Researchers testing method to build temperature, heat-flux sensors for hypersonic vehicles 2 min read

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Researchers testing method to build temperature, heat-flux sensors for hypersonic vehicles

UTA’s new arc-jet heated hypersonic wind tunnel. Credit: University of Texas at Arlington Harsh environmental conditions—such as surface temperatures reaching thousands of degrees Fahrenheit—make it... Read More

Apple streaming service films could debut in theaters: report 1 min read

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Apple streaming service films could debut in theaters: report

Apple is reportedly considering seeking to launch some of its film productions in theaters before offering them on the new streaming television service set to... Read More

Fast 5G networks aim to expand the reach of cellular beyond smartphones 3 min read

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Fast 5G networks aim to expand the reach of cellular beyond smartphones

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Fast 5G wireless networks have barely gotten out of the gate globally, but already about 2 million 5G smartphones have been... Read More

Traditional banks are struggling to stave off the fintech revolution 5 min read

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Traditional banks are struggling to stave off the fintech revolution

Credit: Shutterstock Traditional banks are haunted by financial technology—fintech—firms. Challengers such as mobile-first banks Chime in the US, Monzo in the UK and Germany’s N26... Read More

Germany shuts down illegal data center in former NATO bunker 2 min read

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Germany shuts down illegal data center in former NATO bunker

Credit: CC0 Public Domain German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker that hosted sites... Read More

Israel seeks to feed growing global appetite for food-tech 3 min read

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Israel seeks to feed growing global appetite for food-tech

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ilan Samish dips a crisp in ketchup, takes a sip of soda and samples a spoonful of yogurt鈥攖he latter three sweetened... Read More

Engineers build drones to test hypersonic tech 3 min read

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Engineers build drones to test hypersonic tech

Interns at Sandia National Laboratories built and programmed drones to study autonomy and artificial intelligence for hypersonic flight, similar to the quadcopters seen here. Credit:... Read More

Fiat Chrysler to pay $40 mn fine for misleading sales figures 1 min read

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Fiat Chrysler to pay $40 mn fine for misleading sales figures

FCA US ‘inflated’ its auto sales reports, misleading investors, US regulators said Fiat Chrysler will pay a $40 million fine for “falsely reporting” US car... Read More

CrocSpotter app uses AI for detection 2 min read

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CrocSpotter app uses AI for detection

Credit: CC0 Public Domain CrocSpotter AI is the latest algorithm developed by the University of Technology Sydney and industry partner Westpac Little Ripper. Ultra-low latency... Read More

French airline shuts down after court rejects bids 2 min read

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French airline shuts down after court rejects bids

No takeover bid was considered good enough A French commercial court on Friday ordered the shutdown of Aigle Azur, putting the 1,150 employees of the... Read More

Hard landing for SoftBank? WeWork woes raise questions 3 min read

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Hard landing for SoftBank? WeWork woes raise questions

Masayoshi Son transformed software firm Softbank into a powerful tech investor that backs some of Silicon Valley’s most well-known start-ups SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son... Read More

Volkswagen faces first mass diesel lawsuit on home turf 3 min read

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Volkswagen faces first mass diesel lawsuit on home turf

Dieselgate is now ‘part of the group’s history’ Car behemoth Volkswagen will face a German court Monday, as hundreds of thousands of owners of manipulated... Read More

Code War: Myanmar's final digital battle ends 3 min read

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Code War: Myanmar's final digital battle ends

Volunteers in Yangon help phone users switch from the old Zawgi font to unicode Accessing everything from Wikipedia to Google Maps in Myanmar is about... Read More

Facebook hides 'likes' in Australia trial to ease anxiety 2 min read

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Facebook hides 'likes' in Australia trial to ease anxiety

In a bid to ease social pressure, all Facebook users in Australia will be blocked from seeing the number of ‘likes’ other people’s posts receive... Read More

Fortnite's move to bots: How will it impact human players? 2 min read

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Fortnite's move to bots: How will it impact human players?

This is the cover art for Fortnite: Save the World. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to Epic Games. SourceMobyGames In a recent move,... Read More

Cameroon's Silicon Mountain tech startups struggle with insurgency 4 min read

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Cameroon's Silicon Mountain tech startups struggle with insurgency

Soldiers have been battling insurgents in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions since 2017 in a conflict that has killed 2,500 people Hi-tech promoters had big dreams for... Read More

Advocates fault Facebook over misleading posts by politicos 5 min read

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Advocates fault Facebook over misleading posts by politicos

In this Sept. 5, 2018, file photo Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on ‘Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use... Read More