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Artificial intelligence and the coming health revolution

Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving into health care, led by some of the biggest technology companies and emerging startups using it to diagnose and respo...

Amazon: from online bookseller to internet titan

Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)

Here are some key facts about Amazon: -- Incorporated in 1994 in Seattle, Washington, Amazon sold its first book in July 1995, with founder Jeff Bezos personall...

Researchers demonstrate spin effects in solution-based nanocrystals

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

They are also used in other fields of application, e.g., for medical diagnosis and treatment. Now a research group around Dr. Christian Klinke from the Universi...

Thai police bust 400,000 SIM card Chinese 'click farm'

Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)

The trio was arrested on Sunday after police raided their rental home and discovered a rack of some 500 smart phones hooked up to a computer. Police also confis...

Yahoo signs off, completes sale to Verizon

Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)

Yahoo's chief executive Marissa Mayer resigned as expected, as Verizon finalized the $4.48 billion deal integrating the Yahoo internet operations into a new uni...

Tiny glow sticks

Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)

Lanthanides are a group of metals whose special electronic structure makes them attractive for use in optoelectronic applications. Metal-organic frameworks (MOF...

Marissa Mayer fades out as Yahoo ends its run

Jun 12, 2017 (AFP)

But Mayer was unable to stem the decline of the iconic Silicon Valley company, which is set to close a deal on Tuesday selling its core internet operations to t...

Optical communication at record-high speed

Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)

As reported in Nature, the researchers used silicon nitride microresonators that can easily be integrated into compact communication systems. Within these reson...

Observation of the phase transition of liquid crystal defects for the first time

Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)

The phase transition of topological defects, which was also the theme of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2016, can be difficult to understand for a layperson but...

Queen's researcher's 'miracle material' discovery could end cracked smart devices

Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)

Dr Elton Santos from Queen's University's School of Mathematics and Physics, has been working with a team of top-notch scientists from Stanford University, Univ...

Google moves to block 'annoying' ads in browser

Jun 02, 2017 (AFP)

"We believe online ads should be better. That's why we joined the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group dedicated to improving online ads," said Sridhar R...

Snapchat's 'Spectacles' go on sale in Europe

Jun 02, 2017 (AFP)

"From June 2, and for the first time, the Spectacles sunglasses will go on sale outside of the United States," Snap said in an emailed statement. The sunglasses...

Apple readying Siri-powered home assistant: report

Jun 01, 2017 (AFP)

The speaker powered by Apple's digital assistant Siri may be unveiled at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference next week in Silicon Valley, Bloomberg News ...

Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate

Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)

White canes have a few drawbacks, however. One is that the obstacles they come in contact with are sometimes other people. Another is that they can't identify c...

Apple says payouts from App Store total $70 bn

Jun 01, 2017 (AFP)

"People everywhere love apps and our customers are downloading them in record numbers," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, in a s...

Breakthrough curved sensor could dramatically improve digital camera image quality

May 31, 2017 (SPX)

"Our approach to curving commercially available image sensors could make it possible to have a new class of camera that would be very small, but have image qual...

Graphene and quantum dots put in motion a CMOS-integrated camera that can see the invisible

May 30, 2017 (SPX)

However, the diversification of this platform into applications other than microcircuits and visible light cameras has been impeded by the difficulty to combine...

Google linking online and offline worlds in new ad challenge

May 28, 2017 (AFP)

A product called "Google Attribution" was unveiled at a marketing conference this month in San Francisco by the internet giant. Google has long been able to det...

Wearable vision systems reveal more than a 'highway in the sky'

May 26, 2017 (SPX)

A special section on Wearable Vision Systems: Head/Helmet-Mounted Displays in this month's issue of Optical Engineering, published by SPIE, the international so...

13 years after quitting, Zuckerberg gets Honorary Harvard degree

May 25, 2017 (AFP)

Zuckerberg returned to the university where he launched what would become the world's biggest social network, and basked in the spotlight by receiving an honora...