On Wednesday, the German air force unveiled the latest addition to its fleet: the “Euro Hawk,” a state-of-the-art spy drone. The reconnaissance aircraft can fly non-stop for 30 hours in the stratosphere without having to refuel and its on-board sensors can penetrate clouds and sandstorms. After 10 years of planning and development, the Bundeswehr on Wednesday publicly unveiled its most... 

WallStreet Journal reports that Sony Corp. is on its way to finish off the deal with Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson, which would make Sony the sole and primary shareholder of the Sony Ericsson joint venture. Created back in 2001, the Sony Ericsson 50-50 joint venture is one of the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers (the 6th, actually) and has attracted many brand-loyal users through the years. Sony’s... 

Former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, holds up new iPod Nano after introducing it at an event in San Francisco, California in this September 7, 2005 picture. Steve Jobs, the billionaire co-founder of the technology giant, Apple Inc., has died at the age of 56, succumbing to pancreatic cancer, says a brief company statement. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” AFP quoted... 

The head of Iran's Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), Mohammad Baqer Khorramshad. The head of Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) says the Islamic Republic has climbed to the fourth rank in the area of nanotechnology in the world. Iran “ranks fourth in nanotechnology and thus lies at the top of the contemporary Islamic civilization,” the official,... 

Commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili A senior Iranian Army commander says the Islamic Republic is building a more sophisticated version of Russia’s S-300 missile defense system at home. “The flaws and defects of the (Russian) S-300 system have been corrected in the indigenous version of the system and its conceptual designing has been... 

Sneaky Samsung is supposedly preparing a patent suit against Apple that should ban the next-gen iPhone sales in Korea. This was shared by a senior Samsung executive, wishing to remain anonymous, with The Korea Times. The soon-to-be patent suit will involve Samsung’s wireless technology patents, which will supposedly be used by Apple in the iPhone 5 (or 4S). Apparently the Korean manufacturer... 

Gamers at the Tokyo Game Show use Xbox 360's motion sensor to 'dance' in a game - but a spokesman said new titles could 'project' game worlds into the living room. The latest 3D televisions let images ‘leap out’ of the screen – provided you’re wearing a pair of geeky glasses. But new ‘holographic’ technology might project images right into your... 

Petteri Alinikula, Nokia's Head of Product Sustainability and one of the testers in action on the Baltic Sea. Finnish cell phone giant Nokia is on a mission to find out how to apply solar power technology to cell phone technology. The company started a project in June called Nokia Solar Charging Project which is coming to its conclusion at the end of September. It sent a group of people on the... 

The quantity of airlines in Russia must be cut considerably, whereas the training of pilots should be controlled strictly, Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev stated. On September 8, the president visited the crash site of the Yak-42 plane in Yaroslavl, which claimed the lives of 43 people – Lokomotiv hockey players and the crewmembers. Afterwards, Medvedev conducted a special meeting, in which he... 

NASA's GRAIL-A lunar probe is lifted from its workstand and across the clean room towards the spacecraft adapter ring (L) where GRAIL-B is already secured at the Astrotech Space Operation in Titusville, Florida. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has delayed the launch of its moon probes due to a technical issue with the satellites’ launch vehicle. The agency’s... 

Scientists say they have devised a way of using graphene, the thinnest material in the world, for a very speed exchange of data on the Internet. British scientists, including last year’s Nobel Prize-winning scientists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, believe that with the new method they can capture and convert more light than before, paving the way for advances in high-speed Internet and other... 

Frail: Steve Jobs is helped into a car by a friend outside his home in California. Looking gaunt and frail, this is Steve Jobs seen for the first time since his surprise departure from Apple last week. This picture, taken outside the technology mogul’s California home, fuelled fears that Jobs was nearing the end in his eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer. The 56-year-old Apple founder looked... 

Less than an hour ago Apple’s Board of Directors announced that Steve Jobs resigned as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. His place will be taken by Jobs’ trusted Tim Cook, who up until now was Apple’s Chief Operating Officer. Steve Jobs’ stepping down as Apple’s CEO doesn’t mean he is quitting Apple. The Board of Directors has elected him to be the company’s... 

7th grader Aidan Dwyer was walking in the woods during the winter, and looking up, he noticed something about the bare branches above him. They didn’t appear to be growing randomly. So he took some measurements of the angles of the branches, crunched some numbers, and wouldn’t you know it, he found that the ubiquitous Fibonacci Sequence was behind it all. He suspected there was a reason... 

Japanese scientists in Hasegawa Lab of the Tokyo Institute of Technology have built a robot that is capable of thinking, learning and having human reactions. The robot has been designed based on “unsupervised learning mechanism” called Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network (SOINN) and enables the robot to estimate future patterns and networks, PC magazine reports. Unlike the robots that...