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Apple's dilemma: what to do with $256 bn cash pile

May 03, 2017 (AFP)

Apple's quarterly report Tuesday showed its cash holdings -- the vast majority held overseas -- jumped to a sum that tops the entire economic output of Chile. T...

Apple delivers higher profits, but iPhone sales slip

May 02, 2017 (AFP)

Apple said that its profit climbed 4.9 percent to slightly more than $11 billion on revenue rising 4.6 percent to $52.9 billion in the quarterly that ended Apri...

Scientists build world's fastest camera

Apr 28, 2017 (UPI)

The camera could be employed to observe super fast processes in chemistry, physics, biology and biomedicine. Researchers used their new record-breaking camera t...

Samsung, Apple keep top spots; Brits shun eBooks

Apr 27, 2017 (AFP)

Research firm IDC said overall smartphone shipments grew 4.3 percent in the first quarter, slightly better than its prior forecast, to 347 million units. "The f...

Google parent Alphabet revs up revenue, profit

Apr 27, 2017 (AFP)

Alphabet reported a 29 percent jump in quarterly profit to $5.4 billion, while revenue jumped 22 percent compared with a year ago to $24.75 billion. "Our excell...

US regulator vows to roll back 'net neutrality' rules

Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)

The announcement by Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai, appointed by President Donald Trump, signals a new round of wrangling over internet reg...

Wikipedia founder tackles fake news with Wikitribune

Apr 25, 2017 (AFP)

Wikitribune will rely on a broad online community of journalists and readers as fact checkers, a crowdsourcing model pioneered in the "wiki" system behind Wikip...

Nanoimprinted hyperlens array: Paving the way for practical super-resolution imaging

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

In 2000, Professor Sir John B. Pendry of Imperial College London - the John Pendry who enticed millions of Harry Potter fans around the world with the possibili...

Satellite service boosting special flight operations

Apr 21, 2017 (ESA)

The satcom-based Planet service, developed with ESA's help by the Atmosphere company, was originally intended to provide light aircraft with inflight updates on...

New microscopy method breaks color barrier of optical imaging

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

In a study published online April 19 in Nature, the team, led by Associate Professor of Chemistry Wei Min, reports the development of a new optical microscopy p...

SAVI camera ditches long lens for distant images

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

A prototype built and tested by engineers at Rice and Northwestern universities reads a spot illuminated by a laser and captures the "speckle" pattern with a ca...

Toddlers playing with touchscreens sleep less: study

Apr 13, 2017 (AFP)

For every additional hour using a touchscreen phone or tablet during the day, children aged six months to three years slept nearly 16 minutes less in each 24 ho...

Qualcomm fires back at Apple with countersuit

Apr 11, 2017 (AFP)

In a legal filing late Monday, Qualcomm denied the charges made by Apple in its January lawsuit, while accusing Apple of failing to negotiate in good faith on p...

Sketching can help students learn, research shows

Apr 10, 2017 (UPI)

Sketching can help students process and absorb information, studies show, but drawing exercises can be difficult for teachers to monitor and assess. "Intelligen...

SES Shapes the Inflight Connectivity Market

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

SES is delivering tailored services to the increasingly demanding requirements for inflight connectivity (IFC). The SES approach and the future of IFC are descr...

Gogo and SES to meet surging inflight connectivity demand in North America

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

SES has announced new satellite capacity deals with Gogo to meet the growing demand for high-speed inflight connectivity services on travel routes over the US a...

Google adds 'fact check' to global search results

Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)

Google is adding a fact-checking tag to search results globally, its latest initiative to help curb the spread of misinformation and "fake news," the company sa...

Materials may lead to self-healing smartphones

Apr 06, 2017 (SPX)

Taking a cue from the Marvel Universe, researchers report that they have developed a self-healing polymeric material with an eye toward electronics and soft rob...

YouTube channels must win audiences before winning ads

Apr 06, 2017 (AFP)

YouTube on Thursday stopped placing ads on channels with fewer than 10,000 views in a move aimed at preventing people from making money off offensive or pirated...

Taser renames itself as it promotes body cameras

Apr 06, 2017 (AFP)

Taser International was officially re-branded as Axon Thursday as the company broadens its focus from its controversial stun guns to police body cameras. Axon h...