Terahertz chips for spectroscopy
Researchers at Princeton University claim to have shrunk the equipment needed to create terahertz waves: moving from terahertz generators and ultrafast lasers to a pair of chips. According to the rese
Avnet Silica joins LoRa Alliance
Avnet Silica has joined the LoRa Alliance as an ‘adopter’ member to support the development, growth and adoption of networks based on the LoRa protocol (LoRaWAN) low power wide area networking technol
Toshiba starts construction of Fab 6 and Memory R&D Centre
Construction has started of Toshiba’s semiconductor fabrication facility, Fab 6, and the Memory R&D Centre, at Yokkaichi Operations in Mie prefecture, which is the company’s main memory production
Nokia to acquire software firm Comptel for $370 million
In a move to further focus on software technology, Nokia says it has offered to acquire software company Comptel for some 347 million euros ...
Art Rosenfeld 'godfather' of energy efficiency dies at 90
This undated photo provided by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab shows physicist Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld at ceremonial launch of the ITRI-Rosenfel ...
Trump is 2nd president to tout unfinished Intel factory
President Donald Trump looks at Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, holding a silicon wafer, during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White Hous ...
Pinterest lets phones spy eye-catching items
Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board platform, with users decorating their boards with pictures showcasing interests in a variety of areas, ...
Technology problem causes flight delays at United Airlines
United Airlines says it has fixed a technology problem that delayed hundreds of flight around the country. ...
‘Keep alive’ device draws power from sensor output
A low-cost chip developed at the University of Bristol is said to extend battery life in sensors; in some cases, by more than 10 times. The patent pending UB20M voltage detector is a ‘keep-alive’ devi
NY Times teams with Spotify for music-news offering
The New York Times and Spotify new subscription service will cost users $5 a week in the US The New York Times said Wednesday it had teamed ...
Germany France plan cross-border self-driving test zone
German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt arrives for a weekly meeting of the German cabinet at the chancellery in Berlin on September 21 ...
All digital PLL said to outperform comparable solutions
Imec, Holst Centre and Rohm have described an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) for IoT radio transceivers at ISSCC 2017 in San Francisco.
Method to make atom thick ZnO semiconductors
A method for fabrication of atom thick 2D zinc oxide (ZnO) semiconductors has been developed by UNIST researchers in Korea. This may open up new possibilities for thin, transparent, and flexible elect
Do absent users blindside architects?
A visionary edifice, a revolutionary feat of engineering, a blot on the landscape, a brutalist carbuncle. Rarely does architecture lead to s ...
Digital relay baton enables remote crowd cheering of athletes
Digital relay baton. Credit: Lancaster University The loneliness of the long distance runner could soon be a thing of the past as new techn ...
Towards equal access to digital coins
Scientists at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg have developed an impor ...
Facebook adds tool for helping in times of crisis
Facebook on Wednesday updated its Safety Check feature with a way for people to lend, or get, helping hands after disasters. ...
EU to phase out China solar panel duties
Solar panels in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region The EU said Wednesday it aimed to phase out anti-dumping duties on ...
Real-time feedback helps save energy and water
The measuring devices are fitted below the shower head. They allow water consumption, water temperature and energy use to be seen at a glanc ...
New circuit scheme would greatly increase the accuracy of high-density spin-based data storage
While we aspire to store increasing amounts of digital data on ever smaller devices, conventional memory technologies based on electron char ...
Cabbies' health the focus of  smartphone app trial
Credit: University of Melbourne Stressed at work? Tired of sitting down? You could go for a run or a long walk, or maybe just lie in a park ...
Hack my car? Most believe it can happen
Credit: University of Michigan Most Americans have some concerns that self-driving cars can be hacked to cause crashes, disable the vehicle ...
New system makes it harder to track Bitcoin transactions
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Boston University and George Mason University have developed a Bitcoin-compatible system t ...
Russian police arrest 9 hacking suspects
Russia's interior ministry says it has arrested nine members of a major hacking group suspected of stealing millions of dollars from Russian ...
3-D television is dead... so what next?
What’s the bet they didn’t buy one? Credit: Shutterstock/Dusan Petkovic Back in 2010 Sony Australia's Paul Colley forecasted that a large p ...
Men are from Clash of Clans women are from Candy Crush
USC researchers found that the majority of spenders on Candy Crush were female. Credit: Max Neira If anyone knows whether "there's an ...
Perovskites show promise as energy materials
Much research is currently going into better understanding perovskites’ properties – a family of minerals which has shown promise for harvesting energy.Latest research by a team from the University of
UKRI’s first CEO designate confirmed
Professor Sir Mark Walport, currently the Government’s chief scientific advisor, has been confirmed as chief executive designate of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Green buildings make for higher performance in workplace
A study has shown the importance of a building's interior environment as it relates to productivity and overall health. At Harvard's Blackst ...
Software-hardware combo could double mobile phone battery life
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 processor is said to be the first mobile chipset to incorporate hardware acceleration which supports Qnovo’s QNI adaptive charging technology.
Facebook takes search warrant challenge to NY's top court (Update)
Facebook and Manhattan prosecutors went to New York state's highest court Tuesday to settle a legal dispute over search warrants for users' ...
Facebook employees to get 20 days off for family bereavement
Facebook says it is extending its bereavement policies and will also allow employees paid time off when a family member is sick. ...
'Ghost skier' leads Winter Olympic Games data revolution
Technicians work on TV programs at the headquarters of sports television network, Eurosport, in Issy les Moulineaux, France A "ghost s ...
Twitter broadens its campaign against hate and abuse (Update)
In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, the Twitter logo appears on a phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter sa ...
YouTube adds mobile video streaming for top talent
Google-owned YouTube has supported live streaming of video through computers for about six years, even broadcasting US presidential debates ...
Facebook takes search warrant challenge to NY's top court
Facebook has told New York's highest court that it must be allowed to object when law enforcement seeks search warrants for its users' infor ...
Exhibition charts 500 years of evolution of robots
Animatronic baby London 2016, a mechanical human baby with an electronic umbilical cord is displayed, during a press preview for the Robot e ...
Airbnb imposes limits on rentals in Barcelona
A banner reading, "No tourist flats" hangs from a balcony to protest against holiday rental apartments for tourists in Barcelona i ...
Plastic NFC tag to communicate with smartphones
imec, Holst Centre and Cartamundi claim to have demonstrated the first thin film tag on plastic, compatible with the near field communication (NFC) barcode protocol – a subset of ISO14443-A – which is
Chinese group completes Nexperia acquisition
A consortium of Chinese companies has completed its acquisition of NXP’s standard products division and the company has been launched officially as Nexperia.
Building a better model of human-automation interaction
People generally make decisions using two ways of thinking: They think consciously, deliberate for a while, and try to use logic to figure o ...
Powerful change: Team profiles of today's solar consumer
Highest uptake of solar PV systems is families on middle to lower incomes. Credit: Queensland University of Technology People with higher i ...
Efficient approach to leaching lithium and cobalt from recycled batteries
Rechargeable lithium ion batteries power our phones and tablets they drive us from A to B in electric vehicles, and have many applications b ...
Computational methods applied to big datasets are compelling tools for historical linguistics
Algorithms search huge datasets in order to determine the relationship among the languages spoken today. Even the comparison of individual w ...
Twitter steps up effort to curb harassment
In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, the Twitter logo appears on a phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter sa ...
Longtime Autodesk CEO stepping down
The longtime CEO of the design software company Autodesk is stepping down after reaching an agreement with activist investors. ...
Findings suggest most people use their cell phones to pass waiting times
Credit: CC0 Public Domain When queued up for an event, to buy a latte or waiting for a bus, most people whip out their phones to pass the t ...
Research shows that anyone can become an internet troll
Credit: Wikipedia Internet trolls, by definition, are disruptive, combative and often unpleasant with their offensive or provocative online ...
Smart-meter data could improve the performance and efficiency of national power grids
Power generators face the constant challenge of matching the amount of power produced at any given time with the demand from consumers. Exce ...
Novel LED street lights reduce costs
Array of low-power light-emitting diodes. Failure of a single LED does not affect the overall system. Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technol ...
Researchers apply textile fabrication principles to the production of microactuators
Credit: Shutterstock The EU funded POLYACT project applied textile fabrication principles to the production of microactuators, offering a r ...
Toward all-solid lithium batteries
Looking to overcome the challenges of liquid lithium-ion batteries, an MIT team has probed the mechanical properties of a sulphide-based solid electrolyte material.
Landmark EU-US data privacy court case opens in Dublin
Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems wants to stop Facebook's transfer of personal data from Europe to the US A campaign by Austrian pri ...
Austrian officials say parliament target of Turkish hackers
Austrian officials say the country's Parliament was the target of a hacker attack on the weekend, and a Turkish group has claimed responsibi ...
Keeping the lights on in Ghana
Akosombo Dam, Ghana. Credit: jbdodane on flickr When Ghanaian Abu Yaya wondered why his country imports all of its electroporcelain – a sma ...
Solitons form a new field of electronics
Self-reinforcing solitary wave packets called solitons could achieve a more stable transmission of information, according to scientists at the Centre for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems
Single photon transmits 10.5bits of information
A single photon can transmit 10.5bits of information according to researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute. According to the team, the knowledge gained from this study can be
Fitting hot and cold climates into the 'envelope'
Credit: Chanan Greenblatt The "energy eater" European building stock is aiming for a greener future. Researchers are testing an & ...
Concert halls call on this Japanese engineer to shape sound
In this Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017 photo, Japanese acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota speaks during an interview at Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Behind some ...
Start-up fever grips young tech-savvy Indians
Interns assemble gadgets at start-up company Hacklab.in in Bangalore In the basement of a Bangalore building, hundreds of young Indians sit ...
Honda Hitachi Automotive to develop make electric vehicles
Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. has signed a deal with Hitachi Automotive Systems to jointly develop, make and sell motors for electric v ...
When data's deep dark places need to be illuminated
The World Wide Web is like an iceberg. Most of its data lies hidden below the surface in the deep web. The data-intensive Wrangler supercomp ...
Fighting fake news isn't just up to Facebook and Google
You, too, can join the battle against misleading and other "fake" news online. But your options are somewhat limited unless you're ...
Climate change may overload US electrical grid: study
The cost to upgrade the US electrical grid so it could cope with peak demands may be on the order of $180 billion, said the report in the Pr ...
NJIT grad students invent slick new dating app
FaceDate's login screen, home screen and navigation drawer. Credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology Online dating has become a way of li ...
Luxembourg files complaint after it's drawn into VW scandal
The government of Luxembourg is filing a legal complaint after it became embroiled in the Volkswagen emissions scandal. ...
Robotic prosthetic arm uses signals from spinal cord
Scientists at Imperial College have developed sensor technology for a robotic prosthetic arm that detects signals from nerves in the spinal cord.
Hounded over Merkel selfie Syrian refugee sues Facebook
Syrian refugee Anas Modamani (left) is accusing Facebook of helping to spread defamatory fake news over a 2015 selfie that he took with Chan ...
University student gets 3 years' probation in cybercrime (Update)
A Carnegie Mellon University student who developed and sold malicious software through an online cybercriminal marketplace that allowed othe ...
Op amp said to ‘set the standard’
In a move which it claims sets the standard for precision amplifiers, Texas Instruments has launched the OPA388, which it describes as the first operational amplifier to offer zero-drift and zero-cros
Engineers harness stomach acid to power tiny sensors
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have designed and demonstrated a small voltaic cell that is sustained by the acidic flui ...
The solution from the skies to save endangered species
Credit: Taylor & Francis The world's first astrophysics-ecology drone project at Liverpool John Moores University could be the answer t ...
Coal and oil demand to peak by 2020 according to new report
Credit: Imperial College London A boom in the popularity of solar panels and electric cars could spark irreversible changes in the energy s ...
Anderson's model holds for 2D materials
KAUST researchers have collaborated with Taiwan colleagues to determine the band alignment in a new class of semiconductors called 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).
Applying the technology and methods of the game industry to real-world national security problems
More than a pretty picture, Tam Le, left, and Todd Noel use augmented reality headsets to help train physical security personnel from around ...
Germanium outperforms silicon in transistors
A germanium-based transistor that can be programmed between electron and hole conduction has been demonstrated by a team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory and the Centre for A
Apple Google Uber join fight against Trump travel ban
Iranian bioengineering researcher Nima Enayati walks out of a gate after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Sund ...
Terahertz wireless could replace fibre-optic links
A terahertz (THz) integrated-circuit-based transmitter has been developed by Hiroshima University, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic. It is capable of
Terahertz wireless could make spaceborne satellite links as fast as fiber-optic links
Terahertz wireless links to spaceborne satellites could make gigabit-per-second connection speeds available to anyone anytime, anywhere on t ...
High-pressure natural gas turbine-generator
A 3-D model of turbo expander electric generator operating on high-pressure natural gas. Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechni ...
Toyota Suzuki to work together in green safety technology
In this Oct. 12, 2016 file photo, Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda, left, speaks with Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki durin ...
French presidential campaign goes high-tech with hologram rally
People sit near an hologram of French presidential election candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon (C) during a campaign meeting on February 5, 2017 i ...
Pedal power revival in China as bike-share apps race for glory
People ride Ofo-bicycles in Shanghai Unlock them with an app, drop them off anywhere, and nip past lanes of stationary car traffic: the hum ...
US utilities seek sun as Trump sides with coal fossil fuels
The plunging cost of solar power is leading U.S. electric companies to capture more of the sun just when President Donald Trump is moving to ...
Lithuania builds 'dream' Tesla factory with Minecraft
In this undated photo received on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 taken by Darius Kniuksta, a scene from a video game featuring a Tesla gigafactory. ...
India's techies fear US crackdown on high-skilled visas
Indian student Sunny Nair has always dreamt of working for a technology giant in the United States but fears that President Donald Trump wil ...
Up to 1.87M Michigan workers' info may have been compromised
Social Security numbers and other personal information of up to 1.87 million Michigan workers may have been compromised, the state said Frid ...
Super Bowl online: See the game learn some new taunts
In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, an attendee snaps a photo of the Vince Lombardi Trophy and team helmets during NFL Commissioner ...
British officials arrest two in hacking of DC camera system
Two people have been arrested in London in the hacking of storage devices that record data from police surveillance cameras in Washington, D ...
Norway accuses Russia of cyberattack
Norway's foreign ministry, army and other institutions were targeted in a recent cyberattack by a group suspected of ties to Russian authori ...
Denmark seeks harsher punishment for 'revenge porn'
Denmark presented Friday a series of measures to curb "revenge porn", the sharing of nude pictures or videos of people online with ...
Super Bowl advertisers tread carefully in divisive climate
This photo provided by Kia Motors America shows a scene from the company's spot for Super Bowl 51, between the New England Patriots and Atla ...
Norway: Russian hackers hit our spy agency govt military
Norway's security service says nine email accounts in the Scandinavian country have been targeted by hackers believed to be associated with ...
Oxis joins ZIP targets 425Wh/kg Li-S cells
As part of the Zephyr Innovation Programme, battery technologist Oxis Energy is developing cells with a specific energy of 425Wh/kg.Huw Hampson-Jones, Oxis’ CEO said: “It is not lost on us that it’s b
Court: Police with warrant can view private Twitter messages
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that law enforcement agencies can view private messages and tweets from private accounts on Twitter if ...
Challenges opportunities ahead for repairing nation's aging infrastructure
Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge you can see the Manhattan skyline from a particular view, where is possible to focus on the spoiled rusty ...
The legal minefield of 3-D printed guns
A solid, non-working Colt 1911 static model by TaylarRoids is printed on a household printer; is this a digital blueprint? Credit: Richard M ...
Nano LED could solve on chip interconnect problems
Looking to overcome the limitations of on chip connection technology, scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology have created a nano-LED that is said to be 1000 times more efficient than its pre
Additives bring better control of polymer semiconductors
A technique developed by materials researchers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) is seen as a way to enable the efficient design and manufacture of organic circuitry with varying levels of complexity, but wh
Regional irradiation index as a measure of renewable energy feasibility for industry
Credit: Youris.com Where's the best place to set up a factory in Europe? Athens, of course—as unexpected as it may seem, the Greek cap ...