Indoor positioning using a wireless network
The software can be installed into an existing device having a Wi-Fi sender/receiver and a data processor. Credit: KTU Scientists from Kaun ...
The future of AI needs hardware accelerators based on analog memory devices
Crossbar arrays of non-volatile memories can accelerate the training of fully connected neural networks by performing computation at the loc ...
'iPal' robot companion for China's lonely children
The "iPal" teaches, jokes and keeps track of its charges through facial recognition technology It speaks two languages, gives mat ...
Germany agrees to lease Israeli-made drones: manufacturer
A file photo taken on October 8, 2007 shows an Israeli Heron TP surveillance drone Germany has agreed a nine year deal worth over half a bi ...
Who's that selling steaks off a truck? It's Amazon
In this May 24, 2018, photo Amazon worker Khayyam Kain, right, hands off a package to a customer at an Amazon Treasure Truck in Seattle. The ...
The fake news detector
2018-06-14 06:00:16The fake news detector
There are many methods of determining if news is 'fake,' including analyzing the linguistic features of stories to extract key patte ...
We must ensure new food retail technologies are not barriers to better health
An unhealthy diet is now the leading preventable risk factor for disease globally. Credit: Mavis Wong/The Conversation NY-BD-CC, CC BY-SA I ...
Why 50000 ships are so vulnerable to cyberattacks
The shipping industry has been slow to prepare adequate cybersecurity. Credit: Alexandersonscc/pixabay, CC BY-SA The 50,000 ships sailing t ...
Robot vision makes solar cell manufacture more efficient
A confocal white light sensor is able to split white light by transmitting it through different lenses. The result is that the focal length ...
Facebook news use declining WhatsApp growing: study
Facebook has been hit hard by a huge scandal over user data privacy News consumption is increasingly shifting from social media like Facebo ...
Self-powered highly sensitive and washable e-textile
Most electronic textiles have poor air permeability, can't be laundered, or are too costly or complex to mass-produce.
Reaktor Space Lab and VTT investigate a new frequency band for telecommunications satellites
Reaktor Space Lab and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland are participating in an European Space Agency project, which involves investigating a new frequency band for next-generation telecommunic
Samsung commits to using only renewable energy by 2020
Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone maker, has pledged to convert its operations in the United States, Europe and China ...
British engine maker Rolls-Royce cutting 4600 jobs
The 'next stage' in Rolls-Royce's restructuring involves thousands of job cuts Rolls-Royce, the British maker of plane engines, ...
Comcast-Disney fight highlights shifting media landscape
This combo of file photos shows the 21st Century Fox sign outside of the News Corporation headquarters building on Aug. 1, 2017, in New York ...
How Fox's businesses would match up with Disney and Comcast
This Aug. 1, 2017, file photo shows the Twenty-First Century Fox sign outside of the News Corporation headquarters building in New York. The ...
US court confirms danger posed by 'sound cannons'
A New York appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's ruling that two police officers' use of a "sound cannon" was ...
Apple closing iPhone security gap used by law enforcement
In this July 28, 2016 file photo, the Apple logo is shown on a sign hanging in front of a new Apple Store, in the Williamsburg section in th ...
After AT&T's win here comes the expected Comcast-Fox bid
This March 29, 2017, file photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Disney has made a $52.4 billion all-stock offer for ...
Breaking up the Murdoch empire: Who gets what
This March 29, 2017, file photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Comcast made a $65 billion bid Wednesday for Fox ...
Comcast challenges Disney with $65B bid for Fox
This combo of file photos shows the 21st Century Fox sign outside of the News Corporation headquarters building on Aug. 1, 2017, in New York ...
Twitter shift aims to deliver more news on timelines
Twitter's revamped timeline aims to deliver more news and personalized content, moving further away from its original chronological feed ...
More grim news for US newspapers: survey
It was another grim year for US newspapers, with declines in revenues and readership for the overall sector despite growth for a small numbe ...
VW says will pay 1 bn euro German fine over emissions cheating
Another billion down the drain over dieselgate Auto giant Volkswagen said Wednesday it would pay a one-billion-euro ($1.2 billion) fine imp ...
Interest in tandem solar cells heats up
For decades, silicon solar cells have been used to convert energy from sunlight into electricity. However, recent improvements in perovskite ...
Computer program looks five minutes into the future
When will you do what? Prof. Jürgen Gall (right) and Yazan Abu Farha from the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Bonn. ...
Novel microplate 3-D bioprinting platform for muscle and tendon tissue engineering
Postholder insert for the printing of dumbbell-shaped muscle-tendon tissues in a 24-well plate (left above: postholder, right above: posthol ...
More harm than good: Assessing the nuclear arsenal tipping point
The consequences of environmental blow-back include a significant drop in global temperature because of soot from nuclear blasts blocking th ...
Brexit could make UK car sector 'extinct': business lobby
Two British built-cars, a Bentley Flying Spur and a Range Rover, pictured in London in 2015 The president of Britain's main business lo ...
Bitcoin hits 4-month low after currency exchange theft
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The price of bitcoin has fallen to a four-month low of $6,370, days after South Korean virtual currency exchange ...
After AT&T-Time Warner win is Comcast-Fox a done deal?
This March 29, 2017, file photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Disney has made a $52.4 billion all-stock offer for ...
In test case for gig economy UK court backs contractor
Former Pimlico Plumbers employee Gary Smith leaves the UK Supreme Court, Parliament Square, London, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. A London plumb ...
UK tech retailer suffers breach of customers' card data
Smartphone seller Dixons Carphone says it is investigating a data breach of some 5.9 million customer bank card details and 1.2 million pers ...
Robots learn by checking in on team members
Mohamed Abdelkader is one of the researchers that developed an algorithm that enables a team of unmanned aerial vehicles to work together in ...
Could studying swarm behaviors teach us how to help drones fly safely?
A starling roost in the United Kingdom. Credit: Unsplash/James Wainscoat Anyone who's seen a flock of starlings twist and turn across t ...
NASA flies large unmanned aircraft in public airspace without chase plane for first time
Aircraft maintenance crews at NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center prepare the remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft for a test flight June 12 ...
Image: Evaluating the noise of future aircraft
Credit: NASA/ Rami Daud, Alcyon Technical Services As air traffic continues to surge in the U.S., neighbors who live near airports are comp ...
Teaching robots how to move objects
Doctoral student Maria Bauza has been exploring the notion of uncertainty when robots pick up, grasp, or push an object. “If the robot could ...
How to build a robot that mimics the moves of animals—and why you'd want to
A four-legged robot was inspired by the motion of a cat. Credit: Photo/Daiming Yang From slithering and walking to flying or swimming, anim ...
Rail access improves liveability but all regional centres are not equal
Shepparton residents are clearly disadvantaged by having far fewer daily train services to Melbourne than other regional centres. Credit: Al ...
Are solar panels a middle-class purchase? This survey says yes
The latest research suggests that in Australia, rooftop solar photovoltaics are more likely to be adopted by middle-class households. The r ...
Making cars and planes lighter and cleaner using unidirectional fibre tapes
Credit: Raquel Ledo Bañobre An EU initiative has developed a cost-effective way to produce unidirectional (UD) tape to manufacture and ...
Australia court paves way for Google 'underworld' defamation case
Entertainment promoter Milorad Trkulja claims Google has continued to disseminate content unfairly linking him to the Melbourne criminal und ...
Comcast bid for Fox is next after favorable AT&T ruling
This March 29, 2017, file photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Disney has made a $52.4 billion all-stock offer for ...
Bitcoin 'whales' pulling cryptocurrency strings
Are the crypto whales running the bitcoin show? Bitcoin, the star of the cryptocurrency world, is widely seen as a freewheeling tool as ope ...
Judge clears AT&T-Time Warner deal rebuking Trump administration
AT&T and Time Warner attorney Daniel Petrocelli speaks to the press after a court ruled that the $85 billion merger between the two comp ...
China's ZTE dives 39% at resumption of trading in Hong Kong
Trading in ZTE's shares was suspended in April Shares in Chinese telecoms equipment maker ZTE collapsed 39 percent Wednesday as trading ...
Toyota investing $1 billion in Asian ride-share firm Grab
Grab, which is headquartered in Singapore, is a leading player in the ride-share industry in Asia, and earlier this year agreed to acquire U ...
Australia agrees Solomons internet cable after China concern
The impoverished Solomon Islands and Huawei inked a deal in late 2016 to construct the fibre-optic cable to Honiara to improve its often unr ...
London hopes for bright tech future despite Brexit
The mayor says London's tech future is bright so long as it works with others London has a bright tech future post-Brexit working close ...
Tight squeeze for Hong Kong's young professionals
Michelle Chau sits on her bed in a co-sharing building in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, where spiralling housing prices have forced yo ...
AT&T antitrust win may herald a new wave of media mergers
In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, clouds are reflected in the glass facade of the Time Warner building in New York. The judge presiding ove ...
Will Amazon's work to kill Seattle tax spook other cities?
Demonstrators opposing the repeal of a tax on large companies such as Amazon and Starbucks that was intended to combat a growing homelessnes ...
Tesla cuts 9 pct. of workforce in bid to post a profit
In this April 15, 2018, file photo the sun shines off the rear deck of a roadster on a Tesla dealer's lot in the south Denver suburb of ...
GM: Trump tariffs driving up costs
General Motors CEO Mary Barra said it is too eary to tell the full extent of the impact of punitive tariffs on metals, but the company is se ...
ZTE shares set to resume trading after US reprieve
Trading of ZTE shares in Hong Kong and Shenzhen had been halted since April 2018 Shares in Chinese smartphone maker ZTE are set to resume t ...
Novel system mimics focus activity of the human eye
Shown: Range of focus for various eye refractive conditions. Myopia shifts the focal range closer, causing bad far sight. Hyperopia shifts t ...
Direct costs of Daimler diesel recall in Europe limited
In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars speaks at med ...
Finding faults in the electrical grid
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A West Aussie researcher has developed software that could help us avoid another Black Saturday catastrophe ...
Digital addiction—how technology keeps us hooked
There are a number of reasons why you can’t get away from your screen. Credit: shutterstock The World Health Organisation is to include &qu ...
Louboutin wins EU court battle over red-soled shoes
Christian Louboutin may want to put on his dancing shoes after winning a battle over trademarking his signature red-soled footwear French l ...
Simulation for grid transmission distribution
In California, utility companies are mandated to get at least half of their power from renewable resources, such as solar and wind, by 2030. ...
A new micro-robot delivers drugs in capsules
An international team of researchers, led by Professor Hongsoo Choi, Director of DGIST-ETH Microrobot Research Center, has developed capsule ...
Fate of massive AT&T-Time Warner merger in US judge's hands
The fate of the AT&T-Time Warner merger, a massive media deal opposed by the government that could shape how much consumers pay for stre ...
Swords into ploughshares
2018-06-12 06:00:09Swords into ploughshares
Ploughshare Innovations, the technology transfer organisation for the MoD, looks to provide businesses with access to innovative technology.
New wind turbines show high efficiency in low winds
VTT Research Centre of Technology (VTT) has explored the potential and economic benefits of new wind power technology. The technology would ...
New 28-GHz transceiver paves the way for future 5G devices
The fabricated transceiver only measures 3 mm × 4 mm and consists of four transmitting and receiving elements. The subcomponents o ...
Intel starts testing smallest ‘spin qubit’ chip for quantum computing
Intel researchers are testing a tiny, ‘spin qubit’ chip, which it says is the tiniest quantum computing chip it has made so far.
Turbocharge for lithium batteries
Prof. Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing. Credit: Forschungszentrum Jlich / Sascha Kreklau A team of material researchers from Juelich, Munich, and P ...
China auto sales rise 7.9 percent in May as electrics surge
China's auto sales rose 7.9 percent in May from a year earlier as purchases of electric and gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles more than ...
Shoemaker Louboutin wins EU court battle over red soles
Christian Louboutin may want to put on his dancing shoes after winning a battle over trademarking his signature red-soled footwear French l ...
Swords in ploughshares
2018-06-12 04:00:14Swords in ploughshares
Ploughshare Innovations, the technology transfer organisation for the MoD, looks to provide businesses with access to innovative technology.
Don't trust the tech giants? You likely rely on them anyway (Update)
In this June 1, 2018, file photo, commuters look at their phones in Los Angeles. Technology giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon ask us t ...
Seattle poised to repeal new tax opposed by Amazon
In this May 24, 2018, photo, paid signature gatherer John Ellard, right, gives thumbs-up as two men stop to sign petitions to put on the Nov ...
Ubisoft sees blockbusters shaped by fans and stars
An invitation to collaborate went live Monday on the website of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Hit Record, with the first project being to make ...
Chinese electric carmaker Byton raises $500 mn to take on Tesla
Byton president Daniel Kirchert, left, and CEO Carsten Breitfeld show the Byton connected car during CES 2018 in Las Vegas China-based elec ...
Vietnam passes cybersecurity law despite privacy concerns
Vietnamese legislators on Tuesday passed a contentious cybersecurity law, which critics say will hurt the economy and further restrict freed ...
Deadly battles continue to power hit video games
Guillame Bruner, senior producer (L) and Gabrielle Schrager, narrative director from Ubisoft Montpellier introduce new games to the audience ...
'Norman' when artificial intelligence goes psycho
Researchers at MIT have created 'Norman', the first psychopathic artificial intelligence to explain how algorithms are made, and to ...
28GHz transceiver paves the way for future 5G devices
A 28GHz transceiver has been fabricated by scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology for stable, high-speed 5G communications.
Don't trust the tech giants? You likely rely on them anyway
In this June 1, 2018, file photo, commuters look at their phones in Los Angeles. Technology giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon ask us t ...
Germany hits Mercedes with mass diesel recall (Update)
It's Daimler's turn to be in the spotlight over alleged emissions cheating Germany ordered Monday the recall of some 774,000 vehicl ...
Ryanair recognises cabin crew union in UK  (Update)
Ryanair has begun to recognise union representation of its cabin crews Low-cost airline Ryanair said Monday it has formally recognised repr ...
Booming world of play revs E3 video game extravaganza
Phil Spencer, Executive President of Gaming at Microsoft addresses the audience at the Xbox 2018 E3 briefing in Los Angeles, California on J ...
Crash test dummies based on older bodies could reduce road fatalities
Because safety needs change as drivers' bodies age, researchers have created a new type of crash test dummy based on people over the age ...
Computer science researcher meets updated phishing attacks head on
Enterprising hackers can spoof the email address of a trusted friend, co-worker, or business and send forged emails to victims. "These ...
Your internet use could change as 'net neutrality' ends
In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 file photo, Demonstrators rally in support of net neutrality outside a Verizon store in New York. Consumers a ...
Germany orders recall of 774000 Daimler cars in Europe over emissions
It's Daimler's turn to be in the spotlight over alleged emissions cheating Germany ordered Monday the recall of some 774,000 vehicl ...
A new system optimises electric transmission from offshore wind farms
Wind turbine. Credit: UC3M Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new control system for wind turbines in ...
Digital assistant teaches runners healthier running style
Professor Antonio Krüger and Felix Kosmalla developed a wearable assistant that trains the runner to move properly. Credit: Oliver ...
Startup uses artificial intelligence to analyze vehicle driver behavior
The device is fitted with a 30 cm x 15 cm solar panel (photo) that can be affixed to any part of a vehicle that receives sunlight . Credit: ...
A webcam is enough to produce a real-time 3-D model of a moving hand
Franziska Müller, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, has developed a software system that requires only the built-in camera of a ...
New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy Musk says
Tesla founder and Elon Musk says an update to the carmaker's Autopilot software will enable "full" autonomous driving features ...
UK firms to reveal boss-staff pay gaps under draft law
All companies with more than 250 employees will have to disclose and explain their "pay ratios" Companies listed in Britain will ...
German prosecutors raid Audi boss over diesel cheating
A fresh twist in the German dieselgate saga German prosecutors said Monday they had raided the home of Rupert Stadler, chief executive of V ...
Researchers develop virtual composer assistant
Experts from the Institute of Cyber Intelligence Systems at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia) are currently developing ...
Microsoft looks past next-gen Xbox to cloud games
Xbox chief Phil Spencer speaks on stage at the Microsoft Xbox E3 Briefing in Los Angeles, California, in June 2017 The head of Xbox on Sund ...
Amazon supplier under fire for poor China working conditions
Terry Gou, chairman of Taiwan's Foxconn: his firm is again under fire for allegedly exploiting workers Electronics giant Foxconn announ ...
Robotic work cell conducts high-throughput testing instantly
Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Brad Boyce watches as the Alinstante robotic work cell scans a 3D-printed part to compare w ...
Clone wars—finding buggy code copies
Chanchal Roy, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. Credit: Kris Foster Code is ubiquitous and most industries around ...