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Research on moth eyes could improve anti-reflective properties of computer screens by factor ten, according to researchers in Florida and Taiwan
Oil companies collect increasing amounts of data about drilling, weather and earthquakes through sensors, parallel computational capacity of graphics processors used more often to process data and enable "deep learning" and simulations
Airbus shows concept helicopter with wings and side rotors but without tail rotor, can fly over 400 kilometers per hour at high fuel efficiency
European parliament proposes demand for encryption of electronic communication and ban on government backdoors, says Europeans need better protection and integrity on the internet
Chinese company CHJ Automotive to launch electric car to compete with Tesla, vehicle measures 2.5 times 1 meter and has exchangeable battery
US authorities repeatedly tried to bribe messaging app Telegram's developers, says founder Pavel Durov, who suspects back door in partly publicly financed encryption in Signal, Facebook and WhatsApp
Intel warns companies to emulate the proprietary X86, Microsoft and Qualcomm have just demonstrated Windows 10 running ARM processor and emulating win32 applications
Ten car manufacturers choose to develop Automotive Grade Linux, open source based automotive technology, prevents user data from being hijacked by Apple and Google, about 70% of the code is generic while the rest is customized for a particular car
Pacemakers systems from four manufacturers have 8,000 security holes according to WhiteScope, goal conflict where care givers don't want to be hindered by passwords in emergencies
Rocket Lab succeeds in launching Electron rocket but doesn't reach orbit, company focused on smaller satellites that today often have to be launched by big, expensive rockets
Amiga X5000 launched by A-EON more than 20 years after Commodore discontinues Amiga 4000, Ars Technica review compares computer to expensive and beautifully engineered car
Hackers could use malicious code hidden in subtitles to take control of computers, popular video players affected
Iris scanner in Samsung's new flagship hacked with digital camera set to night mode and contact lens, the photo doesn't have to be of high quality
Apple CEO tests non-invasive blood glucose meter showing results in real time on his watch, eagerly awaited by diabetics and people concerned about their health
Fraunhofer IIS terminates licensing of MP3, new formats like AAC and MPEG-H deliver better sound with lower bitrate
Patch preventing WannaCry released two months before attacks, not updated computers to blame for size of attack
Linux Bash much easier to install on Windows 10, can be download from Windows Store, easier to run Linux scripts on Windows
Keylogger found installed by default on HP computers, the company is forced to create patch that erases the problem, was discovered in the driver for the audio
Facebook expands machine learning to prevent fake news in the upcoming UK election, places ads in UK newspapers on how to detect fake news
China conducts test flights of domestically produced passenger airplane C919 after several years delay, seeks to compete with current market leaders Airbus A320 and Boing 737
Nissan introduces Faraday's cage into a new concept car, wants to prevent drivers from being distracted by cell phones
Encryption of UHD Blu-Ray said to be broken for first time, person claims to have decrypted whole disk rather than capturing and decrypting image stream, published full copy of film The Smurfs 2
Samsung hands in patent on cell phone with a screen on both the front and back sides as well as the edges, shortcuts to apps on the sides that can be dragged to the front or back
Musks Boring Company takes delivery of tunnel boring machine, will start digging on SpaceX ground with transport solution as long-term goal
BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen plans new crypto currency, will use hard drive space instead of processing power for mining
Scientists successfully grow lamb fetuses in artificial uterus, could be used for premature humans though it cannot support early development
Mastercard tests built-in fingerprint reader on their plastic cards, can be used instead of PIN, works with old payment terminals
Google library of 25 million scanned books may not be displayed, class action failed in unique legal process where US Justice Department interfered, according to analysis by James Somers
Due to competition from AMD's Ryzen processors, Intel will introduce new processors earlier than expected as Ryzen offers good performance at lower prices
Failed North Korea missile test may have been target of US cyber attack, says former UK foreign minister Sir Malcolm Rifkind who also says same method has been used successfully on several occasions in past
Microsoft says currently updated products are safe from 0day NSA exploits released by Shadow Brokers
Banks desperate to hire older programmers who master Cobol language as shift to modern mainframe computers goes slowly
USS Gerald R. Ford deployed one year later than planned, most expensive war ship in history at USD 12.9 billion
Ubuntu ceases investment in software for cell phones and tablets, desktop environment "Unity" also discontinued on desktops, switch to GNOME in a year
Android leading operating system on Internet, says StatCounter – first time since 1980s that Windows is not in lead
Elon Musk starts company to work on brain-computer interfaces, may also receive funding from Peter Thiel
Microsoft sued for having cost customers time, money and pain when upgrading to Windows 10, claim Microsoft knew the upgrade could cause data loss and destroy hardware
Mobile phones to analyze sperm quality by counting and measuring motility, on market within 2-3 years for USD 50
Hackers claim to have access to 300 million iCloud accounts, threaten to remotely wipe victims' devices unless Apple pays USD 75,000
Facebook increases investments in consumer hardware, company hardware group to have key role at upcoming developer conference
New retinal prosthesis prototype works without external sensor, energy efficient and scalable solution
Hydrogen fuel cell train pass first test run checking energy supply stability, next step include extensive test period in Czech Republic and Germany
American gaming company Blizzard suing German company that sells cheats for its games for USD 8.5 million, says it violates DMCA
Users of the vibrator We-Vibe with associated app got their user preferences, usage statistics and associated email uploaded to company servers without their knowledge, hackers at conference DefCon say remote control of the toy could be possible
Tesla promises to solve South Australia's recurring blackout problem by delivering grid energy storage system within 100 days, will not require payment if deadline exceeded
Automated triage nurse takes blood pressure, pulse oximetry and weight and enters it into chart system
IBM plans commercial production of general purpose quantum computer of 50 qubits, accessible through cloud service, error correction still not supported
Outage at Amazon Web Services makes large number of sites go down, including a number of middle-sized internet services
Youtube shows a billion hours of video per day, set to outpace regular American TV, 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minut, report from Wall Street Journal shows
2 million sound recordings from 800,000 internet connected teddy bears stored in database without password protection, app allowed easily cracked passwords like "a"
NASA conducts wind tunnel test of new supersonic airplane, goal is passenger traffic over Atlantic like legendary Concorde
Amazon refuses to hand over sound recording to murder investigation, refers to First Amendment, combined microphone and speaker Echo may have recorded audio at suspected crime scene
Google and Microsoft UK promise not to display sites with copyrighted material on their first pages, was negotiated by British government department calling it a landmark deal
Amazon intends to create 15 000 jobs in Europe in 2017, increasing its workforce by 30%, may be result of several ongoing antitrust and tax investigations in Europe, could also be result of ongoing expansion
Autonomous quadcopter expected to start carrying passengers in Dubai in July, vehicle made in China has a thirty minute flying capacity and can transport a single passenger
Samsung said to have received order for 160 million OLED displays from Apple, expected to be used in upcoming iPhone likely to come out in the fall, Apple has previously used LCD screens in its phones, Samsung dominate manufacturing of mobile OLEDs with 99% market share