Facebook says Chinese phone makers got access to data (Update)
The Huawei logo is seen in a shop in Shanghai on May 3, 2018; The Chinese phone maker was able to access Facebook data to get the leading so ...
Tesla shareholders reject bid to strip Musk of chairman role
In this Dec. 2, 2015, file photo, Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk delivers a speech at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the ...
Japan 'drone-brella' promises hands-free sun cover
Asahi Power Service hopes its 'drone-brellas' will become par for the course for golfers It's the hands-free experience you nev ...
From beep to boom: Europe hears call of Chinese phones
The expansion into Europe of firms such as Xiaomi comes as users become increasingly unwilling to pay $1,000 for a new device China's s ...
Will flexible solar cells someday power devices?
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland and Université de Montréal are studying whether flexible solar cells could someday be mass-produced and commercialised and used to charge mobile devices and
Health sector gives blockchain glowing prognosis
Proponents say blockchain could revolutionise data analysis and improve responses to health crises such as four laboratory-confirmed Ebola c ...
Vermont start-up's small packets a big deal for energy industry
Energetic growth. The UVM spinoff company Packetized Energy is on a roll, adding staff, customers and business partners at an impressive cli ...
Flexible solar cells: Will they someday power your devices?
Will you ever be able to charge your mobile device, car and even clothing with flexible solar cells? Researchers at Aalto University in Finl ...
Facebook shared user data with Chinese handset makers
In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs after testifying before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capi ...
Tesla reveals plans to build cars in Shanghai
A Tesla vehicle is parked at a charging station inside a mall in Shanghai on October 23, 2017; the electric carmaker has diclosed its first ...
Airbnb culls Japan listings ahead of new rental law
Airbnb and other peer-to-peer rental sites say the new law removes uncertainty in the sector Rental platform Airbnb has suspended a large m ...
Facebook music feature allows lip-sync of songs
Facebook, whose CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen at the social network's developer conference in May, has announced new ways to share music i ...
Sex robots are already here but are they healthy for humans?
World, meet Harmony. Completely artificial and programmed by computer chips, the somewhat lifelike sex robot is marketed by sex doll maker R ...
Google honors legendary marathoner Tom Longboat
Google is using its logo Monday to celebrate one of Canada's most renowned marathon runners. ...
Researchers use artificial intelligence to identify count describe wild animals
Motion sensor 'camera traps' unobtrusively take pictures of animals in their natural environment, oftentimes yielding images not oth ...
UK hands Comcast advantage in Sky takeover tussle with Fox
21st Century Fox is seeking to buy the 61 percent of Sky that it does not own for £11.4 billion but the long-running saga has been plag ...
New method enables high quality speech separation
A new model isolates and enhances the speech of desired speakers in a video. (a) The input is a video (frames + audio track) with one or mor ...
Your reaction to pics of Leonardo DiCaprio animals could unlock your next smartphone
Credit: Chen Song, University at Buffalo To overcome password fatigue, many smartphones include facial recognition, fingerprint scans and o ...
Boston Dynamics' scary robot videos: Are they for real?
In this Thursday, May 24, 2018, photo, a Boston Dynamics SpotMini robot is walks through a conference room during a robotics summit in Bosto ...
Switch to e-cars will cost Germany 75000 jobs: study
Things will get slippery for German carmakers as e-cars gain traction, a study finds The growing use of electrified vehicles is expected to ...
Unloved Airbus A380s to be stripped for parts
Worth more than the sum of its parts? Maybe not Two Airbus A380 superjumbos once flown by Singapore Airlines are to become the first of the ...
Maker of fearsome animal robots slowly emerges from stealth
In this Thursday, May 24, 2018, photo Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert shows the SpotMini robot during a robotics summit in Boston. It&# ...
Experts build pulsed air rig to test 3-D printed parts for low carbon engines
Credit: Shutterstock/petrmalinak Researchers designed a unique facility for testing 3-D printed engine parts, to help reduce carbon emissio ...
Personalised social engineering
Anybody can become the victim of a confidence trick, in the modern parlance they might succumb to social engineering. Through such illicit t ...
Malaysia says over 350000 cars yet to change Takata airbags
Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke speaks during a press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Malaysia's ...
Germany's Continental bans WhatsApp from work phones
German car parts maker Continental says that social media apps have 'deficiencies' that make it difficult to comply with new EU data ...
Team invents world's first nickel-hydroxide actuating material that can be triggered by both light and electricity
Professor Alfonso Ngan and Dr. Kwan Kin-wa introduce the new actuating material powered by light. Credit: @The University of Hong Kong Over ...
Conducting electricity between transistors without energy loss
A way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss has been demonstrated by a team of Rutgers physicists. The hope is that this will lead to low-power electronics and quantum computi
Wireless system can power devices inside the body
A new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body has been developed by a team from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH).
Apple dangling more goodies while adding tech diet options (Update)
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple World ...
New Facebook privacy furor: What's at stake?
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook is pushing back against a media report ...
Washington state sues Google Facebook over campaign ad data
In this Nov. 28, 2017, file photo, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a news conference in Seattle. Ferguson is suing ...
Microsoft embraces collaboration in $7.5B deal for GitHub
This July 3, 2014 file photo shows Microsoft Corp. signage outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash. Microsoft says it's pa ...
Apple touts privacy features of new operating systems
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) Apple on Monday unveiled new operating systems for its iPho ...
ROHM and GaN Systems join forces for GaN power semiconductors
ROHM and GaN Systems have announced a strategic collaboration in the GaN (gallium nitride) power semiconductor business.
Infineon to start volume production of CoolGaN products
Infineon Technologies is planning to start volume production of its CoolGaN products by the end of 2018. The announcement, made at PCIM in Nuremberg, said that engineering samples of the highly reliab
'Of course' top job at Qatar Airways is held by a man: CEO
Qatar Airways chief Akbar Al Baker sparked disbelief when he said his airline was led by a man because 'it is a very challenging positio ...
New iPhone features to include ways to use it less
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple World ...
Private equity group Advent takes control of Walmart Brazil
A Walmart store in Chicago, Illinois: Walmart is selling off a majority stake in its Brazil stores to a private equity group, Advent Interna ...
Mexico sets conditions for Bayer-Monsanto merger
Mexico has ordered Bayer and Monsanto to sell off their seed businesses after their mega-merger Mexican competition regulators said Monday ...
Embattled Air France-KLM stock jumps as hotel group studies bid (Update)
Air France-KLM's shares were among the best performers on the French stock market Monday Shares in Air France-KLM soared on Monday afte ...
Army researchers envision third arm for soldiers
Army Sgt. Michael Zamora uses a prototype Third Arm exoskeleton to easily aim an 18-pound M249 light machine gun during testing at Aberdeen ...
The underwater adhesive
2018-06-04 08:00:14The underwater adhesive
The novel material can be hardened under water. Credit: Vienna University of Technology A special formula for epoxy resins has been develop ...
Satellite imagery is revolutionizing the world. But should we always trust what we see?
Sea ice off of East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast. Credit: NASA In 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 captured what has become one of the mos ...
Embattled Air France-KLM stock jumps as hotel group studies bid
Air France-KLM's shares were among the best performers on the French stock market Monday Shares in Air France-KLM soared on Monday afte ...
German car sales plunge in May as diesel falls out of favour
Concerns about pollution and the falling resale value of diesels have seen consumers turn away from the once popular technology Sales of ne ...
Microsoft says buying GitHub for $7.5 bn
Microsoft on Monday said it will buy software development platform GitHub, in a deal worth $7.5 billion. ...
People aren't using their vacation time—here's a way to fix that
“There was this sense that you weren’t a dedicated worker if you actually went on vacation, and stopped working while you were gone,” said K ...
Facebook under scrutiny over data sharing after NYT report
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook is pushing back against a media report ...
Facebook 'not aware of any abuse' of data by phone makers
Facebook has come under scrutiny over its past handling of its users personal data Facebook said Monday that it does not know of any privac ...
Better access to production data
Plant@Hand3D is a stand-alone solution for all key production data. Everybody always sees the big picture and finds it easier to make decisi ...
A platform for extracting crucial information from satellite images
Franck de Morsier, CTO, and Pierrick Poulenas, CEO of Picterra. Credit: Alain Herzog EPFL start-up Picterra has devised a smart system that ...
Demystifying the future of connected and autonomous vehicles
Argonne researchers are modeling and simulating how connected and autonomous vehicles could affect energy and mobility in metropolitan areas ...
Hybrid overhead lines—more power not more power lines
Credit: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Social opposition to new high-voltage lines is delaying modernisation of the power grid. T ...
LED stool to combat back pain
The LED stool encourages healthy sitting. On the MS Wissenschaft, visitors can even use it to play movement games. Credit: Fraunhofer IAO S ...
Improved focus for office workers
The High Performance Indoor Environment test lab for comprehensive impact research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP in S ...
Making efficient use of biomass
The pilot facility consists of a container with a storage bin and energy center, as well as of a frame that houses the drying and torrefacti ...
Plessey partners with Vuzix to develop next-generation smart glasses
Plessey Semiconductors, a developer of optoelectronic technology solutions, is partnering with Vuzix, a specialist in the development of technologies for smart glasses to develop technologies for a ne
Ingestible chip could help diagnose disease
MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stomach or other gastrointestinal problems.
Atomically thin nanowires convert heat to electricity more efficiently
A new way of generating sustainable energy has been discovered by researchers from the University of Warwick and the University of Birmingham.
TT Electronics acquires Precision
TT Electronics has acquired Precision, a designer and manufacturer of precision electromagnetic product solutions for critical applications, for an initial consideration of $23.5million.
Airlines to step up fight against human trafficking
The new guidelines will include comprehensive checklists on how to identify suspected cases and handle victims after landing Airlines are s ...
World’s first PCI express test solution with multivendor oscilloscope support
Anritsu Corporation has developed what it says is the world’s first PCI Express test solution with multivendor oscilloscope support.
Consortium buying Toshiba's memory business promises growth
Toshiba Memory President Yasuo Naruke, right, and Bain Capital Japan chief Yuji Sugimoto, left, bow at the beginning of their joint press co ...
Bayer to ditch Monsanto name after mega-merger
Industry sources said the merged agrichemical division will be called Bayer Crop Science German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer w ...
Ticket service data breach disrupts music venues
Concert ticketing service Ticketfly says it's working to get its system back online after a data breach leaked users' personal infor ...
Global airport capacity crisis amid passenger boom: IATA
There is a global airport capacity crisis, airline industry group IATA has warned Governments need to urgently tackle a capacity crisis fac ...
Global airline body warns against protectionism rising costs
Collective profits were down in 2018 as oil prices soared following the US pullout from the Iran nuclear deal and unrest in Venezuela Trade ...
University of Cambridge spin-out raises £1.2m
Sorex Sensors, a spin-out company from the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, has completed an initial round of investment raising £1.2m. The funding was organised by Cambridge
Erdogan says Uber 'finished' in Turkey
Official yellow taxis wait for customers in Istanbul where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says rival ride-app Uber is "finished" ...
Lithuania holds hackathon to mint digital collector coin
Lithuania's central bank held a hackathon aimed at issuing the world's first digital collector coin Lithuania's central bank on ...
Visa close to 'normal' after outage blocks transactions across Europe (Update)
Visa users took to social media to complain of problems processing transactions in Europe Payment systems giant Visa said late Friday it wa ...
Reports: Google won't renew Pentagon contract to use AI
Google won't renew a contract with the Pentagon that provides the company's artificially intelligent algorithms to interpret video i ...
Telegram says Apple cleared path for app update
A man holds a poster reading "RKN (Roskomnadzor - the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mas ...
Visa outage blocks transactions across Europe
Visa users took to social media to complain of problems processing transactions in Europe June 1, 2018 Payment systems giant Visa said it w ...
Cryptocurrency blowing in the wind as mine opens in Estonia
Bitcoin is mined at Bitfarms in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec on March 19, 2018, a process which requires powerful computers that are voracious us ...
Fiat Chrysler to phase out diesel in Europe by 2021
Goodbye diesel, Fiat Chrysler says The clock is ticking for diesel at Fiat Chrysler, at least in its passenger cars in Europe and other key ...
China dispatches low-level official to security conference
In this March 8, 2018 file photo, Vice President of China's Academy of Military Sciences, Lt. Gen. He Lei gestures as he speaks during a ...
Facebook kills 'trending' topics tests breaking news label
This image provided by Facebook shows a new feature Facebook is testing out called "Breaking News." Facebook says it's shuttin ...
Phasing out nuclear energy could affect safety
The reactor disaster in Fukushima initiated the German government's decision to shut down all nuclear power plants by 2022. But the phas ...
Smart app to diagnose Parkinson's disease
Credit: Zerbor, Shutterstock Parkinson's disease (PD) is a slow, progressive disorder of the central nervous system affecting between 7 ...
Toshiba completes $21 bn sale of chip unit
The sale and reinvestment will give Toshiba a pre-tax profit of 970 billion yen, though the bump was already built into forecasts it announc ...
Your personal space is no longer physical – it's a global network of data
Credit: Silvio Carta, Author provided In the digital world, any action we do generates data – whether browsing the internet, answering emai ...
Self-learning assistance system for efficient processes
SAM, a self-learning assistance system, helps machine operators resolve errors in production machines. Credit: Fraunhofer IVV To prevent lo ...
iPhone X filmmaker gives three tips to budding directors
Credit: Hal_P / Shutterstock.com For the past four years I've been experimenting with smartphone film production. I recently shot and d ...
Google blames Wikipedia for linking California GOP to Nazism
In this Dec. 4, 2017, photo, people walk by Google offices in New York. Google is blaming "vandalism" at Wikipedia for search resu ...
How can criminals manipulate cryptocurrency markets?
Now you see it, now you don’t. Credit: Syda Productions/Shutterstock.com Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are based on systems that are suppos ...
Researchers develop electronic skins that wirelessly activate fully soft robots
Rendered version of the e-skin pair system for soft robots. Credit: Soft Robotics Research Center, Seoul National University A research tea ...
Prototype nuclear battery packs 10 times more power
A Nuclear battery. Credit: Elena Khavina/MIPT Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Technolog ...
Dolphin algorithm could lead to better medical ultrasounds
Millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning have made dolphins phenomenally good at using echolocation to orient themselves, find food and ...
A 3-D printer that can print data sets as physical objects
Credit: Science Advances (2018). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aas8652 A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard University has come up with a way t ...
Walmart goes upscale with personal shopper service (Update)
Jenny Fleiss, who joined Walmart last year, is heading the Jetblack platform that allows shoppers to order items via text message Walmart o ...
Waymo adds 62000 vehicles for autonomous taxi service
In this Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, file photo, John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company created by Google's parent company, ...
Deep breath: New 'rebreather' helps navy divers beneath the waves
A US Navy diver gives the okay sign following his dive using the Office of Naval Research Global TechSolutions-sponsored MK29 Mixed Gas Rebr ...
Walmart rolls out new shop-by-text service
Walmart is unveiling a $50-a-month membership service that lets harried shoppers use text messages to order items to be home delivered. ...
Waymo's self-driving car service to include 62000 minivans
In this Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, file photo, John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company created by Google's parent company, ...
Telegram accuses Apple of blocking updates
Telegram refused to provide Russian authorities with a way to read communications over its network as Moscow pushes to increase surveillance ...
ORNL ramps up production of key radioisotope for cancer-fighting drug
Radiochemical technicians David Denton and Karen Murphy use hot cell manipulators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the production of ...
Japan's SoftBank to sink $2.25B into GM autonomous car unit
In this July 20, 2017, file photo, SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son, left, speaks during a SoftBank World presenta ...
Indian government heads for airline auction flop
The government announced on March 28 that it plans to sell up to 76 percent of the carrier but airlines and other investors have been spooke ...