Spotify has long refused to restrict new releases from its ad-supported non-paying listeners because it would make the streaming app confusing. It wanted all music available to everyone, always. But as it preps to IPO, it needs to negotiate better royalty rates with the major labels, and allowing this “windowing” practice is a bargaining chip […]

A YouTube collection of grainy video clips highlights the progress Gravity founder Richard Browning has made toward his outlandish dream over the past year. Each seems more terrifying than the last, with multiple jet engines attached to his limbs in various configurations, as he hovers a few feet from the ground. The press material attached […]

Google’s Project Zero has been on a roll lately, unveiling sophisticated bugs in Cloud flare, LastPass and now Broadcom, a Wi-Fi chip supplier whose product is found in iPhones, Nexuses and Samsung devices. Apple patched the bug in a security update yesterday (10.3.1 — and if you’re an Apple customer, you should install this update […]

You weren’t supposed to know about Oath. Not this week, at least. And certainly not under these circumstances. The newly minted and already much maligned poster child of the forthcoming face of Verizon’s Yahoo acquisition was developed in-house as a B2B brand, designed for customer and partner relationships. That’s according to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, […]

A team of researchers at the University of Missouri are using a pair of robotics platforms and a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system for identifying crop strains resistant to heat, drought and flood. The research is part of an ongoing attempt to cross-breed hearty crops in order to […]

Amazon has reportedly reached a deal with the NFL to stream 10 Thursday Night Football games this year, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The one-year deal is reportedly valued at around $50 million. Last season Twitter had a one-year, $10 million deal with the league to also stream 10 Thursday Night Football games. When that […]

At CES, ODG pulled back the curtain on a couple of its next-generation flagship products, the R-8 and R-9, but because of the existing supply chain, the company tells me it just made a lot more sense to get the rugged version of the R-7 sooner rather than to wait until production on the enterprise-focused […]

AdAsia, a one-year-old online advertising startup based in Singapore, has closed a $12 million Series A round from Japanese investor JAFCO. The company was founded in April 2016 by CEO Kosuke Sogo, the former managing director of Japan’s MicroAd in APAC, and COO Otohiko Kozutsumi, who had been with MicroAd Vietnam. It offers a single […]

Azimo, the U.K. money transfer startup backed by Rakuten, is rolling out a neat new feature that makes it a lot easier to send money through the app and should add additional network effects to help the London based fintech company grow. Specifically, the new functionality enables Azimo users to request, send and receive cash […]

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller is talking to a small group of reporters in a white stucco building near its headquarters in Cupertino, Ca. The purpose of the discussion, while somewhat unclear initially, reveals itself a few minutes in. The news, if you want it straight: Apple is acknowledging that the […]

With the appointment of Ajit Pai as the new FCC chairman and his public opposition to current regulations, the death of net neutrality is likely upon us. As a result, an internet toll road and higher costs for more data is probably in your future. The impact on businesses is more complex. For example, the […]

The premise of the report is this: full participation in today’s societies and achievement of one’s desired potential are increasingly likely to depend on the ability to identify oneself; however, some 1.5 billion people are reckoned to lack “legal identification”, and action should be taken to remedy this. The report acknowledges that private companies and […]

A prototype gadget that sends secret keys to encrypt information passed from a mobile device to a payment terminal, could help to answer public concerns around the security of contactless and wireless transactions, a new Oxford University collaboration has found. Despite being a leader in the digital world, and mobile payments available on everything from petrol, […]

A team of engineering researchers has made a fundamental advance in controlling so-called soft robots, using magnetic fields to remotely manipulate microparticle chains embedded in soft robotic devices. The researchers have already created several devices that make use of the new technique. “By putting these self-assembling chains into soft robots, we are able to have them […]

Samsung has unveiled its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, the Korean giant’s latest attempt to take on the iPhone. The launch of the device is seen as a crucial moment for Samsung coming after the scandal that saw it forced to recall and cease production of the galaxy note 7, its previous top-end phone. The […]

You might think Disney is too busy making blockbuster movies to spend time researching how VR can help teach you to catch. Well, strangely, you’d be wrong. The company’s research division this week posted footage of experiments it’s been working with in VR regarding the human perceptual system. Specifically, its work explores if VR could […]

Ran Dubin, a doctoral student in the BGU Department of Communication Systems Engineering who is an expert in cyber security, presented this research at the Black Hat Europe meeting in London where they check all the london signs of advertisement. Dubin was able to us this algorithm to determine if someone had watched a specific […]

Students can read all they want about geological folds, axial planes, hinge lines, antiform synclines and synform anticlines. But it can still be a challenge to visualise just what geologists are talking about. A better option is putting boots on the ground — such as a trip to Iowa State University’s Carl F. Vondra Geology […]

Researchers at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Centre have demonstrated that data can be stolen from an isolated “air-gapped” computer’s hard drive reading the pulses of light on the LED drive using various types of cameras and light sensors which is something really complicated and hard to do, but […]

The buzzword in drone research is autonomous — having the unmanned aerial vehicle do most or all of its own flying. It’s the only realistic way that drones will have commercially viable uses such as delivering that roll of toilet paper to customers, said Manish Kumar, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of […]

A new web-based software platform is swiftly bringing the visualisation of 3D data to every device, optimising the use of, virtual reality and augmented reality in industry. In this way, Fraunhofer researchers have brought the ideal of “any data on any device” a good deal closer. On account of the gigantic volumes of data that […]

Pattern Lock is a security measure that protects devices, such as mobile phones or tablets, and which is preferred by many to PIN codes or text passwords. It is used by around 40 per cent of Android device owners. New research from Lancaster University, Northwest University in China, and the University of Bath, which benefitted from […]

Autonomous systems like driverless cars perform tasks that previously could only be performed by humans. In a new IEEE Intelligent Systems Expert Opinion piece, Carnegie Mellon University artificial intelligence ethics experts David Danks and Alex John London argue that current safety regulations do not plan for these systems and are therefore ill-equipped to ensure that autonomous systems […]

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have devised a new way to protect personal electronic health records using a patient’s own heartbeat which should be strong and diferable for healthy people that keep their body healthy with exercise, diets and supplements as maeng da. Traditional security measures — like cryptography or encryption — […]

All individuals are unique but millions of people share names. How to distinguish or as it is technically known, disambiguate people with common names and determine which John Smith or Maria Garcia or Wei Zhang or Omar Ali is a specific John Smith, Maria Garcia, Wei Zhang or Omar Ali or even someone previously unidentified? […]

In recent years, computers have gotten remarkably good at recognising speech and images: Think of the dictation software on most cellphones, or the algorithms that automatically identify people in photos posted to Facebook. but recognition of sound such as drilling or cheering has lagged behind hat’s because most automated recognition systems, whether they process audio or […]

Radio-frequency identification tags have become almost ubiquitous look carefully, and you’ll notice them in passports, credit cards, library books, office access passes, and even pet cats. The piece of technology, which allows fast, automated identification of physical object, is also a staple for many industries. different factories and warehouses use it to track inventory and […]

Research show when children watch too much tv, they have a higher risk of becoming over weight. Although, more and more screen time is coming from other devices, like tablets and smartphones, and the impact of these devices has not been researched as much. a study showed researchers found that children who reported spending more time […]

According to computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, we can create software with 100 times fewer vulnerabilities then we do today. to accomplish that, they recommend that coders adopt the approaches they have compiled in a new publication. The 60-page document, NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8151: dramatically Reducing software vulnerabilities This is a […]

The main aim of the augmented reality research is to analyse learning and motivational cognitive aspects related to it in an informal learning context. The results showed that the augmented reality experience was beneficial especially for the pupils who otherwise belong in a low achieving group on the other hand, the students with the high-performance school success gained more […]

As long as humans are writing software, there will be coding mistakes for malicious hackers to exploit. A single bug can open the door to attackers deleting files, copying credit card numbers or carrying out political mischief. A program called shuffler tries to preempt such attacks by allowing programs to repeatedly scramble their code as […]

Pokemon Go launched in July this year has become a global phenomenon reaching 500 million downloads within the first two moths of release. The augmented reality game, designed for mobile devices, allows users to capture, battle and train virtual creatures called Pokémon that appear on screen as if part of the real-world environment. But can […]

A researcher compared the virtual reality experience with two different systems|the one with VR headsets versus one with the immersive projection system using a concave spherical screen, developed by his research team and called hybrid virtual environment 3D of hyve-3D for short.he immersed 20 subjects whom preferred the virtual reality without headsets, because they could […]

Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it’s complicated. A study of 12 million social media users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer — when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties. Social media is very useful i might say because advance medications and other services can […]

A new design for solar cells that uses cheaper and more common materials could rival and maybe outperform conventional cells made of silicon. Study co-author Michael McGehee said “Perovskite semiconductors have shown great promise for making high-efficiency solar cells at low cost,” He also said “We have designed a robust, all-perovskite device that converts sunlight into electricity […]

A computer-based brain training program developed at Yale University helps improve student performance in reading and math. in a study including more than 500 high school students, math and reading scores on school- administered tests increased significantly more in children who used the brain training program Activate during the school year than in control classes. […]

Using the power of thought to control a robot that helps to move a paralysed hand: a project from the ETH Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory could fundamentally change the therapy and daily lives of stroke patients. on average one in six people will suffer from a stroke in their lifetime. In Switzerland alone, stroke affects 16,000 […]

With the outsourcing of microchip design and fabrication worldwide, a $350 billion business, bad actors along the supply chain have many opportunities to install malicious circuitry in chips. These bodybuilding supplements look harmless but can allow attackers to sabotage healthcare devices; public infrastructure; and financial, military, or government electronics. A chip with both an embedded […]

After 3 years of waiting Microsoft has finally brought out the windows 10 which has been release across the globe to 1.5 billion people in 190 countries as a free upgrade or wit new PCs and tablets. In a blog last week Mehdi said “We are excited to bring Windows 10 and its many innovations to the […]

Virtual reality has never bigger that it is right now the reason for this is because the VR offers an incredible experience for all different ages and users giving the feeling of the outside world in the comfort of your own home. VR presents unparalleled amount of freedom for both users and creators to experiment […]

After 16 days of waiting Pokemon Go has finally been released in Japan the home of the virtual creatures. The game that was first released in the US, Australia and New Zealand and is now available in more than 30 countries and now it has been released in japan. The launch comes with a McDonalds […]