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Industry has been focused on speeding the many matrix multiplications involved, but a search algorithm may provide better performance

Roboticists need to discuss openly and honestly not only our successes but also our failures

A revised design means dead satellites will burn up completely in the atmosphere

Outfitting headphones and earbuds with sensors will make them an ideal way to keep track of your health

One day your doctor could prescribe drugs based on how a biochip version of you reacts to them

Fine-tunable liquid crystals steer the beam electronically—with no moving parts

California Governor Gavin Newsom wows a crowd of distinguished computer scientists, educators, and other Silicon Valley luminaries at Stanford Human-Centered AI symposium

Chipmaker partners with Georgia Tech researchers to produce a low-power circuit that keeps encryption keys safe

Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to electrify every household, but gaps remain in rural India

Adafruit is betting the language will make sense for makers


The NeuroAD system, from Israeli company Neuronix, uses non-invasive brain stimulation

Emoji domain names have been around for years, but they're still not in common use

In a study of senior computer science majors in the U.S., China, India, and Russia, U.S. students are tops in skills, if not in gross numbers

The Tokyo 2020 Robot Project promises an assortment of robots to do useful things for visitors at the games. But will they be more than a novelty?

The famed 19th century engineer may have been inspired by an early example of AI chicanery and hype

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

The small NetBlocks team uses tools for monitoring Internet connectivity to shed light on Venezuela's blackout

A new laser-based EUV source can help crack tough material problems that bedevil 7-nm and under photoresists.

It's round three of invasive lionfish vs. underwater robots

The autonomous, easy-to-swallow device administers a drug injection inside the intestines

Mind reading glasses, goggles that erase chronic pain, a wristband that can hear what the wearer can’t, and more futuristic wearables are on the horizon

Every year in the United States, roughly 20 million hard drives are retired from data centers

Hydraulic actuators will give Nadia a unique combination of flexibility and power

A research team in Belgium says its prototype panel can produce 250 liters of hydrogen gas per day

An ultra-low power cryogenic IC would help quantum computers scale up

Sophisticated 16QAM modulation sends data through a transatlantic fiber-optic cable with record efficiency

#CERN: Your next computing engineering career step?

A research consortium hatches a plan to develop the next generation of lead batteries for grid-scale energy storage

As distributed energy resources gain traction, virtual power plants could add value for consumers and utilities alike

Sangbae Kim talks to us about the new Mini Cheetah quadruped and his future plans for the robot

A new memory device based on gallium nitride can operate at 300 degrees Celsius

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Researchers can use the “Moments in Time” project to train AI systems to recognize and understand actions and events in videos

In one fell swoop, Waymo places itself at the head of the pack of challengers to the industry leader

Researchers devise method for snooping on DNA synthesis using acoustic recordings. But is it a real threat?

Intel and academic groups are designing specialized hardware to speed path planning and other aspects of robot coordination

In Silicon Valley, engineers working in search are pulling down the highest salaries; in Paris, blockchain rules

Phones will be our first introduction to 5G, but its true value will come in connecting everything else

IBM's latest report on global cybersecurity trends shows that attackers are obeying the old maxim of following the money

Hired survey shows engineers love Python and hate PHP; meanwhile, companies hunt for the elusive Go programmer

It's all part of the company's drive for zero fatalities by 2020

5G signifies a generational transformation that will profoundly impact businesses and consumers across the globe

Deep learning helps one of Georgia Tech's musical robots to understand humans and sing to them