Why driverless vehicles should not be given unchecked access to our cities
Schematic representation showing restricted access of vehicles to designated urban corridors and nodes. Author provided Autonomous, or driv ...
New defence against 'superbug' infections
Credit: Queensland University of Technology Tiny implanted 3-D printed scaffolds infused with antibiotics could revolutionise the way docto ...
Qualcomm to repurchase $16 billion of its shares from banks
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Qualcomm is buying back $16 billion of its own stock as part of a broader goal of repurchasing up to $30 billion ...
Booming electric car sales drive lithium rush in Portugal
Portugal is Europe's main lithium producer Mining firms are racing to open new lithium mines in Portugal, already Europe's biggest ...
Database shines a bright light on Washington lobbying
MIT political scientist In Song Kim has overseen the launch of LobbyView.org, a website that connects the activities of lobbyists, firms, an ...
Earth's health could benefit from space solar power self-sustaining farms and your diet
Peter Schubert is an electrical and computer engineering professor and director of the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy. From In ...
Researchers develop platform to help survive hurricanes natural disasters
Purdue University researchers are testing technology that tracks social media to help first responders better monitor areas where hurricanes ...
South Africa uses new tech to fight vicious gun violence
In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 17 2018, police search a suspect for guns and drugs during a raid on a known drug house in Mannenburg, Cape ...
High-capacity sodium-ion could replace lithium in rechargeable batteries
Scientists of the University of Birmingham are paving the way to swap the lithium in lithium-ion batteries (LIB) with sodium.
Nano-sandwiching improves heat transfer prevents overheating in nanoelectronics
The risk of component failure due to overheating can be significantly reduced by sandwiching 2D materials used in nanoelectronic devices between their 3D silicon bases and an ultrathin layer of alumin
Miniature sensors enabling the 'internet of photonic things'
For the first time, environmental data has been recorded using a wireless photonic sensor resonator with a whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) architecture.
MCUs sales to reach record-high annual revenues through 2022 says IC Insights
The microcontroller (MCU) market is expected to continue hitting record-high annual revenues through 2022 – after worldwide sales dropped 6% in 2016 due to a slowdown in MCU unit shipments – according
A model enabling Pan-European electronic identification is in the works
The eID@Cloud project, in which scientists and technicians from five European countries are taking part, aims to integrate all the infrastructure of digital services for European electronic identifica
The Apple Watch is inching toward becoming a medical device
Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses the new Apple Watch 4 at the Steve Jobs Theater during an event to announce new products Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2 ...
Another Tesla executive heads for exit
Tesla finance executive Justin McAnear is to follow chief accounting officer Dave Morton out of the door Tesla confirmed on Wednesday that ...
Apple unveils premium iPhone XS health features for watch (Update)
Apple has unveiled a redesigned smartwatch Apple unveiled three new iPhones on Wednesday in a bid to bolster its spot in the premium smartp ...
Mental health tech start-up NeuroFlow raises $1.2M
NeuroFlow, the Philadelphia start-up trying to foster more engagement between therapists and their patients through technology, has raised a ...
Half of Facebook users say they don't understand how news feed works
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Your relationship with Facebook could be, well, complicated. ...
Apple's secretive self-driving car program suffers first reported crash
The first rule in Apple's self-driving car program called "Project Titan" is you don't talk about Project Titan. But thank ...
Updated Apple system takes on smartphone addiction
New iPhones unveiled Wednesday will include an updated operating system that helps users and parents keep track of their smartphone use, ami ...
Armstrong out at Verizon's Oath after integrating AOL Yahoo
Tim Armstrong, chief executive officer of Oath, is out at the Verizon unit that included AOL and Yahoo Tim Armstrong, head of the Verizon u ...
'Googley' does not mean 'young' Google claims in age-bias lawsuit
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Googlers are supposed to be Googley, but what exactly that means has become a key point of contention as the tech ...
Apple unveils new premium iPhone XS health features for watch (Update)
Apple has unveiled a redesigned smartwatch Apple on Wednesday unveiled updated versions of its priciest iPhones along with a new smartwatc ...
Airbnb hits back at Paris ban threat
Airbnb has responded to a Paris official's proposal to ban the rent-a-room giant in the French capital Rent-a-room giant Airbnb on Wedn ...
Amazon's business-to-business unit turns into a $10 billion business
Amazon.com is having some luck getting buyers of corporate office supplies to shop like teenagers armed with their parents' credit card. ...
Top VW shareholder faces investor fury in own 'dieselgate' suit
German auto giant VW eventually admitted to having installed so-called "defeat devices" in 11 million cars worldwide to dupe emiss ...
France to run driverless mainline trains within five years
Soon there won't be a driver to wave out the window French railway operator SNCF said Wednesday it was planning to introduce prototypes ...
New research can identify extremists online even before they post dangerous content
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research has found a way to identify extremists, such as those associated with the terrorist group ISIS, by m ...
Bigger pricier iPhone shown at Apple event Wednesday
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, speaks about the Apple iPhone XS at the Steve Jobs Theater during a ...
Bose launches sleepbuds based on tech from EvoNexus startup
In June, Bose launched a new line of noise-canceling smart earbuds based on technology it discovered at the EvoNexus startup incubator in Sa ...
Apple sets recall of some defective iPhone 8 devices but there could be a catch
If you have an iPhone 8, and have been having problems with your phone, you might be able to get it replaced for free by Apple. ...
California aims to become carbon-free by 2045—Is that feasible?
Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: California Energy Commission California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law mandating that ...
Whacking the mole: how Australia scrambles to regulate Chinese technology
Where’s the next threat coming from? Whack it! Credit: www.shutterstock.com Did you ever go to your local show as a child? Remember that in ...
Reasons behind Ryanair strikes
German employees of Irish airline Ryanair demonstrate at Frankfurt airport on September 12, 2018 Ryanair has suffered unprecedented disrupt ...
Are ride-hailing platforms keeping their drivers honest?
Credit: MIT Sloan School of Management The rise of digital ride-hailing company Uber and its clashes with traditional taxi services is ofte ...
Mastercard unveils digital trade platform for small business
Mastercard is rolling out a digital trade platform designed to make it easier for small- and medium-sized companies to do business around th ...
Sensors that are literally 'music to one's ears'
Credit: American Chemical Society Researchers have found a new use for a 3,000-year-old African musical instrument: detecting toxic substan ...
Barriers and opportunities in renewable biofuels production
Two challenges need to be overcome to realise affordable renewable jet fuels, according to the researchers. Credit: Sasa Liu Researchers at ...
Snapshots of the future: Tool learns to predict user's gaze in headcam footage
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The miniaturization of video cameras has led to an explosion in their use, including their incorporation into a r ...
AI-based research toward autonomous robots and drones
Training video games are among the components being studied by Purdue University researchers tackling brain-inspired computing. Credit: Purd ...
Social media have 1 hour to remove terror propaganda: EU bill
IS has been forced out of most of its strongholds in Iraq and Syria, but it remains active online The European Union on Wednesday proposed ...
EU lawmakers vote for new online copyright rules
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani listens to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivering his State of Union spee ...
Why it's so hard to reach an international agreement on killer robots
The MK 15 Phalanx close-in weapons system, on the USS Reuben James guided-missile frigate, fires during an exercise. Credit: Flickr/US Pacif ...
Shortage of Intel CPU to impact notebook shipments says TrendForce
A worsening shortage of Intel Whiskey Lake CPUs will disrupt vendors’ notebook shipment plans, says analysts, TrendForce.
TechUK joins Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce Steering Board
TechUK has joined the Steering Group of the Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce, which looks to bring together the energy and automotive industries, so they can plan for the changes that will take place
Semtech launches Design Partner Program to accelerate IoT solutions to market
Semtech has launched its Design Partner Program that aims to streamline the time-to-deployment for LoRa-based IoT solutions. It does this by connecting customers, system integrators and developers wit
Technique for imaging magnetisation dynamics developed in a joint project
In the future, electronic storage technology may be superseded by devices based on tiny magnetic structures. These individual magnetic regions correspond to bits and need to be as small as possible an
Bigger pricier iPhone expected at Apple event Wednesday
In this Nov. 3, 2017, file photo, customers buy the iPhone X at the Apple Store on New York's Fifth Avenue. Apple is expected to unveil ...
US to take longer to mull Sprint merger with T-Mobile
T-Mobile is one of the biggest earners for its parent Deutsche Telekom of Germany and in 2017, it added 5.7 million net new customers compar ...
Vote on EU online copyright reform splits usual allies
Artists and lawmakers are divided over proposed European reforms to online copyright law that opponents say favour web giants The European ...
Panel endorses bills for online sales tax special session
South Dakota would start collecting sales taxes from many out-of-state internet retailers this fall under a bill the Legislature's budge ...
German strike plunges Ryanair into fresh turmoil
Ryanair pilots walked off the job last month to obtain better pay and working conditions from the no-frills Irish airline Thousands of Ryan ...
Kaga Electronics to acquire 70% of FEI shares
Kaga Electronics and Fujitsu Semiconductor (FSL) have entered into a definitive agreement in which Kaga is to acquire 70% of the shares in Fujitsu Electronics (FEI).
Intel acquires NetSpeed Systems for chip design
Intel has acquired NetSpeed Systems, a California-based provider of system-on-chip design tools and interconnect fabric intellectual property. Deal terms have not been disclosed.
Apple expected to unveil bigger pricier iPhone on Wednesday
In this Nov. 3, 2017, file photo, customers buy the iPhone X at the Apple Store on New York's Fifth Avenue. Apple is expected to unveil ...
Drones ride sharers could team up for package delivery
Naira Hovakimyan, a professor of mechanical science and engineering, directs the Advanced Controls Research Laboratory at the University of ...
Agency seeks anti-lock brakes on all new US road motorcycles
In this May 5, 2017, file photo, Ramadan Abdelaziz, of Jersey City, N.J., rides his motorcycle over floodwaters on his way home from work in ...
A new study examines use of twitter to spread or debunk conspiracy theories
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers Researchers investigating the use of Twitter to propagate or debunk conspiracy theories related ...
Alibaba Russian tech firm Mail.ru agree joint e-commerce venture
Alibaba was founded by tech billionaire Jack Ma in 1999 Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Russian technology group Mail.ru on Tuesday sa ...
Google fights French 'right to be forgotten' in EU court
Google told the top EU court it feared for freedom of speech if forced to apply Europe's "right to be forgotten" principle wor ...
Ryanair warns of job cuts in Germany if strikes persist
Threatened by strikes, Ryanair issued a threat of its own Ryanair warned Tuesday that it may slash jobs and close some bases in Germany if ...
Perfect patterns pave path to faster cheaper MRI
Credit: University of Queensland A discovery by a University of Queensland researcher could speed up MRI scanning times and make the scans ...
What's in the Amazon box? Maybe a real 7-foot Christmas tree
In this Sept. 27, 2017, file photo fog drifts through a Christmas tree farm near Starks Mountain in Fryeburg, Maine. Amazon plans to sell an ...
Understanding deep-sea images with artificial intelligence
AUV ABYSS images from the Pacific seafloor 10, 7.5, and 4 meters away. The upper two images show a stationary lander, also an autonomous und ...
Linear equations system will restore impaired hand motion
Hand movement predictions. Credit: Lion_on_helium/MIPT Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a mod ...
High-speed quantum cryptographic communications with key distribution speeds exceeding 10 Mbps
Credit: Toshiba Toshiba and the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization at Tohoku University have successfully applied high-speed quantum cryp ...
Tesla cuts number of stock colors to streamline production
This Aug. 8, 2018, file photo shows a Tesla emblem on the back end of a Model S in the Tesla showroom in Santa Monica, Calif. Tesla is dropp ...
Plessey and Jasper Display announce displays collaboration
Plessey Semiconductors, a developer of optoelectronic technology solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Jasper Display (JDC), which will see Plessey use JDC’s innovative silicon backpla
Chinese auto sales fall for second month in August
Chinese auto sales fell for a second month in August, an industry group reported Tuesday, adding to signs of economic malaise amid a worseni ...
Renesas to acquire Integrated Device Technology
Renesas Electronics Corporation will acquire Integrated Device Technology (IDT), a supplier of analog mixed-signal products.
2D material electronic mystery resolved
Schottky diode fabricated using 2D materials has attracted attention due to it’s the promise it holds in practical applications such as transistors, rectifiers, radio frequency generators and so on. H
Researchers prove graphene converts electronic signals extremely efficiently
Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) believe they have made a
Japan semiconductor company Renesas to buy US firm IDT for $6.7bn
Renesas said it planned to finance the deal to buy IDT using bank loans worth 679 billion yen ($6.1 billion) as well as some cash reserves ...
China suspends carpool services following murders
Hitch is separate from Didi Chuxing's main ride-hailing service, which is not affected by the government suspension order China has ord ...
California aims to drop fossil fuels for electricity by 2045 (Update)
Gov. Jerry Brown, signs a copy of the environmental measure SB100 as the bill's author, state Sen. Kevin de Leon, right, holds a copy of ...
Chinese companies flee overseas to avoid US tariffs
China's textiles factories are among those looking to relocate abroad to avoid US tariffs A growing number of Chinese companies are ado ...
German unions call for strike against Ryanair Wednesday
The strike, which is expected to last 24 hours, would involve some 400 Ryanair pilots and co-pilots in Germany Unions representing pilots a ...
Poll: Teens say social media makes them feel better
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Today's teens are always on their smartphones, many check social media "constantly" and prefer text ...
Tesla shares bounce as Musk risk seen as overblown
Elon Musk is 'not your typical CEO,' ana analyst said, but Tesla is on track to meet manufacturing targets which could boost the sha ...
EU copyright war 'a shame' says big tech lobby
"There are so many voices involved," says Siada El Ramly Tech giants and open-internet activists, not always natural bedfellows, ...
Nuclear energy may see role wane UN agency says
The IAEA says "nuclear power may struggle to maintain its current place in the world's energy mix" The UN's nuclear agenc ...
Trade war sees Volvo put brakes on IPO plans: Bloomberg
Volvo Cars CEO Hakan Samuelsson says the US-China trade war means the company cannot go through with plans to go public Auto giant Volvo ha ...
Most Americans get news from social media despite doubts: survey
A new survey showing that most American adults get at least some news from social media comes with the social networks under higher scrutiny ...
US approves Winklevoss dollar-linked cryptocurrencies
Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss received approval from New York financial regulators for their US dollar-linked digital currency Ne ...
Half of US foreign profits booked in tax havens: paper
US companies are by far the biggest users of tax havens, where they face effective tax rates of just seven percent, according to the study b ...
Syrian War study yields new predictive model for attrition dynamics in multilateral war
Three researchers have conducted a study of war, specifically the current conflict in Syria that's been raging since 2011, to arrive at ...
California commits to 100% clean electricity by 2045: governor
A landmark bill commits the state of California to 100 percent clean energy by 2045 California Governor Jerry Brown signed landmark legisla ...
Video: What Google can learn from your Android phone
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google collects data around the clock from the phones of Android users in particular – their location, shopping h ...
People are more likely to invest in solar energy technology when they see it being used in their communities
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Governments at all levels need to invest more heavily in promoting renewable energy if they want citizens to adop ...
Google case set to examine if EU data rules extend globally
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google is taking its legal fight over whether "right to be forgotten" rules should apply to search engi ...
First truly black solar modules roll off industrial production line
The cells and modules were truly black when they came out from production and had no signs of damage. Credit: Hele Savin's research grou ...
007 carmaker speeds towards October listing
Soon to be seen on the London stock market Aston Martin, the luxury British sports car brand driven by fictional spy James Bond, said Monda ...
Alibaba's Zhang prepares to step from Jack Ma's shadow
Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang, 46, is often credited with turning Jack Ma's Chinese e-commerce company into a "Boeing 747" Both in ...
Army research looks at defending computer systems with MTD technique
A team of researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, the University of Canterbury (UC) in New Zealand, and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in the Republic of Korea have
Fibre optic sensing spin-off developed by UGent and imec
A spin-off from the Photonics Research Group, known as Sentea, has been been announced by Ghent University (UGent) and imec.
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The EU’s new medical device regulatory framework means that manufacturers of medical devices face major changes.
US company unveils first commercial spiking neural network architecture
​US company, BrainChip, has become the first company to bring a production spiking neural network architecture – the Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC) – to market.
Alibaba's Jack Ma to step down in 2019 pledges smooth transition
Alibaba said Ma will handover the reins to protege Daniel Zhang in September 2019 Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma announced on Monday he would s ...
VW faces first big German court date over 'dieselgate'
A German court will examine whether Volkswagen should have informed investors sooner about so-called "defeat devices" it built int ...