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'Transformative electronics systems' to broaden wearable applications

Nov 03, 2019 (SPX)

A team working under Professor Jae-Woong Jeong from the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST has invented a multifunctional electronic platform that can me...

Huawei pushes 5G in SEAsia, brushing off 'tech war' with US

Nov 03, 2019 (AFP)

The firm has emerged as a key protagonist in the wider US-China trade war that has seen tit-for-tat tariffs imposed on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of ...

From Tahrir to Twitter, Iraqi protests rely on social media

Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)

When demonstrations broke out on October 1, Ali Chaseb's Facebook timeline took a dramatic turn. Gone were the posts about European football teams and in their ...

Apple beats profit forecasts amid growth in services, wearables

Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)

Profit in the quarter ending in September dipped four percent from a year ago to $13.7 billion while revenues edged up two percent to $64 billion. Apple, set to...

Smartphone sales see modest rebound after two-year slump: survey

Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)

Data from Strategy Analytics late Wednesday showed handset shipments up two percent from a year earlier at 366 million units, the first rise since the third qua...

A stretchable stopwatch lights up human skin

Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)

Now, researchers reporting in ACS Materials Letters have developed a stretchable light-emitting device that operates at low voltages and is safe for human skin....

China rolls out 5G services in race to narrow tech gap

Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)

China Mobile, the country's largest carrier, announced its 5G services were available in 50 cities -- including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen -- with packages ...

Quibi: the new mobile-centric short-form streaming service

Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)

Created by Jeffrey Katzenberg, the longtime Disney executive and co-founder of DreamWorks Animation, the new app drew inspiration from Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci...

Facebook profit climbs along with user base

Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)

The leading social network said its profit topped $6 billion on revenue that climbed 28 percent to $17.4 billion in the quarter that ended on September 30. Mean...

Aussie consumer watchdog sues Google over location data use

Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) claims Google collected, kept and used "highly sensitive and valuable personal information" of Android...

50 years after internet conception, dark side stirs fear

Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)

The event gave birth to a network that later became known as the internet -- hailed at first as a boon to equality and enlightenment, but with a dark side that ...

Maker of China's TikTok denies report it is planning HK listing

Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)

ByteDance, which is said to be valued at up to $75 billion, was reported by the Financial Times to be eyeing a listing in the city despite months of violent pol...

Compact depth sensor inspired by spiders

Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)

Inspired by these spiders, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a compact and efficient d...

Cosmic 3D mapping machine opens 5,000 robotic eyes

Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)

It was the first test of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, which is designed to explore the mystery of dark energy that makes up about 68% of t...

The streaming war's first victim: your wallet

Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)

Her eldest Victoria, 6, asks every day when the new platform will launch, with its impressive catalogue of films and series from all of Disney's studios. The an...

Google parent Alphabet quarterly profit misses mark

Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)

Profit dipped 23 percent from a year ago to $7.1 billion as revenue grew 20 percent to $40.5 billion for the California tech giant and internet search leader. S...

Thinkom completes first-ever in-flight MEO-GEO satellite roaming tests

Oct 28, 2019 (SPX)

The tests provided the first live demonstration of airborne communication with the O3b MEO satellites and included seamless handovers between MEO and GEO satell...

Chill your Netflix habit, climate experts say

Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)

But experts say the ease of streaming services comes with a hefty environmental price tag. Watching a half-hour show would lead to emissions of 1.6 kilograms of...

Streaming TV gears up for ad targeting

Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)

While some subscription streaming services including Netflix, Apple+ and Disney+ have pledged to be ad-free, others including those from WarnerMedia and NBCUniv...

Streaming TV war kicks into gear with Apple, Disney launches

Oct 27, 2019 (AFP)

The shift away from "linear" television is likely to escalate with powerful new entrants to streaming coming this year and in early 2020. The new landscape has ...