Science

Ex-Sikorsky, Cessna Bosses Design Aircraft That Could Change The Face Of Business Travel

XTI Aircraft's TriFan plane gets $4m in equity interest with plan to take business travellers 'door to door'

9 years ago

Helium Hard Drives Capturing The Supermassive Black Hole In The Centre Of The Galaxy

HGST to deploy helium drives that function better than air-filled HDDs at high-altitude observatories to store data from the edge…

9 years ago

Google’s Project Sunroof Uses Maps To Calculate Solar Panel Savings

Google's tool analyses rooftops, then recommends solar panel providers who have paid to feature on Project Sunroof

9 years ago

Facebook Solar-Powered Drone Is The Size Of A Boeing 737

Aquila drone project will see Internet laser-beamed to unconnected parts of the world from 90,000ft in the sky

9 years ago

Stephen Hawking And Steve Wozniak Warn Of Military AI Arms Race

Elon Musk also signs open letter along with hundreds of top robotic scientists pleading military powers to curtail plans for…

9 years ago

David Cameron Wants To Increase Spending On RAF Drones

Prime Minister urges defence chiefs to plough more cash into RAF Reaper drones to combat IS threat

9 years ago

WATCH: Microsoft Reveals The Future Of Healthcare With HoloLens

Microsoft HoloLens promo vid explains how the holographic device could dramatically change the way doctors learn about the body

9 years ago

Nokia Tests Drones For Telco Network Inspections

Nokia teamed with Middle East telco Du to run a PoC showing how drones can be used for everything from…

9 years ago

Linux Founder: Fears AI Could End Human Race Are ‘Bad Sci-Fi’

Linux founder Linus Torvalds dismisses the fears of Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and others, claiming there is nothing to be…

9 years ago

Microsoft Loses Two HoloLens Headsets After SpaceX Rocket Failure

"Space is hard..." says Satya Nadella as SpaceX's CRS-7 unmanned resupply mission breaks apart just after launch

9 years ago

Boffin Reveals Folding Battery Powered By Bacteria

Breakthrough design could mean smaller, more powerful batteries than ever before

9 years ago

Rackspace And CERN Team Up For OpenStack Cloud Experiments

Rackspace uses thousands of global scientists as guinea pigs for new OpenStack cloud technologies

10 years ago

IT Life: The Science Of Tech

Vivian Chan, CEO of scientific recommendation platform Sparrho talks about science, education and her love of the Science Museum

10 years ago

‘Ageing Population’ Causing Health Nanotechnology Boom

Increased governmental support and higher R&D spending will also help medical nanotech reach $8.5bn by 2019

10 years ago

Microsoft’s Data Centre Of The Future

DCD Converged at CeBIT 2015: It’s all software-defined for the data centre, Microsoft cloud engineer tells TechWeekEurope

10 years ago

Bill Gates Touts Omniprocessor For Electricity and Water From Human Waste

Bill Gates drinks fresh water made from human waste, and surprisingly it doesn't taste like urine

10 years ago

Old TV Signals Could Be Used For Long Range ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Network

German researchers say old TV signals should be made available as "common property" for super Wi-Fi networks that can travel…

10 years ago

11 Million UK Jobs ‘Under Threat From Robots’

Rise of the machines is bad news for UK job prospects, Deloitte report warns

10 years ago