The Federal Aviation Administration said it would work with two private U.S. companies to test commercial drones that can fly beyond an operator’s line of sight, a precursor to sophisticated drone operations such as package delivery. The separate partnerships, with drone makers PrecisionHawk and BNSF Railway Co, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc, are a potential milestone in …

      The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) plans to provide Wi-Fi facility aboard its trains as well as in stations, union Minister of State for Urban Development Babul Supriyo said on Wednesday. “The DMRC has informed the ministry that it has planned to provide Wi-Fi facility in metro trains,” he said in reply to a question in the …

    A Google toolbar to streamline tasks such as searching the Internet or bookmarking online pages with Web browsing programs made its debut in Cuba on Wednesday. The US-based Internet colossus updated its Spanish-language blog to put out word that people in Cuba could download the toolbar, which can be affixed atop browsers for quick access to Google services …

      Kickstarter of the Week, we take a weekly look at the latest projects on Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other crowdfunding sites to find the most innovative and interesting new projects you can back. That’s because in the last couple of years, some of the most exciting developments in technology, like the Pebble smartwatch and theOculus Rift exist only …

    Russian federal space agency Roscosmos has said that the upcoming manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) would be re-scheduled due to the recent failure of the Progress M-27M cargo craft. “The programme of the next expedition to the ISS on May 26 may be adjusted due to possible postponements of the launch dates of cargo spacecraft …

      Xiaomi’s mid to high-end segment smartphones have mostly given a miss to microSD card slots. In the company’s current lineup, only the Redmi-series include SD card slots. It might come as a surprise to a few, considering that the majority of Android smartphones do support expandable storage via microSD card slots; though Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s VP Global, …

  A revolution is coming in flexible electronic technologies as cheaper, more flexible, organic transistors come on the scene to replace expensive, rigid, silicon-based semiconductors, but not enough is known about how bending in these new thin-film electronic devices will affect their performance, say materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Writing in the current issue of Nature Communications, …

  The patent is titled “Windscreen Clearing System for a Vehicle,” which describes how the eye-tracking hardware and software would be put to work. In brief, you, the driver, look in your rear-view mirror and the wipers on the rear window become activated. Eye-tracking tech was in focus with an earlier January announcement of a Jaguar Land Rover tie-in with …

  An official at Chengdu’s city transportation commission said the visit Wednesday was part of an investigation into Uber allowing private drivers to offer their services via the taxi-hailing app, which has established a presence in about 10 Chinese cities. The Chinese government in January banned drivers of private cars from offering such services through apps. Police last week raided …

    The boxing match billed as the fight of the century is over, but the battle over smartphone video streaming of the Las Vegas showdown is just beginning. Revelations that dozens of smartphone users streamed the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather weekend fight have raised questions about how new technologies can get around copyright restrictions imposed at live venues such as …