There are an astonishing 10 to the power of 170 possible board configurations in Go - more than the number of atoms in the known universe. C ...

This Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, file photo, shows a Twitter app on an iPhone screen in New York. Twitter vowed to crack down further on hate spe ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The growth in 3-D printing is allowing manufacturers to reduce production time and save money. Metal fabrication ...

Minnesota filed its bid for Amazon's second headquarters on Wednesday, hoping to get a great deal on a mammoth development plum by offer ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Despite the growth of mobile technology and viewing options, when sports fans want to watch a game, they turn to ...

Making sure deaf and hard-of-hearing students get the information presented in class and current academic events requires a lot of advance p ...

Shoreline has developed a tool which means that offshore wind farms like Horns Rev 1 in the North Sea can be operated more efficiently. The ...

Credit: Radboud University Enabling blind people to see again is the dream of many neuroscientists. We still have a long way to go to make ...

Twitter has announced tough new rules on tweets containing "non-consensual nudity" and sexual harassment, which could be seen as f ...

The Nielsen company, which has long measured viewership of television programs, now says it has a way to collect and widely spread details a ...

In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Silicon Valley is a uniquely American creation, ...

Royal Dutch Shell is opening its first electric vehicle recharging points at three gas stations in Britain, part of the oil giant's effo ...

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says his company wants to be at the forefront of computer chips designed for artificial intelligence applications ...

It's the prize of a lifetime—a $5 billion investment creating 50,000 well-paid jobs that everyone wants, but only one US city will get. ...

From toilet-paper dispensers to fast-food restaurants, travel and crime-fighting, China is taking the lead in rolling out facial-recognition ...

Activist and consumer groups fear that smartwatches for kids, instead of keeping children safe, could make them vulnerable to hackers or cri ...

Eviation Aircraft co-founder and chief executive Omer Bar-Yohay speaks of a future in which people could take Uber to a regional airport, th ...

NBCUniversal and Snap Inc announced Tuesday a joint venture to produce original scripted shows for Snapchat, the social network popular with ...

In this Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, photo, Zavian Tate, a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, pushes a large Amazon Dash button, ...

In this Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, photo, an Amazon employee gives her dog a biscuit as the pair head into a company building, where dogs are ...

Baidu chief executive Robin Li (R) says his company is working with a large bus maker in China to have a self-driving bus running a route ne ...

In this Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, file photo, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, right, speaks while New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stands behind him ...

As Amazon established its dominance in online retail, logistics and cloud computing, the company's headquarters in Seattle grew appropri ...

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Department of Energy show a continuous miner performing mining activities in the Waste Isolation Pil ...

Chinese internet giant Alibaba says it hopes to create jobs in the United States—not by hiring Americans but by expanding its e-commerce pla ...

As the head of Amazon's entertainment studio since 2014, Roy Price was tasked with shaping the e-retailer into a major player in the fil ...

Airbnb now offers more than 100,000 accommodation options in Africa Rent-a-room giant Airbnb said Tuesday that it had provided accommodatio ...

How about hitting your local Apple store for a quick health check-up? It's not as crazy as it sounds. ...

Miniaturized biological solar cell assembled micro-BSC device. Credit: Seokheun Choi Researchers at Binghamton University, State University ...

The flexible sensor skin wrapped around the robot finger (orange) is the first to measure shear forces with similar sensitivity as a human h ...

A security-token necklace, ear buds or eyeglasses developed at the University of Michigan could eliminate vulnerabilities in voice authentic ...

Developed incrementally as a personal research tool over a long period of time and eventually made public, the companion website and databas ...

A 3D printer laid some 800 layers of concrete to create the eight-metre bicycle bridge in the Dutch town of Gemert Dutch officials toasted ...

Google says it will offer "advanced protection" for users who may be at higher risk of online attacks Google said Tuesday it woul ...

Facebook has bought TBH, a teen-focused app that lets people give anonymous compliments to each other through polls and messages. ...

In this Thursday, May 25, 2017, file photo, traffic makes its way down Seventh Avenue in New York's Times Square. Cruise Automation, a s ...

Univision's channels have gone dark for Verizon's 4.7 million Fios cable customers because of a contract dispute. ...

Food fraud is everywhere. In the aftermath of the horsemeat scandal in Europe, and with cases reported around the world, including in Canada ...

Credit: Mattijs Otten / TU Delft Mattijs Otten, an Industrial Design Engineering student at TU Delft, has created a modular design that fac ...

Developed by the Institute of Integrated Systems in Bochum, the radar sensor is no bigger than this. Credit: © Roberto Schirdewahn ...

Credit: HelloRF Zcool/Shutterstock.com There is little more important for the sustainability of cities than the ways we move around them. W ...

Volvo Cars' performance electric car brand, Polestar, unveiled a four-seat coupe in lightweight carbon fiber as its first model Tuesday, ...

Israel Aerospace Industries says it has formed a joint venture with Korean company Hankuk Carbon to make unmanned aircraft together. ...

Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to its Windows 10 operating system, hoping to spark enthusiasm for its virtual- and augmented-real ...

In this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, file photo, a woman holds up the Google Pixel 2 phone, left, next to the Pixel 2 XL phone at a Google event ...

Uber board member Arianna Huffington, speaking at the WSJD Live conference in California, said that a "cult of the top performer" ...

University of Delaware researchers and industry partners have developed a new method for constructing offshore wind farms. Pictured here is ...

Credit: Alain Herzog Given the growing number of users and the widening range of devices, streaming is no longer viable in its current form ...

The Argonne-led Multiscale Coupled Urban Systems project aims to help city planners better examine complex systems, understand the relations ...

In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Silicon Valley is a uniquely American creation, ...

What's under the hood will make all the difference in the battle for smartphone dominance The front lines of the battle for smartphone ...

Schematic drawing showing components of a Science DMZ. Credit: Sean Peisert, Berkeley Lab Like other sciences, medical research is generati ...

Netflix said Monday it added some five million new subscribers over the past three months as profits doubled, in a quarterly update that sen ...

Insung Lee, program campaigner of Greenpeace, speaks during a press conference at Greenpeace office in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 17, ...

The Australian government has rejected a plan to generate 42 percent of its energy from renewable sources and will instead pursue cheaper an ...

In this Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, an autonomous vehicle is driven by an engineer on a street in an industrial park in Boston. A ne ...

Tesla announced on October 2 that it produced only 260 of the sedans in the third quarter due to "production bottlenecks," missing ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook's effort to limit the spread of fake news using outside fact-checkers appears to be having an effect ...

Security researchers have discovered a flaw which can compromise the security of Wi-Fi connections, according to a US government warning A ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Massachusetts' highest court says federal law does not prohibit Yahoo from providing a deceased man's fam ...

Security researchers have discovered a flaw which can compromise the security of Wi-Fi connections, according to a US government warning Th ...

Chinese technology group Huawei unveiled its latest smartphone Monday, talking up the advanced artificial intelligence capabilities it hopes ...

Anglia Components has extended its relationship with Intersil and will now distribute Renesas’ advanced embedded semiconductor solutions including microcontrollers, mixed signal ICs and system in chip

Credit: Tim Regan. Shared under a Creative Commons license. Failure to make necessary upgrades to software code can have dire consequences, ...

China has one of the world's most restrictive mechanisms for online censorship, blocking certain Western websites and apps A potential ...

Telegram's free instant messaging app has attracted about 100 million users since its launch in 2013 A Russian court on Monday fined th ...

Spin Transfer Technologies (STT) and Tokyo Electron (TEL) have signed an agreement for a collaborative engineering programme for next-generation SRAM and DRAM-class ST-MRAM devices.

The Supreme Court is intervening in a digital-age privacy dispute between the Trump administration and Microsoft over emails stored abroad. ...

Konrad Frey was a pioneer who designed and built solar houses based on data and scientific insights. Yet Frey and his work are largely unkno ...

IBM's Watson and Apple's Siri are two examples of computing systems that help us analyse information and find answers. Scientists at ...

The government doesn’t need a giant biometric database. Credit: Alexandru Chiriac/Shutterstock Governments seem to think that the only way ...

Running wind turbines is a costly business but Brunel engineers are developing a digital platform that ramps up efficiency and halves costs. ...

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A team of scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has developed an innovative microscopy technique to detect the spin of electrons in topological insulators, a new

Sleepy? Hungry? Toyota will be highlighting an array of experimental technologies aimed at improving safety and anticipating drivers' de ...

A view of Quebec City taken on July, 16 2017 A Canadian passenger plane landed safely after it was hit by a drone in the first case of its ...

Solar Team Eindhoven's "Stella Vie" was hailed as the future of sun-powered motoring as the 3,000-kilometre World Solar Challe ...

In this Sept. 23, 2017 photo provided by Centinel Solutions, a model displays a camera mounted below the barrel of a handgun in New York. So ...

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the US understands "the need for the fair taxation of digital giants" Washington is s ...

Facebook is making its easier for its users to order food without leaving the social network Facebook on Friday announced a new feature to ...

Mary 'Missy' Cummings standing with a hovering drone in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University, where she will work to generat ...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's job-creation agency is set to meet behind closed doors next week to continue discussions on a contract wit ...

A research team including Dr Md Raisul Islam (left) and Associate Professor Ernest Chua from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Nat ...

From such faulty data, Saarbrücken computer scientists can reconstruct the original objects. Credit: MPI Using special cameras, it ...

Hungary's only nuclear facility currently provides around 40 percent of Budapest's electricity needs—but environmentalists oppose it ...

US ride-sharing app Uber has filed its appeal against a decision by London authorities not to renew its licence, the company said. Uber on ...

Example of tongue model animations of the GIPSA-Lab articulatory talking head from ultrasound images, using the Integrated Cascaded Gaussian ...

Uber drivers in London are worried about the consequences for their personal finances if the ride-hailing app loses its appear against a ban ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain During the municipal elections in spring 2017, a group of researchers and practitioners specialising in computer ...

Toshiba Memory Chief Yasuo Naruke, left, and Yuji Sugimoto, head of Bain Capital, attend a press conference in Yokkaichi, central Japan, Fri ...

Bayer is selling off parts of its business to ease concerns of regulators about the impact of its purchase of US rival Monsanto. Germany ...

Uber has appealed the decision to deny it a new operating license in London. ...

Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Physicists from Tomsk Polytechnic University are currently working to create hydrogen-resistant produc ...

Mobility scooter user Linda Thompson. Credit: Paul Jones/University of Wollongong, Author provided Nationals senator John Williams wants to ...

RS Components (RS) has announced that it is now stocking the latest-generation pi-top modular laptops,  launched today by the pi-top organisation, featuring new enhancements intended to assist learnin

Energy-saving LEDs could help meet demand for wireless communications without affecting the quality of light or environmental benefits they deliver, according to research funded by the Engineering and

Belgian research centre imec is to work with Analog Devices to develop the next generation of IoT devices. The move, building on two existing initiatives, is intended to produce devices that are not o

As part of the CarriCool project, Fraunhofer researchers have worked with IBM to develop what is said to be an effective method for cooling processors. According to the team, by integrating microchann

Using a simple layer-by-layer coating technique, researchers from Georgia Tech and Korea University have developed a paper-based flexible supercapacitor that could be used to help power wearable devic

In this undated aerial photo provided by Drone Aviation Corp. shows a tethered balloon, called Winch Aerostat Small Platform, or WASP. The U ...