Google Translate app now unblocked in China
Google's translation app is now is accessible in China without censor-evading software Google on Wednesday made available in China a new ve ...
Creating waterproof concrete
2017-03-29 22:00:17Creating waterproof concrete
Credit: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Water is concrete's ultimate enemy. Although concrete withstands constant beatings from cars an ...
Windows update will bring 3-D game tools and less clutter
In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, file photo, Terry Myerson, Microsoft's executive vice president of the Windows and Devices Group, discusse ...
Cold spray technology to repair surfaces of corroded aircraft parts
This robotic arm is programmed to apply cold spray technology to repair surfaces of corroded aircraft parts. Credit: University of Akron Fa ...
Overmoulding technology to make flexible LEDs
All stages for making a flexible in-moulded LEDs on a roll-to-roll process have been performed for the first time, say scientists from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Quantum gadget to make contactless payment more secure
A prototype gadget that sends secret keys to encrypt information passed from a mobile device to a payment terminal, could improve the security of contactless and wireless transactions, an Oxford Unive
Renesas adds 20 MCUs to Synergy platform
Renesas has added the S128, S3A3, and S3A6 MCU families to its Synergy platform, enabling engineers to select from 57 devices in seven MCU groups. The newly added ARM Cortex-M based parts run at frequ
Flexible electronic devices with roll-to-roll overmolding technology
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has, for the first time, performed all manufacturing stages for a flexible in-moulded LED foil with ...
High voltage MOSFET improves efficiency in power applications
Infineon Technologies has added the 600V CoolMOS P7 and 600V CoolMOS C7 Gold product families to its MOSFET portfolio. The parts are designed to operate at 600V breakdown voltage and to deliver improv
Intel fellow calls for standardised density metric
Speaking at Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Day in San Francisco, the company’s senior fellow and director of process architecture and integration, Mark Bohr, called for a standardised density me
Lithium ion theory to be revised
The ultrafast dynamics of lithium ions have been observed in real-time with femtosecond time resolution by researchers from the Centre for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, within Korea’s Institute
Toshiba says Westinghouse files for bankruptcy protection
Toshiba Corp. President Satoshi Tsunakawa bows during a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. ...
Japan scientist eyes energy burst from 'typhoon turbine'
Engineer Atsushi Shimizu, founder and CEO of the Japanese venture company Challenergy, stands next to his bladeless wind turbine in Tokyo M ...
US lawmakers roll back privacy rules for internet carriers
The House of Representatives voted 215-205 to overturn the Federal Communications Commission rule, following last week's 50-48 vote in the S ...
What the death of broadband privacy rules means
This June 19, 2015, file photo, shows the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington. Republicans in the House have followed t ...
Electronics ban on flights not a longterm solution: IATA boss
Kuwaiti social media activist Thamer al-Dakheel Bourashed puts his laptop inside his suitcase at Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City ...
Fighting world hunger: Robotics aid in the study of corn and drought tolerance
To develop 3-D images of corn plants in the field, DeSouza's team developed a combination approach of a mobile sensor tower (in background) ...
Chinese tech company Tencent acquires 5 percent Tesla stake
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has acquired a 5 percent stake in electric car maker Tesla Inc. ...
Uber diversity report says 36 percent of employees are women
In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017, photo, an Uber representative helps travelers find rides with Uber at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Uber ...
Parents who play Pokemon GO with kids: 'It wasn't really about the Pokemon'
Parents who played Pokemon GO with their children reported increased exercise, outdoor experiences and family bonding. Credit: University of ...
Desktop scanners can be hijacked to perpetrate cyberattacks
A typical office scanner can be infiltrated and a company's network compromised using different light sources, according to a new paper by r ...
Samsung's fire-prone Note 7 phone may return after recalls
Samsung's fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 phone might come back as refurbished or rental phones. ...
China's Tencent takes 5% stake in Tesla: SEC filing
China's giant Tencent Holdings has taken a five percent stake in the Tesla electric car company as it moves to ramp up production, according ...
Got camera? Facebook adds more Snapchat-like features
In this May 16, 2012 file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook is adding more Snapchat-like features t ...
Clarifying how lithium ions ferry around in rechargeable batteries
Electrolytes (blue elipse) surround lithium ions (green circles), forming the so-called 'solvation shell' or 'solvation sheath'. These shell ...
Uber pulls out of Denmark citing tougher cab standards
The Danish branch of the ride-sharing service Uber said Tuesday it is shutting down its services in Denmark due to a proposed law that tough ...
World Video Game Hall of Fame names 2017 finalists
In this March 16, 2017 photo provided by The Strong museum, the 12 finalists for induction this year into The Strong museum's World Video Ga ...
Amazon tests grocery pickup service in Seattle
This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon is continuing to delve into new ways of letting people ...
5G transmitter ’20 times as efficient’ as previous designs
Researchers from Aalto University, working with Tampere University and Nokia Bell Labs, have developed a radio transmitter for small 5G base stations which is said to be 20 times as efficient as previ
What makes a cyberattack? Experts lobby to restrict the term
Michael Schmitt, a professor of law at the U.S. Naval War College and University of Exeter in England, poses for a picture at the Victory Se ...
Amazon buys Mideast's Souq.com after $800M counteroffer (Update)
A truck is parked at the entrance of the Souq.com warehouse in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 27, 2017. Dubai's Emaar Malls, a s ...
Air could be the world's next battery
This is the idea that RICAS 2020 will be helping to realise: surplus energy generated by wind turbines and solar cells is used to compress a ...
How Facebook – the Wal-Mart of the internet – dismantled online subcultures
In the mid-1990s, body modification enthusiasts – a long-ostracized subculture – created an online community that incorporated blogs, dating ...
Countering fake news with contagions
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Social media is a wonderful tool for sharing information quickly; But not surprisingly, some of that information ...
Design could save truck fuel with turbulence-cutting electric wind generators
Researcher Julie Vernet adjusts the plasma acutators during a test. Credit: KTH The Royal Institute of Technology For road vehicles, wind r ...
EU investing €15.5million in photonic IC technology
Looking to provide Europe with a state-of-the-art infrastructure to support the development and manufacture of photonic integrated circuits (PICs), the EU is investing €15.5million in an international
Elon Musk hints at new brain-computer project
Elon Musk, pictured in 2015, referenced a new company called Neuralink in a tweet, promising to elaborate in a blog post Tech entrepreneur ...
Can robots write meaningful news?
Robots and computers are replacing people everywhere; doctors, pilots, even journalists. Is this leading to a dystopian society, or could it ...
Can computers one day understand emotions? New patent paves the way
James Wang and Reginald Adams discussing a new patent that takes the next step in computer learning techniques in the hopes that computers c ...
A big leap toward tinier lines
A team of researchers at MIT and the University of Chicago claim to have found a way to produce some of the narrowest wires yet, using a process that could be scaled up for mass manufacturing.
Embedded World: an overview
2017-03-28 18:00:19Embedded World: an overview
Mouser and Renesas announced a global distribution partnership at Embedded World. Together, the companies will focus on the latest software, development kits and MCUs that comprise the Synergy Platfor
UPDATE - Intel unveils 3D XPoint based SSDs
It’s getting on for two years since Intel and Micron launched their 3D XPoint memory concept. Describing the approach as ‘the first new class of mainstream memory technology since 1989’, they claimed
Souq.com says Amazon has bought it after $800M counteroffer
A truck is parked at the entrance of the Souq.com warehouse in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 27, 2017. Dubai's Emaar Malls, a s ...
A novel hybrid UAV that may change the way people operate drones
Hybrid UAV U-Lion with three flying modes. Credit: ©Science China Press Two PhD students in National University of Singapore, Unmanned ...
AP Exclusive: Colombia 'panic buttons' expose activists
In this March 23, 2017, photo, Amalfi Rosales, a Colombian journalist whose exposes of corruption forced her to flee, holds a GPS-enabled &q ...
Waze gets into the order-ahead business with Dunkin' Donuts
Waze's traffic navigation app already shows ads prodding drivers to swing by fast-food joints like Dunkin' Donuts and Taco Bell. Now it's ad ...
Self-driving car crash comes amid debate about regulations
In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, photo, a group of self-driving Uber vehicles position themselves to take journalists on rides during a media ...
Samsung to sell refurbished safety-recalled Note 7 phones
Passengers line up beside a safety warning about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone at China's Wuhan airport in this October 2016 file pic ...
Uber resumes self-driving car program after brief suspension
In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, photo, a group of self-driving Uber vehicles position themselves to take journalists on rides during a media ...
Lawsuit: Hackers stole customer data at 1000 Arby's stores
A Connecticut couple says Georgia-based Arby's restaurants failed to prevent hackers from stealing customer information at hundreds of its s ...
Colombia 'panic buttons' expose activists
In this March 23, 2017, photo, Amalfi Rosales, a Colombian journalist whose exposes of corruption forced her to flee, holds a GPS-enabled &q ...
Renewable energy has robust future in much of Africa: study
The location and energy potential, in terawatt hours, of eastern and southern African renewable resources (wind, solar photovoltaic and conc ...
Uber suspends self-driving car program in 2 states
Uber says its self-driving cars remains suspended in Arizona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, following a crash over the weekend. ...
Manufacturer: Drones should transmit identifier for security
The world's largest manufacturer of civilian drones is proposing that the craft continually transmit identification information to help gove ...
France's classic 2CV car gets special edition—in wood
French cabinetmaker Michel Robillard took six years to craft a lifesize and fully operational handbuilt wooden 2CV Citroen Car A wooden rep ...
Benchmark finds the ‘true cost’ of using BLE
EEMBC has announced the availability of IoTMark-BLE, a benchmark and analysis tool that has been developed to measure the energy efficiency of MCUs and Bluetooth radios used in IoT edge-node devices.
EPSRC provides £20million for high performance computing
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is providing £20million to fund establishment or expansion of six high performance computing (HPC) centres. The investment is intended to
Carnegie Mellon's CyLab challenges high school students to give hacking a try
The winners from picoCTF 2014 listen to David Brumley -- project lead for picoCTF, the director of CyLab, and a professor of Electrical and ...
Estonia is putting its country in the cloud and offering virtual residency
Estonian e-Residency. Estonia is a small country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe with a population of 1.3 million and a GDP of US $ ...
35 years of chiptune's influence on electronic music
The MOS 6581 or SID to his friends. Credit: C64wiki It can be hard to write about the music of videogames while we are bathed in the projec ...
New 5G transmitter 20 times more efficient than the previous ones
Prototype of the new integrated base station transmitter. Credit: Aalto University In the future, the coverage of a single base station has ...
Research group developing a rechargeable magnesium/iodine battery for daily consumer use
Batteries – can you image how cumbersome the world would be without them? Without any moving parts, batteries convert chemical energy into e ...
Development of image-analysis technology with AI for real-time identity detection and tracking
Credit: Hitachi Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a detection and tracking technology using artificial intelligence (AI) whi ...
Flowing transition between design and simulation
With the newly developed simulation software a Fraunhofer IGD employee examines whether the desired design can be realized. Credit: Fraunhof ...
New safety technology enables teamwork
Safety zones: The display shows the different zones. In the yellow zone, robots and humans collaborate, with the robot moving significantly ...
Justices won't hear appeal in music copyright dispute
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from record companies that want to pursue copyright infringement claims against music site Vimeo for ...
Archival photos offer research value
Smapshot lets users position archival photos over a virtual map of contemporary Switzerland. Credit: EPFL/Swisstopo A crowdmapping project ...
Printable device for sensor-laden robot skin
To demonstrate flexible, printable electronics that combine sensors and processing circuitry, MIT researchers have designed and built a device that responds to mechanical stresses by changing the colo
Vibrational analysis for machine condition monitoring
An IoT enabled condition monitoring device has been developed by Sensor-Works to help engineers observe more effectively changes in machinery. The sensor, called BluVib, can be fixed to rotating equip
EU calls for privacy-security balance on message encryption
People look at floral tributes in Parliament Square, London, Sunday, March 26, 2017, laid out for the victims of the Westminster attack on W ...
Emaar Malls offers $800M for Souq.com amid Amazon rumors
A subsidiary of the state-backed developer Emaar says it made an $800-million offer to purchase the online retailer Souq.com amid rumors of ...
Self-driving uber suv struck during Arizona accident
Officials say a self-driving Uber SUV was operating on its own when it was struck by another vehicle making a left turn at an intersection i ...
UK targets WhatsApp encryption after London attack
WhatsApp is a mobile messaging service The British government said Sunday that its security services must have access to encrypted messagin ...
China win for Apple as court overturns iPhone ruling
A Beijing court has overturned a ruling that Apple's iPhone 6 violated a Chinese manufacturer's patent which saw the US tech giant ordered t ...
Tech world debate on robots and jobs heats up
Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are heightening concerns about automation replacing a growing number of occupations Are ro ...
Tech changes allow greater fan engagement in sports
As part of its "League Pass" premium streaming service, the NBA has included one game per week in virtual reality streamed online ...
Owner of Silicon Valley staffing firm charged in visa fraud
The owner of a company that supplied foreign workers to San Francisco Bay Area technology companies is facing visa fraud charges after filin ...
Stephen Hawking appears as hologram in Hong Kong
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, 75, appears via hologram to address an audience in Hong Kong Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has spo ...
California air regulators vote to keep tough fuel standards
California air regulators voted Friday to keep the state's tough vehicle emissions standards through 2025. ...
More big brands pull ads from YouTube in widening boycott
This March 18, 2010, file photo shows the YouTube website in Los Angeles. An advertising boycott of YouTube is broadening in a sign of the s ...
1.4M Illinois job seekers may have had personal data hacked
About 1.4 million job seekers in Illinois may have had their personal information compromised when one of the state's employment security ag ...
Apple: Software flaws in latest WikiLeaks docs are all fixed
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 ...
Twitter eyes paid 'premium' service for power users
Twitter is looking to build a more powerful Tweetdeck to help users manage their accounts Twitter has begun surveying members on a paid sub ...
Opinion: Banning laptops at secure airports won't keep aircraft safe from terror attacks
Credit: Shutterstock Introducing new security measures for the airline industry is rarely done lightly by governments. Certainly it's under ...
IT researchers break anonymity of gene databases
DNA profiles can reveal a number of details about individuals, and even about their family members. There are laws in place that regulate th ...
New type of memory effect found in transition metal oxides
A new kind of memory effect, unrelated to memory effects previously reported, is said to have been discovered in transition metal oxides (TMOs) by Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
MCU configuration tool helps select best part
STMicroelectronics has introduced the STM8CubeMX graphical configurator, a tool which is said to help designers to select the best device from the STM8 range for their application.
Google ad boycott could aim ire at ad-serving software
California-based Google, which has seen a slew of companies withdraw ads fearing placement alongside extremist content, said this week it is ...
California fuel standards to get critical review
A state review has found California is on track to meet its tougher car-emission standards and urges regulators to draft more ambitious envi ...
Analysis: Building a market for renewable thermal technologies
Credit: Yale University Though a mature technology, renewable thermals occupy a small niche in Connecticut—and in the U.S. at large. A new ...
Senate votes to undo privacy rules that protect user data
In this photo taken Jan. 11, 2011, the Verizon logo is displayed in New York. The Republican-led Senate moved Thursday, March 23, 2017, to u ...
Protecting web users' privacy
Most website visits these days entail a database query — to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route betwe ...
Live sports broadcasting in US braces for disruption
In the age of live streaming, NFL executives still believe fans will want to watch games on traditional broadcasts The business of live spo ...
17000 AT&T workers will come back on the job Thursday
Some 17,000 AT&T workers in California and Nevada are returning to their jobs after a one-day walkout. They had been protesting changes ...
Laptop ban creates turbulence for airline profits
A ban on laptops in cabins frustrates travellers and will eat into airlines' profits, experts say A carry-on ban by Washington and London f ...
China's ZTE pleads guilty to violating US sanctions on Iran N.Korea
ZTE has pleaded guilty to conspiring to unlawfully export, obstruction of justice and making a false statement Chinese telecom giant ZTE ha ...
Kenya sells first ever mobile government bonds
Lending the government money is only a click away as Kenya launches its first mobile sovereign bond Kenya, a pioneer in mobile money, on Th ...
WikiLeaks releases CIA hacks of Apple Mac computers
According to Wikileaks documents the CIA can inject a undetectable bug deep into the essential firmware of an Apple Mac computer that will n ...
Let there be light: German scientists test 'artificial sun' (Update)
In this March 21, 2017 photo engineer Volkmar Dohmen stands in front of xenon short-arc lamps in the DLR German national aeronautics and spa ...
Connected dolls and tell-tale teddy bears: Why we need to manage the Internet of Toys
Action is needed to monitor and control the emerging Internet of Toys, concludes a new report by the European Commission's Joint Research Ce ...