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EU firms lash out at new net privacy rules

Mar 07, 2018 (AFP)

On May 25, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force. It is designed to protect users' online privacy, but in an open ...

Rice team designs lens-free fluorescent microscope

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide-field microscope thinner tha...

BlackBerry sues Facebook over messaging apps

Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)

BlackBerry is claiming infringement on patents it holds for message encryption and notifications, and is seeking an injunction as well as damages for lost profi...

MEMS chips get metatlenses

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Flat lenses, unlike their traditional counterparts, are relatively lightweight, based on optical nanomaterials known as metasurfaces. When the subwavelength nan...

Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

As the team reports in a paper published online in December in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and U...

Study shows smartphones and data centers harm the environment

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

At the end of winter term in 2014, Lotfi Belkhir was approached by a student taking his Total Sustainability and Management course who asked, "What does softwar...

Clever coating opens door to smart windows

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The self-modifying coating, which is a thousand times thinner than a human hair, works by automatically letting in more heat when it's cold and blocking the sun...

China's WeChat app crosses one billion account mark

Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)

The symbolic threshold was announced by Pony Ma, the chief executive of its parent company Tencent, on the sidelines of China's parliamentary session on Monday....

Super-resolution microscopy in both space and time

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

But super-resolution microscopy comes with a big limitation: it only offers spatial resolution. That might suffice for static samples, like solid materials or f...

EU aims to tax internet giants at 'two to six percent': France

Mar 04, 2018 (AFP)

"The range will be from two to six percent; but closer to two than to six," Le Maire told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. The European Commission has said it...

Bruising Qualcomm-Broadcom battle heads for showdow

Mar 04, 2018 (AFP)

Qualcomm shareholders at an annual gathering Tuesday will get to vote whether to replace six of the California company's 11 board members with candidates backed...

Mobile network equipment makers eye 5G windfall

Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)

The European Union wants European firms to start offering 5G -- seen as key to develop "next generation" services such as telemedicine or automatic driving -- i...

Snapchat challenging Facebook among US youth: survey

Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)

The Pew Research Center survey showed Facebook holding the dominant platform with 68 percent of Americans using the world's biggest social network. While Facebo...

Apple surges ahead in wearables on smartwatch sales

Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)

A report by the research firm IDC said Apple jumped to the front of the wearables pack in the fourth quarter following the release of Apple Watch 3, and placed ...

Seamless Air Alliance offers airline to passengers a seamless in-cabin connectivity experience

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

The alliance - which aims to attract additional industry operators beyond the five initial members - will eliminate the immense costs and hurdles commonly assoc...

Sensors help smartphones keep eye on solo seniors

Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)

Small sensors that monitor home activity and can send alerts to smartphones are marking it easier to keep an eye on seniors from a distance, helping them to liv...

New York Times preparing weekly TV show

Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)

The newspaper confirmed Tuesday it is in talks with cable channels and online platforms on which the planned 30-minute show could run, according to Sam Dolnick,...

5G wireless race heats up

Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)

Talk about 5G's potential to pave the way to a world of self-driving cars, lightening-fast video downloads and smart cities have dominated the Mobile World Cong...

Secondhand smartphone market takes off but far from green

Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)

Thrown in the thrash or left abandoned in a drawer, the fate of mobile phones --- which consumers replace on average every two years -- is starting to change am...

US defends moves to roll back 'net neutrality' rules

Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)

The commission in December adopted the proposal by Republican appointed chairman Ajit Pai to end the so-called "net neutrality" rules adopted in 2015. Activists...