Fox rejected an offer from Comcast before Disney buyout: filing
Media giant 21st Century Fox, which was sold to Disney in December, rejected a higher buyout offer from Comcast over fears of regulatory ris ...
UK and India agree tech partnership
The UK and India have agreed to an ambitious Tech Partnership that is expected to generate significant investment and support the creation of thousands of new jobs across the UK.
Amazon's reveals its Prime service has 100 million members
This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon said Wednesday, April 18, 2018, it has more than 100 mil ...
EU parliament demands Zuckerberg answer questions in person
EU lawmakers want Zuckerberg to answer their questions in person, just like he did before the US Congress The European Parliament on Wednes ...
Pacquiao to launch own cryptocurrency
Manny Pacquiao is the latest high-profile athlete to launch a cryptocurrency, following Floyd Mayweather and Michael Owen Philippine boxing ...
Study: How to calculate pricing and resources for cloud computing
Credit: University at Buffalo Researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Management have developed a new algorithm that cloud compu ...
Time Warner CEO says merger needed due to 'tectonic' industry shift
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes defends the media-entertainment giant's proposed merger with ATT, which the government wants to block on ant ...
Electric ferries and joined-up shipping to turn sea travel green
Digital communication between ships could help optimise shipping routes and reduce fuel consumption. Credit: B.S. Halpern (T. Hengl; D. Grol ...
Will the FTC come down hard on Facebook? It's only happened twice in 20 years
If Facebook has to pay a Federal Trade Commission penalty for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, it will join a very short list of compan ...
A news subscription for your iPhone? Apple may launch one by 2019: report
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Last month, Apple announced it acquired the digital magazine distributor Texture as an entry to the journalism wo ...
More than 3300 Android apps are improperly tracking kids study finds
Thousands of family-friendly apps from the Google Play Store are potentially violating federal law, according to a new large-scale study fro ...
Defense contract pits Amazon against the rest of Big Tech
A wide range of technology giants find themselves unified by a single concern: that Amazon has the inside track to win a huge winner-take-al ...
Is Apple really better about privacy? Here's what we found out
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Is Apple the shining knight when it comes to privacy collection, as it wants us to believe? ...
TT Electronics completes Stadium Group acquisition
In February 2018, TT Electronics began the acquisition of Stadium Group in a £45.8million deal. Today, (April 18) the acquisition has been completed.
Russia admits to blocking millions of IP addresses
The website of the Telegram messaging app is seen on a computer's screen in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 13, 2018. A Russian court has ...
Ford uses van service to enter medical transport business
Ford is getting into the non-emergency medical transportation business as it moves toward making money off its experimental ventures in new ...
Deep learning predicts drug-drug and drug-food interactions
Figure 1. Overall scheme of Deep DDDI and prediction of food constituents that reduce the in vivo concentration of approved drugs. Credit: K ...
Intelligent components for the power grid of the future
Credit: Kiel University Fast charging of electric cars requires a lot of energy in a short period of time. These peak loads lead to bottlen ...
Iran bans government bodies from using foreign message apps
A man uses his cell phone while walking on a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Iranian state TV reported Wednesd ...
Nano-C completes $11.5million funding round
Nano-C, a developer of nanostructured carbon for energy and electronics applications, has announced that it has completed an $11.5million round of funding.
Five reasons why robots won't take over the world
Credit: Shutterstock Scientists are known for making dramatic predictions about the future – and sinister robots are once again in the spot ...
Polymer carpets based on graphene could make any fabrics generate current
Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University have discovered a method to successfully synthesize on single-layer graphene a well-structured polymer with a strong covalent bond.
A little fold-up joystick brings haptics to portable devices
Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne The tactile joystick developed by startup Foldaway Haptics brings the sense of touch to mo ...
Algorithm tool works to silence online chatroom sex predators
An algorithm tool developed by Purdue Polytechnic Institute faculty will help law enforcement filter out and focus on sex offenders most lik ...
Iceland: Bitcoin heist suspect has likely fled to Sweden
This Oct. 15, 2014 photo made available by The Reykjavík Metropolitan Police shows Sindri Thor Stefansson. Icelandic police have inform ...
Russia says to probe Facebook after Telegram crackdown
Russia has warned Facebook it may be banned before the end of the year Russia's telecoms watchdog plans to probe Facebook before the en ...
German police raid Porsche execs in diesel probe
It is the first time Porsche's offices have been searched over the diesel cheating scandal German police raided the offices of Porsche ...
Army research rejuvenates older zinc batteries
A water-based zinc battery that is simultaneously powerful, rechargeable and intrinsically safe has been developed by army scientists, together with a team of researchers from the University of Maryla
Wayfair follows Amazon with its own made-up holiday: Way Day
This Tuesday, April 17, 2018, photo shows the Wayfair website on a computer in New York. Wayfair, an online furniture seller, is calling Apr ...
How much would you trust an autonomous vehicle?
Using a simulator, for now, UVA researchers are probing the factors that lead people to feel more or less comfortable with letting go of the ...
Electronic paper made of “real” paper
By combining electrode and electrolyte, Osaka University-led researchers said it has created paper-based electrochromic (EC) displays.
Processing power beyond Moore’s Law
In 1965, businessman and computer scientist, Gordon Moore, observed that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every 2 years, which means a doubling of computer
Team develops sodium ion batteries using copper sulfide
The sodiation process of copper sulfide. Credit: KAIST A KAIST research team recently developed sodium ion batteries using copper sulfide a ...
San Francisco to require permits for rental scooters
Jack Handlery rides a motorized scooter in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. San Francisco is ordering three companies that rent out m ...
Bitcoin's true believers vow to ride out currency rollercoaster
The bitcoin cryptocurrency has risen and fallen in recent months, testing investors' nerves, but the founder of Bitcoin Center in New Yo ...
Arcades seek to take virtual reality gaming mainstream
Virtual reality has been slow to really take off, partly due to the hefty price of top-end headsets and the challenges in setting up complex ...
Facebook rolling out privacy choices under EU rules
Founder Mark Zuckerberg told congressional panels Facebook intends to offer the same privacy protections embodied in the EU's General Da ...
Quebec wary of bitcoin gold rush
A technician inspects the backside of bitcoin mining at Bitfarms in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec At the site of a former cocoa factory in Canada ...
Glitch means extra day for Americans to file taxes
US tax authorities are giving Americans an extra day to send in their tax returns after the government computer system for filing them elect ...
Starbucks to shut US stores for 'racial-bias education'
Starbucks says it is closing its US stores May 29, 2018 to conduct "racial-bias education" after an incident in a Philadelphia sho ...
Tech firms sign pledge to refrain from helping cyberattacks
The spate of cyberattacks in the past years has prompted major tech firms to sign a pact to work together, and to agree not to help governme ...
New York investigates cryptocurrency trading exchanges
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is taking a close look at platforms that trade cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to increase "t ...
Top US court declares Microsoft email suit moot
The US Supreme Court says a new US law renders moot a court battle over whether Microsoft can withhold from federal investigators email stor ...
How artificial intelligence is reshaping our lives
Netflix's movie recommendations, Amazon's uncanny ability to anticipate your next shopping purchase, and the voice assistant on your ...
Researchers develop algorithm to locate fake users on many social networks
Social network diagram. Credit: Daniel Tenerife/Wikipedia Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and University of Washing ...
Exhibit focuses on homes that adapt and change with us
This November 2017 photo provided by the National Building Museum, shows the demographic data segment of the exhibition "Making Room: H ...
Supreme Court dismisses Microsoft search case
The Supreme Court has dismissed a dispute between the Trump administration and Microsoft over emails the government wanted as part of a drug ...
Tesla shuts down Model 3 assembly again to fix bottlenecks
Shares of Tesla Inc. traded lower Tuesday after reports that the company had shut down production of its Model 3 mass-market electric car ag ...
Former Cambridge Analytica chief ducks fresh grilling
Former Cambridge Analytica chief Alexander Nix appeared in front of Britain's culture, media and sport committee in February but refused ...
Russia blocks some Google Amazon servers after Telegram ban
Credit: Victorgrigas/Wikideia/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Russia's communications watchdog says it is blocking access to some servers owned by tech g ...
T-Mobile to pay $40 million after using fake ring tones on some customer calls
Bellevue, Wash., telecom T-Mobile has been cited by the federal government for using fake ring tones on some customers' calls—sounds tha ...
Facebook paid over $8.8 million for Mark Zuckerberg's security and travel last year
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook salary may only be $1, but don't think that is all the Facebook co-founder receives in benefits from the ...
Are drivers for Amazon Lyft or Uber today's version of factory workers?
About a year ago, 60-year-old Johnny Pollard found himself in need of a job—fast. ...
From insulator to conductor in a flash
The demand for more data capacity has been a constant industry venture and the capacities current hard disks and storage chips have managed to attain are impressive. But, with the physical limitations
New tool serves as digital logbook for drone users
Dharmendra Saraswat led a team that developed the UAS User Log, a web-based application that stores digital flight records for those using u ...
NCSC warns telecom providers ZTE could be security risk
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a warning to the UK telecommunications sector that indicates the use the Chinese state-owned enterprise, ZTE, could lead to security risks.
KAIST develops sodium-ion batteries using copper sulfide
A KAIST research team says it has developed sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) using copper sulfide anode and believes this will contribute to advancing the commercialisation of SIBs and reducing the product
China to lift foreign ownership limits on automakers
China said it will lift restrictions on foreign ownership in the auto sector by 2022 China announced a timeline for lifting ownership limit ...
EU funded collaboration to make perovskite solar cells a market reality
imec has been named the coordinator of a 3-year EU funded project, known as ‘Efficient Structures and Processes for Reliable Perovskite Solar Modules’ (ESPResSo). This gathers known leaders in the fie
As Facebook embraces artificial intelligence tools will it further spook consumers?
Social media companies have embraced artificial intelligence tools to scrub their platforms of hate speech, terrorist propaganda and other c ...
Microsoft turns to former rival to improve internet security
In this Feb. 25, 2018, file photo, Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks during the panel Economic Development at the National Governor Asso ...
Backpage.com co-founder released from jail on a $1M bond
A co-founder of the classified advertising site Backpage.com who has been jailed for the last 10 days on charges of facilitating prostitutio ...
China's Weibo site backtracks on gay censorship after outcry
In this April 15, 2018, photo released by Jiangsu Tongtian Volunteer Group, an LGBT group led more than 100 people in joining a large marath ...
Facebook hit with class action suit over facial recognition tool
Facebook's facial recognition tool, launched in 2010, suggests names for people it identifies in photos uploaded by users A US federal ...
China's ZTE halts share trading following US export ban
ZTE has been banned from purchasing sensitive technology from the US over its illegal sales to Iran and North Korea Chinese telecom giant Z ...
Here's how some tech companies are chipping away at bias against women
Bridget Frey was the only woman on Redfin's engineering team in Seattle when she joined the online real-estate company more than six yea ...
Bay Area still dominates U.S. venture capital industry but cracks may be showing
Despite all the talk of technology companies and workers leaving the Bay Area for cheaper pastures, Silicon Valley looks strong as ever—for ...
Would you pay for an ad-free Facebook?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. ...
Facebook's Zuckerberg got grilled but nothing's really changed
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg made a big splash testifying to Congress this week about the social network privacy scandal, but in the ...
Reddit CEO says racism allowed but not 'welcome' on the site
Reddit has a history of allowing its users to say just about anything. On Wednesday, its CEO said racist language is just fine—officially gi ...
Should Mark Zuckerberg be Facebook's chairman and CEO? Some investors say no
Mark Zuckerberg's tight grip on Facebook is under growing scrutiny as investors call for the giant social network to name an independent ...
Two robots are better than one for NIST's 5G antenna measurement research
NIST's new Large Antenna Positioning System (LAPS) uses two robotic arms to measure and test antennas for applications such as advanced ...
Motivation for using fake Instagram (Finsta) is not to reveal inappropriate self
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As Instagram is viewed as a place for building the ideal self, some users have created fake Instagram (Finsta) ac ...
General aviation pilots struggle to interpret weather forecast and observation displays
In the April 2018 edition of the International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, Embry-Riddle's Elizabeth Blickensderfer, a professor in ...
Team develops face recognition technology that works in the dark
A conceptual illustration for thermal-to-visible synthesis for interoperability with existing visible-based facial recognition systems. Cred ...
Toyota to start deploying vehicle-to-vehicle tech in 2021
This Feb. 15, 2018, file photo shows the Toyota logo on the trunk of a 2018 Toyota Prius on display at the Pittsburgh Auto Show. Toyota says ...
Web's inventor discusses digital monopolies privacy threats
This undated photo provided by the World Wide Web Foundation shows Tim Berners-Lee. When the web turned 29 years old last month, Berners-Lee ...
Netflix is proving to be a tough act for copycats to follow
In this Nov. 4, 2017, file photo, the logo of American entertainment company Netflix is pictured at the Paris games week in Paris. Netflix, ...
How machine learning helped develop a new algorithm that could add life to bridges
A new algorithm developed by the University of Surrey could help structural engineers better monitor the health of bridges and alert them to ...
Rambus launches CryptoManager RISC-V Root of Trust programmable core
Rambus is making available the CryptoManager Root of Trust, a fully programmable hardware security core built with a custom RISC-V CPU.
Scientists could have discovered how to stop cyber intrusions
Researchers at the University of California have found a proverbial 'smoking gun' signature of the long sought-after Majorana particle and they say their discovery could block intruders on sen
Can FraudBuster help insurers use big data to combat fraud?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers FraudBuster is a new data-driven approach designed to help insurers in high fraud rate markets, ...
How to profit from biowaste
2018-04-16 08:00:37How to profit from biowaste
Moritz Gold showing how the Black Soldier fly grows from eggs to larvae. Credit: ETH Zurich / Marianne Lucien ETH Zurich and Eawag research ...
New robot for skull base surgery is very accurate alleviates surgeon's workload
The robot of Jordan Bos with a phantom piece of skull base. The rest of the skull is added virtually to show where the piece is located in t ...
Russian begins blocking messaging app Telegram
Activists bring a sack with about 2,000 paper airplanes symbolising the logo of the messaging app Telegram to the door of St. Petersburg' ...
Lufthansa'a Alitalia bid the 'most promising': Minister
An Italian minister called Lufthansa's bid for Alitalia the "most promising" of the three on the table Lufthansa emerged as t ...
Singapore proposes allowing Airbnb-type rentals with tough conditions
Singapore recently fined two people more than $45,000 each for letting their private apartments on Airbnb Singapore on Monday proposed allo ...
Pulsed corona discharge removes pharmaceutical residues from wastewater
A doctoral dissertation by a candidate at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) examines the removal of harmful organic substances suc ...
Record breaking fiber transmission speed reported
Fig.1: Schematic diagram of the transmission system. Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology NICT Network S ...
Farming drone imagery often inaccurate
Farmers have been warned to be cautious of using drones for farm management. Credit: University of Queensland Farmers should be cautious of ...
Fleets of compact e-vehicles could help battle air pollution
Quiet, narrow and low-emission electric vehicles could be used in conjunction with public transport in cities to ease congestion and polluti ...
Liquid-in-liquid 3D printed structures
Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to 3D print structures composed entirely of liquids. They envision their all-liq
Taking the human out of manufacturing
The Chomerics Division of the Parker Hannifin Corporation Engineered Materials Group, which specialises in the development and application of electrically conductive and thermal interface materials, h
Smart printing: power generating films and luminescent glass
A team says it has discovered new inks for inkjet printers that allow organic displays and solar cells on film and glass to be printed.
Ad giant WPP faces brief stock slump after CEO resigns
Martin Sorrell's departure from WPP has been described as one of the most significant ‎exits of a FTSE 100 company chief executive for m ...
Despite job cuts GM won't abandon small car market
Last year in the United States General Motors sold 150,000 Chevy Cruze cars, shown here, all produced at Lordstown, Ohio General Motors con ...
Japan 'rare earth' haul sparks hopes of cutting China reliance
Rare earths are used in the production of a wide variety of high-tech items including mobile phone displays The discovery of potentially mi ...
Spain's ACS lands contract for Toronto light rail line
The new light rail line in Toronto is expected to start running in the second half of 2023, Spanish construction giant ACS said Spanish con ...