Gadgets: Device lets you pour the wine without removing the cork
When you hear about the Coravin wine bottle opener, you might think it's just another gimmicky gadget. I think it's something you mu ...
Researchers develop wireless light switch for targeted cancer therapy
Researchers from the National University of Singapore developed a novel technology to wirelessly deliver light into deep regions of the body ...
Ericsson rings up huge losses in 2017
Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson rings up huge losses in 2017 Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson said Wednesday that it rang up huge losses las ...
Online observatory aims to combat energy poverty
Energy poverty is caused by income limitations and energy inefficiency, according to experts. Credit: Max Pixel/ image is in public domain ...
Google expands Howard West to train more black coders
Last summer Howard University dispatched 26 students to Google's Mountain View, Calif., campus for an intensive twelve-week course on co ...
Google will let you mute 'reminder ads' that follow you around the internet
You browse a store online for an item but don't make a purchase. Then advertisements begin appearing on websites and apps you visit, rem ...
Alaska Airlines Bill Gates team up with Code.org to teach how computers work
Seat-back video screens on Alaska Airlines flights will now offer a bit more than HGTV reruns or the chance to see a semi-new-release movie. ...
Infineon and AMD see strong growth
Infineon Technologies has reported ‘a strong start’ to 2018. According to CEO, Dr Reinhard Ploss, “Earnings and margin were better than forecast – despite the expected slight seasonal dip in revenues
If Australia wants to boost defence exports it should start with its natural strength: cyber security
The government’s Defence Export Strategy aims to make Australia a world leader in arms exports. Credit: Shutterstock Australia's " ...
NI unveils latest enhancements to LabVIEW NXG
National Instruments (NI) has announced a number of enhancements to LabVIEW NXG, the next generation of LabVIEW engineering system design software.
Littelfuse completes acquisition of IXYS
Littelfuse has completed the acquisition of IXYS Corporation in a deal which values this pioneer in the power semiconductor at $750million.
Next-gen surface modification bolsters implantable medical devices
A discovery by University of Sydney researchers could result in synthetic peptides integrating seamlessly with host tissue.
Lithium battery life could be doubled by adding graphene girders to silicon electrodes
The rechargeable lithium-ion based battery life could be doubled says WMG at the University of Warwick.
GPU core supports multiple 4K screens
A high performance four cluster GPU core from Imagination Technologies and based on the recently launched Furian architecture is said to support multiple ultra-high resolution displays being designed
Heat behaviour discovery could improve electronic device performance
A study that examined the effect of heating small current lines placed on top of a silicon substrate, is said to have stimulated the behaviour of current transistors.
Chip sized atomic clock could be available in 2019
Japanese researchers say they are working on a chip size atomic clock and anticipate samples of such a device being available sometime in 2019.
Agricultural robots and drones to become a $45bn industry by 2038
A report by IDTechEx says that robotic technology within agriculture has the potential to become a $45billion industry by 2028.
Memristor pushed to ‘new levels of performance’
Scientists at the University of Southampton say they have pushed the memristor to a new level of performance after experimenting with its component materials. The work is said to hold the potential fo
ST delivers ‘strong finish’ to 2017 as sales grow by 19.7%
STMicroelectronics has reported that net revenues for its 2017 financial year increased 19.7% to $8.35billion, driven by a 41.4% growth in revenues from its Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group. A significa
Biosensor could monitor glucose levels in tears and sweat
A thin, flexible sensor has been developed with a view to help diabetics, researchers have reported in the journal, ACS Nano. The biosensor aims to track glucose levels through tears and sweat and cou
Samsung Electronics reports record Q4 and full year profits
Samsung Electronics, the flagship subsidiary of the giant Samsung Group, has had to overcome a humiliating recall of the Galaxy Note 7 devic ...
A sensor that can measure electric field strength
A sensor designed to measure the strength of electric fields has been developed by TU Wien, who claim its creation is smaller, simpler and less prone to distortion than comparable devices.
AI in the court: When algorithms rule on jail time
In this Aug. 30, 2017, photo, Stephanie Pope-Earley, right, sorts through defendant files scored with risk-assessment software for Jimmy Jac ...
Electron spin converted to light
Researchers from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TU Delft, working with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, have found a way to convert spin information in electrons into a pre
Robots could descend into old mines to prevent toxic spills
Crumbling mine tunnels awash with polluted waters perforate the Colorado mountains, and scientists may one day send robots creeping through ...
Shape memory effect could enable low power electronics
Printable plastic electronics are poised to benefit from the shape memory phenomenon, according to a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The researchers believe that, when merged
Nintendo ups profit forecast on strong Switch sales
Nintendo Switch flew off the shelves in the holiday season Nintendo hiked its annual net profit forecast by more than 40 percent Wednesday ...
Recycling cathodes to make new lithium ion batteries
Nanoengineers from the University of California San Diego have devised a way in which cathodes from worn out lithium ion batteries can be made to work ‘like new’.
Popular Line messaging app starts crypto trading spinoff
Line is a very popular messenging app in Asia Japan's biggest messaging app Line said Wednesday it was launching a financial services s ...
Facebook bans ads for cryptocurrencies
Facebook wants people to use the network "without fear of scams or deception" Facebook says it is banning all ads related to cryp ...
Quantum race accelerates development of silicon quantum chip
Quantum information of an electron spin has been transported to a photon, in a silicon quantum chip developed by a team at TU Delft.
Stretchable aqueous batteries developed by UNIST researchers
A bioinspired Jabuticaba-like hybrid carbon/polymer (HCP) composite is said to have been developed through a solution process into a stretchable current collector.
Facebook to launch privacy center ahead of EU regulations
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook says it will launch a new privacy center to help people understand what it does with their data as the g ...
The missing piece of the puzzle for artificial brains?
A superconducting switch that learns like a biological system has been developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Digital display technology attracts £6m
Aiming to transform the way in which we interact with displays, Oxford University spinout, Bodle Technologies, has attracted £6 million in Series A funding.
Siemens says profits up on global upturn
Siemens, which runs its business year from October to September, said net profit jumped by 12 percent to 2.2 billion euros ($2.7 billion) in ...
Flexible high-performance solar cells could become portable power sources
Thin and rigid silicon segments that are wired through interdigitated metal contacts are said to produce flexible, high-performance solar cells.
Wireless light switch for targeted cancer therapy
A team of scientists claim they have developed a way to wirelessly deliver light into deep regions of the body to activate light-sensitive drugs for photodynamic therapy (PDT).
Customisable fabric-like power source for wearables
A customisable, fabric-like power source that can be cut, folded or stretched without losing its function is said to be the Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) latest creation.
Diamonds show promise for spintronic devices
Researchers at American Institute of Physics (AIP) and La Trobe University have been exploring the potential of technology called spintronics, which they believe could lead to new types of more effici
Google: Using your health records to predict whether you'll live or die
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dr. Google may not have much of a bedside manner—she's an algorithm, after all—but if she says you're soo ...
A ski jacket that actively gets rid of sweat using electrical textiles
A technology has been designed with a view to keep athletes warm and dry by using electrical textiles.
The Cadence OrCAD Entrepreneur package for OrCAD Capture Cloud
A software tool suite that aims to cut in half the time it takes a designer to move from design to prototype, when compared to manually designing and simulating across separate systems, has been launc
Apple iPhone users will be able to see their medical records on Health app
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Smartphone users checking medical records on their devices have been wading through a balkanized landscape of app ...
China and Samsung discuss memory pricing
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) met Samsung in December to discuss memory pricing, reports DRAMeXchange
Uber taps Barney Harford as COO
In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, file photo, a self-driving Uber sits ready to take journalists for a ride during a media preview in Pittsbur ...
After net neutrality: Brace for internet 'fast lanes'
This June 19, 2015, file photo, shows the entrance to the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington. Now that federal telecom ...
Robot drummer posts pictures of jamming sessions on Facebook
Mortimer. Credit: QMUL The study, by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, looks at how humans interact with robots over time and ...
UN rights expert 'very concerned' about US rollback of 'net neutrality'
The UN's top expert on freedom of expression voiced alarm Wednesday at the decision by US regulators to roll back "net neutrality&q ...
How to protect your internet-of-things devices
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Internet-connected devices are nearly ubiquitous, with computer circuitry now found in a variety of common applia ...
The importance of iCub as a standard robotic research platform for embodied AI
iCub is a robot child whose project is coordinated by IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. It is a standardized common open-source platform ...
Sprint targets unnamed employees in alleged Uzbekistan-based cellphone scheme
Sprint has taken its battle against cellphone trafficking in house, suing 20 unnamed employees along with an Uzbekistan resident in U.S. fed ...
New blow for Uber as top EU court says it's a taxi company
In this Dec. 16, 2014, file photo a man leaves the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. Ride-hailing service Uber suffered a new blow Wedn ...
New software can model natural light from the occupants' perspective
Marilyne Andersen, EPFL professor and Siobhan Rockcastle, who just achieved a postdoc at Laboratory of lntegrated Performance in Design, are ...
More businesses are trying mobile apps to lure and keep consumers
Using a store’s mobile app can affect in-store purchases. Credit: Javier Arres/Shutterstock.com Intense retail competition has led old stan ...
New AI method keeps data private
Credit: Eliel Kilkki Modern AI is based on machine learning which creates models by learning from data. Data used in many applications such ...
Am I allergic to this? Label Insight with fresh $21M helps stores tell you
Label Insight, the Chicago-based company that helps stores tell customers what's in food and other goods, has raised $21 million in new ...
'Pokemon Go' unleashes its critters in Apple's AR playground
In this Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, photo, Pokemon Go is played at a park in San Francisco. Pokemon Go is unleashing its digital critters in Appl ...
AIM aka AOL Instant Messenger dead at 20
AOL's Instant Messenger service was finally erased from the internet Friday after the company made the announcement in October that Dec. ...
New company's technology lets quadriplegics use the phone without physical assistance
A day after Oded Ben Dov appeared on Israeli television to promote his video game technology, which allowed players to control their games b ...
Pandora playing catch-up to Spotify offers free music with ads
Pick a song. Any song. It's almost Christmas, so, how about a song of the season like "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues? ...
Cargill Ecolab look to jump-start food innovation
In an effort to jump-start innovation in the agriculture industry, Cargill Inc. and Ecolab said Monday they will launch a program to fund en ...
Inventing the 'Google' for predictive analytics
An illustration of real-world behavioral commonalities in raw data of transactions. Credit: Endor Companies often employ number-crunching d ...
The internet is giving a voice to those on the margins – losing net neutrality will take it away
Credit: kalhh It's easy to argue that the internet as it exists now is not "neutral", with some companies and websites creati ...
New occupancy detection device designed to save home energy use
Ya Wang, center, and her Mechanical Engineering students are testing the SLEEPIR sensor prototype in the laboratory. Credit: Stony Brook Uni ...
Bitcoin's energy use is out of control—but maybe that's the point?
Arina P Habich / shutterstock The soaring value of bitcoin is encouraging more and more companies and individuals to engage in "mining ...
How blockchain technology could transform the food industry
Blockchain technology could solve food safety and fraud by enabling immediate traceability to the point of origin. Credit: Shutterstock The ...
Amazon drops sale of circumcision kit in UK after complaint
The British arm of Amazon has dropped sale of a circumcision training kit from its website after concerns were raised. ...
Samsung develops 'world's smallest' DRAM chip
Samsung Electronics has announced that it has developed the world’s smallest DRAM chip, in a move that widens its technical lead over its competitors. The move comes as the South Korean giant is expec
Electromagnetic emissions from smartphones analyzed for security vulnerability
This study of the UC3M and the CSIC analyzes the vulnerabilities of smartphones. Credit: UC3M A platform to improve smartphone security and ...
Nearly zero-energy buildings remain a difficult challenge for Southern Europe
Thermal image of a Basque Country building in the 70s, where heat loss is evidenced due to lack of insulation. Credit: (Juan Mara Hidalgo / ...
How great is the influence and risk of social and political 'bots?'
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers The role and risks of bots, such as automated Twitter accounts, in influencing public opinion an ...
Facebook improves how blind can "see" images using AI
In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, engineer Matt King, who is blind, demonstrates facial recognition technology via a teleconference ...
Sandia computer modeling aids solder reliability in nuclear weapons
Materials scientist Paul Vianco peers through an experimental setup of printed wiring assemblies used to validate modeling in a Sandia Natio ...
Honda to unveil new compact gas-electric hybrid sedan
This photo provided by Honda shows the Honda Insight prototype, a new five-passenger gas-electric hybrid sedan which the automaker says it w ...
German cartel office says Facebook abusing data collection
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Germany's cartel office said Tuesday that Facebook is acting in an abusive fashion by collecting data on the ...
Successful field trials for multicarrier system
Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, and CloudNet IT-Solutions, a Scottish SME that specialises in TVWS (TV White Space), have held field trials and published results for a new flexible multicarrie
Technology ready but acceptance pending for distributed energy systems
A network of energy producers and consumers. Credit: Sandro Bösch / ETH Zurich Will we be able to do away with the classic centralized ...
Toshiba unveils 10500rpm HDD model generation
Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the AL15SE Series HDD, the company's next generation of 10,500rpm enterprise performance hard disk drives for mission-critical servers and storage.
Accelerators fab labs and hackathons—the tech tools being co-opted for social good
Using innovation tools in the humanitarian sector can help flip the top-down model of aid. Credit: UNWFP Picture the humanitarian aid secto ...
US military imagines war without GPS
Credit: CC0 Public Domain With GPS-guided bombs, armed drones beaming footage via satellite and spy cameras scooping up intel from the heav ...
Altium releases updated Designer 18
Altium has announced the release of Altium Designer 18 in a moved designed to address the changing requirements of engineers.
AI insights could help reduce injuries in construction industry
Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving researchers at the University of Waterloo new insights to help reduce wear-and-tear injuries and boos ...
Scientists hope to inject robo-cat with AI to help seniors
In this Friday Dec. 1, 2017, photo, 93-year-old Mary Derr sits on her bed near her robot cat she calls "Buddy" in her home she sha ...
Twitter rolls out stricter rules on abusive content
This Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, photo shows a Twitter sign outside of the company's headquarters in San Francisco. Twitter will be enforc ...
Twitter suspends white nationalists as it enforces new rules
This Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, photo shows a Twitter sign outside of the company's headquarters in San Francisco. Twitter will be enforc ...
Twitter suspends white nationalists under new rules
This Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, photo shows a Twitter sign outside of the company's headquarters in San Francisco. Twitter will be enforc ...
New Bitcoin-based security slightly higher in debut on CME (Update)
This Dec. 8, 2017, file photo shows the Chicago Board Options Exchange website announcing that bitcoin futures will start trading on the Cbo ...
Hyperspectral camera detects counterfeit medicine and traces of blood
Specim Oy, a VTT spin-off, has developed the world's first mobile hyperspectral camera for the fast, high-level analysis of a range of s ...
How do you spot a Russian bot? Answer goes beyond Kremlin watching new research finds
A team of researchers has isolated the characteristics of bots on Twitter through an examination of bot activity related to Russian politica ...
Graphene promises success in space
In a collaboration between the Graphene Flagship and the European Space Agency, experiments testing graphene for two different space-related applications have proved promising and the Flagship is set
Piezo MEMS based ultrasonic sensors look to break into new applications
Looking to take advantage of a move to smaller sensors in a range of consumer electronics products, Chirp Microsystems has launched two ultrasonic time of flight sensors. Called the CH-101 and 201, th
Research reveals de-identified patient data can be re-identified
The health data were published to contribute to “research, community information, policy development and policy evaluation.” Credit: iStock ...
How AI can make us better at arguing
Credit: Shutterstock The ability to argue, to express our reasoning to others, is one of the defining features of what it is to be human. ...
Toyota planning 10 purely electric vehicles by 2020s
In this Nov. 13 photo, visitors walk at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo. Toyota plans to offer more than 10 purely electric vehicle models in its ...
New Bitcoin-based security bounces in trading debut on CME
This Dec. 8, 2017, file photo shows the Chicago Board Options Exchange website announcing that bitcoin futures will start trading on the Cbo ...
China's Huawei to expand in US smartphone market next year
In this May 26, 2016 file photo, people walk past an illuminated logo for Huawei at a launch event for the Huawei MateBook in Beijing. An ex ...
Nanostructures control heat transfer
A research group at the University of Bayreuth have succeeded in precisely controlling temperature-dependent thermal conductivity with the help of polymer materials. The findings are likely to have gr
Scientists develop a new technology of energy generation from bituminous coal
Mini coal-fired CHP plant on the basis of synthesis gas generator (CO + H2) and electrochemical current generator (experiment/factory). Cred ...
Toyota plans 10 purely electric vehicles by 2020s
Toyota plans to offer more than 10 purely electric vehicle models in its lineup by the early 2020s, marking the Japanese automaker's com ...