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May 12, 2017
Windows 10: Microsoft reveals new look for its flagship OS
Microsoft's new Fluent Design System will inform the appearance of Windows apps running on everything from smartphone to desktop to HoloLens.
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May 10, 2017
CERN launches new accelerator to help boost data output
GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher have inaugurated their newest particle accelerator, a key step toward churning out greater amounts of data that could help explain many lingering mysteries of the universe.
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May 10, 2017
Amazon invested millions in the startup Nucleus — then cloned its product for the new Echo
When the investment arm of Amazon's Alexa division led a $5.6 million investment in his startup, Nucleus founder and CEO Jonathan Frankel was ecstatic.
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May 9, 2017
Doctors' waiting rooms to introduce self-service blood pressure monitors … to pass time
HAVING self-service blood pressure monitors in GP waiting rooms could see patients use the devices to pass the time before their appointment, a small study has found.
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May 9, 2017
Alaska's tundra is filling the atmosphere with carbon dioxide
Even as the Trump administration weighs withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, a new scientific paper has documented growing fluxes of greenhouse gases streaming into the air from the Alaskan tundra, a long-feared...
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May 9, 2017
Stone Age humans 'may have been budding musicians with piano-playing capabilities'
Scientific study has shown that the brain circuits that led to two-sided tools were the same as those activated when playing a piano.
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May 9, 2017
Stephen Hawking just moved up humanity's deadline for escaping Earth
Stephen Hawking announces Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiative, at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation
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May 9, 2017
German Exports Bolster Economy as Industrial Output Drops
German exports rose for a third month in March in a sign Europe's largest economy is benefiting from a pickup in global trade as industrial production dropped less than economists predicted.
