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Analysts at The Boston Consulting Group analyzed the 3D printing market and came to the conclusion that it could reach industrial scale just within a few years. At the same…

SpaceX successfully re-launched into space its reusable Falcon 9 rocket. The launch was broadcasted online on YouTube on 30 March from Cape Canaveral in Florida. SpaceX brought to geostationary orbit…

More than 40 companies, including Turing Robotic Industries, Thiel Audio, Blackberry, ONO 3D, Tidal Force, presented New technology developments at the Luxury Technology Show in New York. Among other things,…

MIT Technology Review, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented a list of five promising biotech products of the near future. However, their implementation will most likely get stuck…

According to latest report of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) "Disrupting Human Trafficking: The Role of Financial Institutions", banks could possible use special algorithms to find out criminals among…

Amazon’s Head Jeff Bezos wants to launch a service delivering cargos to the moon, similar to already existing Amazon delivery. Bezos owns Blue Origin company, which has been engaged in…

The World Economic Forum and The Boston Consulting Group presented a new report "Shaping the Future of Construction: Inspiring Innovators Redefine the Industry". The authors speak of nearly fantastic things…

Apple announced that Apple Park, a new campus area of over 70 hectares, opens its doors in April. Relocation of employees – there are more than 12 thousand of them…

This week, Visa payment system and IBM announced launch of a large-scale project to combine "internet of things" (IoT), artificial intelligence and remote payments. The initiative is meant to allow…

Dutch PAL-V launched a pre-order campaign on the world's first flying car PAL-V Liberty, according to the company’s website.

Crash tests of four cars conducted by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) showed that all four models - hybrid Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius Prime plus electric Tesla Model…

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and former owner of eBay Pierre Morad Omidyar sent $ 20 million for researches on protection from artificial intelligence (AI), reports The Guardian. The money went…

Faraday Future fired two top executives. Marco Mattiacci, ‎Global Chief Brand & Commercial Officer and Jörg Sommer, Vice President for Product Marketing and Growth left the US-Chinese start-up, reported The…

Google refused to fully develop its own unmanned car without a steering wheel and pedals, according to The Information. Instead, the company is looking forward to working with other automakers,…

In recent years, Luxembourg appeared on the world scene only with news about banking secrecy and dubious tax treaties. Now, however, this small European country is apparently pursuing a different…

Next year, citizens of Germany will have an opportunity to take a ride on a hydrogen-powered train Coradia iLint, developed by French company Alstom. It is the world's first mass-produced…

People choose different billing plans for their smartphones to send emails, chat on Facebook, and do many other things. But what about billing plans to communicate with drones?

According to security experts, development of unmanned vehicles should be slower and more gradual, and many elements of the automation still require improvement. It took decades to fully introduce autopilot…

Sony has officially released its PlayStation VR, a new gadget, with which you can dive into virtual reality.

October 4, Google will introduce smartphones under its own brand. According to Financial Times, the devices will be the first products of Google’s hardware production unit. Design of new gadgets…

According to findings of a research center at the University of Pittsburgh, fitness devices and other gadgets for monitoring physical activity do not help to lose weight. The scientists argue…

Founder of the Internet company Amazon Jeff Bezos, ranked fifth in Forbes’s ranking of billionaires, announced creation of a new space rocket heavy class New Glenn.

iPhone 6S was the best-selling smartphone in the II quarter of this year, according to analysts from Strategy Analytics. Number of its deliveries exceeded 14.2 million copies, while iPhone 6…

Panasonic Corporation will build a "smart house" using the latest environmentally friendly technologies, renewable energy, and the "Internet of Things" in Berlin. Project of the building, which will consist of…

The US carmaker Ford in cooperation with the largest Chinese Internet search engine Baidu invested $ 150 million in development of unmanned vehicles systems. The investment will be spent on…

Technological startup Mobvoi Beijing is readying to make the first attempt to conquer the western markets with launch online sales of its smart watches in the United States. The technological…

Chinese media are beginning to express doubts about "practicality" and "expediency" of a "Bus of the Future", which was named Batie.

On Wednesday, Facebook opened a production laboratory complete with equipment and machines for manufacture of prototypes of technical innovations. This workshop, called Area 404, has already became the largest of…

July 12, America counted 21 million active players in Pokemon Go app – this is a record for mobile games in the United States. According to Similar Web, Pokemon Go…

Apple is going release an update that will allow iPhone owners to register in the donor base. The company thinks this would help solve the problem of shortage of donors.…

According to The Times, Chinese consumers are actively buying up cars, which look like smaller copies of Land Rover and cost about $ 2700. CNEV Rover model is very popular…

IBM Security Division published results of a global study on financial consequences of data breaches. The study by Ponemon Institute, supported by IBM, found that the average amount of losses…

Virtual reality is boggling minds of many people, probably because most of the new technology’s application are related to the entertainment sphere. However, abilities of VR-technology are not limited by…

John McAfee, creator of the first commercial anti-virus program and McAfee company’s founder hired hackers to protect his investment company MGT Capital Investments from burglary, according to Marketwatch.

Microsoft will be predicting results of each match within the 2016 European Championship which starts on June 10. The forecasts will be made by a team of Microsoft experts using…

Founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, engineer and billionaire Elon Musk delivered a speech on Code Conference in California. There, he said that his company may start sending humans to…

Japanese Nintendo, specializes in the development of game consoles and games for them, is going to try its hand at filmmaking. Now, it’s not about granting licenses for use the…

Virtual reality got Google interested so much that the corporation may issue new headset complemented with specialized software, which already has a name - AndroidVR.

Airbus, along with scientists from France and Japan, is developing humanoid robots that will work on assembly lines and inside aircraft side by side with humans. This is a significant…

CareKit, a new programming environment from Apple created to give everyone the opportunity to actively monitor their health, is now available for developers.

Chinese Huawei company introduced its virtual reality helmet, called Huawei VR. The device is designed to compete with Samsung Gear VR. Like its South Korean "colleague", the Chinese helmet is…

Mass exploitation of dangerous vulnerabilities in Android-based devices is greatly complicated by the market’s fragmentation.

Apple’s recently announced smartphone iPhone SE looks almost identical to the old iPhone 5S, yet the new capacity can compete with the flagship iPhone 6S.

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Apple has transferred part of its cloud services to Google Cloud. At that, the company continue to actively build its own data centers with a further goal to reduce dependence…

Fitness trackers have long ceased to develop and offer something new. The last relatively big achievement has been emergence of wristbands with heart rate monitor.

This week, the UK government officially announced that unmanned vehicles will be allowed to be tested on public roads. The authorities believe that such cars would not only significantly reduce…

The practice of computer-aided development of investment strategies (robo-advising) is becoming more common in the financial advisory market. As follows from the analysis of the Swiss company MyPrivateBanking Research, the…

R3 Consortium introduced an unprecedentedly ambitious experiment. Forty world-leading banks have tested a system for operations with bonds based on blockchain technology.