New research led by Northeastern professor Guevara Noubir reveals that some Android apps may automatically transmit sensitive information, s ...

In the wake of a disaster, a difficult challenge for emergency response crews is to quickly assess damage and identify victims. Researchers ...

In this Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016 photo, research scientist Sung-Jin Park displays a tissue-engineered robot on a piece of glass in a laborato ...

Pokemon Go gaming app has sparked a global frenzy since its launch in July 2016 as users hunt for virtual cartoon characters overlaid on rea ...

The 2 million-square-foot building where Bell Labs scientists helped launch modern cellular networks before it became one of the country's l ...

Zach Garrett of the United States releases his arrow during the men's team archery competition at the Sambadrome venue during the 2016 Summe ...

Participants use their smartphones as they play Pokemon Go during a "PokeWalk" in Hong Kong, on August 6, 2016 Hundreds gathered ...

Iranians play Pokemon Go app in northern Tehran's Mellat Park on August 3, 2016 Iran was quick to ban global gaming craze Pokemon Go, but a ...

In this April 13, 2016 photo, Li Chenjian, a vice provost at Peking University, speaks during an interview at the school's campus in Beijing ...

Bitcoin, a Florida judge says, is not real money. Ironically, that could provide a boost to use of the crypto-currency which has remained in ...

FBI Director James Comey gestures during an address to the American Bar Association annual meeting Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, in San Francisco. ( ...

A pistol glyph included among emoticons for messages sent on Apple's coming iOS 10 software looked like a toy instead of a real firearm, whi ...

A pilot flies a small racing drone through an obstacle course on Governors Island, a former military installation in New York Harbor, Friday ...

This undated photo provided by the Houston Police Department shows Michael Armando Arce. Houston police say they've arrested Arce and Jesse ...

Research by Imperial College London suggests a new form of light could be created by binding light to a single electron in a topological insulator and combining the properties of both. According to th

IBM scientists in Zurich have created artificial neurons to store and process data. This innovation is said to mark a step towards energy efficient, ultra-dense neuromorphic technologies for applicati

Credit: Texas A&M University Most of us have seen the "Not Enough Storage" message on our smart phone or tablet. Cloud comput ...

Bitcoin. Credit: https://freeformers.com/uncover-digital-bitcoin-blockchain-blog/ Hong Kong Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex announced that it had ...

The short serve has a shorter and lower trajectory with it being aimed towards the front of the court, proving an effective strategy during ...

A relatively new field called transient electronics could enable self-destructing electronic devices for military, medical and environmental applications. Such transient devices could perform a variet

Sales in June 2016 by authorised distributors in the Electronic Component Supply Network (ECSN) increased by 31% when compared to the previous month and by 13% when compared to the same period last ye

An open honeycomb at each stage during the manufacturing process. Credit: University of Bristol Engineers from the University of Bristol ha ...

A worker walks past a Boeing 767 with an Amazon.com "Prime Air" livery on display Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, in a Boeing hangar in Se ...

Researchers are studying ways to use components of the agave plant in the manufacture of a bioplastic that could replace fiberglass or caulk ...

Wisut Janprapai collects cow dung at his father's home in Pa Deng village near the Thai-Myanmar border Nestled in a deep pocket of forest t ...

It was an unexpected moment - and one of the first signs Target's tech department was in line for a major shake-up. ...

Never fear, MEDi the robot is here, ready to calm the nerves of children scared of the hospital and all the things that go with it - like pr ...

In the top of the first inning of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game last month, Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant clubbed a home ru ...

For a technology that was supposed to die years ago, Adobe's Flash has shown remarkable resiliency. ...

A team of researchers from Google and the New York University Tandon School of Engineering next week will offer the first public view into s ...

Iowa State scientists have developed a working battery that dissolves and disperses in water. Credit: Ashley Christopherson Self-destructin ...

This July 14, 2015 photo shows the ARC Automotive manufacturing plant in Knoxville, Tenn. Investigators in the U.S. and Canada on Thursday, ...

Facebook says it is cracking down even harder on clickbait by using a system that targets headlines that withhold information needed to unde ...

A couple walks along Copacabana beach ahead of the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. The icon ...

A pair of well-known hackers has found another way to take control of a Jeep Cherokee—this time while it's moving at high speed. ...

Now that Yahoo Inc. is being sold, what other struggling tech companies might soon find themselves on the auction block? ...

If you follow my reviews, you'll remember I like the entire idea of Bluetooth speakers, which seem to be the equivalent of my old boombox fr ...

Researchers from University of Illinois have developed a method to test stress and strain in battery electrodes in a move to further understand the mechanical, electrical and chemical forces within li

In this Feb. 11, 2016 photo, a 2016 Chevrolet Cruze is on display at the Pittsburgh International Auto Show in Pittsburgh. With 153 horsepow ...

A Ukrainian nationalist website has published an email archive with copies of IDs and personal data of Ukrainian and international journalis ...

Since 1896, swimming has been an event in the Olympic games. Back then it was the swimmer's physical condition that was decisive in securing ...

More than 100 global design professionals on Thursday offered support to Apple in its long-running patent design battle with Samsung, now be ...

The EU EUROPRUNING project has implemented a true pruning-to-energy value chain by introducing new technology and by removing barriers to th ...

Dish Network is offering a new "skinny" bundle of about 50 cable channels that doesn't include ESPN and some other sports channels ...

Self-propelling liquid metals, developed by researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, are said to be a critical step towards flexible and reconfigurable soft circuit systems, such as 3D electronic

The SaltX heating system offers better efficiency than today’s best furnaces and a potential payback of just three to four years. Credit: Oa ...

Enrico depositing thin coatings. Credit: Fresh Science Researchers at RMIT and CSIRO plan to revolutionise the manufacture of smartphones, ...

Finnish telecom company Nokia Corp. reported Thursday a second-quarter net loss of 665 million euros ($738 million) due to weak demand for m ...

A silicon-tin nanocomposite anode developed by researchers at the University of California Riverside (UCR) could lead to lithium-ion batteries that can be charged and discharged more times before they

Micro-robotic manipulators with the ability to move in increments far smaller than the width of a human hair might be enlisted for a range o ...

In this Tuesday, July 26, 2016, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., left, discusses the company's new Gigafactory in Sparks, Ne ...

Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally with democratic vice presidential n ...

Social networks have revolutionized election campaigning around the world by giving politicians direct, instantaneous and free access to the ...

Hongrui Jiang inspects the alignment of a light source to illuminate new-generation lateral solar cells. The solar cells developed by Jiang' ...

A new microfluidic device that replicates the neuromuscular junction — the vital connection where nerve meets muscle — contains a small clus ...

In this Tuesday, July 26, 2016, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., left, discusses the company's new Gigafactory in Sparks, Ne ...

Thousands of hackers and other cybersecurity professionals converged on Las Vegas on Wednesday for the annual Black Hat conference. Here are ...

Toronto city officials are asking the developers of the popular mobile game Pokemon Go to remove locations from the city's downtown ferry te ...

In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, Jay Parikh, vice president of engineering, talks about Area 404, the hardware R&D lab, during ...

The HiPub plugin for Chrome browser mines the text of PubMed abstracts to help researchers immediately visualize connections between genes, ...

In this Monday, Feb 22, 2016, file photo, a Samsung Gear VR oculus is demonstrated during a preview of Samsung's flagship store, Samsung 837 ...

The entire solar material for the sample with less than or equal to 30 percent selenium is photoactive (top) while the bottom of the solar m ...

An environmentally-friendly battery that stores energy in a vitamin-created plastic has been developed by a team of chemists from University of Toronto. The battery uses Flavin from vitamin B2 as the

Everspin Technologies has used the Flash Memory Summit to announce that it is shipping samples of the first memory to use perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) based ST-MRAM. The 256Mbit DDR3

Facebook built its fortune on the internet, that non-physical space where people share updates and digital videos with friends. But deep ins ...

Credit: Shutterstock A team of US and Israeli researchers, partly funded by the EU, have developed a truly pioneering cinema screen that ca ...

A Lockheed Martin Miniature Hit-to-Kill missile streaks skyward during a successful flight test on July 29. Lockheed Martin's Miniature Hit ...

Credit: Harvard University China and the United States, the planet's top producers of C02, also lead the world in wind power installation. ...

Who’s driving? Credit: Thatcham, Author provided The UK has been called the "whiplash capital of Europe" after insurance giant Av ...

Japan's Kohei Uchimura discovered that his recent addiction to Pokemon GO had made his phone bill soar to 500,000 yen ($5,000) Japanese gym ...

Sampath Vengate. Credit: UT Arlington A recently graduated University of Texas at Arlington student is the first person to successfully fli ...

In this Wednesday, June 15, 2016, file photo, Toyota Motor Corp's Prius PHV is displayed at the Smart Community Japan exhibition in Tokyo, J ...

Purdue University researchers are working on a new technique that could aid law enforcement in gathering data from smart phones when investi ...

How can we get Australian electricity heading down the right road? Credit: CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY The past three weeks have seen co ...

Time Warner is taking a 10 percent stake in streaming television service Hulu. ...

A Georgia man pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Tuesday, admitting participating in a computer hacking scheme that used facts stolen fro ...

The EHang commercial drones Series V.1 and Series V.2 (top C) are displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada in January ...

China says it has 710 million internet users—defined as those who have gone online at least once in the past six months—more than double the ...

Hackers have reportedly stolen $65 million worth of Bitcoins from a major Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex, which has now suspended all transacti ...

A Georgia man has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge, admitting participating in a computer hacking scheme that generated $30 million in ...

To simulate objects, researchers analyzed video clips to find “vibration modes” at different frequencies that each represent distinct ways t ...

Apple is disarming—or at least it's dumping an emoji that depicts a realistic-looking revolver and replacing it with a brightly colored toy ...

This flexible wearable sensor can be worn on the arm to detect alcohol level. Credit: UC San Diego Engineers at the University of Californi ...

Instagram Stories will be rolled out in coming weeks to versions of the application tailored for smartphones powered by Android or Apple iOS ...

SFR, France's second-largest mobile operator, currently employs 14,000 people French mobile operator SFR plans to shed over a third of its ...

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In another move to break from YouTube, music video brand Vevo has cut a deal to license videos from Warner Music, repairing a rift between m ...

In this July 28, 2016, photo, Jonathan Wong of Samsung's Knox Product Marketing, shows the iris scanner feature of the Galaxy Note 7, in New ...

Semi-transparent Perovskite Solar Cell. This picture shows a prototype of a semi-transparent perovskite solar cell with thermal-mirror funct ...

Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Researchers have developed an algorithm for creating complex objects by cutting holes in s ...

Credit: Lancaster University A Lancaster engineering undergraduate has invented a new storage solution that could provide the missing-link ...

The use of algorithms to filter and present information online is increasingly shaping our everyday experience of the real world, a study pu ...

Ms Evans hopes the “deep learning” techniques will make the game fun and engaging for players and help her to see if the game influences how ...

Taimoor Asim in the Laser Lab where he uses 3D PIV (particle image velocimetry) for analysing capsule flow. Credit: University of Huddersfie ...

The 2016 International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology started in Brisbane today. As the world moves closer to autonomous an ...

Pokemon Go uses smartphone satellite location, graphics and camera capabilities to overlay cartoon monsters on real-world settings, challeng ...

Pedestrians talk on their cellphones in Lima, Peru, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016. Under a July 2015 decree, police now track cellphone locations ...

Following a distribution agreement, TTI can now offer Smiths Connectors’ interconnection product range across Europe. The agreement builds on a partnership between Smiths Connectors and Mateleco, the

Tektronix has launched the TBS2000, described as a next generation basic oscilloscope with the longest record length and largest display in its class. The introduction is said to bring access to expan

Apple remained the top tablet maker in the second quarter, shipping 10 million iPads to command 25.8 percent of the market, IDC reports Wor ...