The winner, to be announced at a ceremony in Helsinki on June 9, will be awarded euro800,000 ($1.1 million).
The two runners-up will each receive euro150,000 ($204,000).
The Technology Academy of Finland, which announced the finalists on Wednesday, chose them from 55 people and 39 innovations.
Richard Friend from Britain was selected for inventions in optoelectronics that have [...]

Researchers at the University of Toronto said they were able to observe the hacking and trace it to core servers located in China and to people based in the southwestern city of Chengdu. The researchers said they monitored the hacking for the past eight months.
The report said it has no evidence of involvement by the [...]

At the very least, the vulnerabilities open the door for attackers to jack up strangers power bills. These flaws also could get hackers a key step closer to exploiting one of the most dangerous capabilities of the new technology, which is the ability to remotely turn someone elses power on and off.
The attacks could be [...]

The alliance comes as Hollywood tries to tap global markets more aggressively and as Indian movie studios grow in size and stature – narrowing the gap between Indian and U.S. filmmakers, who have not always seen eye-to-eye on intellectual property issues.
A year in the making, the coalition to fight film piracy in India will work [...]

But the victory was short-lived. Less than a day after a service known as “AS Troyak” was unplugged from the Internet, security researchers said Wednesday it apparently had found a way to get back online, and criminals were reconnecting with their unmoored machines.
The drama initially raised hopes of a sharp drop-off in fraud, because criminals [...]

Toyota assembled a group of experts to refute studies by an Illinois professor who revved Toyota engines simply by short-circuiting the wiring. Toyotas experts say the experiments were done under conditions that would never happen on the road.
The automaker maintained its assertion that simpler mechanical flaws, not electronics, were to blame.
“There isnt a ghost issue [...]

Because of limitations in recycling technology, a common type of plastic used in water bottles and food containers weakens so much when its recycled that it cant be used again for the same purpose. Some small amount of the plastic might make it into another bottle, but more often than not, it instead becomes synthetic [...]

The recalls and other technical problems besetting Toyota in the last few weeks highlight the risks of relying on electronics instead of the mechanical rods and cables that controlled vehicles for most of the 20th century.
Such advancements bring many benefits, but the worry is that the car is a computer on wheels that could freeze [...]

Companies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were set to unveil more than 20,000 products this week. Those included touch-screen tablets by Hewlett-Packard Co., Sony 3-D TVs, and e-readers from Samsung and others.
Electronics makers are trying to emulate the [...]

A cascade of e-readers will hit the market this year, taking the devices far beyond gray-scale screens with features like touch navigation and video chatting – and probably lowering prices, too.
Its happening as other gadgets, such as mobile phones and tablet computers, give people even more choices for diving into their favorite books. Perhaps the [...]