How Pokemon Go turned couch potatoes into fitness fanatics without them even realising it
Credit: Wachiwit / Shutterstock.com Pokemon Go is taking the world by storm. Within days of its US release, its number of daily active user ...
Hassane El-Khoury Cypress’ next CEO
Hassane El-Khoury has been named Cypress’ president and chief executive officer. In addition, Ray Bingham’s current role as chairman of the board has been expanded to executive chairman, mainly to foc
A.I. could be a firefighter's 'Guardian Angel'
New artificial intelligence technology, developed jointly by the Jet Propulsion Lab and the Department of Homeland Security, could one day g ...
False shutdown rumor fuels #SaveTwitter frenzy
Twitter's future has been the subject of speculation because of its relatively slow growth and persistent losses, and its inability to contr ...
Ad blockers out-flank Facebook
Facebook ads on desktop are being made to look so much like natural content that they get by ad-blockers Ad blockers on Thursday said they ...
Calling China: phones everywhere in world's biggest market
China had 1.3 billion mobile users by the end of 2015, and nearly 30 percent of them—a swathe of humanity larger than the whole population o ...
Microsoft buys interactive game streaming startup
Microsoft has purchased Beam, a startup that allows people watching live-streamed game play to assign missions, summon adversaries, or selec ...
Taiwan's Hon Hai gets Chinese green light for Sharp deal
Taiwanese tech giant Hon Hai said antitrust authorities in China had approved its takeover of ailing Japanese electronics maker Sharp, clear ...
NASA pulls together national data to sleuth out air traffic improvement mysteries
NASA’s Sherlock Air Traffic Management Data Warehouse shows one day of air traffic for Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. Credits: NAS ...
Scientist blazes the way for 3-D printing in Middle East
Credit: Texas A&M University Metal additive manufacturing service bureaus are located in many regions over the world, but the Middle Ea ...
Computer programming made easier
Automata Tutor, a tool developed by the NSF-funded Expeditions in Computer Augmented Program Engineering project, automatically grades stude ...
Architecture students faculty design floating cities in response to climate change
Floating prefabricated living units will be tethered by masts within the threatened shorelines of existing communities as a means to maintai ...
Setting robots in motion quickly and efficiently
How can this robot know where to move safely, and where it will collide with something else? Humanrobo, CC BY-SA How can a drone get from o ...
The innovative shock absorber system from Audi can generate electricity
Credit: Audi In the mobility of the future, the recuperation of energy plays an increasingly important role, including in a car's suspensio ...
Department stores hope to recapture appeal be destinations
In this Thursday, March 10, 2016, photo, a man looks at shirts and neckties that are part of a "Buy One Get One for a Penny" sale ...
Wind power fiercer than expected study finds
Example of an offshore wind farm. Credit: Kim Hansen, Creative Commons University of Delaware researchers report in a new study that offsho ...
Shares of Alibaba jump on strong 1Q results
In this Friday, May 27, 2016, file photo, staffers pass security guards near a company logo at the Alibaba Group headquarters in Hangzhou, i ...
Lock picking your way to cybersecurity at Def Con
In this Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, photo, a Def Con attendee demonstrates how to pick a padlock at the annual Def Con conference in Las Vegas. Pi ...
UK investigating reported near-miss between drone and plane
British police say they are investigating a reported near-collision between a drone and a passenger plane near England's Newquay Airport. ...
Samsung buys US luxury home appliance maker Dacor
Samsung Electronics said Thursday it had acquired US luxury appliance maker Dacor, as part of its push towards a full production line of hig ...
Researchers unveil remote lock flaw on 100m cars
Researchers have discovered a security flaw in remote locking systems fitted to around 100 million cars worldwide German and British resear ...
Snapchat removes filter amid claims of racial insensitivity
Snapchat has removed a filter for photos that some say promoted racist Asian stereotypes. ...
Huffington Post founder leaves for wellness startup
Arianna Huffington pictured on February 11, 2015, said she would be stepping down as editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, which now opera ...
USB FPGA module provides 360Mbit/s data transfer
Looking to provide ways to transfer large amounts of data quickly between a computer and the outside world without having to integrate complex hardware and software, Orange Tree Technologies has devel
Russia fines Google $6.7 million over anti-trust charge
Russia's largest search engine Yandex asked anti-trust authorities to prevent Android phones from being automatically bundled with Google's ...
LoRa-based development kit enables fast prototyping
LoRa alliance members, Libelium and Loriot, have announced a LoRaWAN-connected development kit that should speed the development and testing of IoT applications.
Delta computer outage included 'small fire' at data center
As flight cancelations and delays move into their fourth day, Delta Air Lines isn't providing details on a "small fire" Monday at ...
World should consider limits to future internet expansion to control energy consumption
The world should consider ways to limit data growth on the internet to prevent run-away energy consumption and help limit carbon emissions, ...
Accelerator programme boots IoT startups
An accelerator programme for start ups developing IoT products for consumer and industrial applications has selected the latest 10 companies which it will attempt to help grow. Called Startupbootcamp,
Wearable cloud could be less expensive more powerful form of mobile computing
Credit: University of Alabama at Birmingham Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are exploring the concept of a wearable ...
Expert says cyberattack worries could affect elections
A real possibility exists that foreign hackers could throw a monkey wrench into the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in the fall, a ...
Research finds out why people love to use fashion shopping apps
Credit: University of Manchester Research undertaken by The University of Manchester has found that most people shop on fashion apps at 8pm ...
Robotic gait training for kids with CP—it's cool but does it work?
Maggie Slessor practises walking on the Lokomat while tossing a balloon back and forth with a physical therapist at the Glenrose Rehabilitat ...
Student researchers build table-football robot
ls in table football. The next step will be to program the robot with some strategy and organise a competition among robots. ...
When disaster-response apps fail
The scene in Nice the morning after the July 14 terror attack – during which an emergency-warning app failed to give timely notice. Credit: ...
Sketch-based query for searching for relationships among objects in images
Credit: Wikimedia Searching for specific images may become easier thanks to a new tool that generates image queries based on a sketch or de ...
Security solution for IoT devices connected to Amazon Web Services
An end to end security solution for IoT devices that connect to Amazon Web Services IoT (AWS IoT) has been unveiled by Microchip, which worked with AWS to develop a way for IoT devices to comply with
Australian census back online 2 days after cyberattack
Australia's first attempt to conduct a census online has resumed almost two days after it shut down due to what an angry prime minister desc ...
Snapchat "Yellow Face" lens slapped as offensive
Snapchat soared to popularity with  messages that disappear shortly after being viewed and has been adding features to better compete w ...
Newspapers rethink paywalls as digital efforts sputter
Paywalls were supposed to help rescue newspapers from the crisis of sinking print circulation as readers shifted to getting their news onlin ...
Uber files complaint with EU against Hungary
Ride-hailing app Uber filed a complaint on Wednesday with the European Commission against Hungary, where legislation came into force in July ...
Plastic gun from 3-D printer  seized at Nevada airport
This Aug. 4, 2016, photo, provided by the Transportation Security Administration shows a plastic replica revolver TSA agents recovered from ...
User-friendly language for programming efficient simulations
Computer simulations of physical systems are common in science, engineering, and entertainment, but they use several different types of tool ...
NIST's rolling wireless net helps improve first-responder communications
NIST engineer Ben Posthuma is demonstrating the use of NIST's Rapidly Deployable Public Safety Research Platform, a mobile array of commerci ...
Obama's reading will now include Facebook Messenger notes
People hoping to send a note to President Barack Obama can now contact the White House using Facebook Messenger, just as they would communic ...
Thai gov't plan would track foreigners through SIM cards
Thailand's telecommunications regulator has approved in principle a plan to issue special SIM cards to foreign tourists so they can be track ...
Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape
Biohybrid sea slug, reporting for duty. Credit: Dr. Andrew Horchler, CC BY-ND Think of a traditional robot and you probably imagine somethi ...
Metal-organic frameworks with a piggyback structure for solar cells and LEDs
Photon upconversion: Energy transfer between the molecules is based on electron exchange (Dexter electron transfer). Credit: Michael Oldenbu ...
Crushed aggregates provide major environmental benefits
This is the new crushed rock aggregate – with the sharpest edges removed. It will be mixed with gravel taken from the same location. Credit: ...
Pokemon players not welcome at Cambodia's genocide museum
A warning sign, right, reads "No Pokemon Game" is stuck at a front gate of Tuol Sleng genocide museum, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, We ...
Imaging and vision DSP licensed
Chinese fabless semiconductor company Rockchip has licensed the CEVA-XM4 imaging and vision DSP for use in SoCs aimed at smart camera applications. Rockchip has previously licensed CEVA IP, including
You don't need to be an IT expert to mastermind cyber-attacks
Anyone with a sinister mind and some dollars to spare could mastermind a cyber-attack such as the one the Australian Bureau of Statistics is ...
Cloud innovations signal the future for urban mobility
Credit: Shutterstock A ground breaking EU project has delivered a cloud-based platform along with a range of apps and tools to help get Eur ...
Image: Multi-layer insulation blankets for satellite surfaces
Credit: ESA–G. Porter Blankets of multi-layer insulation (MLI) are used to cover satellite surfaces to help insulate them from orbital temp ...
European aircraft to use satellite communication
SINTEF researchers have previously developed an authentication system that enables pilots and air traffic controllers to confirm with whom t ...
Robot companions are coming into our homes – so how human should they be?
Shall I take the spare room? Credit: Shutterstock What would your ideal robot be like? One that can change nappies and tell bedtime stories ...
Researcher analyzes acoustic properties of golf club drivers
Peter Kerrian addresses a golf ball as he prepares to record the impact sound produced by the driver and golf ball in an attempt to understa ...
Phase-change memory could store data 1000 times faster
Work on phase change memory (PCM) conducted by a team based at Stanford University in the US suggests the technology could store data far more quickly than previously thought, as well as providing non
'Game on for Pokmon Go' says The BMJ pundit
Game on for Pokémon Go, The BMJ's weekly GP columnist says today in a light-hearted look. ...
Intel buys artificial intelligence startup
California-based computer chip colossus Intel looks to broaden its role in data centers and the expanding internet of things US-based Intel ...
Study highlights serious security threat to many internet users
Research team (left to right): Zhongjie Wang, Tuan Dao, Yue Cao, Zhiyun Qian and Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy. Credit: UC Riverside Researcher ...
Talking back: Countering terrorist narratives may reduce recruitment
Recruiters for violent extremist groups, just like screenwriters and marketers, use storytelling techniques to craft their messages. Analyzi ...
New technique leads to improved perovskite solar cells
NREL researcher Mengjin Yang examines hybrid perovskite solar cells in his lab. Credit: Dennis Schroeder / NREL Scientists at the Energy De ...
Court deals blow to Berlin's Airbnb ban
An administrative court backed the claims of three homeowners, who had sued for the right to rent out their second homes in Berlin to touris ...
GM begins autonomous car tests in Scottsdale Arizona
General Motors and its autonomous technology company Cruise Automation are testing self-driving cars on the streets of Scottsdale, Arizona. ...
Facebook sidesteps ad-blocking on desktop computers
Facebook ads on desktop are being made to look so much like natural content that they get by ad-blockers Facebook on Tuesday began letting ...
University collects medical samples via drones in Madagascar
In this July 27, 2016 image made from a video provided by Vayu, Inc., residents from Ranomafana, Madagascar, watch before a drone containing ...
NREL assesses strategies needed for light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas reduction
The White House wants to cut U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 percent by 2050, but the goal raises questions about one of the great ...
Optics augments reality and brings 3-D medicine into focus
Live 3-D imaging is one of the hottest topics in optics today, transforming medical imaging capabilities and delivering the immersive experi ...
Study addresses the connection between technology development and emissions-reduction policies
Figure 1: This chart shows worldwide deployment and costs of solar and wind energy. Since 2000, the rapidly growing deployment of solar phot ...
Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?
Who’ll be the next president of the United States – Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Credit: Flickr/torbakhopper, CC BY-NC-ND Who will win ...
Why save a computer virus?
2016-08-09 20:00:06Why save a computer virus?
Hex code from the Blaster worm reveals the potential motivations of the worm’s creator. Credit: Ward Moerman On average, 82,000 new malware ...
Computer modelling identifies better blue OLED molecules
Using a large-scale, computer-driven screening process called the Molecular Space Shuttle, a team of Harvard researchers, in collaboration with MIT and Samsung, has designed more than 1000 molecules t
Self assembly could produce new nanoscale architectures
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US have developed a way to direct the self-assembly of multiple molecular patterns within a single material, producing new nanoscale architectures.
Electric car maker misses debt payment to Mississippi
Electric car maker GreenTech Automotive, which once planned to build 250,000 cars a year and invest $2 billion in an impoverished corner of ...
Television show "The Voice" being tuned for Snapchat
Alicia Keys is one of the coaches on singing competition show 'The Voice' Media giant NBC Universal said that it is making a Snapchat versi ...
News Corp pushed to profit by digital thrust
Digital subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal were up 26 percent year-over-year to 948,000, according to declarations by News Corp on Aug ...
Oracle says Micros credit card readers hacked
California-based business software colossus Oracle bought Micros in 2014 in a deal valued at $5.3 billion US business software colossus Ora ...
Psychologist's magic makes a non-existent object disappear
Magicians use sleight of hand to confuse you about where an object is. But could they make you believe that you saw a non-existent object di ...
Complexity makes airline computer systems vulnerable
Jenna Raspanti and other travelers talk on their cell phones as they stand in line at the Delta ticketing counter at Washington's Ronald Rea ...
Apple buys US machine learning startup
Apple has been stepping up its artificial intelligence efforts to compete against rival services from Amazon, Google and Microsoft Apple on ...
How to avoid hacking? Read this story then turn off your computer
Here's some advice for newbies to the largest cybersecurity and hacking conferences in the world, taking place in Las Vegas this week: Hacke ...
Imagine if your computer could heal itself when attacked
Computer, heal thyself! With menacing bugs and viruses floating around the internet, such a command would be useful. In fact, it may be movi ...
Yahoo launches site for free Hulu television
Actress Mindy Kaling attends The 2016 Hulu TCA Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California, on August 5, 2016 Yahoo on Monday launched a ...
Euro semi sales ‘return to growth’
Semiconductor sales in Europe increased in June compared to May 2016, according to the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA). Overall, European semiconductor sales were $2.67billion – 1.7
Iran bans 'Pokemon Go' over security concerns
Iranians are no longer allowed to catch Pikachus after authorities decided to ban the "Pokemon Go" mobile game because of security ...
Ben-Gurion University startup technology SayVU deployed at Rio Olympics
SayVU strives to minimize the response time of emergency services and other authorities, and make sure the user gets assistance as quickly a ...
After fatality autonomous car development may speed up
As problems occur, rapid design adjustment will advance autonomous cars' abilities. Credit: shutterstock.com The world has witnessed enormo ...
After German attacks Facebook insists it works with probes
Facebook said in a statement that it was committed to working with officials Facebook on Monday dismissed complaints by German officials th ...
Spanish travel agencies cash in on 'Poketourism'
Junior Travel's tours will see customers driven around in a bus and given expert guidance on hunting Pokemon, for up to 43 euros a day Just ...
Delta resumes some service after hours of global outage
Passengers in the Delta Airlines boarding area at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas are jammed in to wait as Delta Airlines says a ...
China's Midea grabs near-95% stake in German firm Kuka
Chinese appliance giant Midea said on Monday it had secured almost 95 percent of German robotics firm Kuka, in the face of European fears ov ...
Lithium-ion batteries: Capacity might be increased by six times
Lithium ions migrate through the electrolyte (yellow) into the layer of crystalline silicon (c-Si). During the charging cycle, a 20-nm layer ...
Hulu dropping free video as it prepares cable TV alternative
Hulu is dropping the free TV episodes that it was initially known for as it works on an online television service to rival cable TV. ...
Boom in live video helping some creators make a living
Casey Cooper is one of the most famous drummers on the planet right now. He has a million followers on YouTube, and his flaming-sticks drumm ...
At a Glance: Livestreaming apps beyond Facebook Live
In this Thursday, June 23, 2016, photo, Erick Armas, left, captures video of, from right, Jordan Hoyle, Violet Summersby, George Padilla and ...
Five years on what has happened to transparent batteries?
Five years ago, a team of researchers at Stanford University in the US unveiled a lithium-ion battery that was both see-through and bendable.
Non-uniform charging affects battery performance
An interdisciplinary team from Stanford University has developed a way to track how particles charge and discharge at the nanoscale, an advance that could lead to better lithium-ion batteries.
'Liquid light' could enable smaller faster electronics
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have built a miniature electro-optical switch which is said to change the spin of a liquid form of light by the application of an electric field. The team sa
Wal-Mart buying online retailer newcomer Jet.com
In this Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, file photo, reusable shopping bags are offered for sale at a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market, in the Chinatow ...