The planet, named Kepler-1647b, has been compared to Jupiter due to having a near-identical mass and radius

MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) projects that in most countries, solar PV will be the cheapest form of new electricity generating capacity by 2030. It predicts several major shifts in power markets.

(MENAFN - Muscat Daily) San Francisco- Apple said Monday it was opening up its Siri digital assistant to outside applications, stepping up its artificial intelligence efforts to compete against rival services from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

While waiting for a human heart transplant, Stan Larkin lived 555 days without the organ at all.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Inc activated its "Safety Check" function on Sunday for the first time in the United States after a gunman massacred 50 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

For some folks fingerprint scanners always work without a hitch and for others, they end up swiping repeatedly to no avail. Rumors are floating around about the coming Galaxy Note 7 smartphone that claim it might have a new type of security feature integrated. That new security feature is an iris scanner. If this rumor is accurate, the iris scanner itself wouldn't be new; it has been used by Samsung on the Galaxy Tab Iris tablet for India.

Open Bionics is developing two designs with Eidos-Montréal.

There hasn't been a truly significant update to the Xbox One since November, with the Xbox One Experience which aimed to make the console faster and more social. But now Microsoft is gearing up for another update this summer that will see the console become more unified with the PC platform

Google’s Self-Driving Cars Will Honk At You If You’re Not Paying Attention

Finally, after years of speculation, Samsung is set to release a line of smartphones with flexible OLED screens in 2017. The first model is rumored to fold in half, while a second boasts a bendable 5-inch display that unfolds to reveal a tablet-sized 8-inch panel. Both could be shown at Mobile World Congress 2017 in February.

“It’s about being a multi-planet species and have life extend beyond the solar system.”

New ultra-thin meta-lenses developed by Harvard University researchers are more efficient and manufacturer than lenses currently used in a variety of imaging products.

The backers hope that the project can send tiny rockets 25 trillion miles into space in just 20 years and send back pictures, potentially showing worlds that could support life

For all of our networked devices and the technology that allows us to communicate with people wherever they are, no matter where we are and when we want, we still want to meet face-to-face… once in a while. In the future, we may hop in a driverless car. Or if the journey is a little longer, we may need to fly. But heading out to airports can be a trek in itself. It's not what you would call convenient.

Some of the world's biggest social media firms signed up to a new EU code of conduct on Tuesday, promising to "quickly and efficiently" identify and remove online material that incites violence or hate.

NASA's new addition to the International Space Station (ISS) created the first pump-up compartment for astronauts. The flexible habitat, known as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), took more than seven hours to inflate, during which astronaut Jeff Williams released short blasts of air into the pod's walls using a manual valve.

An analysis of radar images that penetrated the polar ice caps of Mars shows that Earth's nearest neighbor is coming out of an ice age that is part of an ongoing cycle of climate change, scientists said on Thursday.