Robots offer the elderly a helping hand
Humanoid robots under development can be programmed to detect changes in an elderly person’s preferences and habits. Credit: GrowMeUp Every ...
Uber CEO Kalanick resigns under investor pressure
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 ...
Toshiba prefers US-Japan bidder for memory chip biz sale
This May 26, 2017 file photo shows the company logo of Toshiba Corp. displayed in front of its headquarters in Tokyo. Troubled Japanese elec ...
Solar solution brings water to besieged Syria town
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 ...
Cyber boost: New operating system will improve Navy computing power
Students in a Virginia Tech laboratory test Popcorn Linux--an operating system that can compile different programming languages into a singl ...
Uber allows riders to tip drivers via app matching Lyft
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 customers forget their passwords business suffers
A lot of money goes unspent in the online world for a simple reason: Shoppers can't remember their passwords. ...
Amazon aiming to be the dressing room in your house
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 to push global expansion with new funds
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 ...
Uber adds option to tip drivers as it heads in new direction
In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017, file photo, an Uber car drives through LaGuardia Airport in New York. Uber is enabling passengers to tip ...
Amazon.com once sold only books; now the retail giant markets everything
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 adds facial recognition kiosks at Twin Cities airport
Delta Airlines says it is the first U.S. airline to use facial recognition technology to speed the process of checking baggage. ...
Apple seeks to void patent claims fees in Qualcomm dispute
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 ...
Solar heating could cover more than 80 percent of domestic heating requirements in Nordic countries
Credit: Aalto University According to researchers at Aalto University, by using suitable systems, more than 80 percent of heating energy fo ...
Opinion: Trump's attack on renewable energy
Fossil fuels have long been subsidized by tax policies, such as the oil depletion allowance, and by infrastructure construction, such as the ...
Visitor registration open for the Engineering Design Show 2017
Visitor registration is now open for the UK's largest exhibition and conference entirely dedicated to the design engineering community.
We need to be cautious when assuming CCTV will prevent family violence
A reliance on security infrastructure to resolve embedded social problems may be misguided. Credit: shutterstock This year's Victorian stat ...
Price hikes in Ether and Bitcoin aren't the signs of a bubble
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, ...
Amazon strikes again; the dressing room in your house
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 ...
China shames jaywalkers through facial recognition
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 to transport both ions and electrons
Polymers that can bridge biology and electronics have been designed by scientists at the University of Washington.
Focus on pickup trucks not Priuses to reduce gasoline use emissions
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 ...
Ship autopilot steers during evasive manoeuvres and docking
Demo: control room for an autonomous ship. Credit: Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is d ...
Engineers transform food waste into green energy
A truck dumps Cornell dining hall food waste at the university’s composting facility in March 2017. Through the processes of hydrothermal li ...
Research uses social media to learn what people really need in time of crisis
Maleknaz Nayebi, a PhD candidate in software engineering and lead author, Guenther Ruhe, Electrical and Computer Engineering professor, and ...
ARM adds Cortex-M3 to DesignStart programme
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
Watching cities grow—New algorithms for evaluating satellite data
Using the new satellite tomography, researchers can map the city of Berlin in 3-D and deformation and subsidence down to the millimeter. Cre ...
Organic material gives batteries longer life
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.
Google's search engine aims to become employment engine
This image provided by Google shows examples of help-wanted listings displayed on a smartphone. Google is trying to turn its search engine i ...
How to grow a structure using 'mushroom sausages'
Credit: Brunel University A Brunel University London student has been exploring how mushrooms can be used to grow robust zero-waste structu ...
US regulators sue to block merger of fantasy sports sites
The merger of fantasy sports website DraftKings, seen here in a file picture, is being challenged by antitrust regulators US regulators ann ...
X-ray eyes in the sky: New method for 3-D through-wall imaging that utilizes drones and WiFi
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi's lab have given the first demonstration of three-dimensional imaging of objects t ...
Data firm working for Trump exposed 198 mn voter files: researchers
Researchers at the Upguard consultancy said they had identified the largest known breach of voter data in history A data analytics firm tha ...
Report: Mexican journalists activists targeted with spyware
An internet watchdog has found that Mexican journalists, lawyers and activists were targeted by Israeli-produced spyware that is sold exclus ...
Grocers facing a united Amazon-Whole Foods must adapt
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 ...
EU warns of 'united response' to cyberattacks
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 ...
Google steps up efforts to block extremism following Facebook
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google is stepping up its efforts to block "extremist and terrorism-related videos" over its platforms ...
How drones are advancing scientific research
Credit: Richard Unten Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have been around since the early 1900s. Originally used for military oper ...
Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles
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
Study shows the trade-offs in gig work
Gig workers saw their work as flexible but also with its risks. Credit: Reynaldo Vasconcelos/Newzulu/AAP Uber driver Michelle, thinks her j ...
UltraSOC develops RISC-V processor trace
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
Tracking methane with robust laser technology
The LiDAR system for the MERLIN mission incorporates all components from the pump laser to the frequency conversion in a particularly compac ...
Bosch to build 12in fab in Dresden
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.
Thin films could enable future ReRAM
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
JLR goes virtual to recruit 1000 electronic engineers
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,
‘Innovative’ engineering courses launched
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
Faster performance evaluation of 'super graphs' is shown. Credit: DGIST Himchan Park and Min-Soo Kim of DGIST have developed TrillionG, a c ...
Microwaves and microbes turn household waste into biodegradable plastic
Europeans discard 200 million tonnes of household waste every year. Credit: ‘Poland. Trash 002’ by Albertyanks Albert Jankowski is in the pu ...
To post or not to post: Internet tips for college hopefuls
This June 16, 2017 photo shows social media app icons on a smartphone held by an Associated Press reporter in San Francisco. Google yourself ...
Harvard students' ouster over offensive posts stirs debate
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 ...
China propels rise of electric ultra-high-performance cars
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 ...
Dutch firm aims to deliver first flying car in 2018
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 and the coming health revolution
Artificial intelligence can improve health care by analyzing data from apps, smartphones and wearable technology Your next doctor could ver ...
Senegal's corner shops go digital to track trade
Marieme Assietou Diagne, who manages a health food delivery business, says she has gained "more free time and better sales" since ...
Amazon deal seen as disruptor of grocery business
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 ...
S. Korea to scrap all plans to build new nuclear reactors
South Korea currently operates 25 nuclear reactors, which generate about 30 percent of the country's power supply South Korea's new Preside ...
Free mapping: plotting development in Africa
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 ...
EU unveils plans to regulate drones by 2019
The EU aims to have the regulatory framework for drone monitoring functioning by 2019, with basic services like registration and e-identific ...
Amazon's Bezos asks for philanthropic ideas gets plenty
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is asking for ideas to help the world through philanthropy—and is getting an earful. ...
Prospective pumped hydro sites in South Australia
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have identified 185 sites in South Australia potentially suitable for pumped hydro s ...
Wind farms are hardly the bird slayers they're made out to be—here's why
The potential to harm local birdlife is often used to oppose wind farm development. But research into how birds die shows wind farms should ...
Augmented reality system to help medical professionals
Credit: Birmingham City University A mixed reality system which allows medical practitioners to view and interact with virtual replicas of ...
Google presence would be a boon for San Jose but not everyone is impressed
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 ...
Tech startups founded by women have twice the number of female employees study says
Startups with at least one female founder build companies where nearly half the staff are women, a study found. ...
Batteries that "drink" seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
Open Water Power’s battery that "drinks" in sea water to operate is safer and cheaper, and provides a tenfold increase in range, o ...
How to build software for a computer 50 times faster than anything in the world
This image is a small portion of an output from the "Q Continuum" cosmology simulation; the full simulation evolves more than half ...
Inflatable plug for subway tunnels demonstrated
John Fortune, of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Division, points out features of the Resilient Tunnel Plug at ...
Wind turbines can pick up the slack on coldest days
Credit: Imperial College London Winter days are usually less windy, but a new analysis shows turbines work harder on the coldest days, when ...
Nanomaterial for Li-ion batteries wins £10k
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
64 layer NAND flash goes into volume
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.
TSA tests better bomb-detecting scanners for carry-ons
In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017, photo provided by American Airlines, a Transportation Security Administration officer operates an L3 Clear ...
Georgia official discounts threat of exposed voter records
This Sept. 22, 2016 file photo shows employees of the Fulton County Election Preparation Center in Atlanta test electronic voting machines. ...
Researchers find way to reduce environmental impact of idling buses and delivery trucks
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system for service vehicles that could reduce emissions and save companies and go ...
Printed sensors monitor tyre wear in real time
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
Facebook seeks to become 'hostile place' for extremists
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 unveils new look which users quickly mock
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 ...
TSA is testing 3-D scanners for carry-on luggage
Federal officials are screening some carry-on bags with 3-D scanning technology, which they say improves the ability to find bombs. ...
Fall of the roaming empire: EU ends mobile travel fees
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 ...
Old school meets new school: Flight deck Ouija boards go digital
Lt. Timothy Sullivan, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), tries out the Office of Naval Research TechSolutions-spo ...
Microsemi launches Windows based RISC-V IDE
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.
BA flight disruption cost estimated £80m: parent company
Three days of flight disruption at British Airways due to a massive computer crash last month will cost the airline an estimated £80 mi ...
Electrolytes made from liquefied gas enable batteries to run at ultra-low temperatures
New electrolytes made from liquefied gas enable lithium batteries and electrochemical capacitors to run at extremely cold temperatures. Cred ...
From bleeps of 'Pong' and 'Mario' game music comes of age
In this June 1990 file photo, Tetris, an addictive brain-teasing video game, is shown as played on the Nintendo Entertainment System in New ...
Processor enables optical deep learning
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
'Magic' alloy could spur next generation of solar cells
In what could be a major step forward for a new generation of solar cells called "concentrator photovoltaics," University of Michi ...
Archaeologist teams up with computer vision experts to match prehistoric pottery
Jun Zhou, Karen Smith and Yuhang Lu are using a 3D scanner to build a database of prehistoric pottery designs. The multidisciplinary project ...
Face recognition system 'K-Eye'
CMOS image sensor chip. Credit: KAIST Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the key emerging technologies. Global IT companies are competi ...
Wireless power transfer over 5G networks
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
Rest easy during EU holidays: no more phone roaming costs
From now on, European Union holidaymakers should return home without that sense of high anxiety about their mobile phone bill: extra fees fo ...
Swimming robot to probe damage at Japan nuclear plant
A newly developed robot for underwater investigation of a Fukushima damaged reactor moves through the water at a test facility in Yokosuka n ...
Researchers develop a reliable forward error correction method for digital data
SPbPU scientists were able to design codes, which surpass state-of-the-art competitors in performance and decoding simplicity. Credit: Peter ...
Researcher finds Georgia voter records exposed on internet
This Sept. 22, 2016 file photo shows employees of the Fulton County Election Preparation Center in Atlanta test electronic voting machines. ...
Electro Rent-Microlease merger inquiry finds concerns
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
Game players face their demons in virtual reality
Gaming fans wear VR goggles to play "Echo Arena" from Oculus on day two of E3 2017, the three day Electronic Entertainment Expo in ...
US blames North Korea for series of cyberattacks
U.S. officials are blaming the North Korean government for a series of cyberattacks dating to 2009 against media, aerospace, financial secto ...
Foxconn assembler of iPhones eyes Wisconsin for plant
A Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones and other electronics is considering building a plant in Wisconsin that could employ thou ...
Canada to teach computer coding starting in kindergarten
Five hundred teachers across the country will be provided with the training and tools to teach digital skills and coding to children Canadi ...
Facebook gives bots ability to negotiate compromise
Facebook chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg show developers at a 2016 conference how "bots" can respond to natural language Fac ...
Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles overcomes major hurdle
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The future of our cities: Engineers test resilient intelligent infrastructure
Researchers from the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction glue fiber-optic sensors to a test pipe in Cornell's Geotech ...