If I asked you to picture the Internet for a moment - the actual, physical Internet - what would you imagine? Many of us have no idea how this thing we use ...
British engineers impale space debris with giant harpoon
Most of us assume that what goes up into space must come down. But in reality, there's quite a lot of detritus orbiting the Earth. This includes natural debris, ...
TechEngage will be covering MWC19
TechEngage will be sending a team of reporters to the Mobile World Congress 2019 event in Barcelona, which runs from February 25th to February 28th. The event, ...
What did the pope say to the president of Microsoft?
No, it's not a joke. Microsoft President Brad Smith met with Pope Francis last Wednesday at the Vatican to discuss artificial intelligence. They were joined by ...
LipPass verifies your identity based on your mouth movements
A new platform called LipPass is one of many new behavioral verification techniques for smartphones. Up until recently, identity verification involved simple ...
Paris sues Airbnb over illegal listings
Airbnb is the platform on which people around the world can rent out their property to traveling strangers. As it grew more popular, people rented out all sorts ...
Handwriting goes high-tech with Rocketbook’s Everlast reusable notebook
My love of writing goes well beyond composing stories and writing tech news – I actually love the action of writing words and literally putting pen to ...
MIT scientists create new deep learning model that aims to identify fake news
Ever wonder how those fake news-detecting algorithms actually work? What, exactly, do they look for and how do they determine the context of a news story in ...
Superbug genes found in the (formerly) last pristine place on Earth
Well, so much for the idea of a place on Earth untouched by bad human decisions. Antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs), the result of overzealous prescription of ...
WeDo Technologies shows us why we should care about telecom fraud
TechEngage was a guest at WeDo Technologies' WeMeet Asia event last week, where we had the opportunity to learn about the challenges posed by 5G technology, the ...
Zuckerberg’s plan to combine messaging apps is a spectacularly bad idea
Ok, so here's what we know: 4 Facebook employees, described only as "people involved in the effort, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter ...
Totally non-creepy robot can wrap itself around things
Try to put Little Shop of Horrors out of your mind for a minute. Italian researchers have developed a soft robot that can curl, climb, and wrap itself around ...
China acknowledges He Jiankui’s misdeeds. What’s next for the disgraced scientist?
The world has been wondering what will become of disgraced Chinese scientist He Jiankui since he proudly announced last November that he had used CRISPR ...
Confronting future challenges for telecom companies at WeMeet Asia 2019
In an increasingly interconnected world, how can companies keep up with the expectations of their customers while protecting themselves from revenue loss due to ...
Judge unseals documents showing that Facebook took advantage of children
The Center for Investigative Reporting made a request last year to unseal documents related to a 2012 class action lawsuit against Facebook involving charges ...
Sad news: The moon plants are dead
Well, they might have represented everything the Chinese were able to do before the rest of us in space just yesterday, but now the plants that just sprouted on ...
World’s first robot hotel getting rid of over half of its useless robots
It seemed like a good idea (or at least a good publicity stunt) back in 2015. But now, after a few years of putting up with inefficient and otherwise ...
A plant has sprouted on the moon!
China made history earlier this month by being the first Earthlings to land on the so-called dark side of the moon (the side that never faces Earth). Now they ...
