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Fitbit leads wearables, Apple Watch sales slip: survey

Sep 06, 2016 (AFP)

Fitbit extended its lead in the market for connected wearables in the second quarter amid a sharp drop in Apple Watch sales, a survey showed Tuesday. The survey...

New digital antenna could revolutionize the future of mobile phones

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

Aalto University's Radio Science and Engineering researchers have developed a method that allows antennas to make the shift from the analogue to the digital wor...

Friends no better than strangers at interpreting emotional tone in emails

Aug 30, 2016 (UPI)

Think your friend can recognize the subtle sarcasm in your emails? New research suggests familiarity with an email's writer doesn't help a reader correctly iden...

Apple on firm financial footing as EU tax bill hits

Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)

A multi-billion-dollar tax bill imposed by the European Union could bruise Apple's image more than its finances, which remain solid even as the trend-setting co...

Artificial retinas : promising leads towards clearer vision

Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)

A major therapeutic challenge, the retinal prostheses that have been under development during the past ten years can enable some blind subjects to perceive ligh...

Deal puts Microsoft apps on Lenovo smartphones

Aug 23, 2016 (AFP)

Microsoft apps such as Office and Skype will be installed on Lenovo mobile devices powered by Android software under the terms of a collaboration announced late...

Enabling extreme new designs for optics and imagers

Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)

Developers of imaging systems have long been beholden to certain rules of optics designs so well established and seemingly immutable as to be treated as virtual...

Study shows wood windows are cooler than glass

Aug 18, 2016 (SPX)

Engineers at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD) demonstrate in a new study that windows made of transparent wood could...

Pinterest rolls out video ads at online bulletin board

Aug 17, 2016 (AFP)

Pinterest on Wednesday introduced video ads as it moved to cash in on a growing appetite for videos at the popular online bulletin board. Marketing messages in ...

Enabling Extreme New Designs for Optics and Imagers

Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)

Developers of imaging systems have long been beholden to certain rules of optics designs so well established and seemingly immutable as to be treated as virtual...

Self-shading windows switch from clear to opaque

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

A team of researchers at MIT has developed a new way of making windows that can switch from transparent to opaque, potentially saving energy by blocking sunligh...

Wi-fi from lasers

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

A nanocrystalline material that rapidly makes white light out of blue light has been developed by KAUST researchers. While Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are now well esta...

RetroScope opens doors to the past in smart phone investigations

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Purdue University researchers are working on a new technique that could aid law enforcement in gathering data from smart phones when investigating crimes. A res...

Two become one: How to turn green light blue

Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)

The upconversion of photons allows for a more efficient use of light: Two photons are converted into a single photon having higher energy. Researchers at KIT no...

Calling China: phones everywhere in world's biggest market

Aug 12, 2016 (AFP)

Sometimes it seems that no one in China, from toddlers to octogenarians, ladies in swimming pools to delivery men mid-manoeuvre, is without a cellphone to hand ...

China's Alibaba Q1 revenue leaps 59%, best since IPO

Aug 11, 2016 (AFP)

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba saw revenues leap 59 percent year-on-year for the quarter ended in June, it said Thursday, its strongest growth since it listed...

Towards a better screen

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Harvard University researchers have designed more than 1,000 new blue-light emitting molecules for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that could dramatically...

Ultracompact photodetector

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

Data traffic is growing worldwide. Glass-fiber cables transmit information over long distances at the speed of light. Once they have reached their destination, ...

KAIST develops ultrathin, transparent oxide thin-film transistors for wearable display

Aug 03, 2016 (SPX)

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, strong demand has grown for wearable and transparent displays that can be applied to various fields such as...

New method for making green LEDs enhances their efficiency and brightness

Aug 03, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign have developed a new method for making brighter and more efficient green light-emitting diodes (LE...