Is the UK's changing electronics landscape a cause for concern?
Is all well in the UK’s technology industry? News that the UK could be about to see its biggest technology company, ARM, taken over by Japanese giant SoftBank has cast a shadow over an industry that h
Watering solar cells makes them grow... in power
Perovskite solar cells. Credit: OIST Perovskite solar cells are the rising star in the photovoltaic landscape. Since their invention, less ...
Hiroshima unhappy atomic-bomb park is 'Pokemon Go' site
In this Aug. 6, 2015 file photo, Kazumi Matsui, right, mayor of Hiroshima, and the family of the deceased bow before they place the victims ...
Japan's Nintendo logs over $234 mn loss despite Pokemon Go
Video game giant Nintendo lost more than $233 million on a stronger yen and lacklustre sales in the first quarter Video game giant Nintendo ...
'Pokemon Go' fans play in India despite no official launch
In this Friday, July 22, 2016 photo, Pokemon Go players meet in Lodhi Garden in New Delhi, India. "Pokemon Go," the highly addicti ...
Machine learning researchers team up with Chinese botanists on flower-recognition project
Credit: Microsoft Has this ever happened to you? You're out walking with your daughter. She finds a beautiful flower, quizzes you on it, bu ...
Websites with history can be just as conversational as chatting with a person
"If Siri, for example, could tell you a little bit about your interaction history with her, some of the clunkiness in the chat could be ...
NASA image: Cockpit of the first all-electric propulsion aircraft
Credit: NASA/Ken Ulbrich NASA's Scalable Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology and Operations Research (SCEPTOR) project has reached a ...
Data-driven approach to pavement management lowers greenhouse gas emissions
Roughness- and deflection-induced excess carbon dioxide emissions on Virginia’s Interstate Highway network in 2013. Credit: Massachusetts In ...
A more efficient way to write data into non-volatile memory devices improves their performance
A scheme to write data into next generation memory chips has been developed by A*STAR Data Storage Institute researchers. The proposal by Ju ...
New and improved IdleBox tool to aid in reduction of auto idling
Argonne, with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities program, has relaunched IdleBox, an electronic education and outre ...
Disposable ultrafast optical humidity sensors provide better moisture control for manufacturing and storage
Response of graphene oxide sensor to increased humidity levels. Credit: American Chemical Society A*STAR researchers have designed a low-co ...
Five years on; apprentices in the spotlight
Five years ago, New Electronics reported on WorldSkills International. Organised by WorldSkills, a body that brings together industry, government, organisations, and institutions to promote skills edu
Analog buys Linear for $14billion creates ‘leading analogue company’
Analog Devices has signed a definitive agreement under which it will acquire Linear Technology in a deal worth about $14billion. The move will position Analog Devices as the leading analogue technolog
Oxide combo could boost power semi performance
Engineers from the University of Utah and the University of Minnesota have discovered that when strontium titanate (STO) and neodymium titanate (NTO) interact with each other, the amount of electrons
Better capacity in high voltage lithium-ion batteries
Researchers from the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, JST PRESTO, and the National Institute for Materials Science, claim to have found a way to overcome capacity loss in lithium-ion batteries f
Twitter shares dive after update disappoints
The number of monthly active Twitter users edged up to 313 million, up three percent from a year ago and only slightly more than the 310 mil ...
Daimler's mytaxi British rival Hailo to merge
Daimler's mytaxi and British rival Hailo are merging to form Europe's biggest app-based cab ordering service. ...
Apple supplier LG Display puts $1.8B into flexible displays
LG Display Co., a supplier of Apple's iPhone screens, said Wednesday that it will invest 1.99 trillion won ($1.75 billion) to produce flexib ...
Apple talks services amid drop in iPhone sales profit
With iPhone sales and profits sliding, Apple on Tuesday sought to highlight its growth in services as it seeks to reduce dependence on its m ...
Analog buys Linear for $30billion creates ‘leading analogue company’
Analog Devices has signed a definitive agreement under which it will acquire Linear Technology in a deal worth about $30billion. The move will position Analog Devices as the leading analogue technolog
Tesla opens Gigafactory to expand battery production sales
An overall view of the new Tesla Gigafactory is seen during a media tour Tuesday, July 26, 2016, in Sparks, Nev. It's Tesla Motors' biggest ...
Japan latest battleground in Airbnb home-sharing war
Last year, Japan drew some 19.7 million visitors, up 47 percent from a year earlier, straining hotel occupancy rates and highlighting Tokyo' ...
Businesses can't afford to ignore the human element of IT study says
Mood and personality play an important role in how companies should manage their IT systems, according to a new study co-authored by a resea ...
Qualcomm to pay $19.5M to settle gender discrimination suit
Qualcomm agreed Tuesday to pay $19.5 million to settle a gender discrimination class-action lawsuit alleging women were denied equal pay and ...
Chinese tech firm LeEco agrees to buy Vizio TV maker for $2B
In this photo provided by LeEco, LeEco CEO Jia Yueting, left, and Vizio CEO William Wang shake hands at a news conference where it was annou ...
Tesla on Autopilot was speeding before fatal crash: probe
Tesla said the Autopilot system, introduced last year, is not a fully autonomous system and that drivers are cautioned that they need to be ...
Big electronics makers to merge in $15 bn deal
Electronic component maker Analog Devices announced a deal Tuesday to buy rival Linear Technology for $15 billion. ...
Cybersecurity experts see merit in claims of Russian hacking
In this July 1, 2016 file photo, a ruby star on the Kremlin's Nikolskaya Tower is reflected in a window glass of GUM department store in Red ...
Body Talk: A new crowdshaping technology uses words to create accurate 3-D body models
Celebrity body reconstruction. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Tübingen Researchers from the Max Planck Institute ...
Twitter still struggling to grow as rivals race ahead (Update)
This Wednesday Nov. 6, 2013, file photo shows the Twitter bird logo on an updated phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Tw ...
Breaking news: Analog Devices to acquire Linear
Analog Devices has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Linear Technology for $30billion. More to follow ...
As iPhone sale sag Apple touts apps and services instead
In this Friday, May 13, 2016, file photo, a man uses his mobile phone near an Apple store in Beijing. Apple reports financial results Tuesda ...
Twitter dives after update disappoints
The number of monthly active Twitter users edged up to 313 million, up three percent from a year ago and only slightly more than the 310 mil ...
Earthquake-resilient pipeline could shake up future for aging infrastructure
Top soil deforms over the buried JFE pipeline during a fault rupture test at Cornell Engineering's Geotechnical Lifelines Large-Scale Testin ...
Historic solar flight marks first round-the-world journey
The Solar Impulse 2 plane lands in an airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, early Tuesday, July 26, 2016, marking the historic end of ...
Biological wizardry ferments carbon monoxide into biofuel
Cornell University biological engineers have deciphered the cellular strategy to make the biofuel ethanol, using an anaerobic microbe feedin ...
NGI Thomas Swan collaborate to develop 2D materials
The National Graphene Institute (NGI) and Thomas Swan are partnering to develop commercial opportunities with 2D materials beyond graphene. As part of their agreement, the partners will not only seek
Violent groups revealed on Twitter: Tool keeps track without having to geolocate the tweets
According to the team, the police and other law enforcement agencies could use the tool to detect critical points, threats and areas with co ...
With new method any picture or text could be inkjet-printed as a solar cell
Semi-transparent dye-sensitized solar cell with inkjet-printed photovoltaic portraits of the Aalto researchers (Ghufran Hashmi, Merve &O ...
Stadium unifies power brands
2016-07-27 00:00:05Stadium unifies power brands
Stadium Group has brought its Stadium Power and Stontronics brands together as one trading entity called Stadium Stontronics. The move is said by the company to give its customers access to a wider ra
Citing cyber 'revolution' Obama issues attack response plan
The White House says the world is facing a "revolution" of the cyber threat and is issuing a response plan for the federal governm ...
ams acquires colour and spectral sensing specialist MAZeT
ams AG has acquired 100% of the shares in the colour and spectral sensing systems specialist MAZeT for an undisclosed amount in cash.
Students launch agricultural drone startup to help reduce farming costs
Aerial Agriculture LLC, a tech startup founded by undergraduate students in Purdue's College of Engineering, developed and piloted agricultu ...
Has Netflix's campaign to block VPN resulted in slower subscriber growth?
Netflix proxy blocking. There have been a number of suggestions to explain the slowdown in Netflix's subscriber growth that resulted in its ...
The rise in cyber attacks shows we need to change the way we think about crime
Credit: GlebStock/Shutterstock You are now 20 times more likely to have your money stolen online by a criminal overseas than by a pickpocke ...
Nanolithia could advance battery technology says MIT team
While lithium-air batteries are seen to be promising for use in electric cars and portable electronic devices, they waste energy and degrade relatively quickly. A further constraint is their open cell
FEEU signs exclusive distribution deal with Ambiq
Fujitsu Electronics Europe has added MCUs and real time clocks from Ambiq Micro to its portfolio. As part of the agreement, the company will become the exclusive distributor of Ambiq Micro products in
Yahoo's Mayer: A trailblazer but no game-changer for women
In this Monday, May 20, 2013, file photo, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during a news conference in New York. On Monday, July 25, 2016, Ver ...
Chinese army bans Hong Kong's Pokemon players from barracks
Pokemon Go's Hong Kong launch saw residents more glued to their phones than ever in their search for the cyber creatures The Chinese army g ...
Verizon: telecom giant with big ambitions
Verizon has some 141 million wireless retail and wholesale customers, making it the largest US mobile carrier Verizon, which agreed Monday ...
What Verizon's acquisition means for Yahoo users
In this May 20, 2013, file photo, the web pages of Yahoo and Tumblr are displayed on a computer screen in New York. On Monday, July 25, 2016 ...
Flight 370: With search suspended a cold-case file awaits
In this March 6, 2016, file photo, well wishes are written on a wall of hope during a remembrance event for the ill fated Malaysia Airlines ...
Twitter to live stream for free 1 MLB 1 NHL game per week
Twitter will live stream for free one Major League Baseball game and one NHL game per week under a new deal. ...
Mayer's experience star power failed to revive Yahoo
Yahoo president and CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during the Fortune Global Forum on November 3, 2015 in San Francisco, California She came to Y ...
Verizon could boost Yahoo ad targeting but challenges ahead
Logos are seen on a laptop, Monday, July 25, 2016, in North Andover, Mass. Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.83 billion, marking the end of an ...
New telecoms architecture to boost data speed and cut technology costs
Credit: Shutterstock An EU-funded project, FABULOUS (FDMA Access By Using Low-cost Optical Network Units in Silicon Photonics), has created ...
Trolls often waive their anonymity online
Hate speech in social media can damage or even destroy the reputation of an individual or a company very quickly. Widespread opinion blames ...
New lithium-oxygen battery greatly improves energy efficiency longevity
In a new concept for battery cathodes, nanometer-scale particles made of lithium and oxygen compounds (depicted in red and white) are embedd ...
Glance: Marissa Mayer's days at Yahoo
In this Feb. 19, 2015, file photo, Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Develop ...
Altitude invests in Moortec
2016-07-26 00:00:06Altitude invests in Moortec
Altitude Partners, the regional private equity fund, has completed a development capital investment into Moortec, a semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) business supplying ‘in-chip’ monitoring cir
Yahoo's evolution from rising to fading internet star
In this Nov. 5, 2014, file photo, a person walks in front of a Yahoo sign at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Verizon bought ...
FBI investigates DNC hacking; Clinton campaign blames Russia
In this Saturday, July 23, 2016 photo, DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks during a campaign event for Democratic presidential c ...
Verizon buys Yahoo for $4.83B marking end of an era
In this April 7, 2013, file photo, the Verizon studio booth at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Verizon bought Yahoo in a sale annou ...
Student invention a shining example of sun safety
Alana Clover has designed a sun monitoring wrist band. Credit: University of Queensland Two out of three Australians will develop skin canc ...
Prototype display enables viewers to watch a 3-D movie from any seat in a theater
A new prototype display could show 3-D movies to any seat in a theater, with no eyewear required. Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT 3-D movies ...
Police cyber firms tackle 'ransomware' hacking threat
The website www.nomoreransom.org offers advice on how to avoid data being taken hostage by ransomware, as well as more than 160,000 decrypti ...
Ericsson CEO steps down amid tightened competition
Hans Vestberg has stepped down as CEO and president of telecoms company Ericsson as the company struggles to improve earnings amid tightenin ...
Moscow city launches app inspired by 'Pokemon Go'
The Moscow City Hall has launched a new app based on the hit smartphone game "Pokemon Go" where users can "catch" famous ...
Developing reliable renewable energy sources
Dr Zulfiqar Khan. Credit: Bournemouth University As the world's population continues to grow, so does our consumption of natural resources. ...
Researchers looking at tire derived aggregate to revolutionize construction
Dr. Hany El Naggar, associate professor and graduate studies coordinator with the Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, is leading a ...
It'll take more than tech for Elon Musk to pull off audacious new Tesla master plan
Tesla Model S Elon Musk – CEO of Tesla Motors – has just revealed the second part of his master plan for the company. And it's a doozy. Not ...
Environmental monitoring to surge via potential super sensors
"These high performance sensors—which could also have wireless connectivity integrated on-chip—have applications in water recycling, in ...
Researcher proposes social emotions test for artificial intelligence
New evidence from brain studies, including cognitive psychology and neurophysiology research, shows that the emotional assessment of every o ...
New sustainable system for recycling wind turbine blades
BRIO. Credit: Elhuyar Fundazioa The BRIO project led by Iberdrola, and as partners Tecnalia and Gaiker-IK4, has come up with a new system t ...
Philips hits Q2 profit warns global markets 'volatile'
Electronics giant Philips posted a 57 percent jump in second quarter net profit Monday on the back of a major arbitration award, as it warne ...
Researcher evaluates dredging equipment to maximize production
Credit: Texas A&M University About 350 million tons of dredged sediments are excavated annually in U.S. waters. Nearly all major ports ...
Yahoo selling internet assets for $4.8 bn to Verizon
Yahoo agreed to sell its core assets to telecom giant Verizon for $4.8 billion, ending a 20-year run by the internet pioneer as an independe ...
Yahoo appears near deal to sell core assets
Yahoo has been in restructuring mode for nearly four years under chief executive Marissa Mayer, who came from Google in an effort to help th ...
FTJ based memories could be smaller more power efficient
Work undertaken at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology could lead to smaller memory chips that consume less power and which can be controlled and probed by light.
Composites may integrate data communications capability
Composite materials could be used to create high capacity, resilient data transfer networks capable of transmitting information at rates of up to 6Gbit/s, according to TWI.
IoT take up increases but security concerns linger
In its fourth IoT Barometer, Vodafone says 28% of organisations surveyed are already using IoT, with a further 35% ‘less than a year away’ from launching their own projects. The survey also determined
Bank hacks raise fears for financial sector
Banks in Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam and Ecuador have been victimized over the past year in the attacks on the global interbank ser ...
Solar Impulse 2 leaves Egypt on final leg of historic world tour
The solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Cairo International Airport in the Egyptian capital on July 24, 2016 as it heads to Abu Dha ...
'Pokemon Go' players stumble on hidden history
In this Monday, July 18, 2016, photo, a "Pokemon Go" player shows his mobile phone while walking through the Boston Common, outsid ...
ACLU praises new Illinois limits on cellphone surveillance
A new Illinois law limits how police can use devices that cast a wide net in gathering cellphone data and are at the center of a lawsuit aga ...
Scientists work toward storing digital information in DNA
This Wednesday, April 24, 2002 photo shows a gel image of the DNA of 96 horses displayed on a computer monitor at the UC Davis veterinary ge ...
Volkswagen has emissions-cheating fix ready
Volkswagen's plan to fix most of its 2-liter diesel engines that cheat on emissions tests includes a computer software update and a larger c ...
Connected self-drive cars pose serious new security challenges
US Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin told an auto industry conference hackers could remotely control cars with co ...
Donuts in flight in first US-approved drone delivery
Donuts, a chicken sandwich, and hot coffee were among the items in the first drone delivery on US soil approved by aviation officials, made ...
Google Facebook and Apple draw hordes of tech tourists
Move over, Alcatraz; clear some way, cable cars; and back off, Mickey: Silicon Valley is giving San Francisco and other Golden State attract ...
Success of 'Pokemon Go' begs question: How augmented should reality be?
The magic of "Pokemon Go" is in the way it overlays the Pokemon world atop the real world. Step outside and you'll spot cartoonish ...
Energy device for wireless nodes wearables
UMAL is a low-profile, high capacity energy device designed to meet the demand for a slim high capacity energy source. According to developer Murata, UMAL has charge/discharge and life cycle character
Dealers say Volkswagen has emissions-cheating fixes ready
Volkswagen's plan to fix most of its 2-liter diesel engines that cheat on emissions tests includes a computer software update and a larger c ...
After Pokemon where does Nintendo go?
If you're like millions of other Americans, you've spent much of your last week or so playing Pokemon Go. ...
ASML claims EUV sales technology progress
Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) continues its slow progress towards use in volume manufacturing. Originally intended for use at the 45nm node in 2009, EUV developers have faced numerous issues,
Best Buy tests in-home service to help customers figure out their tech needs
Best Buy wants to go deeper into customers' homes. Its Geek Squ ...
Can't remember your password? No problem banks say
Banks were the first to teach us that we couldn't live without passwords. Now they're showing us that we can. ...
Review: Gadgets that really stop mosquitoes from bugging you
It's rare that I can test a gadget that addresses a problem faced by 100 percent of my readers, but I think we can all agree mosquitoes are ...
MH370 mystery spurred efforts to improve aircraft tracking
In this March 22, 2014 file photo, Sgt. Matthew Falanga on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, search for the missing Malaysia A ...