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Major mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications industry require approval by the FCC to ensure fair competition on the air and cable waves. Verizon's... Read More »

Developers at the University of Washington explain and demonstrate their novel technology for implementing gesture-based computer control. They use pre-existing... Read More »

The Power Conversion -- Intelligent Motion (PCIM) conference kicks off today in Nuremburg, Germany, and touts record-setting attendance for a power electronics... Read More »

This morning, Reuters reports that Lenovo will invest nearly $800 million to create a more extensive mobile manufacturing facility in Wuhan, Hubei, China... Read More »

Spider silks have long been known to posses exception material properties. "Dragline" silk, the silk used to construct the foundations of spider weds... Read More »

Nanotechnology is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and a significant hurdle to development is imagine difficulties encountered on these small scales. To image... Read More »

Smartphones and tablet computers screens sense interaction by measuring changing capacitance. When your fingers touch the transparent conductor on the surface of your ... Read More »

MEM technologies have shown significant improvement in microphone and sound amplification. Now, University of Utah researchers are implementing MEM-based microphones... Read More »

MIT mechanical engineers developed a glass that prevents fogging and minimizes glare. A novel process to modify the surface textures of glass, creating a surface that ... Read More »

The Seattle Times first reported this morning that a German court has awarded Motorola an injunction against the import of Microsoft's Xbox gaming system. The... Read More »

Queen's university researchers at the Human Media Lab work on taking video displays to the next level by creating interactive 3D visualizations. The envision... Read More »

When it comes to detecting and discriminating between a diverse variety and large number of substances, biological noses are unparalleled. UPenn researchers hope to... Read More »

Dye-sensitized solar cells are not an entirely new technology. By coating standard semiconductors in photovoltaic cells, researchers are able to increase the amount... Read More »

Today semiconductor and microchip manufacturer Microchip Technologies announced that it will purchase its smaller rival Standard Microsystems Corp., reports Reuters... Read More »

Quantum computing involves the production and communication of entangled photons. Manipulating light at the single-photon level has previously been outside the realm... Read More »

Photonics is a class of devices analogous to our current electronics except using photons of light instead of electrons. In photonics, light serves as the... Read More »

Flexible semiconductor technology has been developing at an increasingly rapid pace. As the technology comes down in price and goes up in usability, consumer tech... Read More »

Nokia is one of several personal tech companies working on the concept of indoor positioning systems. Regular GPS systems struggle because of limited satellite... Read More »

The speed that electronics like your cell phone can achieve is largely governed by how fast electrons can move about within the transistors that make up its... Read More »

MIT researchers Dr. Birgit Esser and Professor Timothy Swager have demonstrated an unexpected use for carbon nanotubes: helping grocers determine when fruit is going... Read More »