They could have just washed her mouth out with soap, but instead Abu Dhabi officials threw Austrailian Jodi Magi in jail for posting a picture of a parked car online, Australia’s ABC News reports. It started in February when Magi, annoyed at a driver who took up two handicap parking spaces in her apartment’s lot, posted a photo (since removed, …

The progression of technology is a funny thing. While certain advances are easy to anticipate ahead of time, there will always be researchers out there developing projects that few would ever even consider. A group of scientists at Duke University have set out to answer a question that no one was really asking: is it possible to create a computer …

Data in its first call home since Tuesday’s flyby suggest the spacecraft experienced no upsets as it hurtled past the icy world at 14km/s (31,000mph). The signal came through a giant dish in Madrid, Spain – part of a Nasa network of communications antennas. The message took four hours 25 minutes to traverse 4.7 billion km of space. The tension …

What does artificial intelligence mean to you? If you believe the movies, AI is something theoretical, futuristic…far away. It’s a rampaging robot or a piece of malign code intent on world domination. Recent fears about AI raised by the likes of Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates have only served to feed that chilling – but pretty unlikely – …

Adobe’s Flash software is now blocked by default on all versions of the Firefox web browser. Mozilla, which develops Firefox, imposed the block because recently unearthed bugs in Flash were being actively used by cyber-thieves. The bugs were detailed in a cache of documents stolen from security firm Hacking Team that was hit by attackers last week. Adobe said it …

With over 6,000 languages spoken in the world, communication can often be convoluted to say the least. Whether traveling, communicating online, or trying to perform business in another country communication barriers create tension, and make conversing difficult. Scientists at University of California Berkley have developed technology which will allow humans to communicate through echolocation in the same way that bats …

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a graphene based film which can keep electronic circuits and gadgets cool. The solution offered by Swedish research team, based on graphene based film, has been published in the current issue of journal Advanced Materials. Graphene has been accredited with amazing capabilities and strength. The single atom carbon layer could …

  This week, the United Nations has been focusing intently on the use of technology to solve global problems and drive development that’s both affordable and sustainable. It’s an immensely important topic in a world increasingly divided between rich and poor, healthy and sick, educated and isolated, and is central to the UN mission for the current century. As Dean …

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM – Analyst Report) recently announced that it has achieved a breakthrough in its research for ultradense computer chips. The company has come up with its first 7-nanometer chips with reportedly four times the capacity of most powerful chips currently available. The project was under development in collaboration with GlobalFoundries, Samsung and SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges …

Phoenix Contact now offers a Rogowski coil solution to easily retrofit current-measuring applications up to 4000 A. The PACT RCP current transformer (CT) is an alternative to split-core current transformers and other CT technologies. The Rogowski coil is a flexible, rope-styled CT. Because it is designed as a loop, the Rogowski coil can be separated easily for quick installation on …