This week, Geneva opens its doors to the first major European auto show this year. At the Detroit Motor Show, producers were trying to capture imagination of the visitors by intelligent autonomous control technologies. Geneva, in contrast, will present several powerful SUVs and sports cars from leading luxury manufacturers. Many observers have already called the forthcoming show a showcase of the...

Companies within AllSeen Alliance (Microsoft, Qualcomm, Cisco, Electrolux and others) announced creation of Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF). The organization will compose a single set of open IoT-protocols, which will accelerate the development of the Internet system of things (IoT). Microsoft and major international IT companies announced formation of the organization Open Connectivity...

Social networks’ messengers and applications turned out to be the main battery eaters in smartphones. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram continue to consume the charge even when you are not using your phone. Major smartphone’s battery eaters are heavy games and apps downloading data on the background. However, your device’s charge may end up somewhere in the middle of the day, even if you have not...

The US technology giants such as Apple and the Microsoft began to buy up British start-ups involved in the creation of artificial intelligence (AI). What is the reason? The passion for innovation, or preparation for a new arms race? It seems that Foggy Albion will soon become a conflux of innovations related to artificial intelligence. Unless, of course, American counterparts do not buy all it up...

UK Ministry of Defence will purchase two UAVs equipped with solar panels from Airbus Defence and Space. We are talking about drones Zephyr, which keep the watch at an altitude of 20 km during two weeks. According to Minister of Defense Michael Fallon speaking during a briefing, his department intends to conclude a contract with Airbus Defence and Space for the supply of two new UAVs Zephyr 8....

It looks like the cardboard VR-headset Google Cardboard is not the only project that connects the search giant with the world of virtual reality. Of course, the corporation’s management closely monitors the changes in the global trend, and when the public is particularly agitated by future releases of headsets like Oculus Rift, Vive and PlayStation VR, it is impossible to remain on the sidelines,...

Next month, Microsoft will present perhaps the last Windows-based smartphone branded Lumia, reports WindowsCentral. Announcement of Lumia 650 model, focused on business users, is scheduled for February 1. February 1, Microsoft will present perhaps the last smartphone coming under Lumia brand - new Lumia 650. In the conference Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona in late February, Microsoft is...

Autonomous vehicles have long been part of our reality. However, just as it happens with any mass innovation, the main obstacles to spread of unmanned vehicles is created not by physics, but politics. Autopilots are not something radically new, not least because the aviation has been using it for decades, and the aviation industry is impossible without them now. Machinery, too, learned to operate...

On Friday morning, the French Health Minister announced commencing an investigation against yet unnamed pharmaceutical company’s clinical trials of a cannabis-based painkiller. The investigation began after five of the volunteers probing the medicine slipped into coma; another one was fixed brain death. On Friday, French Health Minister Marisol Touraine announced termination of testing a new...