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Who needs salt when you have electric taste augmentation?

This evaluation includes LabVIEW Communication System Design Suite, which includes next-generation LabVIEW packaged with relevant add-ons specifically for rapidly prototyping communications systems.

New features leverage maps of your home to make your robot vacuum smarter

What really happens when your data is stored on far-off servers in distant data centers

Find the programming languages that are most important to you

By adding randomness to a relatively simple simulation, OpenAI's robot hand learned to perform complex in-hand manipulation

Niobium tungsten oxide anodes could boost lithium-ion batteries

For the first time, an engine combines the efficiency of diesel with the cleanliness of gasoline

Quantum computing is still as much science as engineering; progress could destroy cryptocurrencies

This 4-bit arithmetic logic unit looks great and teaches important lessons about computing

Nanowire networks produce all-optical logic gates

Declining costs have helped some of the country's smallest electricity providers expand their use of solar in highly innovative ways

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A wave of opt-outs highlights distrust in the government’s security and privacy promises

Both companies have won contracts from NASA to develop their own versions of a space shuttle

Leti’s Turbo-FSK is a low-power, long-range solution for IoT

RISC-V makes it easier for companies to design and build specialized chips for graphics and the Internet of Things

A midyear snapshot of tech job news finds Amazon expanding research operations all over the world, while Apple quietly adds hardware designers outside of Silicon Valley

The company aims to simplify future systems with an "Ethernet for chiplets"

This hybrid of robot human and robot horse is designed to rescue you from disasters

It wasn’t the first car, by any means. But it was the first car that really mattered

While Mayfield Robotics reevaluates its path forward, Kuri has been canceled

Need a helping hand? Tell this robotic arm—with your mind—to grasp that thing you need while your own two hands are busy

Researchers are trying to crack open the black box so AI can be deployed in health care

Radar data from the Mars Express orbiter has given us some of the biggest Red Planet news in years

New manufacturing process offers easy way to get thin-film electronics onto everything

Bombshell, GameChangers, and Science Fair all make for fascinating viewing

Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats is playing some crazy cosmic vibes

Teams announced in design, architecture, and materials and integration programs under the $1.5 billion effort to remake U.S. electronics

Speeding the flow of air over a smaller wing promises more efficient aircraft

It’s dirty, it’s dull, it’s enormous, and it’s probably one of the most productive robots on the planet

The longest-lasting high-performance organic flow battery to date

After traveling 3.2 billion kilometers, the Japanese space probe will attempt to park, pick up samples of the asteroid, then return to earth by 2020

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Cortisol is key to tracking stress, but it's tough to measure in an instant; Stanford researchers say they've figured out how

For real and simulated drones, piloting with torso movements outperforms a joystick every time—and it’s easier to learn

Robots that communicate what they're doing in AR are more efficient (and more pleasant) to work with

Startup says its ZiP chip hits the sweet spot—smaller than a printed circuit board, cheaper than a system-on-chip

SHRIMP is a new DARPA program to develop insect-scale robots for disaster recovery and high-risk environments

The Ground X Vehicle Technologies program explores the advantages of powering vehicles with multiple electric motors

The U.S. government requests information on high-demand skill sets, hiring difficulties, apprenticeship programs, and pipeline challenges

Do people display different racial biases towards black robots and white robots? A new study says yes

Nanoparticle contacts open the way to better sensors

The new iBeat Heart Watch raises the alert if your heart rate falters

Tesla batteries and behind-the-meter Li-ion batteries could deliver electricity to meet peak Silicon Valley demand

The defense department’s research wing is pouring $1.5 billion into projects that could radically alter how electronics are made

Getting photons to interact is a key step toward using them as qubits