INTERNET SPACE - NANO DAILY

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

Tiny micro- and nanoscale structures within a material's surface are invisible to the naked eye, but play a big role in determining a material's physical, chemi...

Yahoo names post-spinoff management team

Mar 14, 2017 (AFP)

Yahoo said Monday that board member and former internet executive Thomas McInerney would lead the business that remains after the sale of its core assets to Ver...

China's Wanda aborts bid for Golden Globes producer

Mar 13, 2017 (AFP)

A $1 billion bid by China's Wanda Group for the operator of the Golden Globe awards has been aborted, the US firm's parent has said, following reports that it w...

SpaceDataHighway to reach Asia-Pacific

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Airbus Defence and Space announces the kick-off of EDRS-D, the third communication node of the SpaceDataHighway. Airbus Defence and Space will expand the EDRS-S...

China's Didi launches Silicon Valley research hub

Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)

Chinese ridesharing leader Didi Chuxing has opened a Silicon Valley research hub, where it will join the race with other tech companies for autonomous driving. ...

Rice lab expands palette for color-changing glass

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Rice University's latest nanophotonics research could expand the color palette for companies in the fast-growing market for glass windows that change color at t...

Airbnb valued at $31 billion in new funding round

Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)

Airbnb raised more than a billion dollars in a fresh funding round that valued the home-sharing startup at $31 billion, a source close to the company told AFP T...

ZTE shares up in Hong Kong after $1.2 bn US fine

Mar 08, 2017 (AFP)

Shares in Chinese telecom giant ZTE jumped more than six percent in Hong Kong Wednesday after a year of uncertainty over its US business ended with a $1.2 billi...

Plasmonic device offers broadband modulation to optical links at 100gbit

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Today's society is growing in population and productivity puts ever higher demands on the Internet, and without scientific developments to provide ways meeting ...

Portable nanofiber device offers precise, point-and-shoot capability

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Harvard researchers have developed a lightweight, portable nanofiber fabrication device that could one day be used to dress wounds on a battlefield or dress sho...

Can automatic facial recognition systems account for aging?

Mar 03, 2017 (UPI)

Roughly one in every two adults is already in a facial recognition system database, according to one recent study, but new research considers whether the techno...

Global Eagle to equip China-bound Boeing plane with Airconnect

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Global Eagle Entertainment has received a vendor Supplemental Type Certificate (vSTC) from the Civil Aviation Administration of China ("CAAC") to install GEE's ...

Big leap for Snap as messaging app debuts on Wall Street

Mar 02, 2017 (AFP)

Snapchat owner Snap Inc rode a wave of euphoria in its Wall Street debut Thursday as investors sent shares of the popular messaging app soaring. Snap jumped 44 ...

Fairphone extends distribution network in Europe

Mar 02, 2017 (AFP)

Fairphone, a Dutch firm that makes ethical and environmentally friendly smartphones, said Thursday it is extending its distribution network in Europe. The compa...

Snap: messages vanish, young billionaires appear

Mar 02, 2017 (AFP)

The mobile application Snapchat became a social media star with messages that vanish after viewing, making co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy among the y...

Snap prices IPO to give $24 billion valuation

Mar 01, 2017 (AFP)

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. priced its share offering Wednesday to give the popular social network a market value of some $24 billion. Snap said in a statement it...

Appeals court overturns $533 mn verdict against Apple

Mar 01, 2017 (AFP)

A US appellate court Wednesday overturned a $533 million patent verdict against Apple, saying the award was based on "routine computer activities" which cannot ...

OIST researchers design new photoluminescent compounds

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Chemical compounds that emit light are used in a variety of different materials, from glow-in-the-dark children's toys to LED lights to light-emitting sensors. ...

China's TCL brings back physical keyboard in new BlackBerry

Feb 25, 2017 (AFP)

Chinese electronics company TCL unveiled Saturday its first BlackBerry-licensed smartphone which brings back the device's signature physical keyboard as it seek...

Neural networks promise sharpest ever images

Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)

Telescopes, the workhorse instruments of astronomy, are limited by the size of the mirror or lens they use. Using 'neural nets', a form of artificial intelligen...