Researchers testing cars and roads that talk to each other
Stuck in traffic again? New smart vehicle technology being tested in Edmonton could make your commute faster and safer. Credit: Faculty of E ...
A new 3-D viewer for improved digital geoscience mapping
Simon Buckley at Uni Research CIPR in Bergen, Norway. Credit: Andreas R. Graven Over the years, techniques and equipment for digital mappin ...
Nine innovative approaches that utilities are using to plan for increased rooftop solar
Some utilities are turning to customer-adoption models to forecast how much rooftop solar customers will install. Credit: Lawrence Berkeley ...
Building a better electronic trumpet
The green circuit boards are the heart of Baylies’ UROP project to create a better electronic trumpet. Credit: David Baylies David Baylies' ...
Video: These smart threads could save lives
Engineers are joining forces with designers, scientists and doctors at Drexel University to produce new biomedical textiles, and the resulti ...
Project aims to prevent smartphone-related traffic accidents
Credit: Toyota Toyota Motor, Komeda Co., and KDDI Corporation will begin an initiative on September 20, 2016 by utilizing a smartphone appl ...
First-ever simultaneous wavelength conversion technology with no wavelength restriction
Figure 1. Wavelength contention at optical relay nodes. Credit: Fujitsu Fujitsu Laboratories and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HH ...
Senate panel to scrutinize proposed Bayer-Monsanto merger
This Aug. 31, 2015, file photo, shows the Monsanto logo on display at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill. The Senate is set to take a cl ...
Bills would defend consumers' right to leave bad reviews
In this July 25, 2016, photo, Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. ...
Optical wavelength conversion system developed
Fujitsu Laboratories and Fraunhofer’s Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) have developed a way to simultaneously convert the wavelengths of multiplexed signals in wavelength division multiplexed systems an
Luxoft unveils second generation automotive cockpit technology demonstrator
Software development services and IT solutions company, Luxoft Holding has unveiled AllView II, its second generation automotive cockpit technology. AllView II is designed to showcase the look-and-fee
Ultibo project looks to build on Pi’s success
Looking to build on the success of the Raspberry PI and similar formats, the Ultibo project hopes to make the power of single board computers available in a way that is said to be easy to learn.
ARM launches ‘most advanced’ safety processor
ARM has launched a real-time processor with advanced safety features and is targeting the device at autonomous vehicles and medical and industrial robots.
Google smartphone expected at Oct. 4 event
Last year Google unveiled the Nexus 5X phone (pictured) and Nexus 6P, the new Chromecast and new Android 6.0 Marshmallow software features ...
GoPro captures action from the sky with Karma drone
A new GoPro Karma foldable drone is seen flying in Olympic Valley, California on September 19, 2016 GoPro on Monday took to the sky with a ...
US moves to regulate self-driving cars
A pilot model of an Uber self-driving car goes down a street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The United States unveiled a sweeping new regulato ...
Digital photography: The future of small-scale manufacturing?
Andrew Bellows, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, takes photos of a bottle opener from different angles in order to generate a p ...
Twitter enables longer tweets as part of growth push
Twitter will no longer factor certain add-ons including pictures into a message's length Twitter announced Monday it was easing its 140-cha ...
Uber plans to open office in Detroit
In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, file photo, a self-driving Uber sits ready to take journalists for a ride during a media preview in Pittsbur ...
Developers face challenges capturing wave energy
Although wave-generated power could meet a quarter of America's energy needs, the technology lags other renewables such as wind and solar. B ...
Schilling agrees to settlement in failed video game venture
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and others agreed to a $2.5 million settlement to end their part of a lawsuit brought over Rhode Islan ...
Explainer: Wireless cellphone alerts on bombing suspect
This frame grab from a cellphone shows an emergency alert along with a news alert on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, about a man wanted in connectio ...
EU tax move on Apple not anti-US bias: Vestager
European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager says the EU is going after all tax evaders Europe's powerful Competition Commissio ...
Self-driving cars coming sooner than you think: Lyft
Lyft rival Uber launched a driverless car service in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last week The move to self-driving cars is coming faster than ...
Holographic imaging and deep learning diagnose malaria
Four cells as seen under a microscope in different stages of infection from a malarial parasite. The first image is uninfected, but as the p ...
Samsung says it has found no battery problem in China (Update)
A woman walks by an advertisement of the Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. Samsung ...
Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident
A new article provides an overview of the impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station accident in Japan in 2011 and subsequent remediatio ...
Nearly 30 mn diesel cars on EU roads over emissions limit: study
Volkswagen admitted in September 2015 to installing so-called "defeat devices" in 11 million diesel cars One year after the Volks ...
Cleaning concrete contaminated with chemicals
andia National Laboratories chemical engineer Craig Tenney analyzes modeling results at the John B. Robert Dam in Albuquerque, New Mexico. T ...
Risk of another Chernobyl or Fukushima type accident plausible experts say
In a new analysis of nuclear accidents, researchers at the University of Sussex and ETH Zurich provide a cost in US dollars for each inciden ...
Unlocking potential of 3-D printed rocket parts with neutrons
Stacey Bagg, research engineer from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, is using HFIR beam line HB-2B, to study residual stress in additive ...
What to expect from GoPro's big drone unveiling
Action camera-maker GoPro Inc. gets its big chance to rebound from a disastrous year when it unveils its first drone and other new products ...
What makes a video game great? There's now a scientific way to stop GUESSing
Fortune magazine noted in February 2016 that sales of video games in 2015 in the United States reached $23.5 billion, "a 5% jump over 2 ...
Video gamers outdo scientists in contest to discover protein's shape
The Foldit puzzle-solving game, where groups compete online to fold the best protein. In a recent study, gamers beat scientists, college stu ...
Expressing the value of data science in an ROI framework
Data science is rapidly becoming woven into the fabric of organizations of all sizes and types, and is driving significant societal and econ ...
Soaring to faster production
2016-09-19 20:00:09Soaring to faster production
Credit: Texas A&M University Preparing for the take off of faster production, Lockheed Martin and the Department of Industrial and Syst ...
Using VR to explore the inner world of a plant cell
Checking out the Virtual Plant Cell at the Perth Science Festival. Credit: James Campbell The newly launched Virtual Plant Cell is a phone ...
Samsung phones reportedly catch fire in China
In this Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, file photo, a man tries out the Samsung VR using their latest Galaxy Note 7 smartphone at a roadshow outsi ...
First wave-produced electricity in US goes online in Hawaii
In this July 26, 2016 photo, a model of a wave energy test site at Kaneohe Bay on Oahu in Hawaii shows undersea cables that hold machinery i ...
Exec: Most Lyft rides will be in autonomous cars in 5 years
Within five years, a majority of ride-hailing company Lyft's rides will be in self-driving cars, the company's co-founder and president pred ...
Technology at Paralympics sparks advances and controversy
Daniel Wagner, from Denmark, celebrates after winning the silver medal in the men's 100m T-42 final at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de J ...
Yelp warns California lawsuit could scrub critical reviews
In this Oct. 26, 2011 file photo, the logo of the online reviews website Yelp is shown in neon on a wall at the company's Manhattan offices ...
Twitter kicks off US football game streams
Twitter's live video streaming of The New York Jets facing The Buffalo Bills reached 2.1 million viewers More than two million people tuned ...
Renewable energy: Research reveals more than industry truths
Throughout his academic career, Dr. Alexander E. Ellinger has conducted research that seeks to quantify the value of strategic decisions to ...
Johnson & Johnson to buy Abbott's vision unit for $4.33B
This Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, photo, shows Johnson & Johnson Band-Aid brand bandages in Surfside, Fla. Johnson & Johnson said Friday ...
Software co.: We warned Tesla about hands-free Autopilot use
In this Thursday, April 30, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., unveils the company's newest products, in Hawthorne, Cali ...
High-tech and low-cost solutions to handle urban waste
Credit: Youris.com Low-cost interventions, big data analysis and new regulations on landfills are key factors for the smart management of w ...
US confident in election security despite threats
The US homeland security chief said Friday authorities have confidence in the integrity of electoral systems despite growing cybersecurity t ...
Tesla to build California utility battery storage project
Tesla will build a battery storage system at a California utility substation that the company says will have the largest output of any exist ...
AP other media sue FBI for details on iPhone hacking tool
The Associated Press and two other news organizations sued the FBI on Friday to learn who the government paid and how much it spent to hack ...
Judge OKs extradition of British man on US hacking charges
Lauri Love, who is accused of hacking into U.S. government computers, sings along to a song playing on a sound system he brought with him as ...
Software maker: Warned Tesla about hands-free Autopilot use
The company that made software that controls Tesla Motors' Autopilot system says it warned the automaker not to allow drivers to take their ...
Agency says driverless cars will need OK once Uber charges
The state agency that regulates taxicabs and transportation businesses in Pennsylvania says it doesn't have jurisdiction over free trips in ...
Five things to know about VW's 'dieselgate' scandal
Volkswagen admitted installing emissions cheating devices in 11 million diesel-powered vehicles around the world It has been a year since V ...
FAA contemplating whether millions of drones will fill skies
Federal aviation officials say so many people are registering drones and applying for drone pilot licenses, they wonder if there will eventu ...
Single-photon detector for potential encryption and sensing apps
In a single-photon detector, individual photons from a light source produce detectable electronic signals (large multicolored pulse at left) ...
Meet AISOY1 the robot autism therapy assistant
AISOY-UMH autism spectrum disorder therapy. Credit: Asociación RUVID Researchers at the Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH) and AI ...
iPhone 7 launches in bid to revive Apple's fortunes
Apple's iPhone 7 launch generated trademark queues and brisk sales in stores around the world on Friday, but excitement mixed with frustrati ...
Amazon Echo will bring genuinely helpful AI into our homes much sooner than expected
Credit: Amazon What's all the fuss about the voice-activated home speaker that Amazon is due to release in the UK and Germany in late Septe ...
Innovasic launches TSN Evaluation Kit for industrial and automotive applications
Innovasic is launching a Time Switching Network (TSN) Evaluation Kit based on its fido5000 REM Switch technology.
Thai EMS company buys Exception gets European foothold
Fabrinet, the Thailand based provider of electronic manufacturing services, has acquired Exception Global CEM Solutions in a $13.5million cash deal.
When hackers turn out the lights
The development of the smart power grid and the smart meter in our homes to accompany it brings several benefits, such as improved delivery ...
Globalfoundries to use MRAM for embedded memory
Everspin Technologies’ ST-MRAM technology will be available as an embedded memory through Globalfoundries. In a joint announcement, the companies said they are also preparing for volume production of
False clues make it tough to find WADA hackers
A screenshot of the Fancy Bears website fancybear.net seen on a computes screen in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Confidential m ...
One year on can Volkswagen leave 'dieselgate' behind?
One year ago, Volkswagen's cheating on emissions tests for millions of its diesel cars erupted into public view One year ago, Volkswagen's ...
Apple iPhone 7 launches; sold-out models leave some disappointed
First customers hold their new iPhone 7 as they leave Apple's flagship store in Sydney, on 16 September, 2016 Apple's iPhone 7 launch gener ...
What to do to if you own a Samsung Galaxy Note 7
In this July 28, 2016, file photo, a screen magnification feature of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is demonstrated, in New York. U.S. regulators ...
US regulators: Official recall of 1M Samsung Note 7 phones
In this Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, file photo, models hold Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones during a launch event at the company's headquarte ...
New tech promises to boost electric vehicle efficiency range
The new inverter, made using silicon carbide components. Credit: Iqbal Husain. Researchers at North Carolina State University have develope ...
TED conference creator in $10M lawsuit over sale of spinoff
The man who created the TED conference is embroiled in a multimillion-dollar legal dispute over the sale of a TED spinoff. ...
Wearable tech market cools as consumers step back
Research firm IDC says smartwatch shipments are likely to grow just 3.9 percent, held back by a delayed release of the upgraded Apple Watch ...
Traders selling dangerously dirty fuel across Africa: study
European oil companies, especially Swiss commodity traders, are exploiting weak African fuel standards by selling toxic diesel and gasoline ...
Globalfoundries unveils 7nm FinFET process
Globalfoundries plans to deliver a 7nm FinFET semiconductor process that it says will offer the ultimate in performance for the next era of computing applications. The move will require an ‘multi-bill
Advanced nano-cutter boosts emerging materials research
Sangkee Min will use the machine’s unique capabilities to explore its suitability for manufacturing emerging materials, as well as currently ...
GlobalFoundries to invest over $2B to make new computer chip
GlobalFoundries says it will invest more than $2 billion to produce cutting-edge 7 nanometer computer chips at its upstate New York facility ...
Self-driving vehicles will have limited impact on productivity
Safety and mobility are cited as the chief advantages of self-driving vehicles, but productivity may be another. Or maybe not, say Universit ...
Kangaroo Island could be powered by 100 percent renewable energy
Kelly Hill Conservation Park, Kangaroo Island. Credit: CC 3.0 pauljill flickr South Australia's iconic Kangaroo Island could be powered by ...
Virtual love on display at annual Tokyo Game Show
Attendants hold smartphones to introduce games at the Tokyo Game Show 2016 in Chiba, a suburb of Tokyo, on September 15, 2016 Game geeks wi ...
Researchers use expanded computing power to accelerate big-data science
Kristina Visscher is using fMRI images from several hundred brains to learn how the brain adapts after long-term changes in vision. Credit: ...
EU court backs Wi-Fi providers in German copyright case
The European Union's highest court has ruled that the manager of a business offering free Wi-Fi to customers can't be held liable for copyri ...
Agency says hackers revealed more medical data
This is a Sunday, July 24, 2016 file photo of Britain's Chris Froome, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates with a glass of ...
Hyundai recalls SUVs; software flaw may stop acceleration
Hyundai is recalling about 41,000 small SUVs in the U.S. because a software glitch can stop the vehicles from accelerating. ...
Slovenian airline bans use of Galaxy Note 7s on its flights
Slovenian airline Adria Airways has banned the use of Samsung's latest mobile phone on its flights due to safety concerns. ...
Pandora revamps its $5 a month radio service
Pandora says it has revamped its $5 a month Internet radio service, giving listeners the ability to skip and replay more songs. ...
Rebrand highlights focus on system software integration
Embedded and mobile software development specialist Adeneo has renamed itself Witekio to highlight that it has changed its focus to system software integration.
New NIST resources help organizations protect systems from mobile threats
Mobile devices increase productivity for employees, but can also provide attackers with sensitive data from the device or the organization’s ...
Apple seeks fresh momentum with iPhone launch
Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller speaks on stage during a media event at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San ...
VR arrives at Tokyo Game Show counted on to revive industry
A visitor tries out a PlayStation VR headgear device at the Tokyo Game Show in Makuhari, near Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Virtual reali ...
Galaxy Note 7 recall shows challenges of stronger batteries
In this Sept. 8, 2016 file photo, a Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 7 smartphone is displayed at the headquarters of South Korean mobile ca ...
Uber riders in Pittsburgh get a taste of driverless future
A group of self driving Uber vehicles position themselves to take journalists on rides during a media preview at Uber's Advanced Technologie ...
FPGA cores offered for TSMC's 40ULP process  EE Times
Flex Logix Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has completed the design of a family of reconfigurable FPGA cores for implementation in TSMC's 40nm ultra-low power manufacturing process.
NYC to pull plug on sidewalk internet after porn complaints
The web-browsing feature of New York City's sidewalk Wi-Fi kiosks will be disabled after critics complained that homeless people were monopo ...
Ford expects lower profit in 2017
In this Jan. 12, 2015, file photo, Ford vehicles sit on the lot at a car dealership, in Brandon, Fla. Ford Motor Co. expects its pretax prof ...
US official: Difficult to alter US elections through hacking
In this Feb. 13, 2015 file photo, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco speaks at the White Hous ...
Tesla says France fire caused by badly tightened connection
Tesla says that a fire in one of its electric cars in France broke out because an electrical connection had not been tightened properly. ...
Explained: why a reboot is the go-to computer fix
Credit: George Hodan/Public Domain It's the most common answer to our computing woes: when your PC or mobile is playing up, try turning it ...
Facebook's algorithms give it more editorial responsibility—not less
Editorial intervention. Credit: Eric Johansen/EPA Recent criticism of Facebook for removing a post containing the iconic image of a naked g ...
Senior official says UK exploring national internet filter
The head of Britain's newly formed cybersecurity agency says authorities are exploring the creation of a national internet filter to block m ...
Pentagon push to tap tech talent in 'weird' Texas city
Pentagon chief Ashton Carter on Wednesday announced the creation of a new defense innovation center in Austin, Texas—the latest expansion in ...
Facebook chooses New Mexico for new data center over Utah
Facebook chose New Mexico for a new data center over Utah after questions arose about a tax-break deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars ...