Google pays its taxes senior Europe executive insists
Google is regularly accused of not paying its fair share of tax both in Europe and in the United States, registering instead in low tax have ...
Tesla fatal crash is setback to autonomous cars
Tesla charging stations for electric cars are pictured in Wittenburg, northeastern Germany, on May 18, 2016 It could be a wakeup call for t ...
Facebook will automatically translate posts into different languages
Facebook on Friday began testing a translation tool that will automatically let posts be displayed in languages users prefer. ...
Fatal Telsa crash shows limits of self-driving technology
In this Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, a Tesla Model S is on display on the first press day of the Frankfurt Auto Show IAA in Frankfurt, Germany ...
The switch that could double USB memory
Scientists at Hokkaido University have developed a device that employs both magnetic and electronic signals, which could provide twice the storage capacity of conventional memory devices, such as USB
In Brexit London startups see risk—and some opportunities
Frank Bertele, CEO of tech startup NETZ, works on his laptop in London Wednesday June 29, 2016. Within 24 hours of Britain's vote to leave t ...
Court freezes Facebook's funds in Brazil
A Brazilian news site says a federal court has ordered more than $6 million in Facebook funds frozen because its popular messaging service W ...
Wireless wearable toxic-gas detector
MIT researchers have developed low-cost chemical sensors, made from chemically altered carbon nanotubes (CNTs), that enable smartphones or other wireless devices to detect trace amounts of toxic gases
3-D paper-based microbial fuel cell operating under continuous flow condition
The device allows flow of the streams of Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 (yellow) and the Potassium Ferricyanide (white) into the chambers. Proto ...
How we want to live in 2053
2016-07-01 22:00:06How we want to live in 2053
Storytelling, creative methods and prototyping: Shaping Future is an original participatory foresight methodology that draws from both desig ...
Referendum petition hack shows even democracy can be trolled
Actress Jennifer Lawrence, one of numerous women to have intimate pictures leaked on 4chan. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr, CC BY-SA The elec ...
Computer models reduce production costs
Credit: University of Twente Researchers at the University of Twente are working on computer models that can make industrial production pro ...
New study reveals television newsroom social media practices policies lag behind
Social media is changing the way journalists do their jobs, but policies for television journalists haven't caught up with the practice, inc ...
LG Innotek unveils flexible textile pressure sensors
LG Innotek introduces flexible textile pressure sensor. Credit: LG Innotek LG Innotek today announced a development of new concept textile ...
Fine-tuning prosthetics for cyclists
A cycloergometer and a test prosthesis help optimize prosthetics for athletes. Credit: Fraunhofer IPA Disabled cyclists will be among those ...
Better quality control with digital assistance systems
The honing machine at VW’s plant in Salzgitter. Experts from the Fraunhofer IFF in Magdeburg have developed a digital assistance system for ...
Investigation into the first fatal crash of an autonomous vehicle
The American National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating the death of Joshua Brown, 40, after his Tesla Model S collided with a Lorry in Florida on May 7 2016. Tesla’s auto
Tesla crash could hurt sentiment on driverless cars
In this image from video, Frank Baressi speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Palm Harbor, Fla. Thursday, June ...
Oracle told to pay HP billions in chip dispute
A California jury on Thursday ordered business software giant Oracle to pay Hewlett Packard Enterprise $3.1 billion for backing off a promis ...
Apple considering Tidal music purchase: report
Apple is exploring the purchase of rival music streaming service Tidal, which is run by rap star Jay-Z, the Wall Street Journal reported Thu ...
Tesla driver's death using car's 'Autopilot' probed by NHTSA
In this Monday, April 25, 2016, file photo, a man sits behind the steering wheel of a Tesla Model S electric car on display at the Beijing I ...
Google serves a 'Nougat' to fans of its Android software
This photo provided by Google shows the Android Nougat statue, officially unveiled Thursday, June 30, 2016, at Google campus in Mountain Vie ...
Tesla driver killed in crash while using car's 'Autopilot'
In this Monday, April 25, 2016, file photo, a man sits behind the steering wheel of a Tesla Model S electric car on display at the Beijing I ...
US man claims Apple owes him a fortune for iPhone idea
Apple launched the iPod MP3 player in 2001, and the first iPhone was introduced six years later A Florida man who claims Apple made a killi ...
New undersea cable will speed US-Japan connection
The submarine cable lands in the US state of Oregon and two points in Japan, but also connects to hubs to boost connectivity to other locati ...
Grade-school students teach a robot to help themselves learn geometry
Quinn provides feedback to the learners through an easily recognizable facial emotion set. Here Quinn smiles to indicate approval. Credit: P ...
UW project highlights liability of internet 'intermediaries' in developing countries
How much liability do website owners and other online service providers have for content posted by other people? If someone posts content on ...
Yahoo CEO paints bright picture with potential sale looming
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has tried to paint a bright picture during an annual shareholders meeting as the company considers selling its slump ...
On-demand business models have put some startups on life support
Last summer, flower delivery startup BloomThat was in an enviable position. ...
Review: Triby gets Amazon's Alexa to help you in the kitchen
You may have heard of the Amazon Echo, a stand-alone speaker with the Alexa voice service built in. ...
Amazon adds 50 Dash Buttons says orders roll in twice a minute
Amazon is expanding its one-press Dash Button technology to toys and musical equipment. ...
Can app find next 'Harry Potter'?
Serial entrepreneurs Prerna Gupta and husband Parag Chordia launched their mobile reading app Hooked in September as a way to publish fictio ...
Here come the virtual reality Olympics ... for Samsung users (Update)
Athletes in Rio will compete to be the fastest sprinter and highest jumper at the Olympics this August. But there's another test underway as ...
Government urges owners of old Hondas to get air bags fixed
The U.S. government is urging owners of 313,000 older Hondas and Acuras to stop driving them and get them repaired after new tests found tha ...
Aussie innovation changing how we experience the Tour de France and Rio Olympics
Doarama's online interactive 3-D maps are changing the way we experience sport. Credit: CSIRO's Data61 Sports fans are about to get a whole ...
Study finds new tool to measure homeland security risks
Researchers have validated a new risk assessment tool that can be used by the Department of Homeland Security to help evaluate decisions and ...
Netherlands gets first nationwide 'Internet of Things'
Dutch telecoms group KPN said Thursday that The Netherlands had become the first country in the world to implement a nationwide long range ( ...
Apple sued over obscure film by China's media regulator: court
China is an increasingly important market for Apple as it deals with a slowdown in global smartphone sales Apple is being sued by China's m ...
Samsung sells Galaxy S7 phones that aren't tied to carrier
In this Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016, file photo, a Samsung Galaxy S7, left, and S7 Edge are displayed during the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2016 even ...
Compact all-in-one Internet of Things prototyping board available from Conrad
German distributor, Conrad Business Supplies, has become the first “authorised distribution partner” to make available a compact all-in-one IoT prototyping platform.
Spanish tax inspectors search Google office in Madrid
A Madrid court says it authorized tax inspectors to enter Google's offices in Madrid as part of a tax department investigation. ...
NBC to offer VR Olympics content to Samsung users
NBC says it will provide 85 hours of virtual reality programming during the Rio Olympics in August—but only to users of Samsung Galaxy smart ...
Data centers continue to proliferate while their energy use plateaus
Berkeley Lab researchers (from left) Dale Sartor, Arman Shehabi, Richard Brown, and Sarah Smith are co-authors of a new report on data cente ...
Brilliant hard drive quality with magnetic field sensors made of diamond
The diamond probes will be used for the quality control of magnetic storage media in order to reduce rejection rates and production costs. C ...
Rambus to acquire memory interconnect business from Inphi
Rambus has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Memory Interconnect Business from Inphi for $90million.
Oil system developed for greener more fuel efficient mild hybrid vehicles
Credit: University of Nottingham The concept for a novel oil system has been developed by a researcher at The University of Nottingham as p ...
Computer game designers create 3D anatomical training tool for anatomists
Credit: University of Abertay Dundee Abertay University computer game designers have helped Aberdeen University anatomists build interactiv ...
Amazon 'Prime Day' sales gimmick is back this July
Amazon is renewing its "Prime Day" July sales gimmick as Wal-Mart also tries to go after online shoppers. ...
Facebook's latest news feed tweak: This time it's personal
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook says it is tweaking the formulas that ...
Why resist? Get Windows 10 while it's still free
This Tuesday, June 28, 2016, photo shows Windows 10 operating on a Microsoft Surface computer, photographed in New York. Windows 10 moderniz ...
Teen makes 3-D printed hand for brother with teacher's help
With his teacher's help, a northern Virginia student has used a 3-D printer to make a prosthetic hand for his younger brother. ...
After Fire flop Amazon unveils phones with its apps ads (Update)
This photo provided by Amazon shows Motorola's Moto G, left, and the Blu R1 HD. After flopping spectacularly with its own Fire phone, Amazon ...
Rice University lab runs crowd-sourced competition to create 'big data' diagnostic tools
A crowdsourced collaboration/competition known as DREAM 9 that is centered at Rice University set out three years ago to develop ideas for c ...
Facebook to put friends and family first not media
Facebook said Wednesday it would give friends and family more prominence on user feeds, a move that may hurt media outlets that rely on the ...
Media use in America up a full hour over just last year
In this July 11, 2014, file photo, a pedestrian views his smartphone as he crosses South Broad Street in Philadelphia. The typical American ...
New method for monitoring internet traffic to detect cyber attacks
Partial map of the Internet based on the January 15, 2005 data found on opte.org. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP ...
Early days of internet offer lessons for boosting 3D printing
Innovating with 3D printing offers huge promise, such as these 3D-printed microscopes. Credit: SynBioSRI/Flickr Even in its relative infanc ...
New materials and processes to make the manufacturing and use of solar cells more efficient
Credit: Shutterstock For decades, solar technology and applications have been dependent on dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs). To mimic nat ...
Microsoft readies Windows 10 update answers critics
In this Jan. 21, 2015, file photo, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event demonstrating the new features of Windows 10 at the compan ...
Industry’s highest current density rated non-isolated DC/DC modules
Artesyn Embedded Technologies has announced the LGA80D DC/DC module, which is claimed to offer one of the highest current density ratings in the industry and efficiency of 95.5% typical. With a footpr
Prototype for narrowband Internet-of-Things system
Credit: Aalto University Researchers at the department of Communications and Networking, School of Electrical Engineering, have implemented ...
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure business models compared
Credit: Elhuyar Fundazioa The Tecnalia and UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country researchers Carlos Madina, Inmaculada Zamora and Eduard ...
After Fire flop Amazon returns with special edition phones
Amazon is back in the phone business—sort of. After its own Fir ...
Safe lithium-sulphur batteries at high temperatures
Researchers at the University of Western Ontario, in collaboration with a team from the Canadian Light Source, have leveraged a coating technique dubbed molecular layer deposition (MLD) that promises
From dating profiles to Brexit—how to spot an online lie
A world of deceit. Credit: Shutterstock There are three things you can be sure of in life: death, taxes – and lying. The latter certainly a ...
Toyota announces recalls for defective air bags canisters
A worker walks past a Toyota car at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo, Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Toyota is recalling 1.43 million vehicles globally ...
Atomic level precision to extend Moore’s Law
Looking to prolong the ability of the semiconductor industry to follow Moore’s Law, Applied Materials has announced Applied Producer Selectra, said to be an extreme selectivity etch tool that introduc
Uber software tracks drivers for high speed sudden stops
This March 31, 2016, file photo shows a driver for Uber Technologies Inc., arriving at an authorized customer pick up area at Seattle-Tacoma ...
China replaces top internet regulator and censor with deputy
China is replacing its top internet regulator and censor, Lu Wei, who had become the face of the government's increasingly complicated deali ...
Toyota recalls 1.43 million vehicles for defective air bags
A worker walks past a Toyota car at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo, Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Toyota is recalling 1.43 million vehicles globally ...
Pinterest ramps up e-commerce features
Pinterest sees itself as being positioned at the crossroads of social networking and online search, with users consulting it when seeking ou ...
California land officials sign off on closing nuclear plant
John Geesman, an attorney for the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, calls on members of the California Lands Commission to reject a propo ...
Media firms lose control of news as tech platforms rise
Technology and social media firms are increasingly playing a role in filtering and delivering news, often with automated feeds, algorithms a ...
Augmented reality enables helicopter flight in degraded visual environments
In the research simulator at the TUM’s Institute of Helicopter Technology, the scientists analyze how augmented reality can improve the perf ...
Airbnb to be valued at $30 bn after additional investment: report
Airbnb is in talks to secure a new round of investment that would value the company at around $30 billion, the New York Times reported on We ...
New framework uses patterns to predict terrorist behavior
Mohammad Khasawneh, professor and head of the Systems Science and Industrial Engineering (SSIE) department at Binghamton University and Bing ...
Hulu's dance with brands
2016-06-29 06:00:00Hulu's dance with brands
Car commercials are the kind of thing that Mindy Lahiri, the titular character on "The Mindy Project," might impatiently fast-forw ...
Engineers to use cyborg insects as biorobotic sensing machines
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are using a locust's sense of smell to develop new biorobotic sensing devices. Credit: Was ...
Google brings Earth into better focus
Google Earth begins rolling out a new version that uses new techniques to process sharper images gathered by the satellite sent into orbit i ...
Google faces new EU anti-trust charges: sources
In April, Brussels also charged Google with abusing the dominance of its Android mobile phone operating system Google faces fresh EU anti-c ...
Google offers new way for users to manage ads personal data
Google is trying to make it easier for you to manage the vast pool of information that it collects about your online activities across phone ...
Video privacy software lets you select what others can see
Video privacy software developed at Duke lets users select the part of a scene that is OK to share by drawing a rectangular border around it ...
Engineers create a soft motor that could power versatile soft robots
Rutgers University engineers created unique elastomeric rotary actuators based on pneumatically driven peristaltic motion. Using silicone-ba ...
Fiat Chrysler gearshift probe finds 266 crashes 68 injuries
In this July 22, 2011 file photo, the Chrysler logo is displayed at a car dealership in Omaha, Neb. A government investigation into confusin ...
Project proposing to move security applications from device to network nodes
The rapid rise of mobile devices has left many security gaps in its wake—with sources of concern including operating systems with flaws, con ...
Energy-efficient security mechanisms for digital currency
In some places, customers have the option to pay using the digital currency Bitcoin. Credit: RUB, Schirdewahn IT experts at Ruhr-Universit& ...
The future of the Internet is at risk say global web experts
Credit: Wikipedia Global web experts, including Professor Dame Wendy Hall from the University of Southampton, have warned that the future o ...
Thorny technical questions remain for net neutrality
Not all online traffic is the same; should we treat it the same anyway? Credit: shutterstock.com Federal rules mandating network neutrality ...
New data replication method for disaster-resilient information platforms
Credit: Tohoku University Researchers have developed a way to protect data and enable information services to continue working in disaster- ...
Airbnb sues over registration of San Francisco homes
Home sharing site Airbnb is suing San Francisco over a new law requiring that anyone who offers their home through the rental site first reg ...
'Avatar' mobile game landing ahead of film sequels
Before moviegoers return to Pandora, they'll be able visit the exotic alien world from "Avatar" on their smartphones. ...
Nestle taps new CEO with health care industry background
The June 1, 2015 file photo shows Ulf Schneider, chairman of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, in Leipzig, Germany. On Monday, June 27, 2016 the ...
‘Iron sandwich’ might enable future electronic devices
Scientists have created ring structure based on iron molecules and say it could be used for new applications in electronics and sensing. The work is based on ferrocene, a molecule discovered in the 19
In the space of five years it looks like 450mm manufacturing has become surplus to current requirements
Five years ago, the semiconductor industry was getting quite excited about what looked like the next step in its evolution. That step was to embrace manufacturing chips on 450mm diameter wafers – and
First made-in-China jetliner makes debut commercial flight
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people in panda costumes pose in front of a Chengdu Airlines ARJ21-700 plane before it ...
US Navy turns to cloud technology to reduce drunken driving
An American sailor has tapped a cloud-based technology for mobile phones to make it easier to have volunteers take turns driving drunk frien ...
Volkswagen reaches $14.7B emissions settlement
In this Feb. 14, 2013, file photo, the Volkswagen logo is seen on the grill of a Volkswagen on display in Pittsburgh. Volkswagen would repai ...
California land regulators to weigh end of nuclear power
California regulators are expected to decide Tuesday whether to drop their longstanding environmental objections to the state's last nuclear ...
Qatar using 3D printers to find perfect pitch
Following concerns over poor quality pitches at Euro 2016, Quatar University scientists have employed 3D printers and wind tunnels to avoid ...
Britain's exit could make Europe less friendly to US tech
This March 23, 2010, file photo shows the Google logo at the Google headquarters in Brussels. Silicon Valley's biggest businesses could face ...