In this Friday, June 16, 2017, photo, hydraulic engineering professor Michael Johnson looks at the water flow on a replica of the Oroville D ...
Schulich transportation engineering master's student Mahsa Ghaffari has conducted a survey on attitudes toward autonomous (driverless) vehic ...
Blocking scams should be easy. Credit: Pixabay World-wide, credit card fraud and other scams cost the public billions of dollars. While cre ...
PhD student Grigorios Rigas has won the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Postgraduate Scholarship for an Outstanding Researcher – the highest scholarship to be awarded by the Institutio
Research has shown kids can be duped by native advertising. Credit: Syda Productions/Shutterstock Young people get a huge amount of their n ...
A topological insulator (TI) film 25 atoms thick that adheres to an insulating magnetic film has been created by researchers from the University of California, Riverside, Massachusetts Institute of Te
Sound permeates the human experience—we are exposed to sounds from birth to death, and the human auditory system can distinguish and classif ...
British lawmakers said they were unable to access their e-mail accounts remotely as parliament's security team battled against a cyberattack ...
Screenshot of a visual rendering model of Notre Dame Cathedral, created based on plans, laser scan data and site visits. Credit: Ghost Orche ...
For years, residents in this cash-strapped city watched helplessly as thieves gutted 33 miles (53 kilometers) of streetlight wiring, plungin ...
Drone maker DJI was founded in 2006 in an apartment in Shenzhen by a young graduate with a passion for model planes and now makes almost two ...
In the May 11, 2017 file photo, CIA Director Mike Pompeo listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. In an interview that aired ...
British officials were investigating a cyberattack Saturday on the country's Parliament after discovering "unauthorized attempts to acc ...
Pay-TV operators could lose 1 million subscribers this quarter, a Wall Street analyst says. ...
At first glance, there's nothing remarkable about SolePower's latest work boot prototype. ...
Some people like typing on a good old clickity-clack keyboard. ...
U.S. regulators said Friday they are launching an investigation into the improper shipment of nuclear material from the laboratory that crea ...
Google's Gmail service will no longer scan the contents of user emails, relying instead on other data for personalized ads Google said Frid ...
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is studying how advanced building controls in energy-using equipment such as heating and cooling syste ...
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed a wearable diagnostic biosensor that can detect three interconnected, diabet ...
The mechanisms for a waving wind-up toy is adjusted to fit the shape of a turtle. Credit: IST Austria Common toys such as steerable cars or ...
The founder of a Russian encrypted messaging app is defying the government's request to provide information about his company. ...
Germany's governing parties have cleared the way for parliament to vote on legislation designed to get illegal content such as hate speech o ...
Cheap and clean: Offshore wind power. Credit: MR1805 / iStock Technological innovation, often induced by national and sub-national policies ...
Your photos can tell law enforcement a lot about you. Credit: allen/Flickr, CC BY-ND For as long as humans have been making images, we have ...
Professor Christian Beidl with the world’s first oxymethylene ether powered research vehicle. Credit: Katrin Binner Synthetic fuels, such a ...
The sound's frequency is designed by the researchers and transmitted from ultrasonic speakers, completely inaudible to humans but able to be ...
The unique energy absorbing container designed by SPbPU scientists. Credit: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Computer-A ...
Credit: McMaster University McMaster and Ryerson universities today announced the Smart Robots for Health Communication project, a joint re ...
Subsidizing electric and hybrid cars would not only cost Canadian citizens a fortune, but would also utlimately provide little environmental ...
Imagination Technologies says that, following approaches from a number of interested parties, it has put itself up for sale. According to the company, it is in preliminary discussions with potential b
In this Thursday, June 15, 2017, photo, the logo of Toshiba Corp., Japan's electronics and energy company, is seen on a worker's jacket in Y ...
Thermoelectric generators offer the ability to convert body heat into usable energy and it is preferable these devices should thin, soft and flexible. However, flexible modules have yet to match the p
The Telegram messenger application lets people exchange messages, photos and videos in groups of up to 5,000 people Russia's state communic ...
Wearable devices have been heralded as one of the next great technological frontiers. They can provide all users, including older ones, with ...
Tesla would offer multiple levels of service starting with a radio-type platform akin to Pandora, Recode reported, quoting anonymous sources ...
In this June 12, 2017 photo, Kaori Misue breaks into a smile in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Misue has a brand new prosthetic hand thanks to the ...
Altice USA, part of the telecom empire of French magnate Patrick Drahi—seen at a March 2017 press conference in Paris—raised some $1.9 billi ...
In a Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., talks about the Model X car at the company's headquarters, in Fremont, ...
German investigators will now be able to insert into users' cellphones and computers spy software (or a "Trojan horse") to access ...
A report released this week shows the premier US intelligence body discovered that insider hackers had stolen more than $3,300 worth of pota ...
NC State's thermoelectric harvester has the material quality of rigid devices inside a flexible package. Credit: Mehmet Ozturk, NC State Uni ...
Subsidizing electric and hybrid cars would not only cost Canadian citizens a fortune, but would also utlimately provide little environmental ...
The EU joined forces with US-based Internet firms more than a year ago to combat online extremism EU leaders on Thursday urged Internet fir ...
Human-in-the-loop optimization combines a software algorithm with versatile emulator hardware to automatically identify optimal assistance s ...
In this Friday, June 16, 2017, file photo, a shopper arrives at a Whole Foods Market, in San Antonio. Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a deal ...
Altice USA, part of the telecom empire of French magnate Patrick Drahi—seen at a March 2017 press conference in Paris—raised some $1.9 billi ...
In a Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., talks about the Model X car at the company's headquarters, in Fremont, ...
Weibo, a Twitter-like social network, had 340 million monthly active users at the end of this March—surpassing Twitter itself during the sam ...
In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017, photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, talks with Facebook group administrators Lola Omolola, left, E ...
Following agreement with prime contractor OHB-System, Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has started manufacture of eight navigation payloads for Galileo, Europe’s global navigation satellite system.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Negative social media comments about a television show tend to lower enjoyment for other viewers, while positive ...
Info-graph for SPEED showing the gender diversity, iris-colour diversity, and nationality diversity within the database as well as example i ...
Broken mirror. Credit: Photographee.eu/Shutterstock It would be nice to think that Uber's problems are going to be fixed with the resignati ...
Facebook has 184 million active monthly users in India, its second-largest market after the United States Facebook has introduced new secur ...
Customers take a selfie with merchandise at Line Village in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Thailand's most popular text-messagi ...
mSurvey uses text message-based surveys to gather purchasing behavior of people living in previously hard-to-reach communities in Kenya, the ...
The printing of concrete for the 3D-printed bridge has begun. Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology Today the Built Environment depart ...
In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, file photo, Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou waves as he arrives at a hotel in Beijing. Gou says t ...
In October 2015, tax giant KPMG published a report projecting a 60 percent reduction in the $135 billion auto insurance market by 2040 owing ...
Credit: Steffen Thoma/Public Domain Electric and hybrid electric vehicles are in the fast lane to wider adoption, according to a new study ...
Wind farms are a common source of renewable energy that needs to be stored. Credit: University of Arkansas In an effort to find better way ...
A way to store digital data in half the space has been found by chemists at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).
NSF-funded researchers have developed a technique that is based on the physical principles of light scattering to non-invasively determine t ...
Mimicking the structure of the ‘powdery alligator-flag’ plant has enabled researchers from Zhejiang University, China, to make a graphene-based aerogel that could be used to create flexible electronic
NXP has launched the LPC84x family of microcontrollers in a move targeted at meeting demand for cost and power efficient devices. “We’re extremely excited to be ramping the LPC84x family into producti
Zigbee PRO 2017, the latest addition to the Zigbee Alliance’s technology portfolio, is said to be the first mesh network capable of operating in two ISM frequency bands simultaneously: 800 to 900MHz f
In this July 10, 2012, file photo, Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick arrives at a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kalanick said in a ...
In this Wednesday, June 22, 2016, file photo, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks at the American Enterprise Institute, ...
The head of Taiwan's tech giant Foxconn said Thursday its pursuit of Toshiba "is not yet over", a day after the Japanese firm anno ...
By 2021 more than 17,000 airliners are expected to be fitted with inflight internet facilities Inflight internet access, a nascent market s ...
At least one well-known person has already taken her name out of the running to be Uber's next CEO. ...
In this July 10, 2012, file photo, Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick arrives at a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kalanick said in a ...
A driverless shuttle carries passengers at the University of Michigan, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Two driverless shuttles ...
The safety record at the U.S. laboratory that created the atomic bomb is facing intensifying criticism as work ramps up to produce a key com ...
In this Wednesday, June 22, 2016, file photo, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks at the American Enterprise Institute, ...
Airbus and Boeing are both looking to target the lucrative maintenance market in the coming years Airbus and Boeing wheeled out the usual r ...
In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, file photo, the 2017 Kia Niro sits on display at the Chicago Auto Show, in Chicago. Kia has claimed the top ...
This Thursday, June 15, 2017, photo, shows a Whole Foods Market sign on the door at a store in Coral Gables, Fla. Some small and mid-sized f ...
In this Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, file photo, Nike products appear on display at the SIX:02 shop inside Foot Locker's redesigned Manhattan fl ...
Imagination Technologies is to extend its agreement with Sequans Communications for MIPS processor IP. Sequans has chosen the MIPS CPU for a number of its LTE chip platforms which are used to power a
People have used crowdfunding sites to raise money for business ideas, help afford medical emergencies and even to pay for vacations. Now th ...
RoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been name ...
The International Olympic Committee says it has signed a deal with technology provider Intel, one week after McDonald's ended its long-stand ...
NXP has announced that it is to collaborate with Elektrobit (EB) on a new platform for highly automated driving, and extends its partnership with HARMAN to speed up time-to-market for connected car so
Visitors looks at the flying car Pegasus 1, built by French entrepreneur Jerome Dauffy at Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, east of Paris, Fran ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A telecom company in the Netherlands has teamed up with the country's traffic safety authority to develop a bicyc ...
From wind to hydrogen: In the wind farm Raggovidda in Finnmark, the wind allways blows. At the same time, the power grid lacks capacity to e ...
Credit: chombosan/Shutterstock Virtual reality is much more than just a new form of entertainment, it is increasingly being used in a wide ...
Getting your strata committee to agree to solar panels is tricky, but it can be done. Credit: Stucco While there are now more solar panels ...
Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) are leading the implementation of a new kind of autonomous underground robot with i ...
Chatbots aren't taking over the world (yet). Credit: iStock Yes, Facebook's chatbots have created their own, non-human language to communic ...
Bottery and aggravated assault. Credit: Mopic Propaganda bots posing as people are increasingly being used on social media to sway public o ...
A telecom company in the Netherlands has teamed up with the country's traffic safety authority to develop a bicycle lock that also locks mob ...
Apple has expanded its legal battle against Qualcomm, accusing the US chip maker of charging for invalid patents in the latest twist in the ...
Fraunhofer IOF‘s quantum source. Designed to be fully operational even after extreme stress. Credit: Fraunhofer IOF Due to the rapidly grow ...
Travis Kalanick was the driving force behind Uber, taking a spur-of-moment idea and turning it into the world's most valuable venture-funded ...
This May 26, 2017 file photo shows the company logo of Toshiba Corp. displayed in front of its headquarters in Tokyo. Troubled Japanese elec ...
Uber said Wednesday that its embattled chief executive Travis Kalanick had agreed to step down from his job, as the company tries to clean u ...
Uber has had a rough year, largely of it its own making. There have been lawsuits, allegations of sexual harassment and a profanity-laced ou ...