US no longer has geography as defense ally in cybercombat
In this Sept. 30, 2011, file photo, a reflection of the Department of Homeland Security logo is seen reflected in the glasses of a cyber sec ...
Porn 'tube' sites threaten children and actors critics say
Documentary maker and former porn star Ovidie says the pirating of videos on to free-to-view websites means fewer films are made and fees ha ...
US 'resistance' movement coalesces... on Twitter
A social media "resistance" movement is taking shape against the Trump administration, inspired by the new president's efforts to ...
Intentionally or not big brands help fund fake news
In this Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, photo, a fake news story is positioned near ads from major global corporations on The Red Elephants website ...
New wave of robots set to deliver the goods
The goal for Starship Technologies robots is to carry about nine kilograms of goods within a radius of three kilometres for $1 or less The ...
An uneasy Silicon Valley denounces Trump immigration ban
Silicon Valley heads have slammed US President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees and many Muslims from entering the United States, fe ...
Syrian IT expert extends web lifeline to fellow migrants
In this Jan. 19, 2017 photo 28-year-old Talal Mando, left, a refugee from Homs, works with writer Mohanad Al-Naheel on his website arabalman ...
Real-life 'Q' is a woman British spy chief reveals
The inventor behind James Bond's ingenious gadgets, codenamed "Q" in the spy films, exists in reality and is actually a woman, the ...
Altium buys Premier EDA to boost European business
Altium has acquired Premier EDA Solutions, which has been a long term leading reseller of the company’s products in the UK and Ireland. According to Altium, it will take advantage of Premier EDA’s str
Pilot plant to obtain strategic metals through energy recovery from solid urban waste
Credit: Elhuyar Fundazioa The FARM consortium has developed a pilot plant that carries out an integral process for strategic metal concentr ...
The French ponder 'joie de vivre' in a work-free future
What role will work play in our future lives populated with robots and driverless vehicles? As France prepares to elect a new president, it ...
CPI gets £2.6m for IoT manufacturing centre
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has received £2.6million from the European Regional Development Fund to establish and run the Emerging Electronics Manufacturing Centre.
Rogue tweeters in government could be prosecuted as hackers
This photo shows a Twitter post from the National Park Service's Redwoods National Park account, noting that redwood groves are nature's No. ...
Alphabet profit up as 'big bets' show promise (Update)
Alphabet revenue in the fourth quarter topped $26 billion, up 22 percent from the same period a year earlier Google parent Alphabet on Thu ...
Google's Pixel phone shines despite misgauging demand
In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, the new Google Pixel phone is displayed following a product event, in San Francisco. Google's hea ...
Cloud boosts Microsoft as it absorbs LinkedIn
Microsoft sees a a 3.6 percent rise in profit to $5.2 billion in past quarter Microsoft on Thursday reported a rise in profits over the pa ...
Twitter adds 'explore' to make finding tweets easier
Analysts have been skeptical about Twitter's outlook for expansion, expressing concerns about its ability to entice users beyond its core ba ...
Google parent Alphabet profit edges up revenue surges
Alphabet revenue in the fourth quarter topped $26 billion, up 22 percent from the same period a year earlier Google parent Alphabet on Thu ...
Google's Pixel phone shines despite mistakes gauging demand
In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, the new Google Pixel phone is displayed following a product event, in San Francisco. Google's hea ...
Temasek fund invests $800 mn in Alphabet subsidiary
Singapore-based sovereign fund Temasek will invest $800 million in Verily, the Alphabet subsidiary focused on healthcare announced on Thursd ...
Microsoft quarterly profit up 3.6 percent to $5.2 bn
Microsoft sees a a 3.6 percent rise in profit to $5.2 billion in past quarter Microsoft on Thursday reported a 3.6 percent rise in profit t ...
Driverless bus makes debut in Georgia at start of US tour
A shuttle bus that drove itself—along with human passengers—through a course in a parking lot near Atlanta is embarking on a tour that will ...
Want to track cellphones? Get a warrant lawmakers say
This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows the StingRay II, a cellular site simulator used for surveilla ...
Ikea buys Canada wind farm to offset carbon footprint
Ikea has a dozen stores in Canada, with plans for more Ikea on Thursday announced plans to buy a wind farm with 55 turbines in the oil-rich ...
Coming next in domotics—houses that decipher voice commands
Credit: Shutterstock In the race for a smart everything, houses seem to be gathering more attention every year. Voice control is one of the ...
New study suggests guidelines for takeover time in automated vehicles
Many recent human factors studies of takeover time in automated vehicles have looked at how long it takes a driver to switch out of automati ...
Video: MIT Hyperloop
2017-01-27 00:00:08Video: MIT Hyperloop
A team of MIT student designers is heading to California with a concept pod, a vision for the future of transportation, and a singular inten ...
Getting virtual infrastructure models out of the computer and into the workspace
Credit: University of Cambridge Engineers will soon be able to visualize Building Information Models (BIMs) in full scale at their offices ...
Far beyond crime-ridden depravity darknets are key strongholds of freedom of expression online
Credit: shutterstock.com The internet is much more than just the publicly available, Google-able web services most online users frequent – ...
Saudi vulnerable to 'Shamoon 2' virus: telco chief
Cybersecurity experts say the destructive disk-wiping malware was first used against the Saudi energy sector in 2012 Saudi computer securit ...
Mexico's energy reform can benefit from Latin America's petroleum sector development
Credit: shutterstock.com/Rice University The decision makers behind Mexico's budding energy reform can learn from the history of the develo ...
Fiat Chrysler head: diesel talks in US are 'proceeding well'
Fiat Chrysler's CEO says discussions are "proceeding well" with U.S. environmental authorities over accusations the company failed ...
Your cable company wants to be your phone company too
In this July 23, 2015, file photo, a man walks past the Comcast Building in New York. In the next few months, cable giant Comcast will start ...
Infineon one of latest to join EV charging group
According to Infineon, an appropriate charging infrastructure is critical to the growth in demand for electric vehicles. Looking to support this goal, the company has joined the Charging Interface Ini
The power of wind energy and how to use it
Wind offers an immense, never-ending source of energy that can be successfully harnessed to power all of the things that currently draw ener ...
‘Best performing’ RF SoI process yet launched
Working with Globalfoundries, Peregrine Semiconductor has developed the UltraCMOS 12 technology platform, a 300mm silicon on insulator (SoI) process said to offer the best RF switching performance ava
Development of a hydraulic-driven high-power artificial muscle
(Left) Demonstration Video : High-Power Hydraulic Artificial Muscle for Tough Robotshttps://youtu.be/a6mRhuR_g-E(Upper Right) Operation exam ...
Apple legal fight with Qualcomm spreads to China (Update)
Apple relies on Qualcomm for chip-based modems that enable iPhones and iPads to communicate with telecommunication networks Apple on Wedne ...
SK Hynix reports Q4 profit jump on rising chip prices
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix saw Q4 profits leap nearly 90 percent, it said Thursday, fuelled by a pickup in global demand from smartphon ...
Facebook gets ex-Xiaomi executive Barra as new VR head
Social media giant Facebook announced late Wednesday it had recruited Hugo Barra, who recently quit a top position with Chinese smartphone m ...
Largest US offshore wind farm gets green light
Tthe Block Island Wind Farm off the shores of Rhode Island Local authorities approved the largest offshore wind farm in the United States o ...
Rolling robots could soon be making deliveries in Virginia
Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, Del. Ron Villanueva, R-Chesapeake, right, speaks with lobbyist, David Catania, during a demo ...
Apple legal fight with Qualcomm spreads to China
Apple relies on Qualcomm for chip-based modems that enable iPhones and iPads to communicate with telecommunication networks Apple on Wednes ...
'Knitted muscles' provide power
Conceptual model of a textile exoskeleton with the textile actuator (black) on an elastic elbow sleeve (white). Credit: Thor Balkhed/Link ...
Switching is not so simple: 100% renewable energy sources require overcapacity
The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is an 845 MW wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon. Credit: Steve Wilson / Wikipedia. Germany decided to ...
Chase Mint reach deal for faster more secure data-sharing
Bank customers who use Chase but also want to take advantage of financial tools like Mint or TurboTax will soon be able to send their data f ...
Safety codes can lead to over-built bridges higher building costs
Student Peng Zhang traces cracks in the column during a strength test in UBC Okanagan's Applied Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Struct ...
Senior manager at cybersecurity firm arrested in Moscow
A Kaspersky employee shuffles tokens around a table-top display at the company's stand at a cybersecurity conference in Lille, northern Fran ...
Making distributed storage highly consistent
One of the fundamental open challenges in computer science is effective data storage. The socio-economic value and scale of information incr ...
How to secure a smartphone for the tweeter-in-chief
As President Donald Trump takes office, he has also taken up a new, digital symbol of the presidency. Before, during and since the campaign, ...
New study reveals solidification cracking during welding of steel
New research led by the University of Leicester has made a novel breakthrough in understanding how solidification cracking occurs during the ...
Your next social network could pay you for posting
Credit: Shutterstock You may well have found this article through Facebook. An algorithm programmed by one of the world's biggest companies ...
Coreless power conversion tech for magnetic field apps
A coreless technology platform, released by Powerbox, is said to power medical and industrial equipment operating in high magnetic fields, such as magnetic resonance imaging or particle accelerators.
Emergency Services Network likely to be late
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said the target date to replace the radio system used by the UK’s emergency services is unlikely to be met.
Silica upgrades IIoT security with add on module
An add-on module and reference design for Avnet Silica’s MicroZed Industrial IoT Kit is said to bring Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security capabilities to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applic
Breakthrough for deep learning with Intel FPGAs
Intel and Chinese telecoms company ZTE claim to have achieved a new record – more than 1000 images per second in facial recognition – with what is known as ‘theoretical high accuracy’ achieved for the
Deal with SparkFun adds maker products to Mouser site
A global distribution agreement between Mouser and SparkFun Electronics brings access to 500 SparkFun products, including SparkFun’s Arduino Pro, RedBoard and LilyPad tools. The move, according to Mou
Cisco buys app performance tuning startup for $3.7 bn
Faced with a slowdown in its traditional products such as routers for telecom networks, California-based Cisco Systems has been trying for s ...
Profits fall again at S. Korea's LG Electronics
South Korea's LG Electronics on Wednesday reported its second successive year of slumping net profits due partly to weak smartphone sales. ...
France issues first 'green bonds' with record 7 bln euro sale
The launch of France's green bond was announced in April 2016 by President Francois Hollande France has issued its first "green bonds& ...
Americans distrustful after hacking epidemic: survey
Nearly two-thirds of Americans have experienced some kind of data theft or fraud, leaving many mistrustful of institutions charged with safe ...
Taiwan economy rallies thanks to electronics demand
Taiwan's economy notched up its best performance in almost two years in the final quarter of 2016, with strong demand for electronics offset ...
Climate-related tweets deleted after going viral on Twitter
White House Press secretary Sean Spicer is seen on television broadcast monitors as he speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the ...
Microsoft victory in overseas data privacy case stands
Microsoft gave the US government account information it kept on US soil, but said the content of emails was off-limits because it was stored ...
Appeals court denies full hearing in data surveillance case
A federal appeals court said Tuesday it won't rehear a panel's decision letting companies like Microsoft refuse to turn over to the governme ...
Medical scientific image analysis vastly improved by new software
Many current medical and scientific practices involve the analysis of highly complicated images, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) an ...
Scientists lay foundations for new type of solar cell
The experimental polaron solar cell in the lab. Credit: Dirk Raiser, MPIbC/DESY An interdisciplinary team of researchers has laid the found ...
Appeals court denies full hearing in data surveillance case (Update)
A federal appeals court said Tuesday it won't rehear a panel's decision letting companies like Microsoft refuse to turn over to the governme ...
Diversity in tech: Lots of attention little progress
In this Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, photo, Aniyia Williams, founder and CEO of Tinsel, poses at the offices of Galvanize in San Francisco. Willia ...
The future is now for robot cars
Tim Chapin, interim dean of the College of Social Science and Public Policy and professor of urban and regional planning at Florida State Un ...
Efficient organic photovoltaic cells for indoor and outdoor applications
Credit: Shutterstock Organic photovoltaics (OPV) may cost less than their silicon counterparts, but their performance remains off-putting t ...
Your (social media) votes matter
Tim Weninger spent five months monitoring new posts on Reddit -- 93,019 posts in all -- and randomly, regardless of content, assigned either ...
Amazon moves to avoid EU fines over publishing contracts
Amazon has agreed to change parts of its e-book contracts with publishers in an effort to avoid European Union fines for anti-competitive be ...
Cyberconscripts: Baltic draftees can choose IT over infantry
The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia is experimenting with the idea of cyberconscription, giving draftees with tech skills the chance to step i ...
What can we learn about cybersecurity from the Russian hacks?
Intelligence reports about Russian-sponsored hacking to influence the 2016 presidential election have dominated headlines. Northeastern prof ...
Time synchronisation for energy efficient sensors
One of the key ideas behind the IoT is the use of sensor networks to gather data. But when there may be thousands of sensors in a network, each sensor needs to be as low cost as possible.
Saudi Arabia warns destructive computer virus has returned (Update)
Saudi Arabia is warning that a computer virus that destroyed systems of its state-run oil company in 2012 has returned to the kingdom, with ...
3-D printing custom support structures for tissue implants
NTU researcher Lee Jia Min working on 3D bioprinting of blood vessels. Credit: Nanyang Technological University Tissue implants customised ...
Protective wear inspired by fish scales
They started with striped bass. Over a two-year period the researchers went through about 50 bass, puncturing or fracturing hundreds of fish ...
New research proposes tying vehicle fuel standards to gas prices
Bar graph shows the past, current and projected average fuel efficiency of U.S. cars. Credit: University of Chicago Volatile gasoline price ...
Efficient time synchronization of sensor networks by means of time series analysis
Wireless sensor networks have many applications, ranging from industrial process automation to environmental monitoring. Researchers at the ...
Overcoming 'cyber-fatigue' requires users to step up for security
Fatigued. Credit: shutterstock.com As a new presidential administration takes over, it will need to pay significant attention to cybersecur ...
Voice control is taking off but it's not taking over yet
Voice interfaces are becoming increasingly popular. Credit: Shutterstock If unexpected packages start showing up at your door, you might wa ...
UNIST researchers to commercialise metal-air batteries
The energy efficiency of metal-air batteries has been increased by using a conducting polymer according to researchers at the Korean National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).
British Engineering Excellence Awards open for entries
The 2017 British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs) are now open for entries.
Return of 200mm production points to looming shortages
Price rises for raw wafers in what is traditionally the weakest quarter of the year may signal shortage-driven price rises for semiconductors as consumer demand ramps up. But with some of the other ke
Philips profits more than double in 2016 (Update)
Dutch electronics giant Philips said Tuesday its bottom-line profit more than doubled in 2016, buoyed by gains from the flotation of its lig ...
Record 24 high-tech firms spun out from Oxford University in 2016
The UK is seeing a significant uplift in the number of spin outs from its universities. From Oxford and Cambridge to Imperial and Bristol Universities, the number of spin outs is growing and, in 2016,
Saudi Arabia warns destructive computer virus has returned
Saudi Arabia is warning that a computer virus that destroyed the systems of its state-run oil company in 2012 has returned. ...
French internet censorship rose sharply in 2016
France's interior minister says authorities have blocked or ordered search engines to de-list hundreds of websites in 2016, a significant in ...
Yahoo delays sale of core business to Verizon (Update)
Yahoo said Monday its $4.8 billion deal to sell its core internet assets to US telecom titan Verizon has been delayed several months. ...
New Genome Browser product gives freedom to easily collaborate in the cloud
Just launched! Genome Browser in the Cloud (GBiC) introduces more freedom to collaborate, plus faster Genome Browser installations. Credit: ...
Philips profits more than double in 2016
Dutch electronics giant Philips said Tuesday its bottom-line profit more than doubled in 2016, buoyed by gains from the flotation of its lig ...
Samsung says Q4 profits up 50% despite Note7 recall
Samsung Electronics' profits leaped in the fourth quarter, it said Tuesday, despite the humiliating Galaxy Note 7 recall that hammered the r ...
Sundance goes green as VR makers aim to save the planet
This year's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah is focusing on climate change, with numerous virtual reality experiences among the usu ...
Zuckerberg charity buys AI startup to battle disease
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and his wife Priscilla Chan pledged $3 billion over the next decade to help banish or manage al ...
Using simulation tools to optimize soft robotic systems
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers Simulation is a valuable tool to improve the energy efficiency of machines and it is now being u ...
US fights Microsoft's bid to tell users when feds take data
This April 12, 2016 file photo shows the Microsoft logo in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris, France. The Justice Department is asking a fe ...
iPhone assembler Foxconn may invest $7B in US display plant
Foxconn, a major assembler of iPhones and other electronics, may invest $7 billion in a plant for manufacturing display panels that would cr ...
Sale of core Yahoo assets to Verizon delayed
"Yahoo has continued to work with Verizon on integration planning for the sale of its core business," the company said in a r ...