Deutschland will bei der Entwicklung von 3D-Technologien weiter eine führende Rolle spielen: Bundeswirtschaftsminister Philipp Rösler eröffnete dazu am Dienstag das 3D Innovation Center in Berlin. Auf einem Areal von rund 700 Quadratmetern wollen dort insgesamt 50 Forschungseinrichtungen und Unternehmen die Technologien für die verschiedensten Einsatzgebiete gemeinsam weiterentwickeln.
Nokia Siemens und Flextronics wollen künftig im Bereich Mobiltelefonnetztechniken gemeinsame Wege gehen. Die beiden Unternehmen wollen in Brasilien ein Joint-Venture gründen, heisst es in einem Reuters-Bericht.
Sinkende Verkäufe zwingen den US-amerikanischen Druckerhersteller Lexmark mit Hauptsitz in Lexington (Kentucky) zum Ausstieg aus dem traditionsreichen Geschäft mit Tintenstrahl-Druckern und Zubehör. Rund 1700 Mitarbeiter verlieren dadurch ihren Job. Die Entwicklung wird bis zum Ende des kommenden Jahres eingestellt, die Fertigung von Verbrauchsmaterial wie Tintenpatronen in einer Fabrik auf den Philippinen läuft Ende 2015 aus.
Eine Gratis-App für Smartphone, Tablet oder Computer erleichtert Menschen mit dem HI-Virus künftig das Leben mit ihrer Krankheit. "Mein positives Tagebuch" heisst die im Appstore verfügbare Software, die MSD Österreich gemeinsam mit HIV/Aids-Experten in Wien präsentiert hat. Hauptaufgabe der App ist es, die Therapie und ihre Wirkung zu dokumentieren, für den Arztbesuch vorzubereiten und zugleich die Gesundheitskompetenz der Patienten zu unterstützen.
Im Patentstreit mit Apple will Samsung mit allen Mitteln einen Verkaufsstopp für mehrere seiner Geräte in den USA verhindern. Samsung werde alles versuchen, "damit unsere Geräte im US-Markt verfügbar bleiben", sagte ein Sprecher des Konzerns. Welche Mittel Samsung im Einzelnen dabei zur Verfügung stehen, liess er offen.
Fast 50 Jahre nach dem ersten Mainframe-Computer hat IBM eine neue Generation dieses Grossrechners eingeführt. Der zEnterprise EC12, kurz zEC12, soll die wachsenden Mengen an sensiblen Daten bei Unternehmen und Behörden bewältigen und zum Beispiel Geldautomaten und Einwohnermeldeämter mit Daten versorgen.
Die neue Yahoo-Chefin Marissa Mayer kommt beim Aufbau ihres Führungsteams voran. Für die Vermarktung der Dienste wird künftig eine Internet-Unternehmerin zuständig sein: Kathy Savitt führte das von ihr gegründete Mode-Start-up Lockerz. Zuvor war sie Marketing-Chefin der Bekleidungsfirma American Eagle Outfitters und arbeitete beim Online-Handelsriesen Amazon.
Zeitgleich zur diese Woche in San Diego startenden LinuxCon North America gibt die Linux Foundation wieder einmal neue Mitglieder bekannt - und dieses Mal findet sich in der Liste wieder ein besonders prominenter Name. Der Microblogging-Client Twitter wird Mitglied mit Silber-Status in dem an Branchengrößen schon bisher nicht gerade armen Zusammenschluss.
Die von Amazon und anderen Onlinehändlern in die Enge getriebene Elektromarkt-Kette Best Buy öffnet sich für eine Übernahme. Wie das US-Unternehmen am Montag erklärte, erhält der Gründer, Hauptaktionär und Kaufinteressent Richard Schulze einen beschränkten Einblick in die Bücher.
Die Krise seiner Hauptkunden setzt dem weltgrößten Handy-Auftragsfertiger Foxconn International schwer zu. Das Unternehmen verbuchte nach eigenen Angaben vom Montag im ersten Halbjahr den höchsten Verlust seit seinem Börsengang 2005. Das Minus betrug unter dem Strich 226,1 Mio. Dollar (180,4 Mio. Euro) nach einem Fehlbetrag von 17,65 Mio. Dollar vor einem Jahr.
Live from Wales, it's the marquee event of the World Alternative Games.
Facebook has released its first significant update to Facebook Camera, the social network's standalone photo sharing app. And software engineer Scott Raymond talks about why Facebook's standalone apps are relevant.
Even though we should all be reading comics all day, everyday and everywhere, sometimes it doesn't hurt to set aside a special day to make sure we all get out and do it. Here are some Wired readers doing just that.
In the animal world, stay-at-home dads are rare, and step-dads are even rarer. But in one species of marine snail, males care for offspring fathered mostly by other males, reports a study in the journal .
Hydrodynamics lab experiments from France's famed ?cole Polytechnique provide cool eye candy for Mouse on Mars' new music video.
By decree of the Obama Administration, passenger cars and trucks in the U.S. will require a fuel economy equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.The new fuel-efficiency standard will affect cars starting in 2017, meaning automakers will need to start making incremental increases in fuel efficiency to hit a combined average of 34.1 MPG within five years. By 2025, the goal is to approximately double the efficiency of today?s vehicles, and the new requirement has the support of 13 major car manufacturers, which account for 90 percent of all vehicles sold in the U.S.
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of Hurricane Isaac headed toward Louisiana and New Orleans.
Seeking a way to crowdsource better computer vision, roboticists have launched Kinect@Home, a website that allows users to record pieces of their environments in 3-D with a Kinect camera. Should the project catch on, researchers may be on the cusp of an unprecedented way to amass 3-D data to improve navigation and object-recognition algorithms that allow robots to cruise and manipulate indoor environments.
Mozilla has released a new, speedier version of Firefox for Android phones and tablets.
When paired with an iPhone or iPod, Nike's new sensor-laden Hyperdunk basketball shoes can measure your on-court performance.
Japanese artist Shuho Sato is to allow anyone to use and adapt his work for without having to pay royalties.
What would you do with your own private satellite? If you haven't decided, you should. PhoneSat -- a project overseen by NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley -- wants to lower the cost of building space satellites to the point where anyone with space ambitions could launch one. Yes, it's a satellite made from a phone. The not-so-secret ingredient is Google's Android mobile operating system.
Mozilla's latest update is the last you'll have to worry about thanks to the new, seamless update mechanism. Firefox 15 also cures memory-hogging add-ons and offers web developers some new tools.
Tracking the levels of 50 hormones and amino acids in blood samples can reveal a body's internal time.
The stunning layers of Mars' Mount Sharp in this recent image from NASA's Curiosity rover call to mind a familiar canyon in the American southwest. The photo is part of a larger image taken by Curiosity's 100-millimeter Mast Camera on August 23, looking south-southwest from the rover's landing site.
Have you ever wondered what the water temperature off the Kamchatka Peninsula is? What about the wind speed in the Andaman Sea? Or maybe you?re losing sleep over the chlorophyll levels in the South Pacific. Fortunately, all of that information ?- and 450 million other data points collected from oceanographic instruments around the world ?- is freely and easily accessible thanks to the Marinexplore project.
As iPads and iPhones continue to weave themselves further into our lives -- and as we become less reliant on laptops and PCs -- the ability to print from an iOS device has become an essential feature instead of just a "nice to have."
Here we take a look at the most badass maneuvers ever pulled off in spaceflight history. In this gallery you can find out about the men, women, and a few robots that had the right stuff to keep cool under the most difficult conditions.
Actor Jason Clarke talks about the Prohibition-era crime drama, which was directed by John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave.
Toward the end of a world wide jaunt through Europe, Thailand and Israel, Jack Kennedy last year spent a month in Morocco recording music by Berber tribesmen . "It was basically me, a laptop, a microphone and a couple of changes of underwear," says Kennedy. Now the knapsack-toting musician is taking the same nomadic approach to capture bits of American culture for a SoundCloujd radio show NightBus.
When the MakerBot Replicator was introduced at CES earlier this year, its main selling point was the ability to print in two colors. While impressive, remember "two color" is just another way of saying, black and white. Richard Horne, an electrical engineer and 3-D printing enthusiast wasn't happy with that limitation. He wanted to print in color, hundreds of them, even.
When Windows 8 computers start shipping later this year, they will come with a brand-new Microsoft firmware feature called Secure Boot. A year ago, Linux lovers were worrying that Secure Boot was going to somehow give Linux the boot, but now it looks like there's a brand-new twist to the story. It can also be used to keep Microsoft's software from running on a computer.
Though the value proposition may come across as clunky, plenty of people are apparently sold on Amazon Prime. Amazon said today that it now ships more items via Prime's two-day shipping than its free "Super Saver Shipping,"
Apple sue us next? Not a chance. That?s the gist of Google?s message following Apple?s $1 billion victory over Samsung in a California patent suit.
Creator Joshua Tulberg pitted his motorized skateboard, the Gnarboard Trail Rider, against a C5 Chevrolet Corvette in a series of 75-foot drag races. Yes, you?ll want to watch this.
When it comes to getting your personal data from businesses, warrants have become passe, surpassed by so-called administrative subpoenas that government officials issue themselves. But no one is keeping track and the courts don't seem to care that they bypass the Fourth Amendment.
There was a time, not all that long ago, when the U.S. military wouldn't even whisper about its plans to hack into opponents' networks. Now America's armed forces can't stop talking about it.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
The world's longest floating bridge, the Evergreen Point bridge, opens. It connects Seattle with communities on the east side of Lake Washington.
"We know you'll love listening to your favorite tunes on iPhone 5. That's why we'll be making a few more of them compatible with iPhone 5 every week."