This Dec. 8, 2017, file photo shows the Chicago Board Options Exchange website announcing that bitcoin futures will start trading on the Cbo ...

French aerospace and defence group Thales said Sunday it has bought European SIM manufacturer Gemalto in a bid to become a global leader in ...

This file image provided by Disney shows, from left, Chadwick Boseman as Panther, Paul Bettany as Vision, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Sca ...

This March 1, 2017, file photo shows an exterior view of the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. A former Uber security specialist fired ...

Microsoft announced recently that it would invest $50 million in a program that provides cloud-computing services and other resources to org ...

Petra Axolotl knew her chances of getting an H-1B visa were slim. She had an MBA from Wharton and a job offer at Twitter, but luck would dec ...

Online advertising agency AdTrader has sued Google in federal court, accusing it of fraud and deceit for not refunding or crediting advertis ...

Anand Puppala. Credit: UTA Anand Puppala, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington ...

In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017, photo, a UPS employee loads packages onto a truck at a company facility in New York. With Christmas on a Monda ...

Italian tax authorities say Amazon will pay 100 million euros ($118 million) to end a dispute over its tax payments from 2011-2015. ...

Airbnb may be the biggest home-sharing game in town, but a new startup is trying to push its way into the market. ...

Few would dare underestimate the cultural and commercial power of "Star Wars." The latest movie in the Skywalker saga, "Star ...

Betsy Stover was 17 when her mother asked her to help fax strangers, hawking a service that had the markings of a pyramid scheme. ...

Credit: University of Texas at Austin The next revolution in transportation is expected to be shared autonomous vehicles, with personal car ...

7-Eleven has created its own smartphone app for on-demand ordering and delivery and is testing it first with 10 of its Dallas stores. ...

The ongoing battle between start-up traffic ticket website TIKD.com, the Florida Bar and The Ticket Clinic has gotten the green light to go ...

Facebook's investigation into whether Russia tried to influence Britain's vote to leave the European Union yielded just three suspic ...

With federal regulators poised to repeal net neutrality rules this week, your internet service provider would be allowed to speed up deliver ...

By limiting the number of homes that property owners can operate as short-term rentals for visitors, can Seattle preserve its housing stock ...

Twitch made its mark as the place to watch video gamers in action. But over the past two years, the Amazon-owned property has expanded its o ...

For consumers who turn over control of their computers to remote technicians online, the fix may already be in. ...

Apple has conquered the smart watch market. Don't believe m ...

Reminiscent of the sun peeking through the clouds, a high-altitude nuclear detonation dons the frames of a recently declassified nuclear tes ...

Credit: University of Twente A Dutch consortium including the University of Twente developed an electrical bicycle that prevents elderly pe ...

Looking at the world through the lens of an algorithm illuminates some aspects but obscures others, says Malte Ziewitz, assistant professor ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The German government says it backs an "open and free internet" following the U.S. decision to repeal n ...

A computer with an automatic facial recognition system shows German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, center right, as he visits the Sue ...

Don’t think, just shop. Credit: Heidi Sandstrom Many people see marketing as a form of manipulation, particularly around Christmas and the ...

Credit: University of Surrey TotalCapture is a real-time, full-body mocap system that uses standard video cameras, along with inertial meas ...

Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out new features on its Bing search engine powered by artificial intelligence, including one that summarizes t ...

The Dutch arm of T-Mobile says it is taking over telecom and internet provider Tele2's operations in the Netherlands, in a move T-Mobile ...

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A team from the University of New South Wales says it has created a complete design for a quantum computer chip and adds the device can be made using mostly standard industry CMOS processes and compon

After a meeting voting to end net neutrality, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai answers a question from a reporter, ...

A Japanese company will start paying part of its employees' salaries in Bitcoin, as it aims to get better understanding of the virtual c ...

Shervin Pishevar, an early Uber investor and a founder of high-speed transport startup Hyperloop One, said Thursday he is breaking ties with ...

In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, file photo, demonstrators rally in support of net neutrality outside a Verizon store in New York. The Federa ...

Drug discovery could be significantly accelerated thanks to a new high precision machine-learning model, developed by an international colla ...

A radio frequency identification tag. Credit: Cornell University No visit to the doctor's office is complete without a blood-pressure c ...

VIIBRE’s first 96-Channel MicroFormulator as it is being prepared for shipment to AstraZeneca in January 2016. Credit: Vanderbilt University ...

The Republican tax plan seems about to hand a bow-tied holiday gift to some of America's richest multinational companies, from Apple and ...

In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, file photo, demonstrators rally in support of net neutrality outside a Verizon store in New York. The Federa ...

A matchbox-sized circuit board with a short aerial could save lives by transmitting the vital statistics and location of miners missing unde ...

Israeli flag flies outside Teva Pharmaceutical facility building in Neot Hovav, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Teva Pharmaceutical Industr ...

Credit: Queensland University of Technology QUT robotics researchers have developed new technology to equip underground mining vehicles to ...

In this Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, file photo, people use a Bitcoin ATM in Hong Kong. The public's intense interest in all things bitcoin, an ...

In this Aug. 8, 2017, file photo, The Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Disney is buy ...

In this July 16, 2015 file photo, Carol Welcher, right, tries to get the ball over the net in front of Jennifer Henderson during an Associat ...

This June 19, 2015, file photo, shows the entrance to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) building in Washington. "Net neutrali ...

Daimler's Fuso eCanter German carmaker Daimler on Thursday delivered its first fully electric lorries to companies in Europe, as the g ...

This Friday, July 25, 2014, file photo shows a view of the headquarters of the Italian Sky television broadcaster in Milan, Italy. Disney an ...

By heating the anode material to a much lower temperature (less than 260°C), scientists could remove the water near the surface, but re ...

Lego is not just a toy. The bricks are designed as a universal tool to make anything we can imagine. Credit: www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND ...

The Mount Agung volcano spews smoke, as seen from Karangasem, Bali. Credit: EPA-EFE/MADE NAGI The eruption of the Agung volcano in Bali, In ...

Credit: Florida International University An FIU professor has a plan to get rid of the blue tarps that inevitably appear on rooftops after ...

The Luvabella robotic dolls are reportedly one of this season’s most wanted toys. It’s time to pause and ask about its impact on children. ...

Front image of a fully screen-printed monoPoly solar cell. The Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National Univers ...

Smart wearable devices allow for the exchange of information using the human body as a robust communication medium for networking electronic ...

A letter made public Wednesday in Waymo's civil suit against Uber over swiped self-driving car secrets confirmed the ride-share service ...

The artificial intelligence researcher who called AI the new electricity is now trying to make sure every company is plugged in. ...

The electric eel has inspired researchers at the University of Fribourg, the University of Michigan, and the University of California San Diego, to develop a novel power source and suggest their work

Partial map of the Internet based on the January 15, 2005 data found on opte.org. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP ...

In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, file photo, demonstrators rally in support of net neutrality outside a Verizon store in New York. The Federa ...

A recent letter from the U.S. Attorney's office confirms the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation connected to allegat ...

Hurricane Irma, bitcoin, sex scandal and royal romance made up some of the hot topics explored this year at internet giant Google. ...

A senior British MP on Wednesday accused Facebook of failing to seriously investigate possible Russian influence in the Brexit vote, after i ...

US officials unveiled criminal charges Wednesday against a former university student and two others in the Mirai botnet attacks which shut d ...

Target said Wednesday it was acquiring same-day grocery delivery service Shipt for $550 million, helping the US retail titan step up its cha ...

Figure 1 of article depicting the PacMan™-like maze. Credit: Ongaro et al (2017) Micro-grippers may be able to navigate unstructu ...

Oliver Myers (right) and mechanical engineering master's student Brandon Williams work with some of the smart material they are developi ...

US wireless carrier T-Mobile said Wednesday it would launch a pay TV service in 2018, aiming to disrupt the dominant cable and satellite pro ...

An outside cyber security firm hired by Uber after a massive data theft found no evidence that rider credit card, bank account or Social Sec ...

In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, file photo, an Amazon Echo Dot is displayed during a program announcing several new Amazon products by th ...

This GIF shows how the difference in performance between the two solar cells vary over time. Credit: Ian Marius Peters Massachusetts Instit ...

Photograph of bio-oil, made of caproic acid and caprylic acid, phase separates out at mildly acidic conditions. Credit: Lars Angenent, Unive ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Cracking the German Enigma code is considered to be one of the decisive factors that hastened Allied victory in W ...

In this April 3, 2013 file photo, Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token at his shop in Sandy, Utah. As Ve ...

Greece's Supreme Court has ruled in favor extraditing a Russian cybercrime suspect to the United States to stand trial for allegedly lau ...

This Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, file photo shows the Apple logo at a store in Miami Beach, Fla. Apple is investing $390 million in Finisar, a co ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain How sensitive is the human sense of touch? Sensitive enough to feel the difference between surfaces that differ b ...

Toshiba and Western Digital appear to have settled their differences over the sale of Toshiba’s memory unit. The two companies have issued a statement which says they have resolved their ongoing dispu

In this file photo taken on Friday April 8, 2016, a sign warns people not to enter the town of Ozersk, Chelyabinsk region, Russia, which hou ...

Credit: Hanacek/NIST, Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock Data found on a suspect's computer, cell phone or tablet can prove to be crucia ...

At any given moment, roughly 1-2% of Australian drivers are estimated to be using their mobile phone while driving. Credit: shutterstock Di ...

Incentives are one way to get more people to buy electric cars. Credit: Pixabay Despite the hype and excitement, not to mention the fancifu ...

BB-8 is an “astromech droid” who first appeared in The Force Awakens. Credit: Lucasfilm/IMDB Millions of fans all over the world are eagerl ...

In this Thursday, May 11, 2017, file photo, Funky Monkey Toys store owner Tom Jones plays with a fidget spinner in Oxford, Mich. Fidget spin ...

The social networking giant said the move was in response to pressure from governments and policy makers for greater visibility into sales m ...

A plan by the US Federal Communications Commission to roll back "net neutrality" rules has sparked nationwide protests from those ...

Google announced Wednesday that it will open a new artificial intelligence research centre in Beijing, tapping China's talent pool in th ...

Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) say they have demonstrated rapid data transfer using ultraviolet-B (UV-B) light, adding the system provides advantages ove

In this Oct. 24,2017 photo, the logo of Toshiba Corp., is seen at the venue for the company's stockholders' meeting in Chiba near To ...

STMicroelectronics is acquiring the software-development tools specialist Atollic in a deal that values the company at $7million.

A three year project undertaken at the US Sandia National Laboratories has determined the flow of lithium ions across battery interfaces is a major obstacle to efforts to improve solid-state lithium-i

Greece's Supreme Court is due to rule whether to allow the extradition of a Russian cybercrime suspect to the United States to stand tri ...

Twitter is making it easier to create "tweetstorms" with a new button to add messages and create "threads" with more roo ...

This graphic depicts the the main components of NWB:N 2.0. Credit: Oliver Ruebel, Berkeley Lab Neuroscientists can now explore a beta versi ...

Syntactic foams, which have been used for years in aerospace and marine applications, are being employed in a wider and wider array of produ ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lay on the ocean floors, a crucial part of the global interne ...

Credit: University of Reading The Institute for Environmental Analytics has launched a renewable energy planning tool in the Seychelles, wh ...