Printing the 'soft' robots of the future
Three-dimensional printing offers unique advantages, but still faces many challenges, for fabricating small, flexible robots that can naviga ...
Dropbox IPO aiming to raise $748 mn
Drew Houston, founder and chief executive officer of Dropbox, which aims to raise nearly $750 million through an initial public offering Cl ...
German automakers biggest spenders on electric cars: study
A 2018 BMW i3s electric car at the auto trade show AutoMobility LA in November 2017 Germany's massive car industry is the biggest inves ...
GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Sanjay Jha to pass baton to industry veteran Tom Caulfield
After more than 4 years as chief executive officer of GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF), Sanjay Jha is passing the baton to Dr. Thomas Caulfield, senior vice president and general manager.
French auto giant to set up assembly plant in Namibia
PSA also has investment projects in Algeria, Ethiopia and Iran French car giant PSA announced Monday it would start assembling Peugeot and ...
Sue thy neighbour—study reveals the dark side of the digital universe
Credit: University of Technology, Sydney Private individuals rather than public figures have emerged as the primary source of defamation in ...
Mastering the future power grid
How to optimally control a highly complex and constantly changing network of smart electric devices? Credit: Krunja / Dreamstime.com The el ...
Technology and regulation must work in concert to combat hate speech online
Credit: shutterstock Online bullying, hate and incitement are on the rise, and new approaches are needed to tackle them. As the Australian ...
As Broadcom looks to allay security fears what is Intel planning?
Broadcom has said that it will not sell critical national security assets to foreign buyers if its bid for the US chipmaker Qualcomm is approved. The move comes as the Singapore-based firm looks to al
Tokyo Tech's six-legged robots get closer to nature
Views of the Circuit Board Implementing the Controller and of the Robot. (Reproduced with permission from published article). Credit: IEEE A ...
Flat gallium joins roster of new 2-D materials
Scientists at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, have discovered a method to make atomically flat gallium that shows promise for nanoscale electronics.
VWs using more diesel failing pollution tests after recalls: study
VW admitted in 2015 to equipping about 11 million cars worldwide with defect devices Volkswagen vehicles recalled and fixed after the world ...
Texas guv confirms Amazon visit to Austin Dallas
Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed on Thursday that Amazon HQ2 scouts have been to Austin and Dallas as he accepted an annual award that recognizes ...
Google Facebook come down on the side of elephants rhinos tigers
A week after the United States quietly lifted a ban on imports of sport-hunted elephants' ivory and lion parts from certain African coun ...
Putting people at the heart of big data
Big data could not only benefit large companies, but also provide knowledge about a society’s health, for example. Credit: Pxhere/876718, li ...
'Citizen scientists' track radiation seven years after Fukushima
Japanese priest Sadamaru Okano is one of the 'citizen scientists' collecting radiation readings in the Fukushima region Beneath the ...
German energy giant EON to buy RWE subsidiary Innogy
The dea is part of a huge restructuring of Germany's energy market as Europe's top economy switches from conventional to renewable p ...
Waymo self-driving rigs to haul Google cargo
Waymo CEO John Krafcik, whose firm is competing with rival Uber in development of self-driving vehicles Google-owned Waymo on Friday said t ...
DeepMind boss admits 'risks' of AI
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence offers huge scientific benefits but also brings risks depending on how it is used, Demis ...
Facebook moves ahead on music with last major label deal
Facebook's two billion users worldwide will soon be able to post in more creative ways with the vast catalog of songs from Warner Music ...
Jack Dorsey pledges Twitter will improve blue check mark verification system
A better version of the verification system is coming soon to Twitter, according to CEO Jack Dorsey. ...
Bill addresses Facebook Google 'duopoly' over online ad revenue
The news industry, which has been pushing for the right to bargain collectively against tech giants that are eating up ad revenue, is cheeri ...
Report says radioactive monitors failed at nuclear plant
A new report says mistakes and mismanagement are to blame for the exposure of workers to radioactive particles at the Hanford Nuclear Reserv ...
California bullet train costs soar to $77B; opening delayed
The projected cost of California's bullet train between San Francisco and Los Angeles has jumped to $77 billion and the opening date has ...
Facebook to stream 25 MLB games in exclusive deal
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook is getting deeper into the professiona ...
Google's autonomous vehicle unit to test semis in Atlanta
In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo a skylight is reflected in the rear window of a Waymo driverless car during a Google event in San Francisc ...
To stop fake news researchers call for internet platforms to choose quality over quantity
Credit: Northeastern University "Fake news" has made headlines and dominated social media chatter since the 2016 presidential ele ...
NHL takes esports on ice with gaming tournament
Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby (87) celebrates his winning goal in overtime of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders in ...
Molex investment targets high speed optical interconnect
A strategic investment and collaboration between Molex Optical Solutions Group (OSG) and Elenion Technologies will jointly develop, manufacture and promote silicon photonic-based product solutions. Ta
Study shows electrically charging planes have reduced risk of being struck by lightning
Lightning laboratory test on model aircraft. Credit: Joan Montanya/Polytechnic University of Catalonia Aviation experts estimate that every ...
Short term Euro research future clarified but questions remain
One of the worries expressed by UK researchers since the decision to leave the European Union was whether they would still be able to participate in programmes such as Horizon 2020. These worries were
A wireless patch for monitoring emergency-room patients
A small, wireless patch developed by EPFL spin-off Smartcardia can measure emergency-room patients' vital signs with the same reliabilit ...
Super ‘superlattices’ could enable ‘superfast’ transistors
Research led by UCLA has developed a method to make new kinds of artificial superlattices – also known as 2D materials. The team says that, while current superlattices feature alternating layers with
Low temperature approach creates new germanium-tin combinations
Previously unattainable mixtures of germanium and desired dopant atoms can now be created, according to a team from TU Wien, which adds its process could result in new materials with significantly alt
Trump discusses violence with video game execs and critics
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Pr ...
Ex-Tennessee governor's Senate campaign fears it was hacked
Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's campaign for U.S. Senate told the FBI on Thursday that it fears it has been hacked, amid growing c ...
Watchdog: Western tech used for hacking in Turkey Syria
Procera offices are seen on Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Fremont, Calif. Researchers have found evidence that the company's hardware - no ...
Judge to Trump: Muting not blocking followers may end suit
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) A ...
Chinese drones slink into North Korean arsenal
A North Korean UAV that crashed on the South's Baengnyeong Island in 2014 led UN investigators to a Beijing-based supplier Wang Dewen&# ...
Trump meets with video game execs and critics
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Pr ...
Uber selling Southeast Asia operations to Grab: report
Models stand beside Grab cars in Phnom Penh during the ride hailing-firm's launch in Cambodia in December 2017 Uber is selling parts of ...
Start-up develops special lens for 3-D photography and film
Until now, photographers and filmmakers had to use special equipment if they wanted to change the focus area in post-processing or reproduce ...
'Darknet' market spokesman pleads guilty to federal charge
An Illinois man who worked as a spokesman for a leading "darknet" marketplace that users accessed anonymously to buy and sell illi ...
Trump to meet with video game execs and critics
In this March 6, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump listens to a question during a meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven i ...
Vatican invites hackers to fix problems not breach security
Computer hackers with a heart are descending on the Vatican to help tackle pressing problems particularly dear to Pope Francis, including ho ...
Retrofitting homes to improve energy ratings and reduce emissions
University of Melbourne researchers have discovered how to retrofit homes to be more energy efficient, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ...
Why social media are more like chocolate than cigarettes
The negative effects of social media have pushed tech companies to take more responsibility for the health of their users. Credit: Shutterst ...
A new portable system of water quality assessment in developing countries
Credit: UPM Portable, easy-to-use water quality assessment systems are essential in developing countries where water access is limited and ...
Capturing the value of place and time with geospatial-temporal insights
IBM scientists, Xiaoyan Shao (left) and Conrad Albrecht, interact with the IBM PAIRS Geoscope service. Credit: IBM IBM Research is introduc ...
Data processing architecture can reconfigure content within IoT data processing stream
Figure 1: Real-time services via the collection, analysis, and utilization of data from connected cars. Credit: Fujitsu Fujitsu Laboratorie ...
Drone rapidly converts aerial photos into valuable information about crop health
Anthony Hearst is chief executive officer and co-founder of Progeny Drone, a Purdue-affiliated startup that has created software that rapidl ...
Uncovering the secrets of the human body's perception of touch
Figure 1: Children from 0 to 6 years old explore their environments to collect information necessary for their survival. Credit: ISETAN SHIN ...
Amazon to quiet Alexa's cackling
Amazon has promised to keep virtual assistant Alexa from spontaneously cackling, giving people eerie feelings about what the artificial inte ...
Digital publishing to boost Axel Springer again in 2018
Axel Springer owns Germany's top-selling Bild newspaper German media giant Axel Springer, owner of the top-selling Bild newspaper, on T ...
'Booth babes' on verge of extinction at Geneva Motor Show
Carmakers have begun to scale back the use of skin-flashing models to draw male customers at big events like the Geneva Motor Show Long syn ...
The Samsung S9 has a great camera—just like other phones
This combo shows photos of a sunset along the Hudson River, taken in New York with a view of New Jersey, on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Starting ...
BMW posts record net profit of 8.7 bn euros for 2017
BMW said deliveries of its electrified vehicles jumped 65.6 percent to 103,080 units German luxury carmaker BMW said Thursday its 2017 net ...
MIPI sets up automotive working group
As the number of sensors in cars continues to increase in the automobile to support passive and active safety, infotainment, advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving systems, so to do
Security report urges IoT manufacturers to ‘get smart’
More than 400million smart devices are expected to be in use across the UK within three years and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DMCS) believes these could be exploited as part of large-
Paralympic snowboarder designs innovative gear—for rivals
In this Dec. 22, 2017, file photo, Mike Schultz, who is preparing to compete in the 2018 Winter Paralympics in South Korea, poses for a phot ...
Japan penalizes several cryptocurrency exchanges after hack
In this Feb. 11, 2018, photo, a huge advertisement of Bitcoin is displayed near Shibuya train station in Tokyo. The Japanese government is s ...
Navy starts under-ice submarine exercise off Alaska's coast
This 2016 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, shows a submarine after breaking through ice in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast. Th ...
Scientists help robots understand humans with board game idea
U.S. Army Research Laboratory is turning to the popular game "20 Questions" to make an important step towards helping robots maint ...
Static electricity could power low energy devices
According to researchers from Georgia Tech, certain aspects of how the electricity is generated and stored on surfaces have remained a mystery. But the team says it has now found out more about the wa
Manure could heat your home
2018-03-08 00:00:06Manure could heat your home
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Farm manure could be a viable source of renewable energy to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause globa ...
Combination of old and new yields novel power grid cybersecurity tool
Developed at Power Standards Lab under a project led by UC Berkeley and funded by the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program, µPMUs are ...
On Medicaid? Amazon offers recipients a Prime discount
In this Feb. 9, 2018, file photo, a box for an Amazon prime customer moves through the new Amazon Fulfillment Center in Sacramento, Calif. A ...
France pumped up over cargo airships
Paris used an airship in 2014 to measure air pollution France will pump up to 25 million euros ($31 million) into a fleet of rigid airships ...
Philips Lighting joins Amsterdam's top-tier AEX index
When Philips Lighting listed as a standalone company on the Amsterdam stock exchange in May 2016, it was valued at around three billion euro ...
How Domino's used technology to woo millennials and beat rival Pizza Hut
Domino's Pizza spent a good part of the last decade chasing what seemed like every digital doodad to deliver pizza—sometimes to the scor ...
MoviePass crafts wider offerings for movie night
MoviePass is eyeing a broadening of its app capabilities to create a full-featured movie-going experience by tracking where people go before ...
Winds of change: What will power the Northwest's future?
Carl Borgquist wants to spend more than $1 billion to transform a remote butte fringed by pine trees into a giant water battery. ...
Want to see Disneyland without going there? Try Street View
Anyone who has even been to Disneyland will tell you at least two things about the place. One, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is awesome. ...
Researchers develop optical tools to detect metabolic changes linked to disease
Optical readouts of HL-1 cardiomyocytes in response to chemical uncoupling by CCCP. Redox ratio map for control (left), and CCCP exposed car ...
European clocks slowed by lag in continent's power grid
In this Nov. 1, 2017 file photo high power cables hang from a pole on a field in Hattersheim, Germany. ​​Millions of Europeans who arrived l ...
Zuckerberg Chan give $30M to Harvard and MIT for literacy
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are giving Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology $ ...
Flying cars eye takeoff at Geneva Motor Show
Pop.Up Next, a self-driving car and passenger drone by Audi, Italdesign and Airbus on display at the Geneva International Motor Show After ...
Nobel-winning ICAN condemns surge in nuclear arms investments
ICAN was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 Global nuclear tensions helped boost investments in atomic weapons production by around $81 ...
With a TENG solar cells could work come rain or shine
Credit: American Chemical Society Despite the numerous advances in solar cells, one thing remains constant: cloudy, rainy conditions put a ...
Airbus to axe 3700 jobs in Europe
An A400M military transporter flies past an Airbus A380 superjumbo at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) in Berlin in 2010. Aircr ...
Improved X-ray computed tomography for quality control of advanced manufactured parts
Credit: INTERAQCT A consequence of advanced manufacturing technologies is that some internal structures tend to be inaccessible and so qual ...
Double disinfection treatment for safer drinking water
Double disinfection treatment for safer drinking water. Credit: University of Eastern Finland In spite of good progress in water hygiene du ...
When rotated at a ‘magic angle’ graphene sheets can form an insulator or a superconductor
In November, we reported on moiré​ and how it may be able to push the boundaries of electronics. Now it may have.
Turning landfill into energy
2018-03-07 04:00:11Turning landfill into energy
Advanced gasification methods can turn any waste except metal and rubble into fuel for electricity. Credit: Pixabay/ Prylarer Landfill is b ...
Fukushima plant ice wall partly reduces radioactive water
A government-commissioned group of experts has concluded that a costly underground ice wall is only partially effective in reducing the ever ...
EU firms lash out at new net privacy rules
EU firms fear tech giants like Google will have even more power once the new rules come into force Dozens of European media, telecom and in ...
Engine maker Rolls-Royce powers back into profit
A Rolls-Royce Trent XWB aircraft engine on the assembly line at the firm's factory in Derby, England. Rolls-Royce, the British maker of ...
Photonics innovation hub secures €10m to create 750 hi-tech jobs
An innovation hub, designed to help SMEs become ‘intelligent digital businesses’, says it is set to create 750 new hi-tech jobs over the next 4 years.
Scarce metals going unrecovered from end-of-life vehicles
Twenty tons of gold is lost from Europe's vehicle fleet each year. The quantities of critical and scarce metals in vehicles have risen d ...
BlackBerry sues Facebook over messaging apps (Update)
Canadian telecommunications firm BlackBerry is suing Facebook, accusing the American social media company of infringing on its patents for m ...
'Dieselgate' sees Toyota gain in Europe
Toyota has emerged as a clear winner from the 'dieselgate' scandal An auto industry turning away from diesel and European drivers i ...
Lithium-related discovery could extend battery life and improve safety
Lithium-metal batteries are among the most promising candidates for high-density energy storage technology. However, their potential is tempered with the uncontrolled lithium dendrite growth which res
Amazon CEO's wealth soars to new heights while Trump's sinks
In this June 16, 2014, file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos walks onstage for the launch of the new Amazon Fire Phone, in Seattle. In a milesto ...
Geneva car show: Electrics buzz but gas-guzzlers still shine (Update)
The New Volkswagen I.D. Vizzion is presented during the press day at the 88th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesda ...
BlackBerry sues Facebook over messaging apps
Canadian telecommunications firm BlackBerry is suing Facebook, accusing the American social media company of infringing on its patents for m ...
Facebook Twitter urged to do more to police hate on sites
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google are taking steps to police terrorists and hate groups on their sites but ...
The Latest: Aston Martin combines luxury and electric power
The new Ferrari 488 Pista is presented during the press day at the 88th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Mar ...
Engineering team develops radiation-resistant computers capable of high-performance computing in the harshness of space
The Pitt H6 system's dual high-resolution cameras can take 2448 x 2050 pixel images of Earth from the International Space Station Credit ...
Geneva car show: electrics buzz but gas-guzzlers still shine
The New Volkswagen I.D. Vizzion is presented during the press day at the 88th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesda ...
We can't say if touchscreens are impacting children's handwriting—in fact it may be quite the opposite
Credit: Shutterstock Parents the world over are concerned that touchscreen and tablet technology is negatively impacting children's han ...