GM buys laser firm in bid to speed autonomous car research

DETROIT— General Motors is buying a small company that is developing Laser light sensors for autonomous cars, a move the automaker says will speed deployment of...

Nenshi says in video that technology is being used by opponents of diversity

CALGARY — A video posted to social media last week that showed Calgary’s mayor accuse some of his challengers’ supporters of using technology to get people who might...

Scientists say cost of capturing CO2 declining

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Technology now in limited use removes about 90 per cent of carbon dioxide from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, but energy experts say cost...

Ohio State partners with Apple, new students to get iPads

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State University says all of its new undergraduate students will be getting an iPad beginning next fall. The university says it’s part...

Google vies to make even smarter phones, speakers, cameras

SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s upgrades to its Pixel smartphones and other gadgets are its latest steps toward turning its digital services into your backup brain. The products the...

World War Three is being waged in cyberspace

My introduction to advanced communication technology (i.e. the Internet and World Wide Web) came in 1999. Having grown up in the two-channel universe of the 1960s...

Scientists make breakthrough in replacing Wi-Fi with Li-Fi

CHANGCHUN — Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in creating full-color emissive carbon dots (F-CDs), which brings them one step closer to developing a faster wireless communication...

Region 8 students off to World Robot Olympiad

TACLOBAN CITY– The Philippine Science High School Eastern Visayas (PSHS-EV) campus is upbeat of garnering achievements in the upcoming World Robot Olympiad (WRO) in Costa Rica on November...

Scientists make breakthrough in replacing Wi-Fi with Li-Fi

CHANGCHUN— Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in creating full-color emissive carbon dots (F-CDs), which brings them one step closer to developing a faster wireless communication...

Beyond Bitcoin: The power struggle over trust based technology