NOVUM project which will run until September 2021.

CONTISOL was tested at Cologne, Germany using simulated 'suns', rather than an actual solar field, and the storage and heat exchange ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Public outreach campaigns can prevent the spread of devastating yet treatable diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), ...

The cost for solar power, such as this facility in Allonnes, France, has fallen in recent years EU member states should take advantage of f ...

A team led by University of Illinois researcher Lav Varshney, found that there was less tweeting per capita in larger cities Credit: Univers ...

Novel photonics materials are becoming pivotal for energy conversion, communications, and sensing, largely because there is a global desire ...

US appliance giant Whirlpool has recalled 310,000 kettles worldwide that are potentially dangerous because of faulty handles US appliance g ...

Credit: Concordia University Why fix a road today if it's slated to be ripped up for new sewers next summer? ...

In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, Walmart employee Kenneth White scans items while conducting an exercise during a Walmart Academy class ses ...

The devastating deaths of 17 Florida high school at the hands of a troubled teen armed with an AR-15-style rifle have brought the ever-simme ...

In this Nov. 2, 2011, file photo, a sign sits atop the Qualcomm headquarters building in San Diego. Qualcomm is raising its takeover bid for ...

Satzengraben bridge - Austria's longest integral abutment bridge. Credit: Vienna University of Technology Bridges change shape, which i ...

Credit: Shutterstock. The term "fake news" is everywhere these days. After gaining steam during the 2016 US election, it's be ...

Researchers conducting tests in Tucson, Arizona in July 2017. Credit: Rutgers University Improvements in traffic flow and fuel consumption ...

Infineon Technologies has announced the acquisition of Merus Audio.

The “pick-and-place” system consists of a standard industrial robotic arm that the researchers outfitted with a custom gripper and suction c ...

Cornell researchers are taking 3-D printing and 3-D modeling to a new level by using augmented reality (AR) to allow designers to design in ...

Venezuela on Tuesday will become the first country to launch its own version of bitcoin, a move it hopes will provide a much-needed boost to ...

Edible electronics may come as a result of Rice University’s latest venture.

The Consumer Products Testing division of Eurofins Scientific has acquired Electronic Test and Calibration (ETC) and Hursley EMC Services.

A brave step forward for cyborg rights? A media stunt? Or just indifference to contract law? Those are the questions raised by news that bio ...

A device that was inspired by an electric eel is said to have generated 110V from hydrogels.

Hailing a taxi rarely takes more than a few seconds in major Japanese cities Electronics giant Sony announced a plan Tuesday to provide an ...

Three neuromorphic chips that are said to be capable of mimicking important aspects of biological brains by being energy efficient, resilient and able to learn.

A sensor could be a ‘game-changer’ in the field of stroke rehabilitation, says researchers from Northwestern University and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.

Greenpeace activists protested against diesel ahead of a landmark court judgment One of Germany's top courts will decide Thursday wheth ...

Screenshot of the English version of the Fake News Game, available to play at fakenewsgame.org. Credit: DROG A new online game puts players ...

A thin, wearable elastic display is said to have shown the moving waveform of an electrocardiogram recorded by a breathable, on-skin electrode sensor.

The UK’s first Level 3 vocational qualification in robotics and automation has been launched by EAL. The certificate has been developed in partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, 30 of its supply chain em

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says billionaires should pay "significantly" more in taxes Bill Gates says he has paid more than ...

Google's firing of an engineer over his controversial memo criticizing its diversity policies and "politically correct monoculture& ...

A two-man entrepreneurial team who attended an elite college together where they founded a startup they sold to Google for a reported $81 mi ...

Salt flats in South America contain much of the world’s lithium. Credit: Guido Amrein Switzerland / shutterstock Imagine a world where ever ...

Radio Frequency Systems (RFS), a specialist in the design and manufacturer of solutions for wireless and broadcast infrastructure, has unveiled a new Active Passive Antenna (APA) system.

In this June 4, 2012 file photo, a girl looks at Facebook on her computer in Palo Alto, Calif. Baffled in 2016 by Russian agents who bought ...

Siemens' listing of its profitable medical technology division is expected to be one of the biggest stock market flotations in Germany i ...

With researchers looking to build a quantum computer one of the great challenges that needs to be overcome is the sensitivity of quantum systems to decoherence, collapse of superpositions.

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook will soon rely on centuries-old technology to try to prevent foreign meddling in U.S. elections: the pos ...

Amazon has become one of the world's biggest companies with a large online presence and a growing number of physical stores, such as thi ...

The Church of England has agreed to allow church spires across Britain to be used to boost broadband, mobile phone and WiFi connectivity in ...

Palmreading could take on a whole new meaning thanks to a new invention from Japan: an ultra-thin display and monitor that can be stuck dire ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tours the facility at the grand opening of the Amazon Spheres rainforest-inspired offices in Seattle, Washington on Ja ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Blockchain, the technology behind the cryptocurrency bitcoin, is taking root in a sector far from finance: the wo ...

US Defense Minister Jim Mattis, seen here at a news conference at NATO headquarters February 15, 2018, is puzzling over the impact artificia ...

Credit: Northwestern University A groundbreaking new wearable designed to be worn on the throat could be a game-changer in the field of str ...

The Belgian court ruling comes amid increased efforts in Europe to boost privacy protections in a digital economy dominated by US giants A ...

Google's initiative with advertising and media partners aims to filter out certain disruptive or annoying online ads, a move aimed at pr ...

Cyberattacks proved costly to the US economy in 2016, according to a White House report which warned of severe consequences if "critica ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Mikita Burton has had a Facebook account for nine years, nearly as long as her youngest child has been alive. And ...

US mobile chipmaking giant Qualcomm on Friday rejected for a second time a hostile $121 billion takeover bid from Singapore's Broadcom, ...

Qualcomm Technologies has begun sampling the Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem, the first Category 20 LTE modem to be announced that supports download speeds of up to 2Gbit/s. It is also the first-ann

Facebook and Facebook's Messenger Kids app icons are displayed on an iPhone in New York, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. Messenger Kids lets kids ...

Uber is fighting to keep its licence in London US ride-hailing app Uber on Friday announced new safety features for its service in Britain, ...

Figure 1. Control IC, detection IC and MEMS device in the accelerometer (left), moving mass inside the MEMS device (right). Credit: Hitachi ...

TNDT of reinforced concrete supports. Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University together with ...

The emissions cheating scandal that has engulfed the auto industry for more than two years just won't go away German transport authorit ...

Belgian media say a Brussels court has ordered Facebook to stop collecting data about citizens in the country or face fines for every day it ...

Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn says all options are open regarding the French carmaker's three-way alliance with Japanese firms Nissan and Mit ...

Credit: EPFL / Alain Herzog It's a safe bet that some of the websites and apps you use collect and subsequently sell your personal data ...

Swedish companies say they are fast running out of skilled labour because of expulsions The heads of Sweden's largest companies, includ ...