Designing a 'solar tarp' a foldable packable way to generate power from the sun
What if it were a lot easier to install solar power? Credit: zstock/Shutterstock.com The energy-generating potential of solar panels – and ...
Lessons to learn despite another report on missing flight MH370 and still no explanation
MH370 safety investigation reports from the Ministry of Transport headquarters in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Credit: EPA/Fazry Ismail The latest ...
Energy-intensive Bitcoin transactions pose a growing environmental threat
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study published in Energy Research & Social Science warns that failure to lower the energy use by Bitcoin a ...
India's Tata Motors posts surprise loss
Losses at Jaguar Land Rover dragged Tata Motors into the red in the latest quarter Losses at Jaguar Land Rover helped drag Indian carmaker ...
Embraer dives with 2nd-quarter loss
Brazil-based Embraer, the world's third biggest aircraft manufacturer, posted losses on Tuesday of 467 million reais ($126 million) for ...
Engaging with interactive media may be a sequence of actions assessments
The way people engage with interactive media is usually portrayed as a single act—users either click on the content, or they do not. However ...
Analog Devices and B-Secur collaborate on biometric authentication technologies
Analog Devices (ADI) and B-Secur have joined forces to develop a complete biometric authentication solution for use in automotive vehicles.
Sony upgrades full-year forecast logs brisk quarterly profit
Sony reported a net profit of 226.4 billion yen for the April-June quarter, up from 80.9 billion yen from a year earlier Sony on Tuesday ra ...
Lithuania warns Russian taxi app could be snooping on users
Lithuanian authorities are "strongly" urging consumers, especially public servants, not to install the app of a popular Russian ta ...
BMW to invest a billion euros in first factory in Hungary
BMW is following competitors Audi and Mercedes-Benz into Hungary, where wages are considerably lower than in Germany BMW said Tuesday it wi ...
Nintendo first-quarter profits up 44 pct to $275 mn on Switch sales
Nintendo has reported a jump in quarterly net profit thanks to its Switch console and games titles Nintendo said Tuesday its quarterly net ...
Panasonic first-quarter profits up 17.6 percent
Panasonic is reporting a rise in first-quarter profits Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said Tuesday its first-quarter net profit jumpe ...
Students develop free robot programming simulator
Screenshot of RoboScience. Credit: South Dakota School of Mines & Technology When it comes to programming actual robots, things get ver ...
3D printing next generation batteries
A new method of 3D printing battery electrodes that creates a 3D microlattice structure with controlled porosity has been developed by a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon in collaboration with
States suing Trump administration company over 3-D guns
In this May 10, 2013, file photo, Cody Wilson holds what he calls a Liberator pistol that was completely made on a 3-D-printer at his home i ...
Samsung Electronics profit dips as phone sales fall
A sluggish market for premium mobile phones contributed to a decline in Samsung's smartphone shipments and revenue Samsung Electronics ...
Uber hits brakes on self-driving trucks
Uber on Monday said it is hitting the brakes on self-driving trucks, shifting gears to focus just on autonomous cars. ...
Chinese IoT firm raises $200m
Tuya Smart, an Internet of Things (IoT) company based in China has raised $200m in its third round of funding.
Collaboration aims to deliver wireless communication solutions for IIoT markets
Advantech, Behr Technologies (BTI), Hitachi Solutions America, and Microsoft have announced that they are collaborating to deliver wireless communications solutions for private industrial internet of
Nokia to help with T-Mobile superfast telecom network
Nokia—its Finland HQ pictured here—is to help T-Mobile deploy a superfast "5G" mobile internet network across the United States N ...
States suing Trump administration company over 3D guns
Eight states are filing suit against the Trump administration over its decision to allow a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints ...
Harley-Davidson rebels with an electric motorcycle (Update)
This undated photo released by Harley-Davidson on Monday, July 30, 2018, shows a prototype model of Harley-Davidson's electric motorcycl ...
'Smart' machine components alert users to damage and wear
Scientists at UConn and the United Technologies Research Center used direct write technology, an advanced form of additive manufacturing, to ...
Number of US newspaper newsroom employees down sharply: survey
The number of employees in US newspaper newsrooms has fallen sharply over the past decade, according to a new survey The number of employee ...
French lawmakers ban smartphones in schools
French schoolchildren will have to leave their smartphones switched off or at home as the new academic year begins in September, after lawma ...
Spain: Taxi drivers block streets over ride-hailing services
A man takes a photograph of parked taxis blocking the main Castellana avenue in Madrid, Monday, July 30, 2018. Representatives of taxi drive ...
What's really driving the future of retail?
What is the future of retail? Credit: Shutterstock Many predictions about the "future of retailing" have been made. These range f ...
Harley-Davidson rebels with an electric motorcycle
This April 27, 2017, file photo shows the Harley-Davidson name on the gas tank of a bike in Glenview, Ill. The iconic American motorcycle co ...
New technology enhances speech perception
Future hearing aid users will be able to target their listening more accurately thanks to new Danish technology. A researcher from Aalborg U ...
Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace—users' minds
Cyberattacks target Americans’ thinking. Credit: Fancy Tapis/Shutterstock.com The Russian attacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election an ...
The magic of secret islands creates safe haven for literary classics on Minecraft.edu
A scene from the new Treasure Island Litcraft project on the Minecraft.edu gaming platform. Credit: Lancaster University The magic of Treas ...
Findings from Aalto University have potential to change how electronics process logic functions
A new type of nanowire-based nanostructure that enables light to perform logic functions, allowing simple addition and subtraction operations has been demonstrated by a team at Aalto University.
Cooking even when the wind blows
Like a Bundt cake tin: The burner sits inside the jug of the kettle (view from above). Credit: ETH Zurich / Peter Balicki Szczesiak Student ...
Laser-scribed disordered graphene significantly improves sodium-ion battery capacity
Laser treatment of a polymer coating on copper creates nitrogen-doped laser-scribed graphene (NLSG) for use as a sodium-ion battery anode. C ...
What if the companies that profit from your data had to pay you?
In the largest technology companies, the share of income going to labour is only about 5 to 15%. Credit: Shutterstock When it comes to digi ...
How the Russian government used disinformation and cyber warfare in 2016 election – an ethical hacker explains
Outside forces pushed the American people farther apart. Credit: Delpixel/Shutterstock.com The Soviet Union and now Russia under Vladimir P ...
An expressway for electrons in oxide heterostructures
Physicists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new methodology for determining the impact of screening effects on charge carrier mobility at the interface of complex materia
NIST chip lights up optical neural network demo
A silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature brain-like grid has been designed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), showcasing a
“Severe” Bluetooth communication breach discovered
Previously considered a safe communication channel against breaches, a team of researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have successfully deciphered Bluetooth communication.
Death of Fiat Chrysler chief focuses spotlight on CEO health
In this June 1, 2018, file photo, journalists watch a giant screen as Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne speaks during the 'Capital mar ...
Apple and Amazon lead the pack to $1 trillion market value
Apple is the highest-valued private company on the global markets For a long time, Apple appeared to be flying solo to a $1 trillion market ...
Into The Void: hyper-real 'Star Wars' VR makes you the hero
Imagine putting on a helmet, lowering the visor and being transported immediately from your humdrum day-to-day existence into your own " ...
French luxury giants dive into Silicon Valley
Until recently, few luxury houses had thought to venture out to Palo Alto Steve Jobs may have been a tech genius, but he clearly didn't ...
Amazon's facial recognition tool misidentified 28 members of Congress in ACLU test
Amazon's controversial facial recognition program, Rekognition, falsely identified 28 members of Congress during a test of the program b ...
UK lawmakers recommend tougher rules on Facebook
This March 29, 2018 file photo shows the Facebook logo on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. Facebook plummete ...
Madrid taxis join Barcelona strike against Uber
Taxi drivers blocked the Gran Via in Barcelona on July 27, 2018 during a strike. Taxi drivers in Madrid joined the action on July 28 protest ...
To repair reputation Twitter Facebook incur investor wrath
In this Feb. 8, 2018 file photo, the logo for Twitter is displayed above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter ...
Facebook cleanup: Hurt the stock help the world?
This March 29, 2018 file photo shows the Facebook logo on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. It's been a r ...
It's Rubens vs. Facebook in fight over artistic nudity
In this photo taken on Thursday, July 26, 2018, a visitor looks at the restored Peter Paul Rubens self portrait from 1628 in the Rubenshouse ...
France Spain Portugal up energy links
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa (L) greets French President Emmanuel Macron as he arrives for the Energy Interconnections Summit at ...
Twitter shares plunge in black week for social media
Twitter shares took a pounding on Friday after it reported a decline in its user base, extending a stock market bloodbath for what had been ...
Trade agreement with Japan is crucial for US beef industry
Research from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture indicates that a trade agreement with Japan is crucial for the US beef in ...
Facebook shares sink on perfect storm of bad news
Credit: CC0 Public Domain It has turned into a brutal reality check for Facebook. ...
Germany thwarts China by taking stake in 50Hertz power firm
50Hertz is one of four transmission system operators in Germany and ensures that 18 million people are supplied with electricity The German ...
Amazon powers up profits as footprint grows
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos highlighted the growing use of digital assistant Alexa as the company released its quarterly update Amazo ...
SEC again rejects Winkelvoss twins Bitcoin fund
The Winklevoss twins again failed to win approval for a new cryptocurrency investment vehicle US market regulators on Thursday again reject ...
China dodges blame for Qualcomm-NXP merger demise
Qualcomm called off its planned merger with rival NXP after failing to get Chinese regulatory approval China on Friday sought to deflect bl ...
Bad week in social media gets worse; Twitter hammered
In this Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, the Twitter logo appears on a phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter shares fell ...
US expresses concerns over supply chain cyberattacks
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) has issued a warning regarding cyber espionage, outlining the current threats it sees to the technology supply chain.
Cell-sized robots could be used to detect problems in pipelines and intestines
Tiny robots that can sense their environment, store data, and carry out computational tasks have been created by a team from MIT.
Five engineers take the "Path to Programmable” in element14 community’s reality series
element14.com, the community for engineers, is launching a reality series called “Path to Programmable” sponsored by Xilinx.
Huawei to raise annual R&D budget
Huawei Technologies is to increase its annual spending on research and development (R&D) to between $15-20billion, having spent $10billion in 2017.
Amazon quarterly profit jumps 12-fold to $2.5 bn
Amazon on Thursday reported profits in the past quarter jumped 12-fold to $2.5 billion as the online giant saw gains across its range of bus ...
Software recreates complex movements for medical rehabilitation and basic research
Movement is fundamental to human and animal life, emerging through interaction of complex neural, muscular, and skeletal systems. OpenSim is ...
NASA-developed coating investigated for protecting Smithsonian specimens
The adsorber technology that NASA technologists originally developed to trap harmful contaminants that outgas from instrument components is ...
Facebook faces a day of reckoning at least on Wall Street
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 ...
Tech titans jostle as Pentagon calls for cloud contract bids
US defense officials unveiled Thursday a much-anticipated final request for tech firms to bid on a massive contract to provide the Pentagon ...
Daimler earnings hit by trade tensions emissions rules
In this June 23, 2015 file photo a van is pictured in a light tunnel at the Mercedes-Benz automobile plant in Ludwigsfelde, near Berlin. Mer ...
Google unveils new virtual reality experience at SIGGRAPH 2018
A team of leading researchers at Google, will unveil the new immersive virtual reality (VR) experience "Welcome to Lightfields" at ...
Unions hail mobilisation in unprecedented Ryanair strike
Despite cancelling 600 flights ahead of the strike, it was forced to cancel more on Wednesday and Thursday Unions representing Ryanair cabi ...
Why restricting social media is not a solution to dangerous behaviours in India
Earlier this month, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, bystanders took selfies while three men lay dying after a road accident. The week befo ...
Facebook's reality check sends stock reeling
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said investments in safety and security will hurt short-term profits It has turned into a brutal reality check ...
Japan home of the high-tech loo hopes basic toilet can save lives
Japan may be famous for high-tech toilets, but one local firm is hoping a much more basic model can help solve deadly sanitation problems in ...
India to probe whether Cambridge Analytica used Indian data
India will investigate whether personal data from Indian voters and Facebook users were compromised by political consultant Cambridge Analyt ...
Amazon looks to floating warehouses in the sky for drone deliveries
Amazon is looking to push its supply chain into the heavens as it goes full steam ahead on drone deliveries. ...
Australian media giants Fairfax and Nine to merge
Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment have announced plans to merge - the new media giant will be called Nine, with Fairfax ceasing to exist, ...
Tesla others help Puerto Ricans go solar amid power turmoil
In this July 24, 2018 photo, Julio Rosario instals a solar energy system at a home in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. The nonprofit environmental gro ...
Grubhub to buy LevelUp mobile ordering and payment company for $390 million
Grubhub is set to pay $390 million for mobile ordering and payment company LevelUp in an effort to reach more diners, the company announced ...
SK Hynix posts record quarterly profits
SK Hynix said it expects the current upward trend to continue in the latter half of the year The world's second-largest memory chipmake ...
Insurers turn to technology to woo drivers
In this May 25, 2018, file photo, motorists guide their vehicles down Interstate 70 near Evergreen, Colo. Drivers expect insurance companies ...
That's cold: Japan tech blasts snoozing workers with AC
The system monitors the movement of employee's eyelids with a camera attached to a computer Japanese office workers hoping to nod off o ...
Fighting offensive language on social media with unsupervised text style transfer
Proposed framework of a neural text style transfer algorithm using non-parallel data. Credit: IBM Online social media has become one of the ...
EPFL researchers develop a transistor based on excitons able to function at room temperate
A new type of transistor has been created using excitons instead of electronics by a team of EPFL researchers that functions effectively at room temperature, a hitherto insurmountable obstacle.
A new 'periodic table' for nanomaterials
A new ‘periodic table’ for nanomaterials has been created. The approach involves connecting the chemical properties of molecules with the nanostructures that form as a result of their interaction. A m
Researchers discover 'severe' bluetooth communication breach
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science Department and the Hiroshi Fujiwara C ...
Who cares? New technology helps answer a big question about big data for educators
Purdue University researchers have developed an algorithm that sorts digital data and formats it into a 2-D time and space heat map. Credit: ...
Apple apologizes and issues bug fix for 'way slower than it should be' MacBook Pros
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Apple apologized Tuesday and issued a bug fix for thermal throttling performance issues on the latest MacBook Pro ...
3-D sketching with air scaffolding
In the agile 3D sketching workflow with air scaffolding, the user (a) makes unconstrained hand movements in the air to quickly generate roug ...
Is Facebook going to reinvent TV with Facebook Watch? Well it's trying
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook is aiming for your TV-viewing time, not just the hours you spend mindlessly scrolling through baby pictu ...
BrainChip unveils Akida Development Environment
BrainChip, a leading neuromorphic computing company, is making available the Akida Development Environment, a machine learning framework.
Company to experiment with drones in federal pilot
With the prospect of Amazon and UPS drones dropping packages at your door and farmers surveying their fields from above, federal aviation of ...
Qualcomm scraps NXP deal
2018-07-26 04:00:11Qualcomm scraps NXP deal
Qualcomm is scrapping its $44 billion bid for rival chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV after, as expected, China failed to grant regulatory approval for the industry’s largest-ever deal.
Qualcomm says it has developed antenna technologies to power super fast 5G smartphones
Qualcomm said recently it has developed breakthrough antenna technology that will help power uber-fast speeds in next-generation 5G smartpho ...
Materials with a complex crystalline structure could hold the answer for faster battery charging
A group of materials, known as niobium tungsten oxides, that could be used to make even higher power batteries has been identified by a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge.
Navigating a city without getting lost
Professor Yeh and his research team showcase their invention -- Smart Address Plate, setting a new standard for smart cities in the world. C ...
Russian hackers tricked people into giving their passwords
In this Jan. 31, 2018, file photo, the sun rises beyond power lines in St. Charles Parish, La. Homeland Security officials say that Russian ...
Qualcomm says it will drop $43 bn bid for Dutch chip rival NXP
Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm, said the tie-up with rival Dutch chipmaker NXP won't happen as a result of failure to win approval in ...
SiTime and Intel to collaborate on MEMs timing for 5G
SiTime, a provider of MEMS timing, and Intel are to work together on integrating timing solutions for Intel’s 5G multi-mode radio modems, with additional applicability to Intel LTE, millimeter-wave wi
Uber Cabify halt Barcelona services after striking drivers assaulted
Taxi drivers march during a strike in Barcelona on July 25, 2018 Uber and Cabify suspended their services in Barcelona on Wednesday after s ...
GM cuts 2018 profit forecast says trade war hit to car sales
General Motors is cutting its earnings forecast for the year, in part because of higher commodity costs General Motors cut its full-year pr ...