Scientists used phone accelerometer data to predict personality traits

Our phones contain a disturbing amount of information about us. While calls, messages, app usage and location logs have all been used to profile users, phone accelerometers contain key information, too. Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute...

Quantum ‘compass’ promises navigation without using GPS

GPS is vital to modern navigation, but it's extremely fragile. Never mind coverage -- if a satellite fails or there's a jamming attack, it quickly becomes useless. Scientists may have a much more robust answer, though. Scientists have demonstrated...

NASA will resume testing its Hubble successor this month

One of NASA's biggest victories last year was the $8.7 billion James Webb Space Telescope's completion. And now the aeronautics agency is set to resume vibration testing for the instrument. These tests aim to replicate the conditions it will encounte...

New Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor is Hard to Spoof


Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones like the iPhone 6 produces a two-dimensional image of a finger's surface, which can be spoofed fairly easily with a printed image of the...

Apple patents smart pen for capturing digital copies of handwritten notes


Apple has been granted Patent No. 8,922,530 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the design of a "Communicating stylus” which is about a smart writing utensil which makes use of accelerometers...