Atlanta airport takes precautions after cyberattack on city
A spokesman says Atlanta's airport has taken down its Wi-Fi network and disabled parts of its website "out of an abundance of cauti ...
Cambridge Analytica—the data analytics industry is already in full swing
Credit: Shutterstock Revelations about Cambridge Analytica have laid bare the seeming lack of control that we have over our own data. Sudde ...
The efficiency of nature-inspired metaheuristics in limited-budget expensive global optimization
Global optimization problems in which evaluation of the objective function is an expensive operation arise frequently in engineering, machin ...
Amazon Echo vs Google Home vs Apple HomePod: Which is right for you?
You've no doubt heard the buzz about smart speakers. Why else would you be reading this article? A few years ago, if you wanted a smart ...
Digi-Key’s product distribution centre expansion generates more jobs
Construction of the new Digi-Key Electronics facility in Thief River Falls will begin next month, which will offer an extra 2.2million sq ft of usable space to the existing Thief River Falls facilitie
Apple is about to become the biggest R&D spender in the world
Critics of Apple used to point to its $250 billion-plus mountain of cash, much of it held overseas, and its relatively puny research and dev ...
Facebook needed third-party apps to grow. Now it's left with a privacy crisis
Facebook had only 20 million users when it opened up its budding platform to outside app developers in 2007, giving them much-needed access ...
How listening to random sound can unlock a trapped mind
David Tobin took to the stage at a recent technology conference in downtown Los Angeles, asked the 500 attendees to close their eyes, and tu ...
Firefox maker Mozilla to stop Facebook advertising because of data scandal
Mozilla, the makers of the popular Firefox web browser, said it will stop advertising on Facebook following a data scandal impacting tens of ...
What Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg didn't say (and what it took him hours to)
Mark Zuckerberg apologized—but you had to wait for it. Hours af ...
Apple's new flagship Chicago store is for sale and could fetch $170 million or more
Apple's new flagship store on Michigan Avenue is going up for sale and could fetch at least $170 million. ...
Africa's young professionals embracing 'gospel of bitcoin'
In a sleek new high-rise in Uganda's capital, an enthusiastic lecturer described his financial success with the cryptocurrency bitcoin w ...
Worldwide IoT security spending to reach $1.5bn says Gartner
A survey by Gartner has revealed that almost 20% of organisations observed at least one IoT-based attack in the past 3 years.
Possible battery alternative to offer a very high energy storage solution
A possible alternative battery has come to light following a collaboration between Rolls-Royce and Superdielectrics, a material research company associated with Universities of Surrey and Bristol.
South Africa's Naspers cashes in $10bn Tencent stake
South African internet and entertainment group Naspers raised $9.8 billion selling two percent of its hugely-profitable stake in Chinese tec ...
Facebook's widening crisis over user data
This Jan. 17, 2017, file photo shows a Facebook logo being displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F, in Paris. Fa ...
Uber Self-Driving Crash Calls Safety Rules Into Question
This image made from video Sunday, March 18, 2018, of a mounted camera provided by the Tempe Police Department shows an interior view moment ...
Zuckerberg's shine dims as guardian of Facebook users
The latest crisis laying siege to Facebook has raised the specter that Mark Zuckerberg has lost control of his creation and been naive about ...
Mahathir raises 'remote takeover' theory in MH370 mystery
A new search undertaken by private firm Ocean Infinity is currently under way in the southern Indian Ocean Malaysia's veteran ex-leader ...
Hackers demanding bitcoin ransom attack Atlanta city computers
Hackers demanding ransom payable in bitcoin have attacked computers of the Atlanta city government in the southern US state of Georgia, offi ...
Nissan not changing autonomous drive tests over Uber crash
Nissan's chief planning officer said Friday the Japanese automaker does not plan to change its road tests for self-driving vehicles afte ...
Japan firms face charges over alleged maglev bid-rigging
The maglev will whisk people around Japan at twice the speed of the bullet train Japanese authorities on Friday pressed criminal charges ag ...
Fed up with Facebook? Here's how to break it off
This screenshot taken Wednesday, March 21, 2018, in New York, shows a recently deleted Facebook profile page. Before deleting your account, ...
Google honors geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi
Google is using its logo Thursday to honor a pioneer in geochemistry. ...
'OK Google send cash to my friend': Google Assistant lets you use voice to pay back IOUs
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Google Assistant can now help you pay back the money you owe a friend. Google announced that starting today y ...
Telecom Italia board hangs up dials battle for control
Telecom Italia said that eight directors had announced their resignation, which it says under the company's bylaws means that the entire ...
AT&T will use Time Warner as 'weapon' if merger goes ahead: US Justice Dept
AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson is fighting a Justice Department bid to block the telecom giant's merger with Time Warner ...
NIST facilitates first-ever spectrum sharing between military and public wireless users
NIST simulation showing wireless users of shared radiofrequency (RF) spectrum in the Boston to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, region. Colored mark ...
Earwigs and the art of origami
The wing of the earwig is an ingenious origami. Credit: Jakob Faber / ETH Zurich ETH Zurich researchers have developed multifunctional orig ...
Can Zuckerberg's media blitz take the pressure off Facebook?
In this June 21, 2017, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during preparation for the Facebook Communities Summit, in Chicago. Z ...
Experts: Uber SUV's autonomous system should have seen woman
This image made from video Sunday, March 18, 2018, of a mounted camera provided by the Tempe Police Department shows an exterior view moment ...
Robotic collaboration in timber construction
At Spatial Timber Assemblies, man and machine work together in both the planning and the manufacturing process. Credit: NFS Digital Fabricat ...
Worried about being on Facebook? Some options explained
Some experts and consumer rights groups say that users should help shift the balance of power between the social network giant and individua ...
Ford Mahindra partner on small electric vehicle some SUVs
Ford and Mahindra Group are teaming up to develop a small electric vehicle and some new SUVs. ...
Students given chance to design electronics and win £5000 of kit
A competition has been launched that challenges students to create innovative ideas using £5,000 of products from Farnell element14 to create an IoT-based product.
Combining cutting-edge materials for more efficient sensitive gaseous sensors
This sensor can detect methane at much lower concentrations than current ones. It relies on nanotechnology developed at the Center for Nanos ...
IBM demonstrates new breakthrough in AI performance
Credit: IBM IBM has demonstrated a new breakthrough in AI performance. By using machine learning on POWER9 with NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs, IBM ...
Who or what is to blame for the misuse of data technology or those who control it?
Following Mark Zuckerberg's apology for millions of Facebook users having their data exploited, Cybersecurity expert, Dr. Daniel Dresner ...
Opinion: It's time to claim ownership of our digital lives
It is about time users claimed ownership of their data, take back their digital authority, and renegotiate the conditions of their digital c ...
Researchers find leaky apps that put privacy at risk
Credit: Northeastern University A bug in Facebook's advertising platform made it possible for potential hackers to uncover users' p ...
Israeli firm says it can turn garbage into plastic gold
In this Tuesday, March 13, 2018 photo, a worker holds bio-based thermoplastic composite made from substantially unsorted municipal solid was ...
New robotic arm that could service satellites or pick apples developed
An innovative new type of robotic arm that could be useful in outer space or in the orchards has been developed by Ben-Gurion University of ...
How energy storage is starting to rewire the electricity industry
Grid-scale energy storage systems may make it easier to rely completely on renewable energy. Credit: petrmalinak/Shutterstock.com The marke ...
US facing off against AT&T to block merger with Time Warner
In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, the AT&T logo is positioned above one of its retail stores in New York. Opening arguments in the fede ...
Blockbuster antitrust trial over AT&T Time Warner merger begins
AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson is fighting a Justice Department bid to block the telecom giant's merger with Time Warner ...
Electric textile lights a lamp when stretched
Anja Lund with a piece of the electric textile in the shoulder strap of a bag (the lighter-coloured part). To the right: a LED that flashes ...
Switching gears toward efficient datacenters with photonics
Due to the exponential growth in data handling datacenters such as this one become bigger in size and more energy consuming. Credit: iStockp ...
The existential case for ditching Alexa and other AI
Credit: Robert Couse-Baker/Flickr, CC BY-SA Alexa's creepy laugh is far from the most worrying thing about her. This is despite the fac ...
Piezo fabric powers up
2018-03-22 06:00:21Piezo fabric powers up
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a fabric that converts kinetic energy into electric power. According to the team, which is working with the Swedish School of Textiles a
Britain says Facebook must go further in data scandal
Britain's culture minister says Mark Zuckerberg's plans to fix problems at his social media company aren't going 'far enough ...
True lithium-air battery produced
A lithium-air battery that works in a natural-air environment, while still being able to function after a record-breaking 750 charge/discharge cycles has been designed by a team from the University of
Next-gen optical disk to solve data storage challenge
Using gold nanomaterials combined with a hybrid glass material, scientists from from RMIT University and the Wuhan Institute of Technology say they have demonstrated a new type of high-capacity optica
US firms face tough legal battles in China IP theft
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates meets Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing last year. Li has pledged China will "strictly protect" intell ...
Physicists reveal material for high-speed quantum internet
As the race for quantum computing continues, so does the development into quantum technologies targeted to neturalise the threat of hacking.
Facebook Google warn Singapore against 'fake news' law
Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter appeared before a Singapore committee as the country examines options to rein in fake news Int ...
Army's brain-like computers moving closer to cracking codes
The figure shows the resulting neural network to solve a small problem instance (encryption key to break). The circles represent neurons, bl ...
Deadly crash raises questions about Uber self-driving system
This image made from video Sunday, March 18, 2018, of a mounted camera provided by the Tempe Police Department shows an exterior view moment ...
EU: new rules will make data breaches 'very expensive' for firms
Vera Jourova, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, said she is waiting "impatiently" for answers about the ...
Toyota suspends self-driving car tests after Uber death
Japanese automaker Toyota says it is suspending tests of its self-driving cars so staff could "emotionally process" after an auton ...
YouTube follows Amazon into movie theaters
Oscar winner Susan Sarandon—shown here at the premiere of 'Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story' during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival i ...
Commonwealth Games abandons data mining after Facebook scandal
Visitors at the Commonwealth Games in Australia could have their Facebook data mined in exchange for free and fast wifi, although authoritie ...
Facebook's Zuckerberg admits mistakes—but no apology (Update)
Chief Executive of Cambridge Analytica (CA) Alexander Nix, leaves the offices in central London, Tuesday March 20, 2018. Cambridge Analytica ...
New artificial intelligence technique dramatically improves the quality of medical imaging
A new artificial-intelligence-based approach to image reconstruction -- called AUTOMAP -- yields higher quality images from less data, reduc ...
Uber co-founder Kalanick shifts gears to real estate startup
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will head a new startup which aims to convert urban parking lots and other spaces to new uses Uber co-found ...
Washington state's electric vehicle sales tax break to end
In this Feb. 4, 2015, file photo, Tesla product specialist Kat Brand explains the control panel on the electric car at a dealership for the ...
Crisis experts say Facebook has mishandled the data scandal (Update)
In this Aug. 6, 2015, file photo, FaceBook elections signs stand in the media area in Cleveland, Thursday, before the first Republican presi ...
New Mexico regulators OK massive wind farms near Texas
New Mexico regulators on Wednesday approved a $1.6 billion plan that calls for building two massive wind farms along the Texas-New Mexico bo ...
Online tech is changing the dynamics of gift-giving
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Online gift-giving is spreading in social networks and causing people to give more gifts - online and in person - ...
Facebook's Zuckerberg admits mistakes outlines fixes
Chief Executive of Cambridge Analytica (CA) Alexander Nix, leaves the offices in central London, Tuesday March 20, 2018. Cambridge Analytica ...
Amazon workers in Spain deliver first strike
Packages stored at Amazon's Spanish logistics center in San Fernando de Henares, near Madrid, ahead of the Christmas shopping rush in 20 ...
China to become top patent filer within three years: UN
Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, which demonstrated its Mate 10 Pro smartphone driving a Porsche Panamera car at a technology fair la ...
Nordea 'pulls brake' on Facebook investments after data row
Nordea bank unliked (at least temporarily) shares in Facebook, telling its investment funds to stop buying stock in the social media giant o ...
Dropbox raises price range ahead of stock debut
Despite a rough week for tech shares, Dropbox cloud data storage service is expecting strong demand for its initial stock sale, boosting its ...
Key figures in Cambridge Analytica scandal
The Cambridge Analytica offices are in central London The university academic, the chief executive who boasted about dirty tricks and US po ...
'Fat finger' sends Formosa Petrochemical shares plunging in Taiwan
'Fat fingers' may have been to blame for a slump in a major share on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Taiwan's third largest stock tum ...
Psychometrics: How Facebook data helped Trump find his voters
Using Facebook, scientists built a massive psychological profiling database that helped carry Donald Trump to victory in the 2016 presidenti ...
Tesla stockholders approve Elon Musk compensation
In this Feb. 6, 2018, file photo, Elon Musk, founder, CEO of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla Inc., speaks at a news conference after the Falcon 9 Sp ...
Opening arguments in AT&T antitrust trial postponed
In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, the AT&T logo is positioned above one of its retail stores in New York. Opening arguments in the fede ...
Porsche workers snap up bonuses of nearly 10000 euros
Workers at German sportscars maker Porsche are pocketing bonuses of up to nearly 10,000 euros. German luxury carmaker Porsche on Wednesday ...
Academic says he's being scapegoated in Facebook data case (Update)
Facebook has expressed outrage over the misuse of its data as Cambridge Analytica, the British firm at the centre of a major scandal rocking ...
Leaving fossils behind for the future of transport
Credit: University of Bath One of the key challenges we face as a species in the 21st century is how to co-exist with nature in a sustainab ...
Cambridge Analytica scandal—legitimate researchers using Facebook data could be collateral damage
The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica's alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a ...
Indonesia's electricity subsidy reforms led to improved efficiency
Would you be less likely to save electricity if you faced a subsidised price? Credit: www.shutterstock.com Indonesia has been home to some ...
Facebook is killing democracy with its personality profiling data
Credit: leolintang/Shutterstock.com What state should you move to based on your personality? What character on "Downton Abbey" wo ...
#DeleteFacebook movement gains prominent backer
Quitting Facebook is not always easy because of the way the social network is intertwined into the fabric of the internet As Facebook reels ...
Computational photography could solve a problem that bedevils self-driving cars
A system that is said to be capable of producing images of objects in fog so dense that human vision could penetrate only 36 centimeters, has been developed by MIT.
Psychographics—the behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters' minds
Making connections through tracking behaviour. Credit: GarryKillian/Shutterstock The dealings that have been revealed between Cambridge Ana ...
Panasonic honours its founder’s achievement and shares vision for the next hundred years
Panasonic Corporation is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, having started in a tiny two-room flat in a Japanese village on March 7, 1918 by Konosuke Matsushita.
Fabrication process of nano-structures for electronic devices improved
Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) claim to have found a more efficient fabricating process to produce semiconductors. RIT also confirmed that materials other than silicon can
NASA marshall advances 3-D printed rocket engine nozzle technology
Through hot-fire testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, engineers put this nozzle through its paces, accumulating more than 1,0 ...
Power industry leaders create alliance for 48v direct-conversion applications
An association known as the Power Stamp Alliance (PSA) has been formed by four suppliers to create collaborative solutions for 48V-to-low-voltage on-board DC-DC power converters. 
Artificial and biological cells work together as mini chemical factories
Researchers from Imperial College London claim to have fused living and non-living cells for the first time in a way that allows them to work together. It believes this discovery could pave the way fo
Depth-sensing imaging system can peer through fog
The MIT system was able to resolve images of objects and gauge their depth at a range of 57 centimeters. Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT MIT res ...
Facebook fined in South Korea for limiting user access
Credit: CC0 Public Domain South Korea's telecoms regulator has fined Facebook for illegally limiting user access to its services from l ...
App developer says he is scapegoat in Facebook data row
Facebook has expressed outrage over the misuse of its data as Cambridge Analytica, the British firm at the centre of a major scandal rocking ...
IAR Systems acquires Secure Thingz
According to ABI, by 2022, the total market for secure microcontrollers for IoT could reach $1.2bn, while secure IoT products are predicted to represent almost 20% of new IoT units.
NI technology helps Subaru reduce EV test development times by 90%
National Instruments (NI) has said its hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) technology has been used by automotive manufacturers like Subaru to simulate actual road conditions for electric vehicle (EV) testing,
Filling lithium-ion cells faster
Battery manufacturers often wait several hours to ensure the liquid is fully absorbed into the pores of the electrode stack. In the light of ...
AMD says patches on the way for flawed chips
AMD expressed confidence that chip vulnerabilities made public last week by Israeli-based security firm CTS Labs could be fixed with firmwar ...
EU to unveil digital tax targeting Facebook Google
EU proposals for a digital tax follow major anti-trust decisions by the EU that have cost Apple and Google billions and also caught out Amaz ...