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Messenger's 1.3 billion users send more messages on New Year’s Eve than on any other day of the year

Apple, Google, and Amazon aren’t the only tech companies embracing geographic diversity

In a new book, veteran programmer Adam Barr explains why it happens and how to fix it

Dozens of companies vied to build the first commercially successful recreational drone; the competition was won by a Chinese engineer barely out of adolescence

Technical mishaps occurred in trains, planes, automobiles, and many more places

The road to the first automotive radar detector began when a radar engineer was stopped by traffic police for speeding

Credit cards largely funded the development of a gadget that now saves thousands of lives every year all over the world

After a long struggle, audiophiles finally managed to persuade the famously “closed” Apple to open up its iPods

The device that launched the fish-finder category traces its origins to a couple of tinkerers who began modifying Heathkit depth sounders

Cars and planes make sense for short and long distances, but for intercity travel, they don’t even come close to fast trains

Can a layer of cheap, widely-available mystery material prevent thermal runaway?

A wearable device for detecting possible opioid overdoses is one of many technological tools that aim to address the U.S. public health crisis

Is the reputation of elite universities just a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Fujitsu has developed a judging system that can objectively score a routine based on the angles of a gymnast's joints

Supply-chain problems forced a premium camcorder to mutate into a game-friendly kit

Microsoft’s challenge requires AI agents to cooperate in a virtual universe

Your weekly selection of awesome (holiday themed) robot videos

Martin Ford's new book, 'Architects of Intelligence,' explores the reality of AI through interviews with the people actually working on it

A new survey points to a “serious rift” between the expectations of physicians and AI experts.

The Garmin StreetPilot helped destroy the market for street atlases, but it might have saved a few marriages in the process

The $10,000 gold Apple Watch was an extreme indication of Apple’s ability to command premium prices; too bad the company stopped making updates for that model after three years

The Technics SL-1200, a pioneering direct-drive turntable, earned the distinction of being a musical-playback device that was also used as a musical-performance device

The Cobra 138XLR was the most legendary CB radio during the brief but glorious golden age of CB radios

We talk to Ken Bazydola at iRobot about the world's fanciest robotic vacuuming system

iRobot's newest flagship robot vacuum is the best there is, if you can afford it

Factory machines will use time-sensitive networking to coordinate their work

Novel repeater units and a clever layout of ferrite plates helps this new wireless-power-transfer system simultaneously deliver power to 10 devices

Stanford’s DeepSolar neural network analyzed satellite images to count U.S. solar installations—and there are a lot more than anybody thought

Crop scientists hope to replace traditional, painstaking monitoring methods with automation

Manhole antenna solution offers glimpse into 5G strategies for signal propagation

A popular chat service, 3615 SM, has been resurrected from the original code

A new modeling tool aims to capture the butterfly effect that occurs across a city when unexpected events occur

Hardware-based motion planning that operates in under a millisecond makes robots both safer and more versatile

The FCC says hundreds of fragments from the Starlink constellation could reach the Earth’s surface every day

CHAdeMO and the China Electricity Council invite other countries to join them in creating an open charging standard for electric vehicles

Inspired by the man who showed the way to modern computing, tech-minded experts shared ideas for how to tackle climate change, nuclear proliferation, and broken political systems

Six teams won US $750,000 each by showing that their AIs could responsibly manage spectrum

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

That lightning-bolt of a charger needs cooling for the cable and the battery

This quadrotor can alter its shape in flight depending on where it needs to go

Could this be the end of underage drinking in New Orleans bars?

Sensor based monitoring is becoming popular among the aging population. Here’s how to select a sensor to fit your application and parameters.

In 1973, Bowmar/ALI was the biggest calculator company in the world. In 1976, it went out of business

The original action camera started as a home-sewn strap that secured a disposable camera to the user’s wrist

Product management, reliability, and security jobs pay the most in Silicon Valley, says job search firm Indeed

This odd hybrid camera had a mechanical shutter and a 6.1-megapixel image sensor

The idea for the Walkman came from Sony’s opera-loving cofounder

The first cellphone with an AMOLED screen fizzled in the marketplace, despite combining several very advanced technologies

A research team tries to turn bees into living drones by gluing wireless sensor platforms to their backs