Tidal range power plants hold potential for electricity generation
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In theory, one third of global electricity needs could be provided by the world's tidal range, according to a ...
Electric vehicles could save billions on energy storage
Credit: Institute of Physics Using electric vehicles (EVs) as mobile power storage could eliminate the need to build costly stationary grid ...
AI slaves—the questionable desire shaping our idea of technological progress
A scene from R.U.R. Credit: Wikimedia Commons From high impact Hollywood dystopic accounts such as the infamous Terminator films to public ...
The right mix of green energy
In Sweden, we get as much energy from nuclear power (40–45 per cent) as from hydropower. This is followed by wind power at 10–14 per cent. C ...
US China near deal to save ZTE: report
Cell phone manufacturer ZTE, China's number-two smartphone maker, may get a lifeline in a deal worked out by Washington and Beijing to a ...
Facebook boss faces European Parliament over data scandal
Zuckerberg's appearance will be livestreamed to the public after angry EU lawmakers objected to initial plans to host the hearing behind ...
EU lawmakers to press Zuckerberg over data privacy
In this April 11, 2018 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Tech moguls Bill Gate ...
What Facebook isn't telling us about its fight against online abuse
Prosecutions for offensive messages. Credit: Based on figures obtained from the Ministry of Justice, Author provided Facebook has for the f ...
Sony buys most of EMI Music to spend $9B on image sensors
Sony Corp. President Kenichiro Yoshida speaks as characters from Peanuts are shown at a press conference at the company's headquarters T ...
VR testing ground for drones
2018-05-22 04:00:18VR testing ground for drones
A virtual reality (VR) training system for drones that enables a vehicle to “see” a rich, virtual environment while flying in an empty physical space has been developed by MIT.
Fast low-voltage actuator for soft and wearable robotics
The day where humans and robots collaborate in close proximity is becoming easier to envision. Emerging soft robots may help to ensure this can be done safely and in a way that syncs to human environm
Uber taps into Japan with first taxi-hailing pilot
Uber would link up taxi drivers with potential clients Uber announced Tuesday it would start its first taxi-hailing pilot programme in Japa ...
Sony invests in image sensors acquires more of EMI Music
Sony Corp. President Kenichiro Yoshida speaks as characters from Peanuts are shown at a press conference at the company's headquarters T ...
As EU privacy law looms debate swirls on cybersecurity impact
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Days ahead of the implementation of a sweeping European privacy law, debate is swirling on whether the measure wi ...
Uber hit with harassment suit following policy shift
Uber was hit with a lawsuit Monday alleging sexual harassment and discrimination against female employees, apparently the first case in cour ...
Micron and Intel extend leadership in 3D NAND flash memory
Micron Technology and Intel have announced production and shipment of the industry’s first 4bits/cell 3D NAND technology. Leveraging a proven 64-layer structure, the new 4bits/cell NAND technology ach
Micron ships industry’s first quad-level cell NAND SSD
Micron Technology has commenced shipments of the industry’s first SSD built on revolutionary quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology.
Consumer Reports raises concerns over Tesla Model 3 braking
In this March 31, 2016, file photo, Tesla Motors unveils the new lower-priced Model 3 sedan at the Tesla Motors design studio in Hawthorne, ...
Activist groups launch campaign to break up Facebook
US activist groups launched a campaign to break up Facebook, claiming it has too much power over people's lives A coalition of activist ...
Microsoft pledges to extend EU data rights worldwide
Microsoft says it's committing to giving users worldwide the same data and privacy rights being offered to Europeans under new regulatio ...
Raging 'Fortnite' eSport game gets $100 mn prize pool
"Fortnite," one of the popular competitions of eSports, or video games as a spectator sport, will be a $100 million prize pool fro ...
What can snakes teach us about engineering friction?
Research from Drexel University paves the way for snake-inspired custom surface design. Credit: Drexel University If you want to know how t ...
Consumer Reports won't recommend Tesla's Model 3
Long emergency stopping distances, difficult-to-use controls and a harsh ride stopped Tesla's Model 3 electric car from getting a recomm ...
The challenges and potential rewards of transitioning to concentrated solar power to desalinate seawater
Many desert regions could desalinate with solar energy, but which kind of solar? What about after dark? And which desalination technology is ...
From airlines to pizza parlors EU businesses adopt data law
In this Wednesday, May 16, 2018 photo, Lisa Meyer blow drys the hair of a client at her Hair and Beauty shop in London. Meyer's hair sal ...
New NIST roadmap charts path to reduced fire hazards from materials
NIST firefighters Justin Grossnickle and Martin Neal look over the end of a controlled test to study the impact of fire on cross-laminated t ...
Flexible highly efficient multimodal energy harvesting
A 10-fold increase in the ability to harvest mechanical and thermal energy over standard piezoelectric composites may be possible using a pi ...
Self-assembling 3D battery would charge in seconds
A cross-campus collaboration led by Professor Ulrich Wiesner of Cornell University, addresses the demand for quick charging devices, with a novel energy storage technology.
Arrow Electronics offers Scalys System-on-Modules
​Arrow Electronics has signed an agreement to supply Scalys’ System-on-Modules (SoMs) and Small Board Computers (SBC) throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Advanced biofuels can be produced extremely efficiently
The combustion boiler at Chalmers Power Central was converted to a gasifier in 2007. Since then, more than 200 man-years of research have be ...
Effective methods for automated design of complex technical objects and systems
In almost any field of human activity, people choose optimal options from a great variety of possible alternatives. When designing new devic ...
Facebook's Zuckerberg agrees to live-stream EU parliament hearing
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly apologised for the massive data breach Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to live-stre ...
Lu resignation a blow for Baidu's push into AI analysts say
The loss of AI expert Qi Lu was the latest setback for the company, often referred to as China's Google, which has invested heavily in t ...
Ryanair profits up 10% despite cancellations crisis
Ryanair's flight cancellation crisis led to at least 20,000 flights being axed Irish budget carrier Ryanair said Monday its net profit ...
US firm Harbour Energy ups bid for Australia's Santos
Santos' main assets include 13.5 percent of Exxon Mobil's massive liquefied natural gas venture in Papua New Guinea US private inve ...
'Jurassic Park' dinosaur expert's next big thing: holograms
Forget the gray, green and brown dinosaurs in the "Jurassic Park" movies. Paleontologist Jack Horner wants to transport people bac ...
Japan's new 'Airbnb law': a double-edged sword
There will likely be strong demand for short term rentals during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo Rental platforms like Airbnb are hoping for a b ...
Apple-Samsung iPhone design copying case goes to jury
Jurors are weighing the price to put on patented iPhone design features copied by Samsung in a legal case dating back seven years Jurors re ...
Google pushes artificial intelligence for upgraded news app
For its updated news application, Google is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence as part of an effort to weed our disinformat ...
World's first floating nuclear barge to power Russia's Arctic oil drive
Russia unveils the first ever floating nuclear power plant in Murmansk To meet its growing electricity needs in its drive to develop oil re ...
High-tech sphere-shaped arena coming to Las Vegas Strip
This conceptual rendering released by Madison Square Garden shows a transparent look theme exterior of the MSG Sphere Las Vegas arena. An 18 ...
Gay-friendly Apple weighs North Carolina despite LGBT laws
In this March 24, 2018 file photo, Tim Cook, Apple CEO, speaks at a economic summit a day before the China Development Forum in Beijing, Chi ...
Phone data-leak company: No record of location-data abuse
In this June 6, 2017, file photo, a man checks his phone in an alley in downtown Chicago. A security researcher says a website flaw at a U.S ...
BMW expands UK car recall again
BMW had already recalled 200,000 cars for safety checks, affecting the BMW 1 Series, the 3 Series, the Z4 and its X1 cars that were produced ...
Nuclear plant shuts down unexpectedly in Washington state
A nuclear power plant in southeastern Washington shut down unexpectedly Friday. ...
Man sentenced to 15 years in prison for hacker sabotage
A New Mexico man accused of paying hackers to sabotage websites affiliated with his former employers and state agencies has been sentenced i ...
Rivals gain on Amazon in hot market for digital assistants: survey
Google Home speakers like these seen at a 2017 presentation have seen sizzling growth over the past year, partly closing the gap with market ...
NYC bill would let workers take a break from calls emails
In this July 11, 2014, file photo, a pedestrian views his smart phone as he crosses South Broad Street in Philadelphia. A survey by the Amer ...
Toyota chief hopes to help Japan automakers keep tech edge
Toyota Motor Corp. chief Akio Toyoda speaks to reporters in Tokyo, Friday, May 18, 2018. Toyoda, tapped to head the Japanese auto industry a ...
Live precise recording of grid voltage and load currents
Prototype of the EDR – Electrical Data Recorder. Credit: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have ...
Germany orders Porsche recall over diesel emissions cheating
Porsche Cayenne models are being recalled, as well as Macans German authorities said Friday they had ordered 19,000 Porsche SUVs recalled o ...
How Google Facebook will adapt to Europe's new privacy law
In this March 29, 2018, file photo the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. Many co ...
Toyota chief hopes to help Japan auto makers keep tech edge
Toyota Motor Corp. chief Akio Toyoda, tapped to head the Japanese auto industry association, is promising to lead a push among manufacturers ...
Can we get 100 percent of our energy from renewable sources?
Credit: Lappeenranta University of Technology Is there enough space for all the wind turbines and solar panels to provide all our energy ne ...
World-class battery storage system helps to power country town
A new energy storage system developed by University of Adelaide researchers and industry partners is now successfully supporting the electri ...
Before you invest in cryptocurrency read this
Cryptocurrencies aren't a widely accepted for of payment. Credit: Shutterstock We've all heard the headline stories about cryptocur ...
Sharing the workplace with robots? New tool helps designers create safer machines
Credit: Bluskystudio, Shutterstock A research team is helping robot developers design machines less likely to injure the humans they work w ...
Premier Farnell announces major investment in inventory
Development Distributor, Premier Farnell, has announced that it has made a substantial investment in product inventory as well as in the addition of a number of new suppliers to its product offering.
Infineon to build a new factory for power semiconductors
Infineon Technologies is to build a new factory for power semiconductors. The fully automated chip factory will manufacture 300-millimeter thin wafers and will be constructed at the Villach location i
Cambridge Analytica files for voluntary bankruptcy in US: court filing
British political consulting group Cambridge Analytica filed for voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York, court ...
Elon Musk presents underground LA tunnel project
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has given updated details of a project to build high-speed transport tunnels underneath Los Angeles in a bid to comba ...
Renesas and Magna develop 3D surround view system
Renesas and Magna have developed a new cost-efficient 3D surround view system for entry- and mid-range vehicles
PayPal buys payments startup iZettle for $2.2 bn
US-based PayPal, a unit of eBay, has made its biggest acquisition to date by buying Swedish online commerce startup iZettle for $2.2 billion ...
Cognitive Systems and Cypress to bring WiFi Motion technology to the smart home
Cognitive Systems, the creators behind WiFi Motion, has announced that it is collaborating with Cypress Semiconductor to incorporate support its patented Aura WiFi Motion technology.
FACT CHECK: Tesla safety claims aren't quite right
In this Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., introduces the Model X car at the company's headquarters in Fre ...
What's changing and what's not under new data privacy rules
In this July 1, 2013, file photo, a communication technician works at a phone and internet cable closet, at the European Council building in ...
Singapore Airlines to absorb regional wing after upgrade
SilkAir has proved the weak link in the Singapore Airlines group Singapore Airlines said Friday it will absorb its struggling premium wing ...
China first home-built aircraft carrier completes sea trials
In this May 13, 2018, file photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's indigenous aircraft carrier lifts anchor in Dalian ...
Ohio capital launches unique 'Smart City' operating system
Ohio's capital city unveiled an operating system on Thursday that will gather data for its pioneering smart city transportation project. ...
Total CEO says oil price could hit $100 'in coming months'
Total CEO Patrick Pouyanne speaks at the Center for Strategic & International Studies The CEO of French oil giant Total said Thursday h ...
Cambridge Analytica suspended head to appear at UK committee
British lawmakers investigating the use of Facebook users' data in political campaigns said Thursday that the suspended head of the now- ...
Fox News names veteran executive Suzanne Scott as CEO
Rupert Murdoch (R) and his son Lachlan Murdoch, seen at a 2015 conference, share the title of executive chairman at 21st Century Fox, the pa ...
YouTube revamps streaming music service
YouTube will launch a "premium" streaming music service as a standalone, or in combination with its original video plan, which is ...
'Party city' Amsterdam to crack down on tourists
The picturesque city of Amsterdam plans to crack down on tourists as local residents have become increasingly fed up with the "nuisance ...
Walmart profits take hit but earnings rise as online grows
"We are changing from within to be faster and more digital, while shaping our portfolio of businesses for the future," Walmart chi ...
Self-assembling 3-D battery would charge in seconds
A rendering of the 3D battery architecture (top; not to scale) with interpenetrating anode (grey, with minus sign), separator (green), and c ...
CMA requires Electro Rent to sell its UK arm
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided that Electro Rent will have to sell its UK division following its merger with Microlease.
Red Pitaya outstanding shares acquired by Instrumentation Technologies
Red Pitaya, the company aiming to offer low cost, open-source, reconfigurable instrumentation with its credit-card-sized STEMlab platform, has announced that all the outstanding shares have been acqui
Rovio's shares fly high on Angry Birds 2 success
After the success of the animated film "The Angry Birds Movie", Rovio says a sequel is in the works for release in September 2019 ...
Toshiba says China approves sale of chip unit to Bain consortium
Toshiba has struggled after the disastrous acquisition of US nuclear energy firm Westinghouse Embattled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba on Th ...
Credit card payments evolve beyond the mobile wallet
In this June 30, 2016, image taken by AP Images for Visa, Team Visa athlete Popole Misenga uses his Visa payment ring at the Copacabana Mega ...
Ohio capital launches unique "Smart City" operating system
Ohio's capital city has unveiled the first version of its pioneering transportation operating system. ...
Zero-waste palm oil industry on the horizon with new technology
Credit: University of Nottingham Engineers at the University of Nottingham Malaysia have developed new technology to help the global palm o ...
Medium- and heavy-duty truck research propels efficiency to meet future needs
Fueled by the rise of e-commerce and fast shipping services like Amazon, consumers have come to expect their goods at their doorstep in a ma ...
Democrats hope net neutrality issue will win votes this fall
Senate Democrats, joined by three Republicans, pushed through a measure intended to revive Obama-era internet rules that ensured equal treat ...
Ford to restart production of best-selling US truck
The F-150 is the best-selling vehicle in the United States and the engine of Ford's profits Ford will restart production of the F-150, ...
An electronic rescue dog
2018-05-17 04:00:18An electronic rescue dog
Researchers at ETH Zurich have combined sensitive gas sensors for acetone, ammonia, and isoprene – metabolic products that we emit in low concentrations via our breath or skin – with two commercial se
Europe car sales speed up in April
German mammoth Volkswagen, Europe's biggest carmaker, saw its sales surge 13.8 percent despite the dieselgate emissions scandal Car sal ...
New device could increase battery life of electronics by a hundred-fold
A device material that can address both battery life and overheating has been developed by a group of physicists at the University of Missouri (MU).
Ultralight science—boundary layer measurements from low-flying source
UW Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Professor Grant Petty takes the Zigolo MG12 ultralight aircraft for the first test flight October 30, 20 ...
Self-designing ‘machine learning’ research to re-define computer programming
Researchers are developing artificially intelligent (AI) computer systems which they say are able to design and assemble themselves to “work better than the best human-built systems”.
In Denmark Airbnb to report hosts' rent to tax authorities
Denmark says online room-rental platform Airbnb will start to automatically report its users' deals to taxation authorities, the first c ...
Jennifer Van Grove: Lyft tests new subscription option in several cities
Ride-hail service Lyft is offering select customers a way to save money on their daily trips with a new pre-paid option meant to test the vi ...
How the death of voicemail is changing the way we connect
Don't wait for the beep: Voicemail is going the way of the dinosaurs. ...
Redstone family blocks move to dilute its CBS vote power
Shari Redstone, who controls CBS through the family holding company National Amusements, denounced a "brazen" effort by the media ...
US Senate votes to restore 'net neutrality' rules
Protesters in Washington on February 27 urged lawmakers to reverse regulators and restore "net neutrality" rules that require all ...
Lyft to launch Camp Pendleton ride-hail program
A new Lyft feature is making it easier for people to travel from and around Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. ...
European wind energy generation potential in a 1.5 degree C warmer world
Credit: Leaflet/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 The UK and large parts of northern Europe could become windier if global temperatures reach 1.5 degr ...
Amazon Go targets Chicago San Francisco for new stores
Amazon Go is headed for Chicago and San Francisco. The retailer ...
US SEC launches phony cryptocurrency 'sale' to educate about scams
The SEC says complaints about dubious cryptocurrency investments have grown more than ten fold in four years Boy, do US financial regulator ...