Humanoid robots under development can be programmed to detect changes in an elderly person’s preferences and habits. Credit: GrowMeUp Every ...
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 ...
This May 26, 2017 file photo shows the company logo of Toshiba Corp. displayed in front of its headquarters in Tokyo. Troubled Japanese elec ...
A Syrian man waters plants near an iron cart loaded with solar panels in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the outskirts of the capital Damas ...
Students in a Virginia Tech laboratory test Popcorn Linux--an operating system that can compile different programming languages into a singl ...
In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017, file photo, an Uber car drives through LaGuardia Airport in New York. Uber is enabling passengers to tip ...
A lot of money goes unspent in the online world for a simple reason: Shoppers can't remember their passwords. ...
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017, file photo, the Amazon logo is displayed at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square. Amazon announc ...
Vice Media's latest capital infusion of $450 million will help accelerate its global expansion to some 80 markets by next year for the youth ...
In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017, file photo, an Uber car drives through LaGuardia Airport in New York. Uber is enabling passengers to tip ...
When Jeff Bezos first launched Amazon.com in 1994, he gave himself a 30 percent chance of success - slightly better than the 1 in 10 odds fo ...
Delta Airlines says it is the first U.S. airline to use facial recognition technology to speed the process of checking baggage. ...
In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, file photo, a customer sets up his new iPhone 7 Plus, right, as he switches from the iPhone 6 at the Apple S ...
Credit: Aalto University According to researchers at Aalto University, by using suitable systems, more than 80 percent of heating energy fo ...
Fossil fuels have long been subsidized by tax policies, such as the oil depletion allowance, and by infrastructure construction, such as the ...
Visitor registration is now open for the UK's largest exhibition and conference entirely dedicated to the design engineering community.
A reliance on security infrastructure to resolve embedded social problems may be misguided. Credit: shutterstock This year's Victorian stat ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain When there is a rapid growth in any of the crypto-currencies and assets such as Bitcoin, Ether, Zcash and others, ...
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017, file photo, the Amazon logo is displayed at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square. Amazon announc ...
Pedestrians wait for the light to change in Beijing, but people not obeying the rules of the road in other parts of China might find their f ...
Polymers that can bridge biology and electronics have been designed by scientists at the University of Washington.
For every 100 miles driven, improving the fuel economy of a single Ford F-150 by five miles per gallon can theoretically achieve the same vo ...
Demo: control room for an autonomous ship. Credit: Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is d ...
A truck dumps Cornell dining hall food waste at the university’s composting facility in March 2017. Through the processes of hydrothermal li ...
Maleknaz Nayebi, a PhD candidate in software engineering and lead author, Guenther Ruhe, Electrical and Computer Engineering professor, and ...
In a move which it claims will 'open the path to 1trillion devices', ARM has expanded its DesignStart programme with the addition of the Cortex-M3 core. Previously, those signed up to DesignSt
Using the new satellite tomography, researchers can map the city of Berlin in 3-D and deformation and subsidence down to the millimeter. Cre ...
A new class of material that could make batteries safer, longer-lasting and better performing has been found by researchers from the University of Houston.
This image provided by Google shows examples of help-wanted listings displayed on a smartphone. Google is trying to turn its search engine i ...
Credit: Brunel University A Brunel University London student has been exploring how mushrooms can be used to grow robust zero-waste structu ...
The merger of fantasy sports website DraftKings, seen here in a file picture, is being challenged by antitrust regulators US regulators ann ...
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi's lab have given the first demonstration of three-dimensional imaging of objects t ...
Researchers at the Upguard consultancy said they had identified the largest known breach of voter data in history A data analytics firm tha ...
An internet watchdog has found that Mexican journalists, lawyers and activists were targeted by Israeli-produced spyware that is sold exclus ...
In this May 3, 2017, photo, people stand outside a Whole Foods Market in Upper Saint Clair, Pa. Amazon's planned $13.7 billion acquisition o ...
The European Union warned that a cyberattack on any one member state could merit a response by all members of the bloc The European Union w ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google is stepping up its efforts to block "extremist and terrorism-related videos" over its platforms ...
Credit: Richard Unten Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have been around since the early 1900s. Originally used for military oper ...
A device that can wirelessly charge a moving object at close range has been developed by Stanford University scientists. The technology could be used to charge electric cars on the motorway, or medica
Gig workers saw their work as flexible but also with its risks. Credit: Reynaldo Vasconcelos/Newzulu/AAP Uber driver Michelle, thinks her j ...
A processor trace developed by UltraSOC will be offered for adoption by the RISC-V Foundation as part of the open source specification. Processor trace functionality allows a program’s behaviour to be
The LiDAR system for the MERLIN mission incorporates all components from the pump laser to the frequency conversion in a particularly compac ...
Bosch is making what is said to be the largest investment in its 130 year history with the building of a 12in fab in Dresden to make chips for mobility and IoT applications.
A way to control oxygen concentration in tantalum oxide films has been found by researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). Produced by atomic layer deposition, these thin film
Boosted by record sales, Jaguar Land Rover is planning to recruit 1000 electronic and software engineers over the next year. The engineers, who will mainly be based in the UK, will work on new models,
Nottingham Trent University is launching what it says is a range of innovative engineering courses, built in conjunction with major industry employers and experts. Included is an electronic engineerin
Faster performance evaluation of 'super graphs' is shown. Credit: DGIST Himchan Park and Min-Soo Kim of DGIST have developed TrillionG, a c ...
Europeans discard 200 million tonnes of household waste every year. Credit: ‘Poland. Trash 002’ by Albertyanks Albert Jankowski is in the pu ...
This June 16, 2017 photo shows social media app icons on a smartphone held by an Associated Press reporter in San Francisco. Google yourself ...
Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world's most e ...
In this Thursday, April 20, 2017 photo, the $1.5million NIO EP9 is displayed at the Shanghai auto show. NIO is part of a wave of fledgling a ...
A prototype of a Dutch flying car at the headquarters of the PAL-V firm, which is aiming to deliver its first car in 2018. From "The J ...
Artificial intelligence can improve health care by analyzing data from apps, smartphones and wearable technology Your next doctor could ver ...
Marieme Assietou Diagne, who manages a health food delivery business, says she has gained "more free time and better sales" since ...
Whole Foods flagship store in Austin, Texas and the other 450 stores will become part of the Amazon empire, giving the online behmoth an imm ...
South Korea currently operates 25 nuclear reactors, which generate about 30 percent of the country's power supply South Korea's new Preside ...
In Benin's economic capital of Cotonou, as in many other African cities, finding a house, office or restaurant is often like a treasure hunt ...
The EU aims to have the regulatory framework for drone monitoring functioning by 2019, with basic services like registration and e-identific ...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is asking for ideas to help the world through philanthropy—and is getting an earful. ...
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have identified 185 sites in South Australia potentially suitable for pumped hydro s ...
The potential to harm local birdlife is often used to oppose wind farm development. But research into how birds die shows wind farms should ...
Credit: Birmingham City University A mixed reality system which allows medical practitioners to view and interact with virtual replicas of ...
While San Jose city officials and property developers are over the moon about Google's quest to create a massive village of gleaming new tec ...
Startups with at least one female founder build companies where nearly half the staff are women, a study found. ...
Open Water Power’s battery that "drinks" in sea water to operate is safer and cheaper, and provides a tenfold increase in range, o ...
This image is a small portion of an output from the "Q Continuum" cosmology simulation; the full simulation evolves more than half ...
John Fortune, of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Division, points out features of the Resilient Tunnel Plug at ...
Credit: Imperial College London Winter days are usually less windy, but a new analysis shows turbines work harder on the coldest days, when ...
University of Cambridge spin out Echion Technologies was awarded second place and £10,000 in the Energy and Environment category of the fifth Emerging Technologies Competition, run by the Royal Societ
Samsung has begun volume production of 64 layer 256Gbit V-NAND flash devices and expects the devices to represent more than 50% of its monthly NAND flash production by the end of 2017.
In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017, photo provided by American Airlines, a Transportation Security Administration officer operates an L3 Clear ...
This Sept. 22, 2016 file photo shows employees of the Fulton County Election Preparation Center in Atlanta test electronic voting machines. ...
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system for service vehicles that could reduce emissions and save companies and go ...
An inexpensive printed sensor that can monitor the tread of car tyres in real time has been invented by electrical engineers at Duke University in collaboration with Fetch Automotive Design Group. If
Click farms are just one of many online scams that have proliferated in recent years and become a major scourge for social media giants Fac ...
Twitter has unveiled a new look, and much like some previous changes the company has made to its short-messaging service, it's not going ove ...
Federal officials are screening some carry-on bags with 3-D scanning technology, which they say improves the ability to find bombs. ...
The EU has abolished mobile phone roaming charges The EU on Thursday rang in the end of roaming charges for Europeans using mobile phones w ...
Lt. Timothy Sullivan, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), tries out the Office of Naval Research TechSolutions-spo ...
In a move that broadens support for the RISC-V core, Microsemi has launched SoftConsole version 5.1, said to be the first Windows based Eclipse IDE for such designs.
Three days of flight disruption at British Airways due to a massive computer crash last month will cost the airline an estimated £80 mi ...
New electrolytes made from liquefied gas enable lithium batteries and electrochemical capacitors to run at extremely cold temperatures. Cred ...
In this June 1990 file photo, Tetris, an addictive brain-teasing video game, is shown as played on the Nintendo Entertainment System in New ...
A new approach that uses light instead of electricity in deep learning computer systems based on artificial neural networks has been developed by a team of researchers at MIT. The team claims this dis
In what could be a major step forward for a new generation of solar cells called "concentrator photovoltaics," University of Michi ...
Jun Zhou, Karen Smith and Yuhang Lu are using a 3D scanner to build a database of prehistoric pottery designs. The multidisciplinary project ...
CMOS image sensor chip. Credit: KAIST Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the key emerging technologies. Global IT companies are competi ...
A technology to transfer power far distances via 5G networks is currently being developed by an international research team from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Russia. The scientists are also d
From now on, European Union holidaymakers should return home without that sense of high anxiety about their mobile phone bill: extra fees fo ...
A newly developed robot for underwater investigation of a Fukushima damaged reactor moves through the water at a test facility in Yokosuka n ...
SPbPU scientists were able to design codes, which surpass state-of-the-art competitors in performance and decoding simplicity. Credit: Peter ...
This Sept. 22, 2016 file photo shows employees of the Fulton County Election Preparation Center in Atlanta test electronic voting machines. ...
Electro Rent’s acquisition of Microlease faces an in-depth phase 2 merger investigation – unless the company can address competition concerns. Electro Rent has until 21 June 2017 to offer proposals to
Gaming fans wear VR goggles to play "Echo Arena" from Oculus on day two of E3 2017, the three day Electronic Entertainment Expo in ...
U.S. officials are blaming the North Korean government for a series of cyberattacks dating to 2009 against media, aerospace, financial secto ...
A Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones and other electronics is considering building a plant in Wisconsin that could employ thou ...
Five hundred teachers across the country will be provided with the training and tools to teach digital skills and coding to children Canadi ...
Facebook chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg show developers at a 2016 conference how "bots" can respond to natural language Fac ...
Stanford scientists have created a device that wirelessly transmits electricity to a movable disc. The technology could some day be used to ...
Researchers from the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction glue fiber-optic sensors to a test pipe in Cornell's Geotech ...