A large LED screen being set up for the Ultra Music Festival crashed onto the main stage Thursday night in downtown Miami, seriously injuring two workers. Fire rescue workers responded to Bayfront Park at about 8 p.m. and took two victims to Ryder Trauma Center, according to Lt. Ignatius Carroll Jr., a Miami fire and […]
Artificial intelligence
Social Media Editor Charged in Hacking Conspiracy
A journalist vowed that Friday would be “business as usual” despite charges of conspiring with the notorious hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los Angeles Times. Federal authorities allege that in December 2010, Matthew Keys provided hackers with login information to access the computer system of the Tribune Co., the parent […]
Boost for Google, Cuts for Apple
New research gives a lift to tablets running Google’s operating system while lowering expectations for Apple’s iOS. Plus, another analyst cuts his price target on Apple’s stock.
Apple CEO Required to Testify in NY e-Books Case
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been ordered to testify in a New York court case the Justice Department brought against the company over the pricing of e-books for consumers. Federal Judge Denise Cote on Wednesday granted a government request to question Apple Inc.’s chief executive. The government sued Apple last spring, saying the technology giant […]
Google Replaces Android Software Exec
Google says the executive in charge of its popular Android software for smartphones and tablet computers is stepping down from the job. The unexpected change announced Wednesday marks the first time that the Android software has been overseen by someone other than Andy Rubin. He began working on the software at a startup that Google […]
Creating Indestructible Self-Healing Circuits
Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microseconds from problems ranging from less-than-ideal battery power to total transistor failure. It might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), for the […]
Google Paying Bonuses Totaling $15M to 4 Top Execs
Google is paying nearly $15 million in bonuses to four of the Internet company’s top executives for their performances last year. Documents filed Tuesday disclosed Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will get the biggest award at $6 million to supplement his estimated fortune of $8 billion. Schmidt served as Google Inc.’s CEO for a decade until […]
Room-Temperature Electrically Powered Nanolasers
A breakthrough in nanolaser technology has been made by Arizona State University researchers. Electrically powered nano-scale lasers have been able to operate effectively only in cold temperatures. Researchers in the field have been striving to enable them to perform reliably at room temperature, a step that would pave the way for their use in a […]
Ultra-High-Speed Optical Communications Link Sets Record
Ultrafast supercomputers that operate at speeds 100 times faster than current systems are now one step closer to reality. A team of IBM researchers working on a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -funded program have found a way to transmit massive amounts of data with unprecedentedly low power consumption. The team will describe their […]
Newark Element14 Expands Panasonic Distribution Agreement
Design engineers can now quickly source Panasonic’s full range of board-level passive components and discrete semiconductors from Newark element14. Newark element14, a distributor of electronic components and engineering solutions in the Americas, and Panasonic, a manufacturer of electronic components, have agreed to expand their distribution agreement to include a wide range of passive components, semiconductors […]