Shedding light on how humans walk... with robots
The robotic exosuit delivered forces on the right foot in 19 different directions and angles, interrupting both step length (compromising ba ...
Qatar begins probe after state news agency hacked
The Qatari Government Communications office said the Qatar News Agency website published a false statement attributed to the country's Emir ...
China blocks online broadcast of computer go match
Chinese Go player Ke Jie, left, looks at the board as a person makes a move on behalf of Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, ...
Five surprising ways holograms are revolutionising the world
Holograms could be used to create complex 3D brain models. Credit: Shutterstock We seem to be fascinated by holograms or at least the promi ...
First UNB transceiver offers 100Hz bandwidth
French research institute Leti has developed what it says is the first wireless transceiver dedicated to ultra-narrow band (UNB) communication.
Securing large crowds a 'vexing problem'
Late Monday, an explosion at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in England killed 22 people and injured nearly 60 other ...
Researchers tackle autonomous vehicle security
Credit: Texas A&M University Texas A&M University researchers have developed an intelligent transportation system prototype designe ...
New way to test self-driving cars could cut 99.9 percent of validation costs
Credit: University of Michigan Mobility researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a new way to test autonomous vehicles that b ...
Carcinogenic soot particles from petrol engines
Credit: Empa A new study led by Empa scientists finds that some direct-injection gasoline engines emit just as many soot particles as unfil ...
Switching to off-peak delivery times reduces city congestion
Overnight deliveries reduce daytime congestion. In the Stockholm case, one truck did the work of three, during off peak hours. Credit: KTH R ...
The difficulty of determining which internet apps track personal data
Both paid and unpaid apps can track your data. The apps pictured may not - but it’s hard to know which do and which don’t. Credit: Flickr/Bl ...
Collaboration to advance 5G vehicle technology
A joint research and development collaboration to realise 5G vehicle communications has been started by technology company Continental and Japanese telecommunications company NTT DOCOMO.
Facebook's moderation rules prove it's OK with being a hostile place for women
Credit: Shutterstock Every day, thousands of social media moderators scroll through feeds of threats, pornography, animal and child cruelty ...
V2X collaboration to speed time to market
u blox, Commsignia and NXP have announced a collaboration designed to address growing demand for reliable V2V and V2I technology. The collaboration, building on company’s strengths, is looking to deli
Graphene based biosupercapacitor for implantable devices
Researchers from UCLA and the University of Connecticut have designed a biological supercapacitor which operates using ions derived from bodily fluids. According to the team, its work could lead to lo
Coating turns fabrics into circuits
Breathable, pliable, metal-free electrodes could be applied to fabric and off-the-shelf clothing to transport enough electricity to power small electronics, according to researchers at the University
Qatar says state news agency hacked
The Qatari Government Communications office said the Qatar News Agency website published a false statement attributed to the country's Emir ...
Samsung investigating Galaxy S8 'iris hack'
Samsung says it is investigating claims by a German hacking group that it has been able to fool the iris recognition technology on the flags ...
Jump in renewable energy jobs worldwide: agency
According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, the highest number of jobs in the sector are in Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan ...
Research explores 'artificial leaf' system for solar fuel production
Credit: Florida Institute of Technology If human beings could mimic the way plants make their own fuel, it's not a stretch to say that Eart ...
China shuts some live streaming sites punishes companies
Chinese authorities have punished dozens of companies involved in live online broadcasting and shut down 10 platforms for showing content th ...
Google helps advertisers track spending in physical stores (Update)
This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows Google's web address, in Philadelphia. Google is keeping an eye on what you're buying offline in ...
Target states reach $18.5 million settlement on data breach
This Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, photo shows a Target store in Philadelphia. New York's attorney general is announcing that 47 states and the Dis ...
US says Fiat Chrysler used software to cheat emissions tests
In this Jan. 5, 2015, file photo, Dodge Ram pickup trucks are on display on the lot at Landmark Dodge Chrysler Jeep RAM in Morrow, Ga. In a ...
Appeals court revives challenge to NSA surveillance practice
A challenge to the government's practice of collecting certain internet communications can move forward, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesd ...
More than play: Can video games train sailors and marines?
A volunteer in Dr. Shawn Green's lab plays a session of 'Elemental,' a specially designed video game that Green is using to determine what f ...
Google aims to connect online ads to physical stores
This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows Google's web address, in Philadelphia. Google is keeping an eye on what you're buying offline in ...
NY Attorney General: $18.5 million settlement with Target
This Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, photo shows a Target store in Philadelphia. New York's attorney general is announcing that 47 states and the Dis ...
Google aims to connect online ads to real-world sales
This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows Google's web address, in Philadelphia. Google is keeping an eye on what you're buying offline in ...
Microsoft Surface gets battery boost better viewing angles
In this Tuesday, May 16, 2017, photo, Microsoft's new Surface Pro laptop-tablet hybrid is displayed, in New York. The Surface's stylus will ...
Sheffield energy experts design cooling system for Qatar 2022 stadium
Credit: University of Sheffield A unique system to keep football fans and players cool at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, which was co-desig ...
How far can your shoes run?
2017-05-23 22:00:12How far can your shoes run?
“Our goal is to find out how to elicit a better design, to create a product that interacts better with the people who wear it.”. Credit: Dea ...
TechWorks to move UK tech industry into a higher gear
TechWorks has been established as an umbrella organisation which is looking to give the UK’s technology sector a significant nudge in the right direction.
Solar cells more efficient thanks to new material standing on edge
Researchers from Lund University in Sweden and from Fudan University in China have successfully designed a new structural organization using ...
AI wins as Google algorithm beats No. 1 Go player (Update)
China's 19-year-old Go player Ke Jie (L) makes a move during the first match against Google's artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo Goo ...
GloFo Chengdu plan 'FD-SOI centre of excellence'
Following the recent announcement by Globalfoundries and China’s Chengdu municipality to build a 300mm FD-SOI fab (22FDX), the partners have now unveiled a $100million plan to build what is said to be
Nokia and Apple settle long-running legal disputes
Nokia's Mikko Korhonen, left, demonstrates to Pauli Kuikka how to use the OZO Virtual Reality camera before a the general meeting of the Fin ...
Silica to distribute Silego’s CMICs
Under a recently signed distribution agreement, Avnet Silica has been named Silego’s sole global distributor and its sole demand creation distributor in the Americas and Europe. The company will also
Exploring underground with a colliding drone
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano during the CAVES-X1 expedition in a cave system in. Credit: Italy, May 2017. ESA, Natalino Russo www.natalinoru ...
CDNLive 2017 highlights the complexity of new designs
In his keynote address to this year’s CDNLive, the annual gathering of developers and engineers in Munich, Tom Beckley, general manager of Cadence’s Custom IC and PCB Group, said that all industries w
Sensing insole for footstrike pattern detection in runners
3-D design of the sensing insole (above) and the interface of the smartphone app. Credit: PolyU Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic Un ...
Micro display has 10µm pixel pitch
In a move which it says extends its expertise in high-brightness microdisplay technology for augmented-reality (AR) and other applications, Leti is demonstrating a GaN based microdisplay with 10µm pix
Graphene on silicon carbide can store energy
The capacity of graphene on silicon carbide to store electrical charge can be increased by introducing defects into its surface, say researchers at Linköping University in Sweden.
Chinese online retailer developing one-ton delivery drones
In this image taken from a Nov. 9, 2016 video footage by AP Video, a drone takes off to deliver JD.com parcel from Tiantong'an village near ...
China scrambles to tame bike chaos
A booming rental bike business has flooded China's streets with packs of cyclists, but their habit of going the wrong way and abandoning the ...
North Korea-linked hackers 'highly likely' behind WannaCry: Symantec
North Korea has angrily dismissed reports linking it to the ransomware that crippled hundreds of thousands of computers The Lazarus hacking ...
Sony chief promises profitability but is short on specifics
Sony Corp. Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai outlines its strategy at the company's headquarters in Tokyo Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Sony's leader is ...
Google AI programme beats top-ranked Go player
China's 19-year-old Go player Ke Jie (L) makes a move during the first match against Google's artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo Go ...
Team creates high-speed internet lane for emergency situations
In a disaster, a delay can mean the difference between life and death. Emergency responders don't have time to wait in traffic—even on the c ...
Ford taps former office furniture executive to be new CEO
This undated photo provided by Ford Motor Co. shows Jim Hackett, chairman of Ford Smart Mobility LLC, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Co. He was ...
Sheffield bioenergy experts collaborate with Egyptian partners to produce drinking water
Seawater in Egypt could be turned into drinking water using biomass energy as a source of heat in a new collaborative project from academics ...
A leap for 3-D printing
2017-05-23 04:00:19A leap for 3-D printing
Tresa Pollock stands next to an electron microscope linked to a custom-made table mounted with a chamber used for advanced 3-D printing. Cre ...
Crews cover partially-collapsed tunnel at nuclear site
Workers this weekend finished installing a protective cover over a partially-collapsed tunnel that contained radioactive waste on the Hanfor ...
Ukrainian hacker sentenced in stolen news releases scheme
A Ukrainian hacker involved in an international scheme that used stolen unpublished news releases to make about $30 million in profits has b ...
Researchers find computer code that Volkswagen used to cheat emissions tests
An international team of researchers uncovered the code that allowed Volkswagen to cheat US and European emissions tests. Credit: iStock/Uni ...
Zuckerberg: not running for office but wants 'to learn'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, seen here at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Lima in November 2016, says he is not runni ...
Baseball coming June 1 to virtual-reality headsets
This photo provided by MLB Advanced Media demonstrates 3-D pitch visualization in the company's new At Bat VR app. Baseball games will soon ...
Snapchat leads augmented reality gains: researchers
The report said growth in augmented reality is being fueled by Snapchat Lenses, Facebook Stories, and Instagram Stories Augmented reality i ...
A new way to imagine grid stability
Network visualization map of the US electric grid. Credit: Northwestern University To ensure that the US electric grid remains stable and r ...
Humanitarian efforts could be aided by AI
Social network diagram. Credit: Daniel Tenerife/Wikipedia Researchers have developed an AI algorithm to accurately predict the gender of pr ...
How data is transforming the music industry
Data from what we download and listen to can now be mined to create and promote future songs. Credit: www.shutterstock.com Fifteen years ag ...
Parasitic robot system for waypoint navigation of turtle
The parasitic robot is mounted on the carapace of the turtle. It induces the turtle to move to the waypoint by using a heads-up LED display ...
Wafer-thin magnetic materials developed
A wafer-thin ferrimagnet – in which molecules with different magnetic centres arrange themselves on a gold surface to form a checkerboard pattern – has been produced for the first time, claim research
Network traffic provides early indication of malware infection
Top domains queried by samples of malware studied by cybersecurity researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Credit: Georgia Tech ...
World's first demonstration of multicolor 3-D in vivo imaging using ultra-compact Compton camera
The Compton camera only weighs 580g and is palm-sized, making it the world most compact medical gamma-ray detector. Credit: Waseda Universit ...
Connecting solutions for grid resilience
Credit: Northwestern University Imagine Alexander Graham Bell's reaction if someone handed him an iPhone and told him that the device in hi ...
The deaf-blind can now 'watch' television without intermediaries
PervasiveSUB compiles all the subtitles of television channels and sends them to a central server which forwards them to smartphones or tabl ...
A user-controlled file security scheme for cloud services
“Cloud storage services make data storage and sharing more efficient and cost-effective, but their use requires trust in the cloud’s securit ...
Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells for solar windows
Typical solar cells today are made of crystalline silicon, which is difficult to make translucent. Credit: Liu Fuyu / 123rf Scientists are ...
Quantum emitters could enable hybrid photonic chips
Graphene Flagship researchers from the University of Cambridge have created large scale arrays of quantum emitters in different transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). The work could lead to large qu
Schools using smart phone technology against sex assaults
The same technology that keeps kids glued to their smart phones is being used by some schools as protection against sexual assaults . Using ...
SoftBank-Saudi high-tech Vision fund raises $93bn
When Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank announced a global fund for high-tech investments in partnership with Saudi Arabia, founder Masayoshi ...
'Symphony' sets sights on financial world and beyond
The rise of the Symphony system has been portrayed as a threat to the Bloomberg terminal's dominance in trading rooms Having won over Wall ...
Watch out in a world of connected objects cyber specialists warn
A major wave of cyberattacks hits dozens of countries around the world earlier this month The massive global cyber attack that wreaked havo ...
Swiss to vote on gradual nuclear phaseout energy makeover
Switzerland could gradually replace the power from its ageing nuclear reactors with renewable sources The Swiss will vote in a referendum S ...
Ready Set Go! Rematch of man vs machine in ancient game
Google's artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo will face the world's top-ranked Go player, China's 19-year-old Ke Jie, in a contest expe ...
Jury awards T-Mobile $4.8M in trade-secrets case against Huawei
A robot named "Tappy" has finally had its day in court, and emerged victorious. Well, its creator - T-Mobile - did. ...
Cybersecurity experts gather to try to prevent future attacks like WannaCry
An entire team of experts works at the Mayo Clinic to ensure that 25,000 networked medical devices - everything from digital cameras to prot ...
U. of C. Medicine Google hope to use patterns in patient records to predict health
As a patient, your electronic medical record contains a wealth of information about you: vital signs, notes from physicians and medications. ...
Rare Apple-I fetches less than expected at German auction
An antique Apple Computer 1 from 1976, one of just eight still working, fetched 110,000 euros at auction in Germany, below a forecast price ...
Uber threatens to fire key exec in self-driving car dispute
In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's self-driving program, speaks about their driverless car in San Franci ...
Uber extends on-demand service to trucking
Ridesharing service Uber , whose San Francisco headquarters is seen here, has announced an expansion into trucking with cargo deliveries via ...
Major League Baseball reaches streaming deal with Facebook
MLB's Facebook deal will begin with a broadcast of the Colorado Rockies visit to the Cincinnati Reds later Friday on MLB's Facebook page Ma ...
Appeals court strikes down FAA drone registration rule
In this June 11, 2015, file photo, a hexacopter drone is flown during a drone demonstration in Cordova, Md. An appeals court has struck down ...
Frenchmen claim cure for WannaCry-infected computers
Credit: CC0 Public Domain French researchers have released software tools that they claim can restore some of the computers locked up by a ...
US arrests man in $100 mn Fitbit stock manipulation
Officials claim that Robert Murray profitted at the expense of the public in his fake offer to buy Fitbit shares and then took elaborate ste ...
Team demos potential environmental sustainability benefits in full life cycle assessment of 2nd-generation biofuels
A schematic showing the stages modeled in the biomass-to-fuel life cycle assessment. This image first appeared in the Royal Society of Chemi ...
Optimizing power networks for tomorrow's smart cities
Lehigh industrial engineering Ph.D. candidate Jie Liu won an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award to study power systems and data analytics at IBM Res ...
Self-ventilating workout suit keeps athletes cool and dry
Images of garment prototype before exercise with flat ventilation flaps (F) and after exercise with curved ventilation flaps (G). Credit: Sc ...
Rape probe dropped for WikiLeaks' Assange; uncertainty ahead (Update)
Chief prosecutor Marianne Ny speaks during a press conference in Stockholm on Friday May 19, 2017. Sweden's top prosecutor said Friday she i ...
Their code was used to hack Sony and create 'WannaCry.' Meet the 'Lazarus Group'
Credit: George Hodan/Public Domain On Feb. 4, 2016, as employees left work to enjoy their weekends, the central bank of Bangladesh began fi ...
Facebook launches war on clickbait headlines
Facebook on Thursday launched an assault designed to crack down on clickbait headlines, in a push to banish "fake news" from its n ...
Should spies use secret software vulnerabilities?
When is it okay for the government to keep a secret? Credit: sharpshutter via shutterstock.com The recent WannaCry ransomware attack infect ...
Sweden drops case but WikiLeaks' Assange not in the clear
Chief prosecutor Marianne Ny speaks during a press conference in Stockholm on Friday May 19, 2017. Sweden's top prosecutor said Friday she i ...
Using design to perform 'non-invasive brain surgery'
Credit: Northeastern University Earlier this year, Twitter changed its default avatar from an egg to a human silhouette in an effort to cur ...
Americans choose their computer over caffeine carbs and cash
Credit: Intel A new Intel survey conducted by Ipsos released today shows that computers remain the most trusted technology among consumers. ...
Precisely controlling the movement of levitating objects for many manufacturing applications
The levitating platform developed by Teo and co-workers contains arrays of permanent magnets floating above several coils of wire. The movem ...
Few Australians trust social media with personal information but most do little about it
Personal Information. Credit: Office Australian Information Commissioner When it comes to privacy, Australians are fairly clear about which ...
There's a technology that could stop Facebook Live being used to stream murders – but it has a cost
Credit: Shutterstock It took 24 hours before the video of a man murdering his baby daughter was removed from Facebook. On April 24, 2017, t ...
Why we should be turning waste into fuel
Briquettes or fuel pellets can be made out of paper, plastic, wood waste or textiles. Credit: Dario Sabljak/shutterstock The federal govern ...