Firefly-inspired surfaces improve efficiency of LED lightbulbs
A new type of light-emitting diode (LED) lightbulb could light homes and reduce power bills, according to Penn State researchers who suggest that LEDs made with firefly-mimicking structures could impr
Nano-sensor technology increases battery life of earbuds
Nanusens has announced that its proprietary technology, which involves building sensors inside CMOS, can significantly increase the operational life of earbuds by up to 20%.
CEA-Leti and Standford target edge-AI apps with NVM memory cell
The "world’s first" circuit integrating multiple-bit non-volatile memory (NVM) technology called Resistive RAM (RRAM) with silicon computing units, and a new memory resiliency features that
Rohde & Schwarz and Bluetest collaboration
Rohde & Schwarz and Bluetest have announced a collaboration on test concepts for assisted global navigation satellite system (A-GNSS) over-the-air (OTA) antenna measurements.
Ryanair Wizzair fined in Italy over cabin bag policy
Italy's antitrust authorities fined two low-cost airlines over their cabin baggage policy Italy's antitrust authority on Thursday s ...
Australia's been hacked – so will the data be weaponised to influence election 2019? Here's what to look for
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently said both the Australian Parliament and its major political parties were h ...
700000 submunitions demilitarized by Sandia-designed robotics system
This automated system demilitarizes warheads by cutting them into separate sections, removing foam packs filled with grenades and detaching ...
What alchemy and astrology can teach artificial intelligence researchers
Alchemists’ dreams distracted from real scientific goals. Credit: Justus Gustav van Bentum/Wikimedia Commons Artificial intelligence resear ...
Drone sighting halts flights at Ireland's Dublin Airport
An emergency service vehicle by the perimeter fence after a confirmed drone sighting forced the temporary suspension of operations at Dublin ...
Food industry waste becomes profitable biogas
Emma Lindkvist, PhD student at Linkoping University. Credit: Magnus Johansson Huge gains can be made by using waste from the food industry ...
Google moves to fix YouTube glitch exploited for child porn
YouTube says it is moving to fix what was termed a "wormhole" exploited by people sharing information on child exploitation Googl ...
Ghosn held $260000 Rio party billed to Renault-Nissan documents show
Carlos Ghosn invited several guests to a Carnaval party in Rio de Janeiro in 2018 that was paid for by the Renault-Nissan alliance he used t ...
Singapore Airlines denies snooping with seatback cameras
Singapore Airlines says the cameras on its latest inflight entertainment systems have been disabled Singapore Airlines insisted Thursday th ...
Samsung launches folding smartphone first 5G handset (Update)
Samsung senior vice president of product marketing Justin Denison announces the new Samsung Galaxy Fold smartphone during the Samsung Unpack ...
Reddit co-founder pushes hard for paternity leave
In this undated photo provided by Edelman communications marketing firm, Alexis Ohanian, founder of the social media company Reddit, poses f ...
Report: US company to stop sales of genetic tech in Xinjiang
This April 26, 2007, file photo, shows the exterior of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., of Waltham, Mass. The Wall Street Journal reports Ther ...
Lyft set for March market debut: report
Lyft is preparing to list its shares on the Nasdaq exchange as early as next month, jumping ahead of ride-hailing rival Uber, the Wall Stree ...
Exotic spiralling electrons that could lead to advances in lighting and solar cells
Rutgers and other physicists have discovered an exotic form of electrons that spin like planets and could lead to advances in lighting, solar cells, lasers and electronic displays.
Move to boost wireless lighting within smart buildings
OSRAM, the photonics company, and Casambi, specialists in wireless lighting control based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), have announced interoperability between the Casambi CBU-DCS module and OSRAM DE
Digital PLL achieves a power consumption of 0.265 mW
An advanced phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesiser that can drastically cut power consumption has been created by a team from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Pure Storage brings hyperscale architecture to the enterprise
​Pure Storage, all-flash storage experts, has added a new DirectFlash Fabric capability for end-to-end NVMe and NVMe-oF support in Purity 5.2, the software-defined engine of its FlashArray//X products
Royale rumble: 'Apex Legends' smashing 'Fortnite' records
This Sept. 10, 2018, file photo shows Tyler "Ninja" Blevins before an NFL football game between the Detroit Lions and New York Jet ...
Driver hurt by air bag shrapnel as investigation drags on
This July 14, 2015, file photo shows the ARC Automotive manufacturing plant in Knoxville, Tenn. Nearly four years ago, the U.S. government&# ...
Samsung launches folding smartphone
Samsung senior vice president of product marketing Justin Denison announces the new Samsung Galaxy Fold smartphone during the Samsung Unpack ...
Don't be fooled by fake images and videos online
Nope, not a real news report from Hurricane Irma. Credit: Snopes One month before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an "Access Holl ...
Digital to overtake traditional advertising in US: tracker
Digital is rapidly supplanting traditional media advertising, with mobile ads the largest segment for online spending, according to a new su ...
Dubai budget airline flydubai loses $43.5m in 2018
flydubai said it took four ageing Boeing 737-800 planes out of service in 2018, taking delivery of seven newer jets Dubai budget carrier fl ...
UK budget airline Flybe snubs counter-bid
Ailing low-cost carrier Flybe has agreed to takeover by a consortium led by Britain's Virgin Atlantic Ailing no-frills British airline ...
Daimler faces mega fine in diesel probe
Daimler, whose board chairman is Dieter Zetsche, seen at October's Paris Motor Show, confirmed the probe and said it would "continu ...
Nepal social media bill sparks freedom of speech concerns
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have millions of users in Nepal, whose population of about 30 million has an internet pene ...
In new book researchers address challenges of adopting additive manufacturing
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Additive manufacturing holds promise as a speedier, less costly and more effective method to fabricate parts for ...
Microsoft detects hacking targeting Europe democracy groups
In this Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019 file photo, European Parliament members attend a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels. Mic ...
UK cybersecurity chief: oversight of Huawei is working
British government oversight of Huawei has proven it can flag up security problems, the head of its cybersecurity agency said Wednesday, sug ...
Beauty is in the algorithm of the beholder
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Manal El Rhazi, Arsalane Zarghili, Aicha Majda, and Anissa Bouzalmat of the Intelligent Systems and Applications ...
Advancing additive manufacturing by slashing support
Xiaoping Qian holding a 3-D-printed beam. The silver parts are the optimized support structure for the beam. Credit: Sarah Page 3-D printin ...
Fabric the reinforcer
2019-02-20 08:04:38Fabric the reinforcer
Aircraft brake disk, breakage after machanical tests Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS Scientists from the National University of Science a ...
From Echo to Ring doorbell and Fire TV are you comfortable Amazon with controlling your smart home?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Amazon acquired another startup this week, the maker of the beloved tech product Eero, a mesh router that improve ...
Top smart cities are global cities new research reveals
Table 1. 27 cities at the centre of the global smart cities network. Credit: Joss et al. 2019 An unprecedented global study has analysed an ...
Mobile video game players' mindset: They don't consider themselves "gamers" survey finds
Credit: CC0 Public Domain When you think of a "gamer," you might imagine the stereotype of teenagers or thirtysomething guys inte ...
Renewable energy generation with kites and drones
Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES). Credit: UC3M Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES) are a new kind of technology to harvest wind energy. ...
Cadence and Green Hills Software announce strategic partnership
Cadence Design Systems and Green Hills Software have announced a strategic partnership intended to leverage their respective strengths to drive embedded system safety and security.
Google expected to unveil long-expected gaming project at GDC next month
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google could be ready to dive headlong into video games. ...
Shutting down the internet doesn't work—but governments keep doing it
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As the internet continues to gain considerable power and agency around the world, many governments have moved to ...
Causal disentanglement is the next frontier in AI
Using algorithmic information theory, KAUST researchers have developed an approach for inferring the causal processes that give rise to a co ...
Airbus A380: From high-tech marvel to commercial flop
The final deliveries of the A380 are anticipated for 2021. Credit: Mike Fuchslocher/Shutterstock This time it really is over. Airbus chief ...
Facebook needs regulation – here's why it should be done by algorithms
Credit: Shutterstock Facebook has been likened to a "digital gangster" by a critical parliamentary report into disinformation and ...
Denmark team solves huge graphene challenge
Graphene Flagship researchers solved one of the challenges of making graphene nano-electronics effective: to carve out graphene to nanoscale dimensions without ruining its electrical properties. This
Air France-KLM more than doubles profits in 2018 despite strikes
Strikes and higher fuel costs couldn't keep Air France-KLM's profits on the ground Air France-KLM, which was badly hit last year by ...
App-based delivery men highlight India's growing gig economy
The increasing use of food-ordering apps such as Zomato gives a much-needed opportunity for Indians to make money Suraj Nachre works long h ...
Samsung bends over backwards to rev smartphone desire
In this Nov. 7, 2018 file photo,, Justin Denison, SVP of Mobile Product Development, shows off the Infinity Flex Display of a folding smartp ...
Supporting the global shift to mobile stereo
According to a SAR Audio Signal Chain IC forecast database from Q4 2018, market shipments for audio amplifiers have grown 3x from 2010 to 2018, due to the increasing shipments of audio playing devices
Spherical display brings virtual collaboration closer to reality
Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of Saskatchewan think they may have found a way to encourage a more sociable form of virtual reality (VR).
A miniature low-cost transceiver for fast reliable communications
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have designed a tiny 28 GHz transceiver that integrates beamforming with dual-polarised multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) technology.
Autotalks and CEVA collaborate on world's first global V2X solution
CEVA and Autotalks, a specialist in V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communications solutions, are working together to add C-V2X Rel. 14/15 support to the CEVA-XC DSP based Autotalks chipset,
Achronix announces partner programme
Achronix Semiconductor, a developer of FPGA-based data accelerator devices and high-performance eFPGA IP, has unveiled a new partner programme.
AccelerComm introduces 5G NR channel coding IP
AccelerComm has released a software-only implementation of 3GPP-compliant polar coding IP for 5G NR (New Radio). The polar chain is optimised for the Intel FlexRAN reference architecture.
Ford pulls out of S. America truck business closes Brazil plant
The closure of the Sao Bernardo do Camp factory would generate a one-off charge of some $460 million, most of it to terminate contracts with ...
'Swindon's finished': UK town in shock over Honda plant closure
Honda acquired the site of a former World War II aircraft factory on the outskirts of Swindon in 1985 "It is going to be a disaster,&q ...
Tech could unite Europe's populists ahead of EU vote in May
In this Nov. 24, 2018, file photo, a demonstrator throws debris at a burning barricade while protesting with others against the rising of th ...
Germany France push to create European industrial policy
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the 'Digitalising Europe Summit 2019', hosted by the Vodafone company in Berlin, Germany ...
Twitter tightens up EU political ad rules ahead of election
In this Nov. 6, 2013 file photo, the Twitter bird logo is on an updated phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Social media ...
New legislation bans Russian soldiers from using smartphones
Russian lawmakers have approved a bill prohibiting military personnel from using smartphones on duty, a move intended to block leaks of sens ...
Terahertz wireless makes big strides in paving the way to technological singularity
Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation have announced the successful development of a terahertz (THz) transceiver that can tra
DesignSpark engineering community surpasses 750000 members
RS Components (RS) has announced that its DesignSpark online engineering community has grown to more than 750,000 members.
Germany France take aim at EU anti-trust rules in new industrial strategy
Paris and Berlin were not happy when the EU blocked the proposed merger of Alstom and Siemens Germany and France agreed Tuesday on a strate ...
Companies moving out as Brexit looms
It's bye bye Britain for many companies As Britain's March 29 departure from the European Union looms, several major companies have ...
New Zealand leader says no final decision on using Huawei
In this image made from a video, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during an interview in Wellington, New Zealand Tuesday, Fe ...
Huawei's founder says world can't live without it
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says the world can't do without the Chinese telecoms company The founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei ha ...
New Zealand plans new tax for giants like Google Facebook
This July 19, 2016, file photo shows the Google logo at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. New Zealand's government ...
Anritisu verifies MediaTek’s 5G modem
MediaTek‘s Helio M70 5G modem has achieved the maximum downlink and uplink throughput using Anritsu’s Radio Communication Test Station MT8000A.
Record-breaking ringamp ADCs for 5G base stations and  handsets
imec, the research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, is to present a compact, highly linear 3.2 giga-sample-per-second (GSps) RF-sampling ADC that uses ring amplification
EDGE force-sensing HMI technology
Peratech, a specialist in force-sensing technology has launched its QTC-based EDGE force-sensing solution offering greater differentiation and functionality for smartphones, wearables, and tablets.
Definitive Discrete Semiconductor Guide
Anglia, the distributor,has released a new Discrete Semiconductor Selection Guide, to help customers through the vast range of industry standard discrete devices available.
Diversifying tech: Black professionals are finding success in spite of the odds
Tech is an industry that's known for moving fast. Companies ...
Porsche warns of Brexit price hike on UK cars
The imposition of tariffs of up to 10 percent in case of a hard Brexit could take the shine off sales of cars imported into Britain Porsche ...
White House gets report that could trigger auto tariffs
US President Donald Trump has 90 days to consider whether or not to impose tariffs on BMW and other European car imports The White House re ...
Pushing boundaries of silicon-based electronics
Current semiconducting materials are reaching their physical limitations. To meet future industrial requirements of increasingly compact and efficient power electronic systems a new component will be
Renesas and Miromico announce LoRa collaboration
Renesas and Miromico have announced that their collaboration has produced a compact and low-power FMLR-61-x-RSS3 module based on LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology.
New breed of solar-powered supercapacitors
A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow have developed layers of graphene and polyurethane to create a flexible supercapacitor which can generate power from the sun and store excess energy
P2i’s Dunkable gives industry’s highest levels of liquid protection
P2i, an Oxford-based specialist in liquid-protection, has launched a new system-level waterproofing solution. The solution, called Dunkable, enables a smartphone to operate normally even when it has b
HCC Embedded signs licensing agreement with microsoft
​HCC Embedded (HCC) has signed an agreement with Microsoft to license its RTOS-independent exFAT file system implementation to device manufacturers with a direct patent license from Microsoft.
To fight off unemployment Iraqi youth plant start-up seeds
Iraqi youth at computers in "The Station", Baghdad's incubator for would-be entrepreneurs Stuck between an endless waitlist f ...
Potential privacy lapse found in Americans' 2010 census data
This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only ...
US Facebook fine over privacy could be in billions: reports
Reports say US regulats are near an agreement on a record penalty against Facebook for privacy violations A US investigation into privacy v ...
Illinois Democrats ask Evers to review Foxconn plant impact
Illinois congressional Democrats have asked Wisconsin's new Democratic governor to re-evaluate the environmental impact of a sprawling p ...
Efforts to control cyber weapons ignore the agents who use them
Credit: Maksim Shmeljov/Shutterstock Reports of malicious and targeted cyber attacks are becoming increasingly common around the world. In ...
How far should organizations be able to go to defend against cyberattacks?
Who’s really on the other side? Credit: Yakobchuk Viacheslav/Shutterstock.com The deluge of cyberattacks sweeping across the world has gove ...
Chemical data mining boosts search for new organic semiconductors
Together with his team, Karsten Reuter, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, is looking for novel substances for photovoltaics applications, as well as for display
Direct-write quantum calligraphy in monolayer semiconductors
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have developed a way to directly write quantum light sources, which emit a single photon of light at
UltraSoC extends on-chip analytics architecture
UltraSoC has significantly extended its embedded analytics architecture, allowing designers and innovators to incorporate powerful data-driven features into their products.
Supercharging AI at the intelligent edge with Arm Helium technology
Arm has announced 'Arm Helium technology' that intends to deliver enhanced machine learning and signal processing for the smallest embedded devices.
China's Didi to restructure following passenger murders
Didi came under intense criticism after two young female passengers were murdered last year by drivers using the company's Hitch carpool ...
Barrier developed to keep batteries safe
Rice University scientists have taken the next step toward the deployment of powerful, rechargeable lithium metal batteries by making them safer and simpler to manufacture.
Victory or catastrophe? Amazon's pull-out leaves New York divided
Graffiti in Long Island City against Amazon, which had said it would build a headquarters there Thousands of lost jobs or a victory against ...
European car sales begin 2019 in reverse
It was a cold start to the year for the European car industry in 2019, with sales falling by 4.6 percent in January European car sales fell ...
Alibaba takes stake in Chinese video platform Bilibili
Bilibili has carved out a following by allowing viewers to add comments on livestreams of anime cosplay performances and video tutorials for ...
Drone disrupts flights from Dubai
Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (2-L), and the Emirate's Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Makt ...
Amazon's exit could scare off tech companies from New York
In this Nov. 7, 2018, file photo a couple walks along Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island in the Queens borough of New York. Beyond ...
In America high-speed train travel is off track
A higher-speed Acela passenger train pulls out of Washington's Union Staton California's suspension this week of a high-speed rail ...
Roblox the game platform teaching young kids to code
Roblox has become one of the most popular online gaming services among younger players thanks to workd of mouth With its Lego-like avatars ...