A new breed of unmanned aerial vehicle that is safe to fly at close proximity to crowds has been developed by a spin-off team from Swiss university ETH Zurich. The helium-filled flying machine, known as Skye, combines the manoeuvrability of a traditional quadcopter with the energy efficiency of a bl...
The former chief financial officer of Kit Digital Inc pleaded guilty on Tuesday to engaging in a scheme to deceive investors about the now-bankrupt online video management company's financial health. Robin Smyth, 62, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to five counts including securities fr...
A courier of Ele.me food delivery smartphone application travels on his electric bicycle along a street in Shanghai, China, October 9, 2015. Reuters Aly Song China's annual consumer rights day TV show took aim at online food delivery apps, faked online sales and dodgy false teeth when it aired late ...
Choi Jung-yoon shows a product at her sex toy shop in Seoul, South Korea, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji It's not just computers and mobile phones that are vulnerable to cyber attack, according to software firm Trend Micro. As more devices are hooked up to the Internet, it could be anything ...
The logo of Alibaba Group is seen inside the company's headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province early November 11, 2014. Reuters/Aly Song Alibaba plans to train a million teenagers in rural China to help start their own online businesses, taking e-commerce to the country's vast rural areas, the o...
An AT&T Logo is pictured on the side of a building in Pasadena, California, January 26, 2015. Reuters/Mario Anzuoni Ratings agency Moody's Investors Services said Tuesday a proposal by U.S. communications regulators to impose privacy restrictions on broadband providers like Verizon Communication...
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen at a building in Tokyo in this September 30, 2015 file photo. Reuters/Toru Hanai/Files Japan's Toshiba Corp revealed additional accounting irregularities on Friday after a multi-billion dollar accounting scandal last year, rekindling doubts over the company's pledge ...
Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program beat South Korean professional Lee Sedol in the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, recovering from Sunday's loss to win its fourth match in a five-game series. AlphaGo, developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind, had already clinched a series victory with it...
Bangladesh's central bank governor Atiur Rahman poses inside his office in Dhaka in this October 2, 2013 file photo. Reuters/Andrew Biraj/Files Bangladesh’s central bank governor Atiur Rahman said on Tuesday he was prepared to resign after $81 million was stolen from the bank in one of the lar...
Maya Jackson, a Lyft driver from Sacramento, navigates a Lyft app on a smartphone during a photo opportunity in San Francisco, California February 3, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam Drivers for ride-hailing app Lyft will no longer face the imperative of owning a car under a rental program launched on Mond...
FBI Director James B. Comey attends a news conference on terrorism after speaking at the NYPD Shield Conference in the Manhattan borough of New York, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Darren Ornitz China wants to have deeper internet security and anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States, China's p...
Applied Materials Inc, the world's largest supplier of equipment used to make semiconductor chips, plans to invest 4 billion yuan ($615 million) to expand in the China market over the next few years, the China Daily quoted company CEO Gary Dickerson as saying. China has been ploughing tens of billio...
An Apple logo is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in downtown Brussels, Belgium March 10, 2016. Reuters/Yves Herman The latest filing in the legal war between the planet’s most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high-stakes confrontation coul...
The word 'password' is pictured on a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski Hackers using tactics and tools previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer network intrusions have joined the booming cyber crime industry of...
An advertisement for Verizon is seen at Times Square in New York, May 12, 2015. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton A unit of telecoms multinational Verizon Communications signed a direct interconnection agreement with the Cuban state monopoly Etecsa, expanding on existing roaming services in the Caribbean co...
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, November 6, 2015. Reuters/Yuya Shino Japanese industrial conglomerate Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said it is in late-stage talks to sell its white goods business to Chinese household appliance giant Midea Group Co Ltd (000333.SZ), Nikke...
A Google self-driving car is seen inside a lobby at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California November 13, 2015. Reuters/Stephen Lam The head of Alphabet Inc's Google self-driving car program will urge the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to grant national auto safety regulators new authority to ...
A Google self-driving car is seen inside a lobby at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California November 13, 2015. Reuters/Stephen Lam The head of Alphabet Inc's Google self-driving car program will urge the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to grant national auto safety regulators new authority to ...
A man uses a smartphone in New York City, in this picture taken November 6, 2013. Reuters/Mike Segar (Reuters Health) - Smartphones are the first thing many people turn to with questions about their health. But when it comes to urgent queries about issues like suicide, rape and heart attacks, phones...
An Apple logo is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in downtown Brussels, Belgium March 10, 2016. Reuters/Yves Herman BRUSSELS - Apple (AAPL.O), Google (GOOGL.O), McDonald's (MCD.N) and IKEA[IKEA.UL] will be asked about their European tax deals on Wednesday as EU lawmakers ratchet up the pressur...
The U.S. Army is using a new crime reporting application for smart phones called "iWatch Army" at 17 U.S. bases to boost its anti-terrorism and anti-crime efforts, with another 100 military bases likely to follow suit this year, the app's developer said. Omar Leeman, chief executive of CloseWatch In...
The logo of the Advance Info Service Public Company Limited is pictured at its office building in central Bangkok, Thailand, March 11, 2016. Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha Some 400,000 subscribers of Thailand's largest mobile operator Advanced Info Service Pcl (AIS) (ADVANC.BK) could be cut off from se...
The Google internet homepage is displayed on a product at a store in London, Britain January 23, 2016. Reuters/Neil Hall The Moscow Arbitration court on Monday rejected an appeal from Google and upheld a ruling that the U.S. firm broke anti-monopoly laws by abusing its dominant position with its And...
A logo of Alibaba Group is pictured at its headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, October 14, 2015. Reuters/Stringer The logistics arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) has completed a funding round, China's biggest e-commerce company said on Monday. Investors in the funding round o...
An open sign is seen at the office of taxi-hailing service Uber Inc during a driver recruitment event in Hong Kong, China December 29, 2015. Reuters/Tyrone Siu The subsidizing of fares and the supplementing of driver wages by ride-hailing companies such as Didi Kuaidi and U.S. firm Uber Technologies...
South Korean Lee Sedol won his first match against a computer program developed by a Google subsidiary on Sunday in the ancient board game Go, denying a clean sweep for the artificial intelligence in a five-match series. Lee, one of the world's top players and a holder of 18 international titles, re...
A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files North Korea on Sunday denied that it conducted cyber attacks against officials from rival South Korea, calling the South's accusation that it did so a "fabrication". South Ko...
An employee assembles an electric car along a production line at a factory in Qingzhou, Shandong province, China, October 31, 2015. Reuters/China Daily China's production and sale of electric cars will more than double this year, the industry minister said on Sunday. More than 300,000 electric cars ...
A year ago, Micromax vaulted past Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to become India's leading smartphone brand. Today, its market share has nearly halved, several top executives have resigned, and the company is looking for growth outside India. In Micromax's slide to second place is a tale of the promise ...
Online harassment and sexism is demeaning women and can no longer be brushed aside as an ugly side of social media and the gaming industry if they are to thrive, panelists on Saturday said at the South By Southwest (SXSW) tech meeting in Austin. The gaming summit at one of the premier events on the ...
