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Crew of the International Space Station arrived on to Earth on 1st of March, having 340 days on the station behind their backs. Among the crew is NASA astronaut Scott…

This week, Geneva opens its doors to the first major European auto show this year. At the Detroit Motor Show, producers were trying to capture imagination of the visitors by…

Companies within AllSeen Alliance (Microsoft, Qualcomm, Cisco, Electrolux and others) announced creation of Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF). The organization will compose a single set of open IoT-protocols, which will accelerate…

Social networks’ messengers and applications turned out to be the main battery eaters in smartphones. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram continue to consume the charge even when you are not using your…

The US technology giants such as Apple and the Microsoft began to buy up British start-ups involved in the creation of artificial intelligence (AI). What is the reason? The passion…

UK Ministry of Defence will purchase two UAVs equipped with solar panels from Airbus Defence and Space. We are talking about drones Zephyr, which keep the watch at an altitude…

It looks like the cardboard VR-headset Google Cardboard is not the only project that connects the search giant with the world of virtual reality. Of course, the corporation’s management closely…

Next month, Microsoft will present perhaps the last Windows-based smartphone branded Lumia, reports WindowsCentral. Announcement of Lumia 650 model, focused on business users, is scheduled for February 1.

Autonomous vehicles have long been part of our reality. However, just as it happens with any mass innovation, the main obstacles to spread of unmanned vehicles is created not by…

On Friday morning, the French Health Minister announced commencing an investigation against yet unnamed pharmaceutical company’s clinical trials of a cannabis-based painkiller. The investigation began after five of the volunteers…

LG Electronics (LG) has announced plans to significantly expand its division dedicated to solar energy solutions, claiming multi-million dollar investment in the development of capacities for the production of solar…

Many were looking forward for this day, the day when we know the date of market launch of the revolutionary VR-helmet from the company Oculus VR, owned by Facebook. Finally,…

Germophobia, or, else called, mysophobia is a fear of being infected by microbes in contact with another person or object. People suffering from this symptom, as a rule, are constantly…

Twitter company received a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle, operated through short text messages. This is an innovation, since access to the gadget control will be available for several…

Google Inc. launched testing a new method of user access to the service to ensure better protection against cyber-attacks and hacking accounts. Users won’t need password to access their Google…

American Falcon 9 rocket has successfully completed its hour-long mission to take off and launch into the low orbit several satellites, and returned to Earth. This is the first vertical…

Big investors from Silicon Valley have created a non-profit organization OpenAI, which will get to grips with research and development in the field of artificial intelligence. The project attracted investment…

Economists at the Bank of England calculated probability of replacing people with robots for different professions. According to the researchers, risk of losing their jobs threatens 15 million people in…

A new Japanese passenger jet liner Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) on Wednesday made a test flight November 11. This is the first jet airliner, created in Japan.

BlackBerry company came out with their first smartphone based on Android operating system. The device is called Priv.

Forget batteries and solar panels – an American inventor came up with a flashlight powered by hand touch. A small device called Lumen is equipped with a panel that converts…

The Japanese manufacturer of rubber products Yokohama Rubber Company has announced the development of tires with "fins" that improve the aerodynamic characteristics of the car, according to the company's press…

Google, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company will invest 30 million dollars in the studio Niantic, specializing in a game with augmented reality techniques.

More and more countries are being involved in the development and use of various cyber weapons: even countries of modest means can use such weapons due to the relative cheapness…

Last year, Google filed a patent application for "smart" glasses, enabling the development of holographic images. So, how is it going with the new gadget?

Apple plans to start production of its first electric vehicle in 2019. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing informed sources.

A cup of espresso after dinner not only invigorates and allows going to bed later, but also bust the internal clock of the human body. This was discovered by American…

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A gadget, called Oura, will help to sleep better and improve productivity, according to the developers.

Sony continues to experiment with fashion trends. Having created a VR-helmet Morpheus and announced a fitness bracelet based on e-ink, the Japanese company has reached the drones. Together with manufacturers…

Thanks to the active dissemination of online registration systems in the US, criminals can easily create a "virtual baby" on which one can arrange to take out loans and grants,…

The development of new technologies can lead to the fact that the stars will cease to denude in front of the lens, and their bodies will be drawn instead, according…

Projects on creation of the soldiers of the future exist in many countries around the world. Many of them are quite promising. Here is the top 5 developments of future…

Chinese scientists have begun work on the creation of a hybrid thermonuclear reactor of fusion-fission method to burn nuclear waste.

Boeing has received from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent approval for an aircraft engine, runs on the energy of thermonuclear explosions. The lasers hit the radioactive substances…

The US administration unveiled plans for a large-scale expansion of the solar energy use and making it available primarily to the poor and disadvantaged. By 2020, the United States will…

Future versions of augmented reality glasses Google Glass is planned to be improved so that the device can take pictures, focusing on the owner’s fingers to determine the boundaries of…

The shift to unmanned taxi will significantly reduce the amount of emissions of harmful gases with modern machines and save taxi owners’ money. That is the conclusion reached by scientists…

The launch vehicle Falcon 9 of SpaceX company, launched June 28, 2015 at 10:21 EST from the launch site at Cape Canaveral, exploded in the third minute after the start.…

Divergent Microfactories (DM) Company showed a prototype of a powerful and easy vehicle made to be produced in small volumes at low-cost manufactories around the world. The Californian start-up idea…

A couple of weeks ago, Google announced the creation of the project Sidewalk Labs, which will be responsible for urban technology. Recently the company has officially confirmed that the new…

Nowadays, UAVs have considered not as a miracle of technology, but as quite ordinary things. However, scientists’ ingenuity knows no boundaries - let's see what new items based on drones…

Chinese retailing major Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is looking to build China’s version of Netflix Inc. and HBO through a new service called Tmall Box Office. The Tmall Box Office