Like two blockbuster summer movies vying for the same audience Apple and Amazon are making major product announcements a week apart. In Amazon's case it was the Fire, a tablet version of its Kindle e-reader unveiled earlier this week...
Advances in motion-capture technology hold enormous potential as a tool for analyzing surveillance video for possible security threats
A so-called "Dreamliner" is set to finally become a reality when All Nippon Airways (ANA) flies its brand new Boeing 787 out of Paine Field in Everett, Wash., on Tuesday.
All the gear $1.3 trillion can buy
The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative has covered much of the city with a network of surveillance cameras and other equipment, to the dismay of privacy advocates
The U.S. Department of Defense keeps seeking and developing advantages for today's unconventional warfare, ranging from Iron Man-like body suits to smart grenade launchers
The U.S. Defense Department has added thousands of automated aircraft added to its fleet over the past decade to support operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan as concerns of drone accuracy persist...
Researchers developed a computer model of a human heart to study whether certain drugs will help treat an abnormal heartbeat, or cause serious side effects
A disorder of the inner ear called superior canal dehiscence syndrome causes every sound within the body to be amplified, even the movement of one's eyeballs, all the time. Sounds strange, but it is true (and treatable)...
Korean researchers envision 3-D on OLED displays for smartphones and other gadgets
Cell coverage can be spotty immediately following events like this week's earthquake, rendering many handsets useless for contacting family and friends. New technologies may provide a solution...
Apple has been on a decade-long roll starting with the its game-changing MP3 music player—the iPod— in November 2001 right through its monumental, if brief, climb earlier this month to become the most valuable U.S...
Forget your car keys? Soon it won't make a difference, as long as you have your laptop. An interesting viral Web video ( see below ) making the rounds since the Black Hat cybersecurity conference earlier this month depicts two researchers from iSEC Partners (a San Francisco-based security firm) breaking into a 1998 Subaru Outback via their PC...
A nonprofit works to get information about the lack of health, water and sanitation services into the hands not just of the government but of slum residents as well
It’s not uncommon in a New York City subway car, an airport terminal or just about any other public space to see a dozen or more people completely consumed by what’s happening on the screen of their smartphone, to the exclusion of the world around them...
Joe Gibbs Racing is using a powerful Nikon microscope to help solve the mystery of engine failures that have cost the team several races
Although deaths are rare in triathlons, most of them occur during the initial leg, when competitors swim for distances ranging from 750 meters to 3.9 kilometers
The Viagra (sildenafil citrate) ads that seem to accompany every televised sporting event end typically with several caveats—including warnings of a dozen or so side effects, including a possible sudden loss of hearing or vision, chest pain and an erection that is painful or lasts longer than four hours...
A consortium of more than 30 universities plans to invest in the infrastructure to improve Internet speeds 1,000-fold
The threat of a "double dip" back into an economic recession looms, but if this comes to pass, the reasons would be much different from the body blow the U.S.
