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Ex-Sikorsky, Cessna Bosses Design Aircraft That Could Change The Face Of Business Travel
XTI Aircraft's TriFan plane gets $4m in equity interest with plan to take business travellers 'door to door'
Inmarsat To Provide Satellites For Rolls-Royce Drone Cargo Ships
Rolls-Royce led £4.8 million project that could pave the way for autonomous ships hauls in Inmarsat for satellite steering
Intel Invests £33m In Quantum Computing Research
Computing giant coughs up to ensure development of next generation processing technology
Google Expands Health & Disease Information Library
Hypochondriac’s dream gets even better with information on over 900 conditions
Google To Work With Sanofi On Diabetes Sensors
Partnership with French firm aims to improve diabetes care through continuous monitoring
Pentagon Co-Operates With Apple, Boeing For Wearable Tech
US military announces funding and seeks wearable partnerships deals with the likes of Apple and Boeing
Intel Invests £39m In Chinese Drone Maker Yuneec
Yuneec will work towards investigating possible future uses for drone aircraft
Google Casts Off Life Sciences Into Standalone Company
Google X's life sciences will now operate as its own Alphabet company with Andy Conrad as CEO
Samsung Proposes 4,600 Micro-Satellite Space Internet
Samsung nestles in with Branson, Musk in race for low-orbit web-spewing satellites
Helium Hard Drives Capturing The Supermassive Black Hole In The Centre Of The Galaxy
HGST to deploy helium drives that function better than air-filled HDDs at high-altitude observatories to store data from the edge of a black hole
Artificial Intelligence Helps Uncover Islamic State Military Tactics
US researchers publish study on using artificial intelligence algorithms to predict future threats from Islamic State extremists
IBM Medical Imaging Project Will Help Watson To ‘See’ Diseases
£660 million deal to purchase Merge Health will boost IBM’s healthcare operations
Five Ways Our Energy Infrastructure Is Transforming
RWE npower chief executive Paul Massara tells TechWeekEurope how the 'Uberisation' of energy could be good news for all of us
Get Ready For The Age Of 3D Printed Medicine
Use of 3D printing technology gets approval from the FDA regulatory body in the US
The Hype Of 3D Printing Seems To Be Over
Stratasys' quarterly results reflect global downturn in demand for 3D printing
Facebook Solar-Powered Drone Is The Size Of A Boeing 737
Aquila drone project will see Internet laser-beamed to unconnected parts of the world from 90,000ft in the sky
Foals, Like Bjork, Use 360-Degree Virtual Reality Technology In New Music Video
Blog: VR tech hits the mainstream as the entertainment industry warms to audience participation
Amazon Wants ‘Sky Highways’ For Its Delivery Drones
Amazon uses NASA conference to propose dedicated drone air routes that would keep manned flights safe from drones and speed up deliveries
Stephen Hawking And Steve Wozniak Warn Of Military AI Arms Race
Elon Musk also signs open letter along with hundreds of top robotic scientists pleading military powers to curtail plans for AI drones
WTO IT Trade Deal Cuts Technology Tariffs
Cheaper technology could be on the way as WTO cuts tariffs on more than 200 high-tech goods
Drone Encryption Hardware Is About To Be Deployed In British Army Tanks
ViaSat wins General Dynamics contract for Scout SV encryption tech following successful use in Watchkeeper drones
Robot With Bacteria Brains Developed By Scientist
Forget artifical intelligence - scientist develops technique for bacteria to control the behaviour of robots
Inmarsat Gets European Space Agency Backing For Mobile Satellite Services
ESA funding for Inmarsat will go on study looking at next generation of mobile satellite technologies
David Cameron Wants To Increase Spending On RAF Drones
Prime Minister urges defence chiefs to plough more cash into RAF Reaper drones to combat IS threat
Nokia Tests Drones For Telco Network Inspections
Nokia teamed with Middle East telco Du to run a PoC showing how drones can be used for everything from optimisation testing to line-of-sight work
Microsoft Offers $500k Bonus To HoloLens App Developers
Five grants and HoloLens headsets are on offer to successful applicants
Linux Founder: Fears AI Could End Human Race Are ‘Bad Sci-Fi’
Linux founder Linus Torvalds dismisses the fears of Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and others, claiming there is nothing to be fearful of
Factory Robot Crushes Man To Death
Rise of the Machines? Robot crushes a man to death but officials blame “human error”
Microsoft Loses Two HoloLens Headsets After SpaceX Rocket Failure
"Space is hard..." says Satya Nadella as SpaceX's CRS-7 unmanned resupply mission breaks apart just after launch