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Tencent's plans to list its answer to Kindle Store in Hong Kong

Jul 04, 2017 (AFP)

In documents filed in the financial hub on Tuesday, Tencent will hold at least 50 percent of the firm -- similar to Amazon's Kindle Store -- and remain its pare...

Self-powered system makes smart windows smarter

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

These smart windows require power for operation, so they are relatively complicated to install in existing buildings. But by applying a new solar cell technolog...

Samsung confirms launch of refurbished Galaxy Note 7s

Jul 02, 2017 (AFP)

The recall of millions of Galaxy Note 7 devices cost the world's largest smartphone maker billions of dollars in lost profits and hammered its global reputation...

Don't leave baby boomers behind when designing wearable technology

Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)

That is, if you can get older users to adopt wearable technology. In their article in the July 2017 issue of Ergonomics in Design, "Designing Wearable Technolog...

SES Networks and Primacom to deliver broadband to Asia-Pacific vessels

Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)

The innovative fully-managed service will enable Primacom to double broadband speeds for connecting vessels traversing international and domestic maritime route...

China's Alibaba boosts stake in SE Asia online sales

Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)

The investment will raise Alibaba's holding in Lazada to 83 percent from 51 percent and take its total outlay on the company so far to more than $2 billion. "Th...

New femto-camera with quadrillion fractions of a second resolution

Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)

Vital activity of living cells is a complex sequence of biochemical reactions and physical processes; many of them take place with high temporal resolution. To ...

Ultra-thin camera creates images without lenses

Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)

Lenses have a curve that bends the path of incoming light and focuses it onto a piece of film or, in the case of digital cameras, an image sensor. The OPA has a...

New class of 'soft' semiconductors could transform HD displays

Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)

The findings, published online this week in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, represent a clear challenge to quantum dot...

New screen coating makes reading in sunlight a lot easier

Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)

The antireflection film exhibits a surface reflection of just .23 percent, much lower than the iPhone's surface reflection of 4.4 percent, for example. Reflecti...

Samsung to sell off refurbished Galaxy Note 7s: reports

Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)

Samsung Electronics declined to comment on the reports. The recall debacle cost the Korean giant billions of dollars in lost profits and hammered its global cre...

ESA and European space industry join forces on 'Satellite for 5G'

Jun 26, 2017 (ESA)

ESA and the European space industry are joining forces to develop and demonstrate the added value that satellite brings in the context of 5G. As part of an ESA ...

'City that never sleeps' wants to dial down the volume

Jun 23, 2017 (AFP)

But America's most populous metropolis, known as "The City That Never Sleeps," has launched a unique experiment seeking to provide New York with the technology ...

Taiwan's Foxconn says Toshiba deal 'not over'

Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)

Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai, is controlled by billionaire Terry Gou and reportedly had Apple as a financial backer in its multi-billion dollar bid for Toshib...

Video games cause good, bad changes to players' brains

Jun 22, 2017 (UPI)

Studies show brain regions responsible for attention and visuospatial skills are altered and often made more efficient by frequent video game playing. Research ...

X-ray eyes in the sky: Drones and WiFi for 3-D through-wall imaging

Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)

"Our proposed approach has enabled unmanned aerial vehicles to image details through walls in 3D with only WiFi signals," said Mostofi, a professor of electrica...

Apple opens new round in battle with Qualcomm

Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)

In legal filings in a federal court in California on Tuesday, Apple claimed that several Qualcomm patents were invalid because they conflict with existing paten...

Vice Media to push global expansion with new funds

Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)

The New York-based outlet announced Monday the investment from equity fund group TPG, saying the funds would help "build out its content portfolio and delivery ...

Toddler learning best promoted by e-books, study suggests

Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)

A new study suggests, for toddlers, e-books may promote greater engagement and learning. A team of researchers from the United States and Canada had a group of ...

In China, universities teach how to go viral online

Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)

Jiang Mengna is majoring in "modelling and etiquette" at Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College near Shanghai, aspiring to join the growing ranks of young Chinese...