Half of Amazon's HQ2 finalists have overvalued housing markets
As Amazon ponders possible locations for its new second headquarters, analysts are looking at costs in potential locations. ...
System harnesses temperature fluctuations to generate power
A system has been developed with the potential to enable continuous, years-long operation of remote sensing systems, for example, without requiring other power sources or batteries, according to MIT.
Sensor technology for commercial Lithium-ion batteries finds they can be charged 5 times faster
A direct and precise test of Lithium-ion batteries’ internal temperatures and their electrodes potentials is said to have found that batteries can be safely charged up to five times faster than the cu
Li-ion batteries could be charged up to five times more quickly
A way of monitoring the internal temperatures and electrode potentials of lithium-ion batteries, developed by WMG, has found the batteries could be safely charged up to five times more quickly than cu
New recyclable resin makes wind turbines much more sustainable
The new composite, Elium, cures without added heat and can be recycled when the turbine needs to be replaced. Credit: National Renewable Ene ...
Facebook Twitter not fully complying with consumer rules: EU
The European Commission said that US social media giants have made an effort to comply with EU consumer protection rules, but that Facebook ...
Chip generates single photons and steers them
Researchers from the University of Maryland’s Joint Quantum Institute, led by associate professor Mohammad Hafezi and Professor Edo Waks, have created a photonic chip that not only generates single ph
India's top court steps in to help thirsty tech hub
Bangalore has developed a serious water shortage in recent years India's water-starved tech hub Bangalore won a reprieve on Friday when ...
Amazon to pay $1.2 million in illegal pesticide settlement
Environmental Protection Agency enforcement officer Chad Schulze displays, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Seattle, one of the banned pesticides ...
General Electric to sell parts of overseas lighting business
With the sale, GE, creator of the incandescent light bulb, is abandoning a historic aspect of the company General Electric has reached an a ...
US judge sets long sentences for two Russian hackers
The Nasdaq Stock Market was one of several high-profile victims of a gang of hackers, led by two Russians who received long prison sentences ...
How Google Chrome will limit the ads you view
Starting Thursday, users of Google's Chrome Web browser might start seeing fewer advertisements. ...
Nobody seems to like the update to Snapchat
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Is there a filter to best express users' disdain for the latest update to Snapchat? ...
Facebook Twitter not fully complying with consumer rules: EU (Update)
The European Commission said that US social media giants have made an effort to comply with EU consumer protection rules, but that Facebook ...
Boeing CEO says talks with Embraer making progress
Boeing and Embraer are structuring an agreement to combine their commercial air operations in a way that addresses the Brazilian government& ...
Suspected Austria bitcoin fraud sparks Europe-wide probe
A suspected Austrian bitcoin scam may have spread across Europe Authorities investigating a suspected bitcoin-related scam centred in Austr ...
Top telecom regulator faces internal probe: lawmaker
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is the object of an internal investigation into his handling of a politically sensitive ...
Amazon to pay $1.2 million for illegal pesticide sales
The Environmental Protection Agency says it has reached a $1.2 million settlement with Amazon over the sale of illegal pesticides. ...
Smart and comfortable new textiles for high-tech clothing
Prof. Dr. Andreas Greiner (left) and Prof. Dr. Seema Agarwal (right) with equipment for electrospinning at the University of Bayreuth. With ...
Demonstration of a single molecule piezoelectric effect offers new design possibilities
A single molecule piezoelectric effect is said to have been demonstrated for the first time.
EU not happy with Facebook Twitter consumer rule remedies
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The European Commission says social media giants Facebook and Twitter have only partially responded to its demand ...
What do you get when you cross an airplane with a submarine?
Bryant, Weisler and Stewart (from left to right), with a prototype of the EagleRay. Credit: North Carolina State University Researchers fro ...
Scientists develop harvesting robots that could revolutionise farming practices
Credit: University of Plymouth Scientists at the University of Plymouth are developing ground-breaking technology which could assist fruit ...
Companion robots could help our rural schools
Companion robots could be used in rural schools to help motivate students to study science and technology, and to provide comfort, according ...
A magnetic method for polishing metals enables mold templates with microscale features
A microfluidic chip injection mold. Credit: A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology Injection molding enables large-scale pr ...
Robots and workers of the world unite!
Robots in the workforce will give rise to new jobs for humans, including safety engineers, robot specialists and augmented reality experts, ...
Merge assistant for trucks takes over from the driver
PhD candidate Jan Loof in the electric Lupo in which he tested his merge assistent. Credit: Bart van Overbeeke Merging on the motorway or c ...
Integrated design strategy lowers the mass and costs of motors that move objects nanometers at a time
An integrated nanopositioning device can achieve high precision with a simpler and less expensive design than typically used. Credit: IEEE. ...
5G project to be demonstrated at Winter Olympics
The world’s first 5G platform will be demonstrated at the Winter Olympics, according to research institute, Leti.
How the new mozzie emoji can create buzz to battle mosquito-borne disease
Set to land in mid 2018, the new mosquito emoji will give people a new way to talk about mozzies. Credit: Cameron Webb Mosquitoes are comin ...
Pyeongchang Olympics showcases Korean self-driving vehicles
In this Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, photo, Hyundai's autonomous fuel cell electric vehicle Nexo is driven along a road near the Pyeongchang O ...
Airbus profits soar despite new charge on A400M military plane
Airbus took a new 1.3-billion-euro charge against its A400M four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft Airbus said Thursday that inc ...
Uber CEO aims to pare losses and get 'the love back'
In this July 13, 2012, file photo, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. ...
Japan's crypto exchange Coincheck sued after hack
Coincheck bosses apologised deeply for the hack Cryptocurrency traders filed a lawsuit Thursday against Japanese exchange firm Coincheck fo ...
Tissue paper sensors show promise for health care entertainment and robotics
Tissue paper has been turned into a wearable sensor by engineers at the University of Washington.
Qualcomm mulls 'next steps' in Broadcom takeover bid
Qualcomm chairman Paul Jacobs was among the executives of the California mobile chip giant attending a meeting with Broadcom on the Singapor ...
Structural electronics specialist gets $23m funding boost
A Finnish developer of injection moulded structural electronics solutions has raised a further $23million in funding from existing and new investors. TactoTek says it will use the funding to expand ca
UK blames Russian military for 'malicious' cyberattack
Britain has blamed the Russian government for a global cyberattack that mainly hit businesses in Europe last year, accusing Moscow of " ...
Scalable two-dimensional materials advance future-gen electronics
The basis for growing wafer-scale two-dimensional crystals for future electronic devices has been published in two online nanotechnology journals.
5G chipset development
2018-02-15 04:00:305G chipset development
A 5G test platform to help support test development for devices such as baseband chips has been announced by Anritsu.
Amazon primed to hire 2000 new employees in France
The 2,000 new jobs will take Amazon's overall workforce in France to 7,500 US online shopping giant Amazon said Thursday it plans to cr ...
Budget airline Norwegian says profits grounded by fuel expansion costs
Low-cost carrier Norwegian flew into the red last year Low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle said on Thursday that rising fuel prices and ...
Critics wary as Google's Chrome begins an ad crackdown
This July 19, 2016, file photo shows the Google logo at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Starting Thursday, Feb. 15, ...
New technology combines LEGO bricks and drones
From February 15 to 18, children and families visiting the LEGO World expo in Copenhagen, Denmark will have the chance to make their brick-b ...
Particulate filter research may enable more fuel-efficient vehicles
ORNL researchers Todd Toops, Charles Finney, and Melanie DeBusk (left to right) hold an example of a particulate filter used to collect harm ...
Thermal blankets melt snow quickly
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Removing snow piled high in parking lots and along roadsides could soon be a far less tedious task. In a study ap ...
European semi sales in 2017 reached ‘record levels’
Sales of semiconductors reached record levels in the last quarter of 2017, according to European distributor organisation DMASS. Revenues of €2.01billion – 11.6% more than in Q4 2016 – were said to be
Cyber security solution for connected cars
A partnership between Panasonic and Trend Micro has formed with a view to develop a cyber security solution to detect and prevent cyber-attacks against autonomous and connected cars.
Qualcomm unveils 2 Gbps LTE modem
Qualcomm Technologies has begun sampling the Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem, the first Category 20 LTE modem to be announced that supports up to 2Gbps download speeds. It is also the first-announce
Supply logistics and component sourcing for manufacturers and end users
Lucid Electronics has announced it will be offering sales, marketing and supply chain support to global manufacturers who lack direct representation in Europe.
No artificial intelligence won't steal your children's jobs—it will make them more creative and productive
Searches for the term ‘artificial intelligence’ on Google Books’ Ngram viewer. "Whatever your job is the chances are that one of these ...
Power grid fluctuations hidden in audio recordings proved a powerful tool for police forensics
The I2R A*STAR team together with their collaborators from SPF. Credit: A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research Audio and video recordings a ...
European officials: Virtual currencies are no way to pay
In this Feb. 13, 2018 photo the lights of the skyline of the Frankfurt, Germany, banking district are reflected in the river main after the ...
Apple CEO leaves investors dangling on future dividend hike (Update)
In this Sept. 12, 2017, file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook, shows new Apple Watch Series 3 product at the Steve Jobs Theater on the new Apple ca ...
Major Xerox investor sues to block takeover by Fujifilm
Under the planned deal, Xerox is to be absorbed by an existing joint venture and will fall under the control of Fujifilm One of Xerox's ...
US IPO for Baidu video unit as Q4 net income flattens
Baidu's earnings suffered in 2016 as the company clamped down on dubious ads, but it has gradually recovered in 2017 Chinese search eng ...
Uber loss leapt in 2017 as final quarter showed hope
Uber lost $1.1 billion in the final quarter of 2017 as compared with $1.46 billion in the preceeding quarter as revenue rose Ride-share tit ...
Toshiba tips return to black as it sells chip nuclear units
Troubled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba said on Wednesday it would swing into the black for the full fiscal year as it completes the multi-bi ...
Electro Rent / Microlease merger could reduce competition
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that Electro Rent’s purchase of Microlease is likely to lead to a worse deal for renters of testing and measurement equipment.
App delivery boom shakes up China food sector
Users of meal-ordering platforms in China have tripled in two years to 343 million Guo Bonan has opened several new branches of his "8 ...
Apple CEO leaves investors dangling on future dividend hike
In this Sept. 12, 2017, file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook, shows new Apple Watch Series 3 product at the Steve Jobs Theater on the new Apple ca ...
Apple signs NBA star Durant to produce new TV series
NBA star Kevin Durant has agreed to co-produce a basketball-themed drama television series that will be part of Apple's original televis ...
To prevent cyberattacks paper suggests agency similar to National Transportation Safety Board
After arguably the worst year ever for cyberattacks and data breaches, Indiana University research suggests it may be time to create an inde ...
UK cryptocurrency firms launch trade body
Cryptocurrencies now have their trade body in Britain Seven of Britain's top cryptocurrency firms on Tuesday linked up to create Crypto ...
Cost-reduction roadmap outlines two pathways to meet DOE residential solar cost target for 2030
Modeled installed system costs of PV at time of roof replacement and new construction as compared to NREL’s 2017 Q1 benchmark. Credit: Natio ...
Virtual-reality field trips give students advanced adventure
On a February afternoon in a Brooklyn classroom, 16-year-old Taylor Engler came face to face with a cow. But it was all in her head. ...
Fake news production and social media 'trolls'
Credit: University of Leeds A network of digital workers are designing political disinformation campaigns, creating fake news and fanning t ...
Tissue paper sensors show promise for health care entertainment robotics
University of Washington graduate student, Jinyuan Zhang, demonstrates how wearable sensors can track eye movement. Credit: Dennis R. Wise/U ...
'Smart cane' could one day help flag gait problems falling risks more quickly
Feeling a little unsteady and don't know why? A pair of Van ...
Award winning algorithm could improve accuracy and speed of diagnosis of retinal disease
Credit: TIM PILGRIM A new technique for identifying and diagnosing damage to the human retina has been awarded 'Best Student Paper' ...
Google takes on Snapchat with its own 'Stories' format
Google takes aim at Snapchat Google launched its own "stories" format Tuesday to compete with Snapchat and Instagram with image-d ...
Ryanair drops airfares to Catalonia over secession crisis
Ryanair says it took a sharp cut in airfares to fill flights to Barcelona Ryanair said Tuesday it slashed airfares to Catalonia to continue ...
Transatlantic test for Airbus low-cost airliner
The Airbus A321 neo LR(long range) test plane is making its maiden flight across the Atlantic on Tuesday The long-range version of Airbus&# ...
Energy-efficient encryption for the IoT
A chip, hardwired to perform public-key encryption that is said to consume only 1/400 as much power as software execution of the same protocols would, has been built by MIT. The researchers also claim
Real-time digital exploration for every engineer
Enabling engineers to create smarter designers faster and more efficiently is the current focus of ANSYS, who hopes to revolutionise product engineering with the commercial release of its ANSYS Discov
New method for waking up devices
A solution for extending the battery life of wireless devices is being developed by a team at Stanford University.
UK to unveil new tech to fight extremist content online
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The British government is unveiling new technology to remove extremist material from social media. ...
Virtual field trips: Schools embrace advanced adventures
On a February afternoon in a Brooklyn classroom, 16-year-old Taylor Engler came face to face with a cow. ...
Four robots that aim to teach your kids to code
In this Jan. 10, 2018, file photo, Anki Cozmo coding robot is on display at CES International in Las Vegas. Cozmo, which debuted in 2016, no ...
Albanian sought by US arrested in cybercrime market probe
Police in Albania say they have arrested a 25-year-old citizen who is accused of being part of a cybercrime organization that U.S. authoriti ...
Amazon to lay off 'small' number of people in Seattle
After a ramp-up of hiring last year, Amazon says it will cut a "small" number of positions at its Seattle headquarters. ...
New fuel cell demonstrates exceptional power density and stability
A team of researchers led by Northwestern University professor and fuel cell pioneer Sossina Haile has created a new fuel cell offering both ...
Snapchat redesign sparks backlash among some users
The latest app redesign at youth-focused social network Snapchat has sparked a revolt by some of its users Snapchat's latest app redesi ...
Talks still on for Weinstein Company deal: source
New York state has filed a lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein for "egregious violations" of civil right ...
Fox pledges to keep Sky News independent of Murdoch
The Fox/Sky takeover has been approved by regulators in Austria, Germany, Ireland and Italy as well as the European Union—but it has not yet ...
German court finds Facebook oversharing user data
A German court has ruled that Facebook fails to offer its users a meaningful choice about how their data is used A German court has found F ...
General Dynamics to buy CSRA for almost $7 billion
In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with manuf ...
Thousands of websites infected by 'crypto mining' malware
Researchers report a new kind of malware which operates in stealth mode to "mine" cryptocurrencies has infected at least 4,000 web ...
It appears that Ampere has picked up the Arm based server chip baton from AppliedMicro
In 2010, AppliedMicro made a strategic decision to sign an architectural licence for Arm’s 64bit v8 processor cores and to embark on the design of a multicore device.
Standalone system to produce drinking water via solar energy
Credit: Asociación RUVID Researchers from the University of Alicante's research group in applied electrochemistry and electrocatal ...
Less-cool Facebook losing youth at fast pace: survey
Credit: CC0 Public Domain With mom, dad and grandma signing up in increasing numbers, Facebook is losing younger users in the United States ...
Predictive algorithms are no better at telling the future than a crystal ball
The global market for predictive analytics is growing. Credit: Shutterstock An increasing number of businesses invest in advanced technolog ...
Few jobs can be completely replaced by new technologies
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics can perform an increasingly wider variety of jobs, and automation is no longer confi ...
Back to basics: Taiwan's industrial chic
Jewellery and watchmaker Sean Yu creates watches made with a cement surface that are a huge hit with Taiwan's consumers With watches ma ...
Gold tab attached to skin could power wearables and self-powered electronics
Your body may be the new way to portably charge wearable devices.
Imec introduces CMOS chip with 16384 micro-electrodes and 1024 channels for multimodal cell interfacing
Imec, the research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has designed and fabricated a 16,384-electrode, 1,024-channel micro-electrode array (MEA) for high-throughput multi-m
Comcast ponders new bid for 21st Century Fox: US media
US cable company Comcast is reportedly considering relaunching a bid to acquire 21st Century Fox even as Disney works to complete a $66.1 bi ...
Farnell element14 launches GraspIO Cloudio
Farnell element14 has launched the GraspIO Cloudio - a Raspberry Pi add-on board with a Drag and Drop programming interface on iPhone, iPad, Android.
French PM oversees major Airbus deal signed in Dubai
A picture from September 14, 2017 shows an Emirates Airbus A380 landing at Dubai's International Airport French Prime Minister Edouard ...
Q&A: How is the growth of bitcoin affecting the environment?
In this photo taken on Jan. 17, 2018, a worker walks along a row of computer rigs that run around the clock 'mining' bitcoin inside ...