Partnershipsmall

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 -- Apple said Thursday that it will quadruple the number of outlets in the United States where customers can send their iPhone to be disassembled by its recycling robot, Daisy. As part of expanded recycling programs, Apple will increase the number of the locations, including Best Buy...

LOS ANGELES, March 18 -- NASA's New Horizons mission team on Monday unraveled mysteries of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever explored by mankind. New Horizons performed the farthest flyby in history at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT) on New Year's Day, as it approached...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 -- Microsoft said Thursday that its Windows 10 operating system (OS) is now running on more than 800 million active devices worldwide, one step closer to its goal of 1 billion Windows 10 users. Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of Modern Life & Devices Group, Yusuf Mehdi, confirmed...

BEIJING, Feb. 27 -- Chinese scientists are exploring the possibility of setting up a space-based solar power station, which is expected to reduce pollution back on Earth and mitigate energy shortfalls, local media reported Wednesday. Researchers have begun designs on a testing facility in Chongqing's Bishan...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 -- NASA's InSight lander is to place the heat flow probe on the Martian surface to take the temperature of the inside, according to the mission team. The lander has got a grip on the instrument, and is ready to pick it up and place it on the Red Planet, tweeted the InSight mission on Monday. "Once...

CANBERRA, Feb. 11 -- The Australian government has signed a key contract with French shipbuilder Naval Group for the nation's Future Submarine program. The 50-billion-Australian-dollar (35.5 billion U.S. dollars) contract will see Naval Group design and build 12 new attack class submarines for the Australian...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The United States space agency NASA has released its first look of China's Chang'e-4 Lunar Landing Site. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) approached the Von Karman crater on which the the Chinese spacecraft Chang'e 4 landed, nearly four weeks after its landing. On Jan. 30, the...

...

...

...

...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- The United States space agency NASA announced Monday that its Parker Solar Probe completed its first orbit of the Sun on Jan. 19, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star. Now, the spacecraft, the fastest spacecraft in history, has begun its second orbits on course to the...

Breaking News - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is planning to unify the underlying messaging infrastructure of the WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger services and incorporate end-to-end encryption into these apps, the New York Times reported on Friday. The three services will, however, continue...

...

LUND, Sweden - Might tree roots, twigs and branches one day be used to power cars? That’s what a Swedish researcher is hoping after developing a pulp byproduct that - on a modest scale - does just that. Chemical engineering scientist Christian Hulteberg, from Lund University, has used the black liquor residue from...

BEIJING, Jan. 23  -- Beijing's communication operators will spend more than 30 billion yuan (around 4.4 billion U.S. dollars) on building a 5G network in the city by 2022, according to a 5G development plan. The 5G network will cover the city's core zone, which is often defined as areas within the Second Ring...

...

...

HANGZHOU, China - Gliding silently through Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s (BABA.N) futuristic “FlyZoo” hotel, black disc-shaped robots about a meter in height deliver food and drop off fresh towels. The robots are part of a suite of high-tech tools that Alibaba says drastically cuts the hotel’s cost of human labor and...

...