Stock of drone maker AeroVironment soars after strong earnings report
Shares of AeroVironment Inc., a drone manufacturer based in Monrovia, Calif., soared Wednesday after the company reported strong second-quar ...
Google celebrates 50 years of kids coding languages—5 ways to get your kid engaged
Credit: CC0 Public Domain To celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages were first introduced, Google created a special Google Doo ...
'Go home' drone seeks to stop Japan overtime binge
A drone that hovers over Japanese employees and blares music to force them to go home was unveiled Thursday, as the country tries to reduce ...
North Carolina county's ransomware recovery will take days
Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio speaks at a news conference at the Government Center about the hacking of Mecklenburg County's se ...
Ransomware slows North Carolina county government to a crawl
Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio speaks at a news conference at the Government Center about the hacking of Mecklenburg County's se ...
Bitcoin miner NiceHash reports hack theft of its 'wallet'
In this Monday, April 7, 2014, file photo, a bitcoin logo is displayed at the Inside Bitcoins conference and trade show in New York. The bit ...
Lyft puts driverless cars to work in Boston
Autonomous cars developed by the US tech firm nuTonomy, such as one seen here in Singapore in 2016, will be hitting the streets of Boston as ...
Student entrepreneurs develop device to combat gender violence
Lena McDonnell '17, Lehigh University computer science and engineering. Credit: Lehigh Univeristy As many as one-third of the world' ...
New report: US has lost dominance in highly intense ultrafast laser technology to Europe and Asia
The U.S. is losing ground in a second laser revolution of highly intense, ultrafast lasers that have broad applications in manufacturing, me ...
Here are your options if YouTube vanishes from Amazon gizmos
This Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, file photo shows an Amazon Fire TV streaming device with its remote control. On Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, Googl ...
Lyft offers self-driving car rides in Boston
The ride-hailing company Lyft is now sending self-driving cars to pick up passengers in a Boston neighborhood. ...
China dominates top Western economies in patent applications
The U.N.'s intellectual property agency says China racked up a record 1.3 million patent applications last year, topping the combined to ...
New test procedure for developing quick-charging lithium-ion batteries
When lithium-ion batteries are charged too quickly, metallic lithium gets deposited on the anodes. This reduces battery capacity and lifespa ...
Researchers 3-D print lifelike artificial organ models
Researchers can attach sensors to the organ models to give surgeons real-time feedback on how much force they can use during surgery without ...
Greek high court to rule on Russian bitcoin suspect Dec 13 (Update)
A police officer escorts Alexander Vinnik, center, as they arrive at Greece's supreme court in Athens, on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Greec ...
Plug-in hybrid vehicles are better than their reputation
Both electric cars and plug-in hybrids can be run on electricity. Scientists involved in the Karlsruhe Priority Region for Mobility Systems ...
Virtual fur flies as 'CryptoKitties' collar blockchain
If I was virtual, would you love me to bits? Never mind Bitcoin mania taking the doyen of virtual currencies into the stratosphere. The rea ...
A new tool to help plan for expected growth in electric vehicles
More than 700,000 plug-in electric vehicles are expected on Southern California roads by the end of 2025. Credit: University of California, ...
Apple CEO hopeful banned apps will return to China store
Apple's chief executive said Wednesday he's optimistic some apps that fell afoul of China's tight internet laws will eventually ...
Survey: US firms losing confidence in China business climate
A shopper carries grocery bags as she exits a Walmart store in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. U.S. companies in China are seeing their sa ...
3D printed objects use backscatter to communicate using Wi-Fi
University of Washington researchers claim to have created 3D plastic objects and sensors that can not only collect useful data, but also communicate with other WiFi-connected devices.
Russian bitcoin suspect fights US extradition in Greece
A police officer escorts Alexander Vinnik, center, as they arrive at Greece's supreme court in Athens, on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Greec ...
SG-MONOS could enable MCUs with 100Mbyte of on chip flash
Renesas Electronics has confirmed that its fin based split-gate metal oxide nitride oxide silicon (SG-MONOS) technology can be used for large scale on chip flash in MCUs manufactured on a 16nm process
Amazon claims record-breaking Australia launch
Amazon already had Aus$1 billion (US$760 million) in sales in Australia annually through shipping from overseas before launching its local s ...
Google blocks YouTube on Amazon devices in escalating feud
This Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, file photo shows an Amazon Fire TV streaming device with its remote control. On Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, Googl ...
Big fines planned for 'revenge porn' in Australia
Social media firms could be fined US$380,000 under new Australian laws cracking down on 'revenge porn' Social media networks face f ...
Ed Sheeran rules Spotify in 2017
Ed Sheeran, 26, has seized on the rapid growth of streaming during his rise to pop fame English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran dominated Spot ...
Delivery robots will need permits to roam San Francisco
In this Feb. 20, 2017, file photo, a six-wheeled ground delivery robot, from Starship Technologies, shares the sidewalk with pedestrians at ...
Obama trumps Trump in Twitter Top 10 of 2017
Three tweets by former president Barack Obama made it into Twitter's Top 10 list of retweeted messages for this year US President Donal ...
North Carolina county's servers hacked; $23K ransom sought
Authorities in a North Carolina county say its servers have been hacked and are being held for ransom. ...
Duke Energy vendor's hack may mean stolen customer bank info
Nearly 375,000 Duke Energy Corp. customers may have had personal and banking information stolen in a data breach. ...
Dish CEO Charlie Ergen steps aside to focus on wireless
In this Thursday, May 20, 2010, file photo, Dish Network CEO Charles Ergen speaks at the Google conference in San Francisco. Ergen, the foun ...
France to question Airbnb executives over payment system
In a statement sent to AFP, Airbnb said it made nearly 90 percent of its payments in France via bank transfer The French government has sum ...
Novel approach to concrete protection slows deterioration in harsh conditions
The material works by absorbing water that exists within the concrete to form crystals . Credit: Brunel University Using crystallising admi ...
In first 3-D printed objects connect to WiFi without electronics
UW engineers have developed the first 3-D printed plastic objects that can connect to other devices via WiFi without using any electronics. ...
Facebook CEO to take a month of parental leave in December
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's taking parental leave this month to spend more time with his daughters ...
Charlie Ergen steps aside as Dish CEO to focus on wireless
Charlie Ergen, the founder of satellite TV company Dish, is stepping aside as CEO to focus on the company's wireless business. ...
Social networking sites may be controlling your mind – here's how to take charge
Are you a Facebook addict? Here’s how to find out. Credit: Marcos Mesa Sam Wordley/Shutterstock How can you live the life you want to, avoi ...
Panasonic develops unique vacuum insulated glass based on its plasma display panel technology
Credit: Panasonic Panasonic Corporation today announced it has developed and succeeded in mass production of thin, high-performance vacuum ...
Conflicting views on social media balanced by an algorithm
Fracking has two circles of users talking among themselves, strengthening their conflicting campaigns. The third word cloud represents the w ...
Lighting the world—electrification strategies for Sub-Saharan Africa
Overall system configuration (left); mini-grid technology choice (middle); stand-alone technology choice (right) for low and high diesel pri ...
Researchers develop low energy cost-effective wastewater purification system
Researchers from NUS Faculty of Engineering have come up with a novel wastewater purification system that can remove up to 99 per cent of ha ...
London's iconic black cabs go electric
The new electric TX eCity taxi took a spin near Buckingham Palace. London's first electric-powered black cabs hit the streets on Tuesda ...
Have you been 'pwned' in a data breach? Troy Hunt can tell
Troy Hunt, information security author and instructor with Pluralsight testifies during the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversi ...
Ireland to start collecting $15 billion in tax from Apple
In this Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 file photo, a person stands near the Apple logo at the company's store in Grand Central Terminal, in New ...
Exploring fluid dynamics in virtual reality
Anything that moves through water or air leaves behind an invisible wake of swirls and waves. Flow visualization makes these “flow field” pa ...
Intelligent algorithms can help reduce disruptions in online services
When the Swedish Tax Agency website went down for nearly two days, thousands of people across Sweden were left frustrated. Users of Gmail, S ...
A 'holy grail' of computing hidden in human speech
Imagine all 30,557 words of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" being written simultaneously by tens of thousands of people. ...
Hearing hybrid and electric vehicles while quieting noise pollution
Europe, as well as most of the world, faces a future with hybrid or pure electronic road vehicles that rely on alternative drive chains. But ...
Functional ring oscillators based on stacked gate-all-around silicon nanowire transistors
Figure: Ring oscillator gate delay versus VDD for stacked silicon nanowire FETs. The gate delay reduces with increasing VDD and with decreas ...
Record low contact resistivity on Ga-doped Ge source/drain contacts for pMOS transistors
Ga implanted in Ge and activated by NLA. Credit: IMEC At this week's 2017 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), imec, the worl ...
A smart portable and miniaturized system that can analyze sweat
Credit: EPFL / Alain Herzog EPFL researchers have teamed up with startup Xsensio to develop a tiny, fully portable system that can encapsul ...
IBM scientists demonstrate 10x faster large-scale machine learning using GPUs
DuHL in action for the application of training large-scale Support Vector Machines on an extended, 30GB version of the ImageNet database. Cr ...
World’s first stereo-AEC linear far-field voice kit for smart devices
XMOS has announced the XVF3500 voice processor which supports stereo-AEC, along with the world’s first stereo AEC far-field linear microphone array solution, the VocalFusion Stereo Evaluation Kit (XK-
Renesas and HELLA Aglaia offer scalable ADAS solution
Renesas Electronics and HELLA Aglaia, a specialist in intelligent visual sensor systems, have announced their open and scalable front camera solution for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and
US transportation and water infrastructure not broken
Transportation and water infrastructure funding and finance in the United States are not nearly as dire as some believe, but a national cons ...
10000 Google staff set to police YouTube content: chief
YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki claimed that her company had developed "computer-learning" technology to identify extremist ...
Nissan undaunted by bid to stop electric vehicle tax credits
Jose Munoz, the chairman of Nissan North America, presents the first 2018 Nissan Leaf produced at the Japanese automaker's sprawling pla ...
Navy's 2nd stealthy destroyer heads out to sea for 1st time (Update)
The future USS Michael Monsoor passes Fort Popham travels down the Kennebec River as it heads out to sea for trials, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, i ...
Lamborghini drives into crowded SUV market
Lamborghini has revealed its new luxury SUV, the Urus, in a bid to capture the attention of the world's wealthier drivers Lamborghini, ...
Facebook's Sandberg warns of backlash against women
In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks at the American Enterprise Institute in Washingto ...
NEST360's low-cost jaundice detector passes first test in Africa
BiliSpec is a low-cost, battery-powered reader designed to diagnose jaundice by immediately quantifying serum bilirubin levels from a smal ...
Broadcom moves to unseat Qualcomm board escalates takeover fight
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, seen at a November 2 White House meeting with President Donald Trump, has stepped up efforts to win a $130 billion ho ...
Second stealthy destroyer heads out to sea for first time
The second in the stealthy Zumwalt class of destroyers is heading out to sea for the first time. ...
How identity data is turning toxic for big companies
We want your data. Credit: gualtiero boffi / Shutterstock.com Google might be in trouble for collecting the personal data of its users, but ...
Expert offers overview of net neutrality debate
The internet is about to change dramatically. Unless it isn't. ...
Engineers refine method to instruct robots to collaborate through demonstration
Rice University researchers led by graduate student Dylan Losey want to help humans and robots collaborate by enabling interactive tasks lik ...
Facebook launches parent-controlled Messenger app for kids
This photo provided by Facebook demonstrates Facebook's new Messenger app for kids on an iPhone. Facebook is launching the messaging app ...
Documents: UK lawmakers flout explicit password-sharing ban
British lawmakers are flouting explicit instructions to lock their computers and not to share their passwords, according to documents obtain ...
Apple Google at Chinese internet fest shows lure of market
Apple's CEO Tim Cook delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen town in Tongxiang, East ...
With the right tools we can mine cities
Cities like Melbourne are a store for such huge amounts of resources that they could be used as urban mines. Credit: Donaldytong (own work)/ ...
Researchers develop semi-transparent solar cell for possible window coating
Concept of the visual transparency improvement of the semi-transparent solar cells by considering the human luminosity curve. Credit: Univer ...
Facebook opens new London hub creating 800 jobs
"The UK's flourishing entrepreneurial ecosystem and international reputation for engineering excellence makes it one of the best pl ...
Australia competition inquiry targets Facebook Google
Australian regulators are to look at the impact of digital platforms like Google and Facebook on competition in media and advertising market ...
Venezuela creating digital currency amid financing crisis
Over the past year, the Venezuelan bolivar has plummeted 95.5 percent against the dollar on the black market Venezuela is creating a digita ...
Catapult network ‘could have had greater impact’ says review
A report written by Dr Herman Hauser published in 2010 – The Current and Future Role of Technology Innovation Centres in the UK – called for the Government to commit itself to establishing and funding
Buy it with bitcoin in New York but it's not cheap
An illustration of a Bitcoin sign in Hong Kong. Investors' interest has been piqued by the cryptocurrency's surging value At Melt B ...
Report: Visa fires high-profile manager for violating policy
The technology publication Recode is reporting that Visa fired a high-profile executive for behavior that "violated" the credit ca ...
WeWork rides lifestyle change to become new economy star
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Going to the office isn't what it used to be. As more workers shift to on-demand and "gig" employme ...
UK warns government agencies not to use Kaspersky software
This Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, file photo shows a sign above the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab in Moscow. Britain's cybersecurity agency ha ...
Activists occupy Paris Apple store over EU tax dispute
About a hundred activists occupied a two-level Apple store in the centre of Paris, demanding that the US tech giant pay an EU tax bill of $1 ...
Report: US agency holding nuke bombs grapples with oversight (Update)
In this May 9, 2017, file photo, signs are posted by the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Wash. By conducting some of the most high- ...
California regulators nix rules limiting carmaker liability
In this Tuesday, June 13, 2017, file photo, a self-driving Chevrolet Bolt EV that is in General Motors Co.'s autonomous vehicle developm ...
Time running out for lawmakers mulling surveillance bills
The congressional clock is running out as a handful of bills are batted around Capitol Hill to reauthorize a critical foreign intelligence c ...
Elite US government hacker charged with taking secret information
A member of the US National Security Agency's elite hacking team has been charged with illegally removing top secret materials, in an em ...
Federal regulator gives OK for bitcoin futures to trade
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A federal regulator gave the go ahead on Friday to the CME Group to start trading bitcoin futures later month, th ...
3-D-printed minifactories: Researchers print 'living materials' with bacteria-loaded inks
3-D printing with an ink that is containing living bacteria. Credit: Bara Krautz /scienceanimated.com There will soon be nothing that canno ...
Report: US agency holding nuke bombs grapples with oversight
In this May 9, 2017, file photo, signs are posted by the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Wash. By conducting some of the most high- ...
How can humans keep the upper hand on artificial intelligence?
From right to left: Rachid Guerraoui, Alexandre Maurer, El Mahdi El Mhamdi. Credit: ©Alain Herzog/EPFL EPFL researchers have shown how ...
Researchers field testing mobile app for visually impaired at Yosemite National Park
Martha Espitia, Nikki Richards, and Sarah Harris testing the UniD mobile app in Yosemite. Credit: University of Hawaii at Manoa In continui ...
Discovery could bring better efficiency to a new class of solar cells
Physics professor Seung-Hun Lee, left, and chemical engineering professor Joshua Choi are tweaking out the molecular details of HOIPs. Credi ...
Disaster zones could soon be salvaged by teams of smart devices – here's how
Drones being used to find survivors after an earthquake in Ecuador in 2016. Credit: Fotos593 We will remember 2017 as an appalling year for ...
Could robo-taxis kill public transportation?
Credit: Pexels When driverless cars become mainstream—which could happen sooner than you're expecting—it will change everything. ...
Remains of historic aircraft found
The “Raise the Arrow” team gathers for a photo behind the AUV. Credit: Fraunhofer IOSB-AST DEDAVE is an innovative autonomous underwater ve ...
'Origami' lattices with nano-scale surface ornaments
Credit: Delft University of Technology Inspired by origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, researchers at TU Delft are developing an al ...
Artificial intelligence index tracks emerging field
A Stanford-led AI index reveals a dramatic increase in AI startups and investment as well as significant improvements in the technology’s ab ...
Measuring optimally with spheres
With the miniaturized radio transmission inside the sphere, the measured data is transmitted live to a base station. Credit: Fraunhofer ENAS ...
Lightweight compact VR glasses made possible by large-area microdisplays
Thanks to a cleverly designed system concept and modern design methodology, the new OLED microdisplay achieves a resolution of 1920 x 1200 p ...
Inspecting rotor blades with thermography and acoustic monitoring
Industrial climbers abseiling down a rotor blade. Credit: Seilpartner GmbH Wind turbines have a design life of 20 years. The rotor blades m ...
Researcher tests new methods to anchor wind turbines
Xeufei "Sophie" Wang, a research associate in the Department of Civil Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, used this ce ...