Anyone who wants to open a bank account or buy a mobile phone plan has to identify themselves to the respective service provider. The ETH spin-off PXL Vision has a simpler solution: just use an ID scan and a selfie video. ...

CSIRO and Monash Universitys Matthew Hill will receive the Solomon Award tonight for developing magic crystals with dozens of applications from cleaning gases and liquids to mining and drug production.

Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the world wide web and now hes calling on us to save it. The British engineer and computer scientist recently released a Contract for the Web a list of commitments for governments, ...

Insects typically have a variety of complex exoskeleton structures, which support them in their movements and everyday activities. Fabricating artificial exoskeletons for insect-inspired robots that match the complexity of ...

Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have created a device for wearable computer input suitable for many situations, just by touching your fingertips together in different ways.

Scientists from the Skoltech ADASE Advanced Data Analytics in Science and Engineering lab have found a way to enhance depth map resolution, which should make virtual reality and computer graphics more realistic. They presented ...

Researchers at the USC Viterbi Center for Advanced Manufacturing identify an algorithm to optimize robots to provide short, collision-free solutions in complex manufacturing spaces.

Luxury automaker Daimler said Friday it would scrap at least 10,000 jobs worldwide, the latest in a wave of layoffs to hit the stuttering German car industry as it battles with a costly switch to electric.

Consider the range of possibilities from 4-D printed materials that transform underwater, or fibers that snap into a particular shape when they are cut out of a flat panel, or coaxing shifting sands in the ocean into building ...

Singapore authorities Friday ordered Facebook to correct an article on a fringe news site containing scurrilous accusations of election rigging, ramping up their use of a controversial law against misinformation.