Credit: Anna/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA If you could have a new home, exactly to your specification for about a year's average salary wouldn't you ...

A simulation of one of the detectors used in the MR-Linac system. Credit: Daniel O'Brien, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Rad ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Interactive Computing have come up with a novel computational approach that c ...

Credit: Adobe Stock Research by Iman Khajehzadeh, who graduates with a PhD in Architecture next week, explores the significance of housing ...

You might have heard a phishing scam has been making the rounds on the internet in the last day or so. ...

In 2011 as Facebook inched ever closer to 1 billion active monthly users, it faced a vexing crisis: uproar about a facial recognition algori ...

An upgrade to the transistor laser developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign could boost computer processor speeds through the formation of two stable energy states and the ability t

Workers in the dairy sector. Credit: Elhuyar Fundazioa AZTI and INGENET have developed and validated a software tool adapted to the dairy s ...

Hanford, in Washington state, is the Western hemisphere's most contaminated nuclear site Hundreds of workers at a nuclear site in the US st ...

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Forge Nano ...

According to Daniel Work, assistant professor of civil environmental engineering at the University of Illinois, The use of autonomous vehicl ...

Santa Fe Opera General Director Charles MacKay announces that a techno-infused opera about the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will even ...

Facebook says its researchers have found a new way to use artificial intelligence to translate material on its social network faster and mor ...

This photo provided by Amazon shows models of the Amazon Echo Show. Amazon is giving its voice-enabled Echo speaker a touch screen and video ...

With more and more internet streaming services making their debut, cable companies and their set-top boxes can look a little old-school. ...

Credit: North Carolina State University Computer and social scientists have collaborated to develop a large data set on how group behavior ...

A U.K. scandal torpedoed Rupert Murdoch's first attempt to take control of British-based broadcaster Sky. Now claims of sexual harassment at ...

In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017, file photo, the Samsung Galaxy S8, right, and S8 Plus appear on display after a news conference, in New Y ...

Carter Wilkerson now holds the record for for the most retweeted message on Twitter - a quest for free Wendy's chicken nuggets An American ...

When a digital TV system operates with excess transmit power there is no benefit for either the user or broadcaster. New research has found ...

Norway's second-largest supermarket chain said Tuesday it has introduced reverse vending machines that give customers discount coupons for n ...

Researchers led by Northeastern's Alessandro Vespignani have developed a computational model to project the spread of the flu using Twitter ...

This photo provided by Amazon shows models of the Amazon Echo Show. Amazon is giving its voice-enabled Echo speaker a touch screen and video ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Investing in new ways of utility-scale electricity storage and capturing carbon to store underground should be a ...

The power of big data is used in a strategy developed by A*STAR to improve the security of networks of internet-connected objects, known as ...

Painting in an immersion bath: Industrial water and paints can be sterilized with electric impulses. Credit: Photo: Eisenmann Most paints f ...

In a move to address surging demand for expertise in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), NVIDIA has announced that it plans to train 100,000 developers IN 2017, a tenfold increase over 2016, th

Led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the COMBO-CFB project has developed a new innovative concept to increase solar energy produ ...

PolyU's novel bio-inspired anti-vibration structures has won the 2017 TechConnect Global Innovation Award. PolyU is the first tertiary insti ...

Purdue University graduate student Yifeng Zhou, at left, and assistant professor Meng Cui review data from a new adaptive-optics technology ...

Arm fatigue accumulates during a prolonged use of mid-air interfaces such as Oculus Rift. Credit: Purdue University Photo/Brian Huchel Rese ...

Javier Bello Ruiz and Robin Mange, cofounders of Imverse, will present their immersive virtual-reality software at the World VR Forum in Cra ...

Credit: Texas A&M University We all lose our balance sometimes; we slip, we fall, we get back up. But for some, life is a balance beam, ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have been able to turn a variety of different, irregular surfaces into touchpads using tools as simple as a can of spray paint.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers, as part of a Navistar SuperTruck I team, helped design a new type of tractor-trailer tru ...

The desire to develop a driverless car is not a modern aspiration. The first demonstrations of the approach took place in the mid 1980s, but it is only recently that the idea has begun to be taken ser

Arrow Electronics has extended its range of IoT development boards with the addition of the SmartEverything Panther.

A report from the consumer group Which? and telecoms analyst OpenSignal has called for ‘critical’ reforms in the way 4G is being delivered to customers in the UK.

In this April 11, 2017 file photo, Toshiba Corp.'s President Satoshi Tsunakawa bows during a press conference at the company's headquarters ...

Proponents of net neutrality protest against Federal Communication Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on May 5, 2017 The US agency regulating int ...

The recorded music industry has seen two years of solid growth thanks to the boom in streaming but Pandora has struggled to gain traction P ...

The small Cuban town of Gaspar is one of the most connected spots in one of the least wired countries on Earth On a traffic island in a cou ...

New research from Computing and Information Science and Adobe may add another creative option to image editing software. Credit: Cornell Uni ...

But the Dutch government has committed to ensuring that some 14 percent of its energy comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar po ...

The Boston skyline forms a backdrop at the site of General Electric's new headquarters prior to a groundbreaking ceremony, Monday, May 8, 20 ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Despite the lofty reputation of old violins by Italian masters such as Antonio Stradivari, blindfolded listeners ...

An Austrian court has ruled that Facebook must delete hate speech postings worldwide and that Austrian law can be applied to lawsuits agains ...

In this April 18, 2017 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif. T ...

Uber is setting up a lab in Toronto to develop artificial intelligence needed for autonomous cars to recognize objects so they can travel sa ...

A crux of an outdoor climbing route (left) vs. one using fabricated holds (right). Credit: Dartmouth College Through a combination of 3-D m ...

This Wednesday, March 29, 2017, file photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Cable operators Comcast and Charter Comm ...

To find out how to type better with virtual reality technology, computer scientists used a light-up virtual display, autocorrect algorithms ...

This Wednesday, March 29, 2017, file photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Cable operators Comcast and Charter Comm ...

A new survey shows Amazon leads the market for connected speakers with its Echo devices, like this one displayed at the 2017 Consumer Electr ...

Solar technology could help make the power grid more resilient to attacks and natural disasters. Many military bases are located in regions ...

One of the most popular passwords in 2016 was "qwertyuiop," even though most password meters will tell you how weak that is. The p ...

Flexible electronics pioneer PragmatIC will install its first FlexLogIC system in facilities leased from the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) at the National Printable Electronics Centre.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have developed a low-cost method of turning a wide variety ...

An example of beam pattern shaping using KAUST’s MIMO waveform computation scheme. Credit: IEEE A new method for shaping the waveform gener ...

Credit: Tom Webster The visual impact of small wind turbines in an urban area can be a source of concerns. It's up to developers to find sm ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook says it has deleted tens of thousands of accounts in Britain ahead of the June 8 general election in a d ...

This Wednesday, March 29, 2017, file photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Cable operators Comcast and Charter Comm ...

The average consumer would be willing to pay $4,900 more for a car that had self-driving technologies, and $3,500 more for crash avoidance, ...

Credit: Steffen Thoma/Public Domain Drivers respond to emergencies more slowly and severely in semi-automated cars, according to a new stud ...

The project "SafeBattery" aims to contribute to achieving more leeway in range and vehicle design while always guaranteeing safety ...

Credit: University of Otago Dunedin residents are still far from efficient with their use of energy, a University of Otago Centre for Susta ...

An international team of researchers has demonstrated how people can be 'inoculated' against misinformation and fake news on topical issues ...

French voter. Credit: Rama/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Democracy has entered a new phase marked by hacking by foreign states and fake stories share ...

Microsemi and Synopsys have signed a multi-year extension of their OEM agreement under which customised FPGA synthesis tools are made available to Microsemi’s customers.

A nano-scale thin film material developed at the University of Minnesota is said to have the highest conductivity in its class. According to the researchers, the material could lead to smaller, faster

After debuting in October Zcash hit an exchange rate of $1,000 per unit, putting it in league with the much better established Bitcoin, the ...

Telecommunications company Sinclair Broadcast Group is close to an agreement to buy rival TV station operator Tribune Media. ...

Chinese internet giant Tencent said Saturday its messaging app WeChat had been blocked in Russia, adding it was in touch with authorities to ...

Turkish Airlines is to offer laptops to business class passengers travelling to the US and Britain Turkish Airlines on Saturday said it wou ...

Chinese internet giant Tencent said Saturday it was "deeply sorry" its messaging app WeChat was blocked in Russia, adding it was i ...

Microsoft's acquisition of "Minecraft" began with a tweet and a text. ...

In this May 3, 2017 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa talks with the committee's ranking member ...

This March 1, 2017, file photo shows an exterior view of the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. The Justice Department is probing allega ...

Sonos. It's the gold standard for multi-room audio. It brings y ...

Recently in Lawrenceville, Pa., roboticists sat alongside executives of some of the largest manufacturing companies in the country, as hundr ...

There is something spooky about being able to see and talk to the pirate Blackbeard while one walks down a dark alley and then stepping righ ...

A new survey shows Apple has vaulted to the lead in the market for wearable computing thanks to strong sales of its Apple Watch, the latest ...

In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, Google Home, right, sits on display near a Pixel phone following a product event, in San Francisc ...

Credit: fdecomite More than 3 million people (three times previous estimates) are estimated to be actively using cryptocurrencies like bitc ...

In this Jan. 19, 2017, file photo, Warren Buffett attends the world premiere screening of HBO's "Becoming Warren Buffett" at The M ...

Microscopic landscape of various types of cells—including tumour cells (in red). Credit: University of Warwick Cancer cells are to be detec ...

City residents are not benefitting from a clear strategy for developing cities that are 'smart' according to a new RICS Research Trust repor ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain You, too, could become a troll. Not a mythological creature that hides under bridges, but one of those annoying p ...

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory If you're an electric utility planning a new power plant by a river, it would be nice to know what that ...

Wikipedia logo. A Turkish court has rejected an appeal filed by Wikipedia against a ban in Turkey on its website. ...

The European Aviation Safety Agency is proposing rules on the use of small drones that would include a requirement for operators of all but ...

Credit: George Hodan/Public Domain A Romanian security firm says it has discovered a ring of digital spies using bottom-rung tools to break ...

A human muscle cell is growing on a fleece made from micrometer-thin polymer fibers. In this way, the synthetic membrane can be biologically ...

The solar-powered plane SolarStratos takes off at the airbase in Payerne, Switzerland, Friday, May 5, 2017. The main goal of the SolarStrato ...

Microsoft raised eyebrows in 2014 with the announcement it was spending a hefty $2.5 billion to buy Mojang, the Swedish developer of world-b ...

Credit: Scott Meltzer/public domain What if you knew when you stopped at a traffic signal whether you had two minutes or 10 seconds before ...

By using an electrically conductive material compatible with a standard 3D printer, researchers at Duke University have 3D printed electromagnetic metamaterials. They claim the discovery could revolut

A Chinese-made C919 passenger jet takes off on its first flight at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, Friday, May 5, 2017. The first ...

I recently spent time driving a lot of new Chevrolet cars, trucks and SUVs. ...

Iceland says its geothermal power station at Reykjanes can produce clean energy independent from fossil fuels by generating electricity from ...