Blunder reveals Australian lawmakers' private cell numbers
Private cellphone numbers of most Australian federal lawmakers, their staff and several former prime ministers have been made public after a ...
President of embattled Uber leaves after 6 months on job
In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017 file photo, a sign marks a pick-up point for the Uber car service at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Jeff J ...
Insider Q&A: Girding for net neutrality fight
This undated photo provided by Vimeo shows Michael Cheah. Vimeo, a New York-based video sharing site that is part of billionaire media mogul ...
Secrets from smart devices find path to US legal system
A surgeon implants a pacemaker to a patient An Ohio man claimed he was forced into a hasty window escape when his house caught fire last ye ...
Vintage US nuclear test films declassified and publicized
From the deserts of southern New Mexico and Nevada to islands in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. government conducted dozens of nuclear weapons ...
Bail hearing set for Canadian accused in Yahoo email hack
A Canadian man of Kazakh origins who was arrested in a massive hack of Yahoo emails appeared briefly via video link in a Hamilton, Ontario c ...
Software company rises as price configuration takes off
FPX, a pioneering Minnesota software company that survived three decades of industry change, is accelerating its product development with an ...
AI won't kill you but ignoring it might kill your business experts say
Relax. Artificial intelligence is making our lives easier, but won't be a threat to human existence, according to panel of practitioners in ...
Germany to test dialect analysis software on asylum-seekers
Germany plans to test software that can automatically recognize a person's dialect to help determine whether asylum-seekers are really where ...
Telecom policy tilts in favor of industry under Trump's FCC
In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, file photo, Federal Communication Commission Commissioner Ajit Pai speaks during an open hearing and vote o ...
Review: SnapPower teaches old plugs and switches some new tricks
Electric outlets, light switches, safety covers and USB charger are impressive in their simplicity ...
Unlimited data plans offer boon to consumers
In the wireless industry, it's back to the unlimited future. Ye ...
Lockheed Martin to deliver world record-setting 60kw laser to U.S. Army
A rendering of a truck mounted 60 kW laser weapon system for tactical U.S. Army vehicles. Credit: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin has compl ...
Plasmonic waveguiding to solve data bottleneck
By sending light over a metal film, a process called plasmonic waveguiding, researchers at the University of Cincinnati believe they could one day transmit data with light at the nano level. The resea
New computer software program excels at lip reading
Lips close-up. Credit: Shutterstock A new computer software program has the potential to lip-read more accurately than people and to help t ...
Wi-fi on rays of light—100 times faster and never overloaded
Credit: Public Domain Slow wi-fi is a source of irritation that nearly everyone experiences. Wireless devices in the home consume ever more ...
China blocks Pinterest: censorship watchdogs
Image-curation website Pinterest has become the latest social media service blocked in China, watchdogs say Image-curation website Pinteres ...
Electric bus with Toshiba's wireless charger cuts CO2 emissions by up to 60% in field testing
Toshiba Corporation today announced the results of field tests of electric buses charged with its wireless rapid rechargeable battery system ...
A multi-channel nano-optical device dramatically increases the parallel processing speed
Fig. 1. Credit: Institute for Basic Science The IBS research group devised disordered arrangement of the antennas to minimize redundancy be ...
Is fog more secure than cloud?
Researchers have found that, at high usage levels, the energy required to transport data in cloud computing can be larger than the amount of ...
Flexible sensor holds potential for foldable touch screens
A sensor developed at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could help make advanced transparent and stretchable devices a reality.
European teens – especially girls – dream about cars
Safety is a real concern for girls when taking public transportation. Credit: iStock A study on mobility patterns among young people shows ...
McDonald's apologizes for hacked tweet slamming Trump (Update)
McDonald's apologized Thursday after it briefly posted on Twitter a blast criticizing President Donald Trump, which the company blamed on a ...
Long before new hacks US worried by Russian spying efforts
In this May 25, 2016, courtroom drawing, defendant Evgeny Buryakov, left, stands with his attorney Scott Hershman during sentencing on espio ...
Israeli tech firms revving up engines for self-driving cars
In this Tuesday, 14 March 2017 photo, from left: co-founder and CTO of Mobileye Prof. Amnon Shashua, Israeli Economy Minister Eli Cohen, Isr ...
Turning James Joyce's 'Ulysses' into a virtual reality game
In this Jan. 26, 2017, photo, Joseph Nugent, a Boston College English professor, wears virtual reality goggles at the school's virtual reali ...
NXP embraces FD-SOI for i.MX 7ULP family
Said to be the first general purpose processor based on FD-SOI process technology, the i.MX 7ULP processor family from NXP is optimised for ultra low power modes. According to the company, the device’
Intel deal may fuel Israel's rise as builder of car brains
The March 13 takeover of Mobileye by computer chip giant Intel was the largest ever in Israel's tech sector Intel's $15-billion purchase of ...
S&P cuts troubled Toshiba's credit rating
Standard & Poor's has cut its credit rating on embattled Japanese industrial giant Toshiba to 'CCC-' and warned the company's finances w ...
Google hopes to improve search quality with 'offensive' flag
This March 23, 2010, file photo, shows the Google logo at the Google headquarters in Brussels. Google is now letting its human "quality ...
How to elude Russian hackers with decent password security
In this, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, photo illustration, a woman types on her laptop, in Miami. Details from the Department of Justice indictment ...
Batteries could power and cool chips say Zurich researchers
Chip stacks could be supplied with electrical power by integrated flow batteries and cooled at the same time, according to research undertaken by ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich.
Pakistan wants Facebook Twitter to help it combat blasphemy
Pakistan says it has asked Facebook and Twitter to help it identify Pakistanis suspected of blasphemy so that it can prosecute them or pursu ...
McDonald's probing hacked tweet slamming Trump
McDonald's is investigating an apparent hack into its Twitter feed following a briefly-posted diatribe against President Donald Trump, the f ...
Canada limits recreational drone use as incidents soar
Drone operators in Canada will be prohibited from flying them above an altitude of 90 meters (295 feet) or within 75 meters of buildings, ve ...
Google adds tool to flag 'offensive' search results
Google is now directing its review teams to flag content that might come across as upsetting or offensive in search results. ...
Taxi drivers in Spain strike against Uber and Cabify
Taxi drivers in Spain's two main cities are striking to urge authorities to protect their regulated service against companies like Uber and ...
Researchers report on the challenges of co-creation in video games
Screenshot taken from the official Mass Effect 3 website. The fallout from the poorly received ending of the third video game in the popula ...
Controlling turtle motion with human thought
Unlike previous research that has tried to control animal movement by applying invasive methods, most notably in insects, researchers propos ...
Researchers develop high-precision surgical robot for cochlear implantation
RCI Trajectory for entry into the cochlea at the preplanned angle. Yellow: Facial Nerve, Orange: Chorda Tympani, Light Blue: Cochlea, Dark B ...
Nuclear researchers seek to extend nuclear fuel life and efficiency through improved fuel pellets
Credit: Texas A&M University Researchers with the Fuel Cycles and Materials Laboratory within the Department of Nuclear Engineering at ...
Bosch NVIDIA look to AI for autonomous vehicles
Bosch and NVIDIA are collaborating to develop artificial intelligence self-driving systems targeted at mass market cars. The system, which will be built on NVIDIA’s deep learning software and hardware
Money-saving small wind turbines—myth or reality?
Credit: Hugh Piggot Small wind turbines promise a decentralised and clean energy source, but what can be done to make them more cost effect ...
How online hate infiltrates social media and politics
From person to person, the spread of online hate can be rapid. Credit: shutterstock.com In late February, the headline of a news commentary ...
Algorithm automatically searches for a child's most probable parents and generates family trees
Credit: Aalto University Aalto University doctoral student Eric Malmi has developed a family tree algorithm called AncestryAI. The algorith ...
TI launches SimpleLink platform to support IoT product development
Looking to help those developing products aimed at IoT applications, Texas Instruments has launched the SimpleLink MCU platform. According to the company, SimpleLink delivers a range of security featu
Coal-burning power stations are becoming more environmentally friendly
Jochen Hilz, Dr.-Ing. Jochen Ströhle, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Epple (from left to right) in the CO2 testing facility, which houses the 1 M ...
The future car is driverless shared and electric
The nation's top transportation experts see rapid change in transportation as a result of three major technology revolutions: shared, electr ...
Drones take research to new heights
Credit: Duke University Is it… a balloon? An airship of some sort, tethered to the turf? A children's pool, blown onto its side? ...
Yahoo breach spotlights links between Russian spies hackers
Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord, center, accompanied by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District Brian Stretch, left, and FBI E ...
Kremlin denies involvement after Yahoo cyberattack charges
The Kremlin on Thursday denied any official Russian involvement in cybercrimes after the US indicted two FSB intelligence agents over cybera ...
Smartphone technology could combat workplace injuries
Rob Radwin positions a smartphone to record video of a conveyor belt — a better method, he says, for measuring the risk presented by repetit ...
Russia runs up cyber score against US with Yahoo election hacks
US charges that Russia's FSB security service was behind the hacking of Yahoo underscored a worrisome run of successes in Moscow's cyber-eff ...
More gas guzzlers due to Trump? Not necessarily
US President Donald Trump ordered a review of the Obama administration's decision in January to finalize stiff fuel economy standards for th ...
Yahoo breach indictments may shed light on other hacks
Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord, center, accompanied by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District Brian Stretch, left, and FBI E ...
DeepMind-Royal Free deal is 'cautionary tale' for health care in the algorithmic age
Researchers studying a deal in which Google's artificial intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, acquired access to millions of sensitive NHS pat ...
Deep learning and stock trading
A study undertaken by researchers at the School of Business and Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FA ...
Cascading effect: One attack led to another at Yahoo
This Jan. 14, 2015, file photo shows a sign outside Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. In an indictment Wednesday, March 15, 2017, an ...
Tesla to sell $1B in stock and notes to increase capital
Electric car and solar cell maker Tesla Inc. wants to raise over $1 billion in new capital by selling stock and five-year convertible notes. ...
US charges two Russian spies in massive Yahoo cyberattack (Update)
Russian agents Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, indicted in the US over a massive Yahoo hack, were part of the successor to the KGB Two ...
YouTube users be aware: Your viewing habits can be tracked
A YouTube video by an enterprising 14-year-old showcasing the talents of his laid-off dad, a Florida-based marketing specialist, has scored ...
Q&A: Change to fuel economy standards could impact consumers
This Wednesday, May 25, 2011, file photo shows new fuel economy labels for cars and trucks during a news conference at the Transportation De ...
Researchers develop automatic security tests for complex systems
These tests produce millions of valid program inputs within minutes. In this manner the researchers can automatically extract the required i ...
US charges two Russian spies over massive Yahoo cyberattack
Russian agents Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, indicted in the US over a massive Yahoo hack, were part of the successor to the KGB Two ...
US launches probe after hoverboard fire kills two-year-old
Hoverboards made a splash several years ago and were hot holiday gift items in 2015 before a series of battery fires and injuries prompted b ...
Renault's entire management implicated in pollution test fraud: probe
Police suspect Renault of having put in place the fraudulent strategies "with the objective of creating false results for antipoll ...
Embedded World 2017 - Lynx Software demonstrates ARM first
Lynx Software Technologies has demonstrated its LynxSecure Separation Kernel hypervisor on the Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC at Embedded World. It is the first view of LynxSecure on an ARM Cortex A-53
Audi German headquarters searched in emissions probe
The logo of German car producer Audi is photographed behind a red light prior to the annual press conference in Ingolstadt, Germany, Wednesd ...
Renault denies report of emissions cheating software
Renault is denying a report that its vehicles are equipped with software that allowed its vehicles to cheat on emissions testing. ...
UN agency: China has explosive growth in patent applications
The U.N.'s intellectual property agency says China is showing "quite extraordinary" growth in international patent applications, p ...
Hackers hijack Twitter accounts over Turkish diplomatic feud
Twitter says it has revoked access to block "a third-party app" apparently used to hack a number of accounts to broadcast pro-Turk ...
Embedded World 2017 - Green Hills Software unveils latest C compilers
Green Hills Software has announced its latest Optimizing C and C++ Compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit embedded processor architectures, including ARM, Intel and Power Architecture.
Security flaw found in WhatsApp Telegram: researchers
A computer security firm on Wednesday revealed a flaw that could let hackers break into WhatsApp or Telegram messaging accounts using the ve ...
Liquid fuel for future computers
Three-dimensional chip stacks could be used in computers in the future. Integrated microscale flow batteries could both power and cool them. ...
Embedded World 2017 - Ultra-low power MCU offer significant power savings
Analog Devices has unveiled an ultra low power microcontroller unit (MCU) that looks to address the growing need for embedding advanced algorithms while consuming the lowest system power at Internet o
Researchers present early warning system for mass cyber attacks
At CISPA researchers are mapping mass cyber attacks in real-time. Credit: Saarland University/CISPA Mass attacks from the Internet are a co ...
Researcher tests fly ash for stronger concrete
Missouri S&T professor Mohamed ElGawady, center, and S&T students are studying making concrete with fly ash instead of Portland ceme ...
Engineering a rescue
2017-03-15 20:00:18Engineering a rescue
Cody McKellips, a junior in aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, demonstrates the prototype of his Last Chance water rescue ...
Why apartments fail the heat stress test
Credit: Paul Burston/University of Melbourne If a heatwave hit Melbourne and the power blacked out, most apartment buildings would bake, wi ...
Is reliable artificial intelligence possible?
Credit: ktsimage n the quest for reliable artificial intelligence, EPFL scientist Marcel Salathé argues that AI technology should be o ...
OutoBot an innovative robot to wash and paint high-rise buildings
ELID-NTU Outobot spray painting a wall. Credit: Nanyang Technological University An innovative robotic system that can clean building exter ...
From disaster planning to conservation: mobile phones as a new tracking tool
Mobile phones can be used as human tracking devices. Credit: Shutterstock/Maxx Studio We can learn a lot about things by studying how they ...
The proximity of manufacturing increases the rate of R&D efficiencies
3D printer. Credit: Aalto University According to a recent research, companies should always manufacture technologically demanding products ...
If surveillance cameras are to be kept in line the rules will have to keep pace with technology
Credit: Public Domain Images It has been said that Britain has more surveillance cameras than any other country in the world. This prolifer ...
High-precision underground visualisation for infrastructure works
Credit: Konstantinos Smagas Utility field work can be a real headache even with precise maps at hand. Admitting that they rapidly manage to ...
New battery model also makes electric cars more reliable
Gilles Nies and Professor Holger Hermanns with the replica of a nano satellite, whose performance can now be determined thanks to their rese ...
Swedish student startup gets deal to build electric cars
A group of Swedish university students that raised 1.2 million euros ($1.3 million) in crowdfunding for their startup to build electric cars ...
The seal whiskerers: Navy looks to sea life for new ships
In this Thursday, March 2, 2017, photo, engineer David Wade, hands only, attaches a seal whisker to a clamp in a laboratory at the Naval Und ...
Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia
"As I went to turn around I felt burning on my face," the woman said "I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor. They we ...
'Smart' sex toy maker pays price for unprotected data
The maker of a "smart" vibrating sex toy is paying the price for delving too deeply into the private activities of users, without ...
Russian man faces US charges related to Citadel malware
Federal prosecutors in Atlanta say a Russian man appeared in court on charges related to malicious software designed to steal personal finan ...
Waiting to be sold: Researchers develop model to predict probability of home sales
Computer scientists from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have developed what they believe to be the first data-based answe ...
German official wants $53M fines for social media hate posts
Germany's justice minister is proposing fines of up to 50 million euros ($53 million) for social networking sites that fail to swiftly remov ...
Researcher invents lip motion password technology
A diagram shows the basic concept of lip motion password and how it works. Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University The use of biometric data s ...
New patterns emerge when the temperature changes
Credit: Marjan Kooroshnia labbet Imagine a single-coloured piece of cloth that suddenly displays a colourful pattern when the ambient tempe ...
Innovations in building intelligent cities
An artistic rendition of the Thermoheliodome, a pavillion that cools itself via evaporation using mirrored panels that reflect heat toward w ...
An improved tool to keep patients doctors safe
The CauteryGuard is a safer electrocautery device, which is used by doctors, veterinarians and other medical personnel to remove unwanted ti ...
Strengthening cybersecurity through research
A new technique allows efficient decryption on mobile devices and supports user revocation in real time. Credit: nicolasmenijes / 123rf Mob ...
Scientists develop a system that predicts the behavior of tsunamis in less than ten minutes
Tsunami . Credit: University of Granada Researchers have created a simulator that predicts in less than 10 minutes the behavior of tsunamis ...
Did artificial intelligence deny you credit?
Can an algorithm explain itself? Credit: shutterstock.com People who apply for a loan from a bank or credit card company, and are turned do ...