This Wednesday, March 1, 2017, photo shows an exterior view of the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. A combative CEO leading a fast-gro ...

A visitor plays a Nintendo's new Switch game console during its game experience session in Tokyo on January 14, 2017 Nintendo's Switch cons ...

A sale display for the fitness wearable Fitbit is seen at a Target store on January 30, 2017 in Los Angeles, California The global market f ...

Renault-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn warned Thursday that protectionist trade policies could spell "disaster" for an automotive secto ...

Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company Huawei's CEO Richard Yu presents e Huawei's new P10 p ...

This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon's cloud-computing service Amazon Web Services experienc ...

Government agencies cannot always use social media and telecommunication to uncover the intentions of terrorists as terrorists are now more ...

Credit: University of Huddersfield A decade has passed since the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann on holiday in Portugal, but acti ...

In this May 28, 2015, file photo, a Google employee gives a demonstration of Android Pay on a phone at Google I/O 2015 in San Francisco. A k ...

The NRKbeta tech website says it get gets the same number of comments after introducing its 'anti-troll' feature Victims of online "tr ...

Snapchat co-founders Bobby Murphy, left, and CEO Evan Spiegel ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as the company celebrates ...

High-throughput computing resources speed up the process of knee modeling simulations by sending jobs to many computers rather than just one ...

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A new study, published today in the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, presents a risk-based approach for classifying the road surface c ...

Fig. 1(A) Schematic diagram of the molecular robot. Molecular actuators work inside the robot, and the shape of the artificial cell membrane ...

New mobile phones feature better screens to ensure a satisfying video experience The mobile phone industry is racing to improve its ability ...

Researchers from the University of Exeter’s Centre for Graphene Science have developed a method which they claim could ‘revolutionise’ the production of optoelectronic materials.

In this photo taken on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, Spacehop user Lavinia Osbourne poses for a picture in one of the homes available for hire as o ...

Naohiro Masuda, head of decommissioing for the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Thursday ...

Berkeley Lab scientists will work at The Geysers, the world’s largest geothermal field, located in northern California, on two projects aime ...

This app might facilitate the decision-making process for users interested in electric cars. Credit: RUB, Marquard A new app helps drivers ...

The researchers used Micronova’s cleanrooms and, in particular, a reactor designed for gallium nitride manufacturing. The image shows a six- ...

Credit: ktsdesign / fotolia.com In spite of its limitations, automated journalism will expand. According to media researchers, this develop ...

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America's president isn't the only one considering the possibility of rigged elections. ...

Researchers are increasing their efforts to improve the performance of batteries, particularly those intended for use in consumer electronics devices, with a number of teams reporting ‘significant’ de

Chinese officials on Thursday laid out an argument for China to play a leading role in global internet governance as they solicited internat ...

"Picaboo" messaging application launched in 2011, was quickly renamed Snapchat and caught fire with teens who could embrace sponta ...

In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, file photo, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel poses for a photo in Los Angeles. As Snap prepares to go public, foll ...

As Snapchat's owner makes its Wall Street debut, the key question for investors is whether the vanishing-message app is on its way to glory ...

For Snap Inc., a social media company that started its official bid to go public last Halloween, the looming question now is whether investo ...

Whether a nation should retaliate against a cyber attack is a complicated decision, and a new framework guided by game theory could help pol ...

The price of the Rift alone was dropped to $499 and Touch controllers to $99 Facebook-owned Oculus on Wednesday slashed the price of its Ri ...

The decision comes two years after a federal court in Texas ordered Apple to pay the award to the firm Smartflash LLC, which sued claiming t ...

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. priced its share offering Wednesday to give the popular social network a market value of some $24 billion, media r ...

UW engineers used FM radio signals to broadcast music and data notifications from a Simply Three band poster at a Seattle bus stop to a smar ...

Uber chief Travis Kalanick has apologized, acknowledging that "I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up," after a video ...

Volkswagen has named Infineon as its first partner in a strategic programme designed to ensure that its future requirements for electronic systems can be met. As part of the programme, VW intends to c

In this June 17, 2014, file photo, a shopper looks at an item in the dairy section of a Kroger grocery store in Richardson, Texas. Packaged ...

Dialog Semiconductor has launched the DA14586, said by the company to be its first standalone device qualified to support the latest Bluetooth 5.0 specification.

For 2017, Toyota has added its most fuel-efficient Prius ever: a plug-in gasoline-electric hybrid called Prius Prime that can travel up to 6 ...

A Swiss company said Wednesday income tax information was stolen for about 2,400 workers in the United States, putting them at risk of ident ...

When you're deep in a video game, the last thing you want to do is leave home. If only you could take the game with you for your commute to ...

Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment. ...

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In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, poses during the launch of its bike-sharing product, uberMOTO, in Hyderabad, In ...

Credit: Vienna University of Technology Using new computer algorithms, it is possible to adjust specific properties of three-dimensional ob ...

Full-body projection of a witness on glass. Credit: Mehzeb Chowdhury, Author provided Returning to court to give evidence against their att ...

Doctors wish to use focused ultrasound to treat tumors in moving organs, such as the liver, shown here. Credit: Fraunhofer MEVIS Focused ul ...

ISU researchers say big data may be the answer to helping the trucking industry improve productivity and safety. Credit: Christopher Gannon ...

This image provided by Facebook shows a demonstration of live broadcaster support, an example of one of the company's suicide prevention too ...

The end of wearables? Credit: Fitbit Inc As the market leader, Fitbit has always been regarded as being synonymous with wearables in genera ...

Mark Gee, Fellow at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), discusses new ways to assess and reduce erosion from water impact in an article ...

A second generation of the Pu-238 pellet automated metrology system being developed in an ORNL lab. Under a collaborative partnership betwe ...

The IPO of Snap, the parent of Snapchat could presage a wave of listings from the sector's so-called "unicorns", such as Uber and ...

Luxembourg authorities say they have fended off a cyberattack that sought to swamp official servers with connection requests, and there was ...

High-tech material non-woven: Project manager Dr. Simone Gramsch has developed the simulation tool FIDYST with her team. The simulation of f ...

Credit: Northeastern University Technology is often heralded as a great equalizer for people with disabilities, especially those who have h ...

Embedded in a sweatband, a network of sensors devised by Ali Javey can monitor moment-by-moment changes in electrolytes and metabolites, a p ...

Credit: Intel Intel Security, in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), today released "Tilting t ...

Checking dispensers with a tablet computer in a networked washroom. Credit: CWS-boco International GmbH Washrooms are among the highest-mai ...

YouTube CEO Susan Wojicki speaks during the introduction of YouTube TV at YouTube Space LA in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. People fe ...

Cars are on their way to becoming 'mobile phones on wheels' The car of the future will let you pay for petrol or parking directly from your ...

Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin – led by 94 year-old Professor John Goodenough, pictured, co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery – have developed solid state battery cells which they sa

This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon's cloud-computing service Amazon Web Services experienc ...

A YouTube video by an enterprising 14-year-old showcasing the talents of his laid-off dad, a Florida-based marketing specialist, has scored ...

AFP's global news director Michele Leridon said media rivalry needed to be put to one side, because "The core values of our profession ...

Remember all those crazed Pokemon Go seekers that roamed our city streets, crowded our public parks or ventured into rural areas in search o ...

The Frshly dispenser. Credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology Six different cuisines with 30 combos all served hot within 90 seconds, an ...

The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is an 845 MW wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon. Credit: Steve Wilson / Wikipedia. The sight of propel ...

Founder and CEO of Netflix Reed Hastings speaks during a keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. Th ...

Technicians work on a satellite in an Intelsat cleanroom in Toulouse in 2004 Satellite telecom firms OneWeb and Intelsat announced plans Tu ...

Fitness trackers and other wearable gadgets are selling well, but often end up unused in a drawer Consumers are snapping up fitness tracker ...

Credit: Website Telefónica Deutschland The overburdening of city transport systems is becoming an increasing challenge. But before cit ...

Austria's intelligence services should be celebrating a success in tracking down a U.S.-based Turkish hacker who attacked several government ...

An advertisement for mobile phone provider Asiacell in Baghdad The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, said Tu ...

Xiaomi chairman Lei Jun presents the new Surge S1 chipset in Beijing on February 28, 2017 Chinese technology giant Xiaomi on Tuesday unveil ...

Linear programming is the most fundamental optimization problem with applications in many areas including engineering, management, and econo ...

Credit: The proposed device, Hapbeat. Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Excitement felt when listening to music is due to both the soun ...

This example of a 3-D ladar point cloud shows a fully foliated field site. Color indicates elevation above the ground, with red tones indica ...

DMD modes of the pressure. Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Intensive pressure oscillations by thermoacoustic instabilities are critic ...

Credit: University of Manchester The University of Manchester is to lead a consortium to build the next generation of robots that are more ...

Excessive latency affects the experienced quality of internet services: online games lag, streaming video buffers, and video conversations a ...

Cadence has launched Protium S1, an FPGA based prototyping platform said to incorporates innovative implementation algorithms to boost engineering productivity.

IBM has officially opened the $200million global headquarters for its Watson Internet of Things (IoT) business. Based in Munich, the facility brings together development teams from IBM, Avnet, BNP Par

South Korean telecom company KT Mobile says it will offer visitors to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics their first 5G experience Tech-savvy ...

A research team from Rice University has modelled a nanoscale sandwich in which two slices of graphene surround nanoclusters of magnesium oxide. According to the team, the sandwich should result in a

Singapore's defence ministry said Tuesday that hackers had stolen the personal details of hundreds of staff and soldiers in what appeared to ...

Founder and CEO of Netflix Reed Hastings said he believed mobile carriers will eventually create a two-tear system where video data is unlim ...

In this Feb. 21, 2017 photo, lifelong ham radio operator and expert tinkerer Tom Thompson poses for a photo inside his basement home office, ...

Credit: Jourden C/public domain Although it may come as no surprise to the Fresh Prince, kids think that parents just don't understand what ...

Amazon won two Oscars for gritty family drama "Manchester by the Sea," which collected statuettes for best original screenplay and ...

YouTube began letting popular online video personalities broadcast on the go using mobile devices YouTube on Monday said that a billion hou ...

In this Feb. 1, 2107 file photo, members of the media gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington. With a nod to the importance of social ...

Light introduced through an optical fiber can determine whether a patient's blood is coagulating by measuring the vibration of red blood cel ...

This Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, file photo shows the AT&T sign at a store in Hialeah, Fla. AT&T's $85 billion purchase of Time Warner ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Mobile apps designed to keep teens safe online are overwhelmingly focused on parental control, which may be only ...

The IRS is warning employers about a spreading phishing email scam whose targets include companies and that seeks to get employees' Social S ...

New smartphones will use AI to carry out tasks The smartphone revolution is poised to go onto the next level—with "superphones" e ...

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