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Telecommunications light amplifier could strengthen integrity of transmitted data

Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)

Imagine a dim light which is insufficiently bright enough to illuminate a room. An amplifier for such a light would increase the brightness by increasing the nu...

Turning your living room into a wireless charging station

Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)

The flat-screen TV on your living room wall could soon be remotely charging any device within its line of sight. Well, not your actual TV, but a device that is ...

China's Huawei sets high goal for US, global market

Jan 06, 2017 (AFP)

The top executive of number three smartphone maker Huawei on Wednesday laid out an ambitious agenda for the US and global markets, brushing aside political issu...

China's TCL out to revive BlackBerry smartphones

Jan 05, 2017 (AFP)

Chinese electronics company TCL Corporation was at CES on Wednesday with a plan to revive BlackBerry handsets knocked from the mobile phone throne by Apple and ...

Work email overload: can the law lead a fightback?

Jan 05, 2017 (AFP)

Beatrice, a busy 50-year-old manager at an airline in Paris, sounds like she would benefit from France's new "right to disconnect" law that guarantees all emplo...

Smartphone with Google 3D Tango from Taiwan's Asus

Jan 04, 2017 (AFP)

Taiwan-based electronics group Asus announced Wednesday it was launching a new smartphone which uses Google Tango 3D technology and allows users to experience a...

Global launch by Huawei of new mid-range smartphone

Jan 04, 2017 (AFP)

Chinese electronics giant Huawei announced Tuesday a global launch of its mid-range Honor 6x smartphone which includes dual-lens camera technology and is aimed ...

Miniscule amounts of impurities in vacuum greatly affecting OLED lifetime

Jan 03, 2017 (SPX)

Reproducibility is a necessity for science but has often eluded researchers studying the lifetime of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Recent research from...

Image-based modeling

Jan 03, 2017 (SPX)

A team of researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, NJ in collaboration with their colleagues from the University of Oklahoma (O...

Twitter chief for China quits, hails its performance

Jan 01, 2017 (AFP)

Twitter's manager for China, whose appointment just eight months ago sparked controversy, has announced her resignation but welcomed the growing number of Chine...

Foxconn invests $8 bn in China LCD plant

Dec 31, 2016 (AFP)

Taiwan tech-giant Foxconn plans to build an $8.8-billion factory in China, state media said Saturday, amid reports its billionaire boss is cooling off on future...

French workers win 'right to disconnect'

Dec 31, 2016 (AFP)

French companies will be required to guarantee a "right to disconnect" to their employees from Sunday as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of c...

Twitter unveils 360-degree live video

Dec 28, 2016 (AFP)

Twitter on Wednesday began streaming 360-degree video, allowing users to interact and get behind the scenes of live broadcasts. "Starting today, you can check o...

Amazon sold 'millions' of Alexa speakers for holiday

Dec 27, 2016 (AFP)

Amazon said Tuesday its connected Echo speakers infused with artificial intelligence were the top-selling products over the holiday season for the online giant....

Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement

Dec 21, 2016 (AFP)

Nokia announced Wednesday it is suing Apple in German and US courts for patent infringement, claiming the US tech giant was using Nokia technology in "many" pro...

Researchers achieve meter-scale optical coherence tomography for first time

Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)

An industry-academic collaboration has achieved the first optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of cubic meter volumes. With OCT's ability to provide diffic...

EU charges Facebook over WhatsApp buyout

Dec 20, 2016 (AFP)

The European Union charged Facebook on Tuesday with providing "misleading" information when it sought approval for its blockbuster $22-billon buyout of the What...

Spanish police arrest 200 Chinese in telephone fraud scam

Dec 14, 2016 (AFP)

Spanish police have arrested more than 200 Chinese nationals suspected of running call centres from luxury villas that swindled over 16 million euros ($17 milli...

Ultra-short electron beams boost bioimaging

Dec 14, 2016 (UPI)

Thanks to a team of scientists from Germany and the United States, the use of ultra-short electron beams for bioimaging no longer requires a device the size of ...

ANU invention to inspire new night-vision specs

Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have designed a nano crystal around 500 times smaller than a human hair that turns darkness into visible ...