IDEFIX rover and JAXA’s mission to the moons of Mars
It will have a rover on board named after the brave and clever dog from the Asterix and Obelix comics. IDEFIX will venture into unknown territory if it successfully lands on Phobos.…
Singapore drone frees your fingers to take photos
Researchers in Singapore have found a way round the frustrating task of framing and taking photos using consumer drones.…
Manta ray inspires underwater robot
Singapore-based researchers have built an underwater robot that looks and swims like a manta ray, using only single motors and flexible fins to propel it through water in a way uncannily like…
Facebook has a messenger app for kids under 13
Facebook rolled out a Messenger Kids app for children under 13 on Monday. The app allows the social media giant which already has over 2 billion users to expand into an untapped…
Bats speak with colony acquired accent
Bat pups can acquire colony-specific accents, based on their roost-mate dialects, providing further insights into speech acquisition in humans.…
Google’s interoffice relationships may be problematic
Techonomy CEO David Kirkpatrick and Bloomberg's Alistair Barr discuss interoffice relationships within Google.…
UK fracking and CO2 storage is geologically flawed, study says
Geoscientists say tectonic events millions of years ago mean the UK is unsuited to large-scale fracking, and raises concerns over CO2 storage potential off-shore of the British Isles.…
Russia says cannot make contact with new space satellite
Russian space agency Roscosmos says it has failed to make contact with a satellite launched earlier on Tuesday.…
Retailers set to compete against Amazon for holiday sales
Guru Hariharan, Boomerang Commerce's chief executive officer, discusses the outlook for holiday retail sales with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."…
Asian oBikes on the streets of Berlin
Bike-sharing platform oBike from Singapore is now making its way into Germany. Without fixed bike stations though, they could add to the chaos in the growing bike-sharing market.…
Robot does a backflip
This humanoid robot, Atlas by Boston Dynamics, can do what most people can't.…