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Give a French videotex terminal a stylish second life

Prosthetic hands give users sensory feedback so they can feel and grip objects accurately

Pushed to discuss recent privacy breaches, a Facebook privacy executive defends the company’s approach

Perrone Robotics began by automating consumer cars. Now it’s focusing on niche applications instead

Services available through Google's BigQuery platform make it easy to search and analyze blockchain transactions

To win at bridge and Hanabi, AIs must come up with subtle cues to communicate

Remote human operators will still take the wheel in fiddly situations

A new cruise-control algorithm could help trains use the track more efficiently without crashing

Chinese authorities want to avoid outside scrutiny of the country's security crackdown on Uyghur Muslims

New FAA rules change identification requirements for all consumer drones while making it a bit easier to fly at night or over people

3D sensing is the optical technology behind mobile face recognition – and it depends on innovative optical components.

MIT engineers design a system for IoT chips to do quantum-computer-proof encryption

Nobody really knows

Airborne wind energy company Makani has graduated from X's experimental labs and is teaming up with offshore energy giant Shell

Autonomous vehicles could use parking lots more efficiently, but also worsen gridlock

The wireless standard is already behind more than 100 low-power, wide-area networks around the world

The wireless standard is already behind more than 100 low-power, wide-area networks around the world

A government project begins testing millions of Internet-connected devices to see how safe they are from cyberattacks

New research pins quantum technological hopes on a graphenelike semiconducting material

And for some tech workers, a new survey finds, scandal-ridden companies may actually be more appealing

RVR is rugged, affordable, expandable, and easy to program

Companies can save time and money by testing devices early and often

Anshel Sag, a consumer tech analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, shares his predictions for this year’s show

Follow along as IEEE Spectrum reports from the mobile industry’s largest annual event

Officials say figuring out how to collect data from transportation companies is the first step toward smarter cities

To consumer tech analyst Carolina Milanesi, “smart” devices may finally start to live up to their name

Games, Computers, and Humans

With ultrafast pulses, it's possible to write bits in picoseconds—100 times faster than today's technologies

This new tracking system developed by researchers in Australia provides more accurate location data by optimizing when a GPS sample is taken

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

An extra pair of wings makes robot insects much easier to control

A crash plan to scale up solar thermal power generation struggles amidst overly-ambitious timing and market uncertainty

Extracting faint signal data amid powerful measurement interferences may save both time and, in many tech spaces, lives

Desert ants can navigate remarkably well with the aid of the sun, a skill that robots are trying to duplicate

Meanwhile, those at Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn feel quite secure, according to a survey by social network Blind

The new "American AI Initiative" is heavy on bombast, light on specifics

Legendary inventor James West is trying to save lives with a smart stethoscope

Joints that are reconfigurable on the fly help this small robot avoid obstacles

A public-private group plans to make flying vehicles into a viable business in 2023

Airbus says air taxis could become a popular transportation option for urbanites

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

A new user verification system for phones relies on the unique way a person moves his or her lips

Silent speech recognition enables covert communication

In Japan, you'll be able to rent a home robot that someone else occasionally inhabits to fold your clothes

Its magnetic properties come from spin excitons, and could someday improve the speed and power consumption of data storage devices

Specialized chips and circuits may not save the computer industry after all

The push to connect more devices and share more data presents a variety of challenges for wireless researchers