Has any corner of popular culture not been bitten by the tech bug? Answer: no. And Halloween, one of the world’s spookiest festivals, is no exception. Last year Internet service provider Windstream…
How Supercomputers and the Berlin Wall Made a Nuclear Marvel Possible
Located a ten-minute drive outside the pretty German town of Greifswald, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics has a gray-and-glass front and gently waving roof that scream ‘Science Stuff Here.’ Inside,…
The Top Tech to Watch Out For at This Summer’s Euro 2016 Soccer Championships
It’s under a fortnight until this summer’s soccer European Championships kicks off in France. But while the basics of the game have barely changed since its rules were cast in 1863, there…
U.K. Workers ‘Burdened by System Complexity’ – Report
Tens of billions of dollars is being lost to the U.K. economy through unnecessary tasks each year, a report has found – and poor-performing technology is at the heart of the problem.…
In ‘Russia’s Silicon Valley’, 3D-printed casts come to life
Fedor Aptakarev never set out to be 3D printing’s Tony Stark. When he started out, ten years ago, it was music – not medicine – that enjoyed the fruits of his high-tech…
Can Europe’s blossoming car share market boost electromobility?
It is a wet, rainy afternoon in Berlin’s Schöneberg district and, beneath the gaze of a great, black gasometer, the employees of the city’s EUREF Campus are ducking the weather for lunch.…
Google’s nanotechnology, Microsoft Band and HP goes 3D
Google has unveiled its latest Google X project: nanotechnology that can detect cancer and other diseases at an earlier stage.
IPO+M&A Watch: Mobileye, Synchrony, Apple
IPO This week’s activity in the public markets was headlined by the stock market debut of Synchrony Financial, GE’s consumer finance arm divested as a separate, public entity. Synchrony finances private label…
Samsung suffers third straight quarter of declining profits
Samsung has posted a 20% drop in net profit in its latest earnings report. The South Korean company also announced the worst performance by its smartphone business since the second quarter of…
Sony’s surprise Q2 profits belie poor annual figures
Sony Corp posted surprise second-quarter profits today, despite warning of big year-end losses. Net income for the three months ending June was $260.82 million, compared to $30.1 million for the same quarter…