New Payment Tech Uses Palm Reading

Palm ID, a new technology announced by the UAE, uses unique vein patterns in individuals' palms for financial transactions. An effort by the Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs, and Port Security (ICP) and the Central Bank…

Shedding Light on Quantum Magnets

Osaka Metropolitan University and University of Tokyo scientists successfully used light to visualize tiny magnetic regions, or magnetic domains, in a specialized quantum material. They also manipulated these regions using an electric…

Electric Charges Caught on Film

UC Santa Barbara researchers created a first-ever “movie” of electric charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials. Employing scanning ultrafast electron (SUEM) techniques developed in the Bolin Liao lab,…

U.S. Threatens Google Breakup

The U.S. government is looking into possibly breaking up the world’s largest search engine, Google. According to the government, the basis is that Google is causing "pernicious harms" to Americans. Considerations include "structural…

Tech Hiring Ramps Up

According to the CompTIA Tech Jobs Report, the tech unemployment rate fell to 2.5% in September, the steepest month-over-month decrease in four years. Tech industry employment increased by 8,583 net new positions for the month. Analysis of…