Lithium-air catalyst breakthrough could make car and phone batteries last five times longer
New materials could make lithium-air batteries possible with more energy than lithium ion batteries.
German researchers achieve world record wireless data transmission speed of 6GB/s over 37km
Scientists managed to transmit the contents of a DVD in under 10 seconds using radio transmission.
Researcher jailed for finding security flaws in police communications
A man has received a suspended jail sentence for publicly disclosing problems with the Tetra protocol.
Welcome to the bizarre and frightening world of Islamic State channels on Telegram
Isis is using Telegram to teach would-be terrorists how to make weapons and guard against cyberattacks.
Won't pay? No problem, Cerber ransomware adds your PC to a botnet to send out DDoS attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have found ransomware modified to send DDoS attacks from infected PCs.
Pirate Bay loses hydra and .se domains, returning to original .org address following legal challenges
Online piracy website Pirate Bay has lost over a dozen domains due to legal threats in various countries.
Apple Music: Con artists are making money by tricking Siri into playing scam songs
A student has spotted fake artists on Apple Music making money from songs named after Siri search requests.
Lockheed Martin building an orbiting Mars base to send humans to Red Planet by 2028
Lockheed Martin unveils orbiting base camp concept to make it safe and affordable to send astronauts to Mars.
Cybersecurity breakthrough: Computer scientists figure out how to produce truly random numbers
University of Texas at Austin researchers have made a breakthrough that could make encryption more secure.
Android Instant Apps: The Google innovation that could revolutionise mobile experience
Google unveils Android Instant Apps which allows apps to launch without being installed on user's phone.
Google I/O 2016: Five key new technologies to look forward to
Google announces Daydream for VR, Google Home, Allo smart messaging app, Android N, and Tensor Flow.
Free Radio on My Phone: North Americans demand telcos unlock FM radio on smartphones
A nonprofit radio association has launched a campaign trying to get FM radio unlocked on smartphones.
Sci-Hub: 'Pirate Bay for scientists' now available on anonymous Telegram Messaging app
The latest way to access and download over 48 million academic papers
US scientists invent transparent wood that's even stronger than glass and more radiant
Scientists have found a way to remove colour and chemicals from a block of wood to make it totally see-through.
HTT vs Hyperloop One: What are the differences between futuristic high speed train technologies?
Several startups are racing to realise Elon Musk's high-speed transportation dream, but how do they work?
Iron Man-style robot exoskeleton for soldiers and factory workers in development by Hyundai
Korean car firm developing exoskeleton to help soldiers and factory workers lift heavy items.
Woman blindly follows sat nav and drives car into lake
Woman drove down a boat launch into a lake while following her GPS, but luckily escaped unhurt.
Oracle vs Google trial: The $9bn copyright case that's confusing non-geeks worldwide
APIs are key to the Oracle vs Google copyright trial, but no-one in the court knows what APIs are.
Amazon isn't racist, it's just been an unfortunate victim of big data
Internet giant gets in hot water for excluding minority neighbourhoods in many US cities from Prime.
Adobe Photoshop unveils artificial intelligence tool to identify fonts from 20,000 typefaces
Photoshop's advanced machine-learning algorithms to spot fonts from screenshots and photos.
Tinder date nightmare: US college girl assaulted and held captive for six days
It was on the second date that things turned nasty for the University of Kansas student.
Netflix VPN ban: 45,000 people petition TV and movie-streaming service to reverse policy
OpenMedia asks Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to reverse VPN ban that punishes customers protecting privacy.
Kickstarter-backed Peachy Printer co-founder accused of stealing 50% of funds 'to build himself a house'
David Boe has been accused of stealing over C$300,000 from a 3D printer Kickstarter to build a home.
Jaku botnet targets engineers, scientists and academics – and likely comes from North Korea
The Jaku botnet campaign specifically targets certain people in academia and engineering firms.
Germany generated so much renewable energy last week it was paying consumers to use electricity
Germany generated so much renewable energy that energy prices went into negative on 8 May.
Google wants new emojis showcasing female doctors, scientists, engineers and IT professionals
Google has asked Unicode to approve 13 emojis that depict and highlight the diversity of female careers.
Nasa makes 56 aircraft and space rocket patents free to help private space entrepreneurs
Over 1,000 technologies are available on Nasa's public domain database.
IBM Watson supercomputer teams up with top universities to fight cybercriminals
IBM launches Watson for Cyber Security to help train the cognitive system with cyberattack research.
UK school SAT exam answers leaked online in embarrassing blow to Education Department
Almost 100 people accessed the leaked test answers posted from a Pearson test marker web portal.
Science Museum launches Kickstarter to recreate 1920s robot ahead of robotics exhibition in 2017
The exhibition will celebrate 500 years of robots, including working animatrons and realistic humanoid robots.
