Amazon's high-end Kindle gets a recharge as e-reader marks 10th year
Kindle Oasis For its 10th birthday, Amazon's Kindle is getting a new suit. ...
Amazon will let parents hand over shopping keys to the kids
Amazon says parents can hand over the shopping keys to the kids, though they'll still have the power to put up a red light. ...
Microsoft sets up $3.5 million competition for artificial-intelligence startups
Microsoft is looking for a few good artificial-intelligence startups. ...
Google to give $1 billion to nonprofits and help Americans get jobs in the new economy
Google will invest $1 billion over the next five years in nonprofit organizations helping people adjust to the changing nature of work, the ...
Researchers engineered a cloud-based system to improve comfort productivity and energy efficiency
Credit: Concordia University No matter the season, thermostat wars rage in offices worldwide. Workers bicker over the temperature, alternat ...
Head of Samsung's booming semiconductor business to resign
In this Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017 photo, Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 8 is displayed in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics says F ...
Battle of the online sex crimes in high-tech S. Korea
The so-called "digital laundry" industry is thriving in South Korea—a tech-savvy nation but one whose culture remains chauvinistic ...
Tesla recalls Model X vehicles for seat fix
Tesla has announced a recall of some Model X vehicles to fix a potential safety issue with rear seats which might shift in a crash Tesla on ...
Toshiba Bain executives join to push for memory-chips sale
Toshiba Memory Chief Yasuo Naruke, left, and Yuji Sugimoto, head of Bain Capital, attend a press conference in Yokkaichi, central Japan, Fri ...
Solar panels shine in darkest Amazon the 'last frontier'
Remote communities in the Amazon, such as here near Labrea, are being encouraged to use solar energy to power their villages In the darkest ...
Nearly 700000 UK nationals affected by Equifax breach: company
Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith testified before a congressional hearing into a data breach affecting more than 145 million consumers inclu ...
Apple teams with Steven Spielberg on video expansion
Apple is teaming up with award-winning director Steven Spielberg for its first major push into TV programming. ...
Spy vs spy vs spy as Israel watches Russian hackers: NYT
The Russian intrusion detected more than two years ago used anti-virus software manufactured by the Russian firm Kaspersky Lab as an ad hoc ...
Unsent text message passes for will in Australia
The draft text message recognised as a legitimate will by an Australian court was found on a man's phone after he took his own life aged ...
Imec unveils MOMS based pressure sensor
Belgian nanotechnology research centre imec has developed a pressure sensor based on micro-optomechanical systems (MOMS) technology. The device is said to exhibit excellent measurement precision over
MEMS based approach to shake up computing?
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) believe they may have developed a MEMS based alternative to silicon based computing. According to the team, vibrating mech
Integrated photonic chip is programmable
A photonic integrated chip developed by researchers from the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) at the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Optoelectronics Rese
SoCs shipping with integrated RF signal chain
Xilinx has started shipping its Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC family to lead customers. According to the company, the parts represent a breakthrough architecture in which the RF signal chain has been integra
LED technology developer named overall winner of this year’s British Engineering Excellence Awards
Plessey Semiconductors has won the Grand Prix at this year’s British Engineering Excellence Awards for its development of GaN on silicon technology and using it to create LEDs which enable new types o
FTDI unveils online community for engineers
FTDI Chip has just launched an online community in a move intended to extend its technical support capabilities.
Scientist get closer to solving the 'speed limit' for electronic devices
Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have reported they are one step closer to developing a technology that could result in electrons being replaced with photons, solving the looming ‘speed limit’ fo
Dialog buys Silego for $276million
Dialog Semiconductor has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Silego Technology, a provider of configurable mixed-signal ics (CMICs). The deal values Silego at $276million.
XMOS launches development kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service
XMOS has announced the launch of the VocalFusion 4-Mic Dev Kit for the Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS).
Primed for growth
2017-10-11 12:00:31Primed for growth
Over the past few years ams has changed radically having significantly reduced its historically broad portfolio of product to now specialise in the design and manufacture of advanced sensors solutions
XP Power acquires Comdel
2017-10-11 12:00:29XP Power acquires Comdel
XP Power has acquired Comdel, a US-based designer and manufacturer of radio frequency (RF) power supplies. The $23 million deal expands XP Power’s product offering into RF power, complementing its ran
Researchers create side surface images of 3D silicon crystals
A research collaboration between Osaka University and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology has, for the first time, be able to use scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) to create images of atom
Teledyne e2v sensors to equip the LSST
Teledyne e2v has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) to supply customised Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors for the Large Synoptic Survey
Researchers develop innovative process for printing luminescent materials
In the laboratory: flexible printing pads are used to transfer individual layers of the illuminating symbol and the printing image to three- ...
Ikea on Amazon? Furniture giant to use online retailers
This is a Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 file photo of the IKEA sign at the IKEA furnishing store in Magdeburg, Germany. Swedish furniture retaile ...
Ingestible devices sense movement and ingestion in the stomach harness power from GI tract movement
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A multi-disciplinary team co-led by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT has developed flexi ...
This soft robotic gripper can screw in your light bulbs for you
Researchers installed the soft robotic gripper on a Fetch Robotics robot in their lab. Credit: University of California San Diego How many ...
NREL evaluates charging infrastructure needs for growing fleet of electric vehicles
Credit: National Renewable Energy Laboratory A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NRE ...
Changes in perspective may affect how useful drones really are
Credit: New Zealand Defence Force. Shared under a Creative Commons license. A recent study finds that users have trouble utilizing images f ...
Researchers point to early warning signs in military vehicle structural 'wellness'
Atomic force microscope image of a residual indent. Credit: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laborator ...
Flexible sensors can detect movement in GI tract
A new flexible piezoelectric sensor is 2 by 2.5 centimeters and can be rolled up and swallowed. "For the first time, we showed that a f ...
The costs of transporting petroleum products by pipelines and rail
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University While the policy debate surrounding crude oil transportation costs has emphasized accidents and spills, ...
Hacking the election: security flaws need fixing researchers say
A report says there is no way to know if votes have been manipulated with paperless machines which have no paper ballots to be recounted Ha ...
Lawmakers grill former Equifax chairman over data breach
Former chairman and CEO of Equifax Richard F. Smith testifies before the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House ...
Former Intel chief Paul Otellini dies
Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini, seen here in a 2012 photo at an International Consumer Electronics Show, led the chipmaker from 2005 to 2013 ...
Saudi Arabia opens bid for 'utility scale' solar project
Riyadh has set a target of 9.5 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2023, partly made up of a 300-megawatt solar project, like these solar panel ...
Microsoft touts VR headsets that pair with Windows 10
Microsoft is touting virtual reality headsets made by other companies in hopes of establishing personal computers running on its Windows 10 ...
How to regulate e-sports gambling debated in Gaming Law Review
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers The new and rapidly evolving esports industry, while currently enjoying minimal regulatory overs ...
Lawmakers call Equifax response to breach inadequate
Former chairman and CEO of Equifax Richard F. Smith testifies before the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House ...
Web giants allowed fake news to flow on Las Vegas shooting
US online giants Google, Facebook and Twitter pledged to do more to filter out misinformation after false reports circulated on the Las Vega ...
US orders divestment in CenturyLink-Level 3 deal
Louisiana-based CenturyLink, the third-largest US provider of wireline telecoms services after Verizon and AT&T, announced the cash and ...
EU to decide Amazon tax break case: sources
The EU is set to decide a landmark case against Luxembourg, which stands accused of giving illegal tax breaks to internet shopping giant Ama ...
US reviewing better tech identifiers after hacks: Trump aide
US officials are studying ways to end the use of social security numbers for identification following a series of data breaches compromising ...
New machine evaluates soybean at harvest for quality
Experimental setup of the image acquisition system. Credit: University of Illinois When a field of soybeans is ready to harvest, speed is o ...
European court asked to rule on Facebook data transfers
Max Schrems, front right, faces the media after leaving the High Court in Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday Oct. 3, 2017, as the legal case about soc ...
Plextek RFI and Filtronic Broadband develop multichip module for 5G
Design house, Plextek RFI, has announced that it has developed a multi-chip module (MCM) to cover the recently-designated European ‘Pioneer Band’ for millimetre-wave (mmWave) 5G around 26GHz.
Good vibrations for the future of computing
The cascadable, vibration-driven microelectromechanical logic gate takes electrical signals as inputs and produces a logic output (1 or 0) b ...
Twitter banks on sport fans' passion
Twitter is exploring new ways to engage sports fans, tapping into their passion as it fights its corner in the cutthroat world of social med ...
Fast-moving magnetic particles could enable new form of data storage
Research has shown that magnetic behaviour discovered just a few years ago holds great promise as a way of storing data and could help to overcome the fundamental limits that might otherwise signal th
Irish court refers landmark EU-US data transfer case to EU
Ireland's High Court ruled that the Court of Justice of the European Union must decide the rules on the transfer of data from European F ...
Report finds thermal engineers relying on outdated processes
Some 66% of thermal engineers must wait at least a day for their thermal simulations to solve. That’s according to the new State of Thermal report from 6SigmaET, which asked 170 thermal engineers in t
Producing simple kits for safe water in Rajasthan
University of Adelaide researchers are planning to produce simple, low-cost, self-assembly water purification kits to provide fresh drinking ...
Former Equifax CEO says response should have been better
This July 21, 2012, file photo shows signage at the corporate headquarters of Equifax Inc. in Atlanta. Credit report company Equifax said Mo ...
New CEO of Uber to meet with London transport officials
The new CEO of Uber will meet with London transport officials, just days after they refused to renew the cab-hailing app's license to op ...
Magnetic electrodes increase solar cell efficiency
Artist's impression of the magnetic field and current generated by the new photovoltaic device. Credit: nanoGUNE An international resea ...
In hurricanes' aftermath technology eases return to school
In this Aug. 29, 2017, aerial photo, floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey surround an apartment complex in Houston. The same technology th ...
Equifax raises breach victim number to 145.5 million
Equifax said Monday an investigation into the massive data breach at the credit agency discovered 2.5 million additional potential victims, ...
World's most advanced shipborne radar ready to set sail
Members of the SEA-POL team with the radar, right before disassembly and shipment to San Diego for its voyage to sea. From left: engineer Fr ...
Securities regulator says personal info was leaked in breach
The Securities and Exchange Commission is now saying that at least two people had their personal information stolen in the breach that happe ...
Insider Q&A: Uber human resources chief Liane Hornsey
This photo provided by Uber shows the company's human resources director, Liane Hornsey. Hornsey, who was hired from her chief administr ...
Facebook beefing up team to thwart election manipulation
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets his work was used "to divide people rather than bring us together" Facebook on Monda ...
Equifax warned about vulnerability didn't patch it: ex-CEO
The first congressional hearing on the massive hack at credit agency Equifax is set for this week The security team at Equifax failed to pa ...
Tesla reports record 3Q deliveries but Model 3 lags
Tesla Inc. says it delivered a record number of vehicles in the third quarter even though it made fewer of its new Model 3 sedans than antic ...
GM to offer two more electric vehicles in next 18 months
General Motors is promising two new electric vehicles on Chevrolet Bolt underpinnings in the next 1 ½ years and more than 20 electric o ...
Supreme Court declines to hear Megaupload case
The Supreme Court is leaving in place lower court rulings against internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and others associated with his now defunc ...
Uber northern Europe chief departs amid London row
The head of Uber's northern Europe operations is quitting as the US ride-sharing company faces a licensing battle in London. The head o ...
Former Equifax chairman apologizes for data breach
The former chairman and CEO of Equifax says the company was entrusted with personal information of 140 million Americans and "we let th ...
Gulf retailer Noon.com to ignite e-commerce race
Analysts say the arrival of Noon.com is expected to trigger a price war in the developing regional e-commerce market and will likely alter t ...
Wearable device that tracks indoor and outdoor air quality
MIT-France student intern Annie Dai (seated) says of her summer at Plume Labs: “This was probably the best summer I’ve had in my life and I ...
Body energy as a power source
Systems converting energy of the body into electricity, such as this foot prosthesis, are to be used by KIT scientists to power portable ele ...
Development of active-learning dialogue data-based AI technology
Fig. 1. Learning process. Credit: Hitachi Hitachi today announced the development of active-learning dialogue-data based AI technology to e ...
Painless microneedles extract fluid for wearable sensors for soldiers athletes
Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Ronen Polsky positions a prototype 3-D-printed microneedle holder on the arm of Sandia scie ...
Indonesia's fuel subsidy cuts prevented even worse traffic jams
Indonesia is notorious for its traffic jams. Many people spend hours commuting each day. Jakarta and other Indonesian cities have been rated ...
Roku cuts price on top streaming player to counter Apple TV
Emboldened by a successful IPO, Roku is reducing the price on the next generation of its best video streaming player in an attempt to fend o ...
Technology increases the sensitivity of infrastructural sensors by more than 50 times
Technology from the Public University of Navarre monitors the structural health of infrastructure (bridges, viaducts, oil pipelines, gas pip ...
JRC makes its ship-detection software open source
SUMO is specialised software that analyses data from a satellite of the EU’s Copernicus Earth Observation programme. Credit: CORDIS The Joi ...
Prague taxi drivers block access to airport to protest Uber
Czech taxi drivers are blocking a major road to Prague's international airport to protest Uber and other similar ride-hailing services. ...
Smash hit: Ping pong robot takes on Olympian at Tokyo tech fair
FORPHEUS, a fourth-generation table-tennis robot developed by automation parts maker Omron returns a shot to a human player at a top Tokyo t ...
Head of Taiwan microchip giant TSMC set to retire
The man who founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and made it the world's biggest microchip producer in terms of contracts a ...
Plasma Antennas unveils PSiAN mmWave Technology
Plasma Antennas, the pioneers of plasma silicon technology, has unveiled the mmWave Plasma Silicon Antenna (PSiAN) that, according to the company, will provide huge improvements in the performance for
Drones controlled with brain-computer interface
Panagiotis Artemiadis, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Arizona State University, with two drones in his Human-Oriented ...
Using elastomer films to generate electricity
Cross section of the Venturi tube. When the water flows through the uptake tube, negative pressure builds that forces the elastomer film (ce ...
Beyond Bitcoin—The power struggle over trust-based technology
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Technology blogs and financial news networks are buzzing about blockchain, a cryptographic, distributed trust tec ...
Detecting impurities on 3-D components
The fluorescence scanner – an imaging, inline measuring system – inspects components for impurities during the manufacturing process and ide ...
Sassy zany and easy-going—the abundance of fun in digital help
Chatbots need a personality. But what type? Credit: Hadrian/Shutterstock In the future, humans will interact more and more with automated h ...
Higher processor performance with microchannel cooler
The integration of microchannels into the silicon interposer allows for the first time to cool a processor also from the bottom and thereby ...
Facebook to turn over Russia-linked ads
This July 16, 2013, file photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Social media giant Facebook is expected to provid ...
Google unveils new moves to boost struggling news organizations
Google has unveiled new measures aimed at helping news organizations drive more subscriptions and generate revenues Google announced new st ...
Social media and democracy: optimism fades as fears rise
The social networks which helped enable democracy movements are also being manipulated by authorian regimes, researchers say Just a few yea ...
In Appalachia a public broadband project hits snags
Kentucky's plan to build one of the country's largest publicly owned broadband networks was touted as a cornerstone of the effort to ...
Retailer Noon.com opens in UAE after delays Amazon's entry
The online retailer Noon.com has launched in the United Arab Emirates after months of delays, more than $1 billion in pledged investments an ...
Director turns to virtual reality to tastefully show tragedy
In this Sept. 9, 2017 file photo, Gina Kim holds the Venice Virtual Reality Prize for best VR story during the award ceremony at the 74th Ve ...
Social media and democracy: optimism fades as fears rise
The social networks which helped enable democracy movements are also being manipulated by authorian regimes, researchers say Just a few yea ...
Smartphone app for migrants gets trial in Central America Mexico
Many migrants—such as these men pictured in Sonora state, Mexico, in January—rely on mobile phones during their journeys A smartphone app d ...
VW to take $2.9 billion charge over diesel retrofit costs
Volkswagen says it expects to take charges of about 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion) in the third quarter to cover the costs of buying back ...
EU to propose Google Facebook tax in 2018 says Juncker
A push by France and Germany is part of a wider EU onslaught on Google and other US tech behemoths as Europe seeks ways of more tightly regu ...