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A rough map of all the world's roads can fit on a flash drive—and it's all that self-driving cars will need

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Two weeks after a failed IT migration, tens of thousands of TSB customers are still having trouble accessing their accounts

Idemia's Rob Mikell on why everyone needs a digital driver’s license

This robot also encourages functional rehab by taking you on in a cup-grasping contest

Engineers in Germany have come up with a security enclosure that needs no battery and can’t be penetrated without wiping its data

What’s it like to be a woman in tech? Three generations of IBM women weigh in

By September, companies will have the specifications they need to manufacture 5G-enabled base stations

Public filings suggest the social media giant is quietly developing orbital tech to rival efforts by SpaceX and OneWeb to deliver Internet by satellite

The Misty II personal robot is designed to do whatever you can program it to do, and more

Ryan Hickman, who co-founded the Cloud Robotics group at Google and was an early part of the Toyota Research Institute Product team, describes how his startup tried to make consumer home robots work

Fake news, political manipulation—how does Facebook put all that behind it? How about a dating app?

OpenBook Challenge puts up $700,000 to spark creation of a Facebook alternative

Ultra-thin organic lasers could improve biometric security and anti-counterfeiting

University of Maryland engineers revive an old chemistry with a new electrolyte.

Commercial software performs as well as doctors in measuring breast density and assessing breast cancer risk

It takes some doing to extract sound from an 1885 wax disc

Here’s what you need to know about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect 25 May 2018

A system meltdown on Tax Day was the latest symptom of IT modernization debacles that stretch over decades

AI can discover new drugs because biology is messy and complex, not in spite of that fact, says Andrew Hopkins

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IP65-rated PPC65B series offers optimal performance, durability and reliability for industrial and extreme environments

Adobe, Baidu, Google, and others have software that can fabricate convincing video or audio clips of anyone

Experts agree that phased arrays are ready for 5G networks, and will soon switch from analog to digital

Engineers from NASA's Robonaut and Valkyrie projects team up with industry veterans to develop transforming underwater vehicles

The startup is building short-haul aircraft for Boeing and JetBlue that combine gas turbines and batteries

Joan Williams gives companies and individuals practical tools to short-circuit discrimination

Optical CMOS process could break communications bottleneck

T-Mobile sees low- and mid-band frequencies as equally vital for the next generation wireless network

It's the first publicly acknowledged deal between a major car company and a solid-state lidar firm

IBM rains down layoff notices while Amazon hires a host of Alexa engineers—in India

Your boss wants to start an IoT project—what next?

Three teams are developing rival technologies to combat explosives, nerve gases, and other threats

New GDPR regulations on personal data will affect even individual coders

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as “drones,” have been gaining popularity in recent years.

Domestic robots are hard, but rumor has it that Amazon wants in

With the right coding, the double helix could archive our entire civilization

Poking something sharp into a plain silicon crystal turns it into a solar cell that might shoot past today’s efficiency limits

A research agreement on robotics and AI will result in robot waiters and chefs

Automatic emergency braking systems need 180-degree frontal vision to help cars avoid hitting cyclists

Electric motors came into their own only after the Serbian-born inventor came up with a marketable design based on alternating current

Depression, Alzheimer’s, and other syndromes leave their mark in the way you type and talk

Quantum blockchain systems could resist hacks by quantum computers