The Wall Street Journal reported the FTC is probing whether, by the data transfer to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook violated terms of a decre ...

In this June 7, 2013, file photo, the Facebook "like" symbol is on display on a sign outside the company's headquarters in Men ...

This Jan. 17, 2017, file photo shows a Facebook logo being displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F, in Paris. A ...

Google, whose recently acquired New York building is seen here, unveiled a $300 million initiative to help news organizations and stem the f ...

Facebook's shares fell sharply after the data breach revelations Cambridge Analytica, the British firm at the centre of a major scandal ...

Airbus has been weakened recently by major corruption investigations in Britain and France, as well as Germany and Austria, that have cast a ...

Videogames publisher Ubisoft now has China's Tencent, operator of the WeChat messaging platform, as a strategic partner. Chinese intern ...

European lawmakers demanded answers from Facebook on Tuesday over a major data breach, as Britain's information watchdog sought a warran ...

Chief Executive of Cambridge Analytica (CA) Alexander Nix, leaves the offices in central London, Tuesday March 20, 2018. Cambridge Analytica ...

A vehicle goes by the scene of Sunday's fatality where a pedestrian was stuck by an Uber vehicle in autonomous mode, in Tempe, Ariz., Mo ...

This Feb. 12, 2015 file photo shows signage for travel booking site Orbitz outside the building that houses its headquarters, in Chicago. Or ...

Do you prefer organic food? Did you study in Mexico? Do you like red shoes? Such bits of information about Facebook users may seem insignifi ...

EU approval of the $66 billion buyout of US agri-giant Monsanto by German chemical firm Bayer will come on Wednesday, sources say. The EU i ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen in 2013 explaining his mission "to make the world more open and connected" First it was &quo ...

People walk through the Chelsea Market building in New York City, which was bought by Google for $2.4 billion Google on Tuesday bought up N ...

Foxconn Technology Group has selected some key companies to begin building its massive flat screen manufacturing complex in Racine County, t ...

Silicon Valley's tech giants are famously secretive—after all their proprietary products and services are worth billions—but a new repor ...

Both physical and touch buttons provide clear tactile signals from the impact of the tip with the button floor. However, with the physical b ...

An Egyptian court has ordered authorities to revoke the operating licenses of the Uber and Careem ride-hailing services and to block their m ...

This Feb. 12, 2015 file photo shows signage for travel booking site Orbitz outside the building that houses its headquarters, in Chicago. Or ...

A British parliamentary committee on Tuesday summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer questions on fake news as authorities step up e ...

A research team has combined two ultra-thin layers of hexagonal boron nitride and graphene, which it said holds possibilities for quantum electronics.

Four leading supplier of power solutions, Artesyn Embedded Technologies, Bel Power Solutions, Flex, and STMicroelectronics have announced a new industry alliance.

There are around 25 million baptised Anglicans in England and Wales The Church of England rolled out contactless payment terminals in its c ...

Britain's information commissioner says she is using all her legal powers to investigate Facebook and political campaign consultants Cam ...

IAEA experts, charged with reviewing Japan’s plans for the Fukushima nuclear facility, leave Unit 4 in 2013. Credit: IAEA/Flickr, CC BY On ...

The VW affair has cast suspicion on the whole auto sector and tarnished diesel motors' image across Europe German authorities said Thur ...

A British parliamentary committee on Tuesday asked Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg to appear before it to explain in person claims that milli ...

The Nordic climate may be ideal for solar cells. Strong sunshine, cold weather and reflective snow make a good combination. Just as long as ...

Autonomous vehicles are information-rich platforms thanks to the range of sensors on board that track, monitor and measure everything. Credi ...

Britain's information commissioner says she is using all her legal powers to investigate the handling of millions of people's person ...

Telegram has been fighting a legal battle to keep the Russian security service FSB from being able to read users' messages Russia's ...

China has announced it is building the world's fastest wind tunnel to develop a new generation of super-fast airplanes, but it could als ...

Credit: Imperial College London Well-connected smart devices at home and in healthcare are currently vulnerable to hacking, warn two new re ...

Visions of the future: the video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution highlights the emergence of physiological augmentation. Credit: Square Enix ...

Credit: Georgia State University Last september, the ACLU filed an amicus brief in a California case that brings to a head a controversy ov ...

Future Facilities has launched Release 12 of its thermal simulation software, 6SigmaET. The latest release incorporates a number of significant modelling enhancements that the company says will help t

If you're a die-hard fan of a Facebook video creator, the social network may soon give you a way to pay for exclusive content and award ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain We all agree there's too much disinformation on the Web. ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Can Facebook be trusted with your personal information? ...

The millions of merchants who sell products on Amazon.com Inc. have long craved more leverage over their powerful benefactor. Now some are c ...

Professor Gabor Laurenczy (EPFL) posing with the HYFORM-PEMC and models of ants, which represent the production of formic acid. Credit: Alai ...

Google is paying tribute Friday to "the father of modern philanthropy." ...

Facebook search was not safe for work or home on Thursday night. ...

UPS said it has developed a charging technology that will overcome the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles (EVs), without the need for the expensive upgrade to

It seems the "Next New World" may not be coming to Tahiti after all—the government of French Polynesia has thrown a wrench into pl ...

Facebook's chief of security Alex Stamos is said to be leaving the social network after internal clashes over how to respond to Russian ...

Aramco is contemplating listing on a domestic stock exchange said reports on March 19, 2018 Saudi Arabia plans to sell shares of Saudi Aram ...

Cambridge Analytica's chief executive officer Alexander Nix gives an interview during the Web Summit in Lisbon on November 9, 2017 The ...

A vehicle goes by the scene of Sunday's fatality where a pedestrian was stuck by an Uber vehicle in autonomous mode, in Tempe, Ariz., Mo ...

The US Air Force will this summer begin testing a laser that will be mounted on an F-15 warplane, an official said Monday. ...

RadPiper is a robot developed by the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute for the Department of Energy. The treaded robot moves wit ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being asked on both sides of the Atlantic to explain the social media giant's response to the leak of da ...

This Jan. 17, 2017, file photo shows a Facebook logo being displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F, in Paris. A ...

This March 19, 2018 still image taken from video provided by ABC-15, shows investigators at the scene of a fatal accident involving a self d ...

Facebook is conducting a forensic analysis of the leak that allowed a political research firm aligned with Donald Trump to gain access to da ...

Volkswagen plans to ramp up prodcution of its Atlas SUV for the US market with a major new investment in its Chattanooga plant Volkswagen w ...

This March 19, 2018 still image taken from video provided by ABC-15, shows investigators at the scene of a fatal accident involving a self d ...

According to reports, Cambridge Analytica stole information from 50 million Facebook users' profiles to help design software to predict ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being asked on both sides of the Atlantic to explain the social media giant's response to the leak of da ...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has been trying to acquire both online and offline assets to further bolster its business Chinese e-commer ...

Built Robotics CEO Noah Ready-Campbell poses for a picture in front of the company's autonomous track loader Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, i ...

Fig. 1 Piezoelectric PLLA braided cord sensor. Credit: Kansai University Yoshiro Tajitsu of Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, and Teijin Lim ...

Credit: Boston University Are we bumping up against the "Robocalypse," when automation sweeps industry and replaces human workers ...

Victor Peng, the newly appointed president and CEO of Xilinx, has outlined his vision and strategy for the company.

Tech companies can use differential privacy to collect and share aggregate data about user habits, while maintaining individual privacy. Cre ...

Electronics design consultancy ByteSnap Design and a consortium of partners have been awarded a two-year collaborative project VIGIL (Vehicle-to-Grid Intelligent Control) under a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G)

Xilinx has announced, what it describes as, a new breakthrough product category called Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) that provides capabilities significantly beyond that of an FPGA.

The explosion of online advertising is raising serious data privacy concerns. Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute The online advertising busi ...

In this Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, file photo, a shopper walks past others in a line waiting to get inside an Amazon Go store in Seattle. A key ...

Rambus has announced a collaboration with IBM to research hybrid memory systems.

Gatwick Airport, which operates 300 airside vehicles, has announced a trial of electric-powered autonomous vehicles that will see workers shuttled between popular locations on the airfield when it sta

London's benchmark FTSE 100 index was down 1.25 percent The share price of British software maker Micro Focus collapsed Monday by more ...

SMD capacitors/SMD resistors have increased prices in the full range. 2018 is destined to be an extraordinary year. In these few days, major electronic component manufacturers and distributors are adjusting the price of SMD capacitors/SMD resistors. Rising, and both have issued price adjustment notices!

Eugene Delacroix's famous painting, "Liberty Leading the People", was temporarily banned on Facebook because it depicts a bare ...

Airbags contain a chemical propellant which can inflate a bag within 0.0005 seconds The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration h ...

A British lawmaker accused Facebook on Sunday of misleading officials by downplaying the risk of users' data being shared without their ...

India is predicted to overtake Britain as the world's third-largest air travel market by 2025 and will have 478 million fliers ...

Clothing retailers like Zara are looking to turn their network of stores into an asset instead of a liability as they try to deal with inter ...

This March 6, 2014 file photo shows the idled Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository, near ...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pointed to the increasingly trans-national nature of terrorism Use of encrypted messaging apps t ...

Paul Jacobs, who served as CEO at Qualcomm for nearly a decade and was chairman until a week ago, is seeking to launch a takeover of the wor ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Michigan auditors who conducted a fake "phishing" attack on 5,000 randomly selected state employees sai ...

Drake—shown here performing at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas in 2016—is making waves in the world of streaming video game ...

A federal appeals court rolled back rules intended to deter irritating telemarketing robocalls, saying they were too broad. ...

The EU wants to change how it tax US tech titans to ensure all countries get a fair share. European Union plans for a digital tax on US tec ...

The 2018 WPPI trade show, for veteran or beginning wedding and portrait photographers, was held recently in Las Vegas. As usual the trade sh ...

Facebook, which has doubled the size of its workforce in Seattle in two years, has started moving into the second of four buildings the soci ...

Need someone to care for your lawn? There's an app for that. ...

The monocrystalline Si thin film peeled off using adhesive tape. Credit: CrystEngComm A research team from Tokyo Institute of Technology (T ...

Tapered contact opening fabricated by new two-step plasma etching process. Credit: IEEE Making increasingly smaller microelectromechanical ...

Jakarta’s traffic system is one of many facets of the city that could be improved by smart cities technologies, but at what cost? Credit: Va ...

In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, the AT&T logo is positioned above one of its retail stores in New York. On Monday, March 19, 2018, AT ...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Washington "firmly" opposes any new tax plan that singles out large technology companies T ...

The European Union will next week unveil plans for a digital tax on US tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google as transatlantic tension ...

Eeek! Akoto's pupils had never seen a computer before and had no idea that a mouse could be anything other than an animal until he drew ...

Lithium-metal batteries can hold up to 10 times more charge than lithium-ion batteries but haven’t been commercialised because of a fatal flaw: as they charge and discharge, lithium is deposited uneve

At South by Southwest, as entrepreneurs and celebrities mingle to discuss the future of tech, a lot of the hype focuses on attention-grabbin ...

A French court dismissed all of teacher Frederic Durand's claims A French court on Thursday dismissed a case brought by a French teache ...

Self-driving cars. Internet-connected homes. Smart cities. Innovations like these are expected to reshape the technology industry and societ ...