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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

This nanoprinting process allows researchers to 3D print more material on a biochip than ever before, making it easier to study biomedical issues

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Building an acoustic levitator kit that can make (small) objects float in midair

Engineers in South Korea have fixed molybdenum disulfide’s electronic problems to bring flexible displays closer

For the next 20 years, the agency will review reports on Uber’s privacy and security practices

With photovoltaic costs dropping, oil states turn to solar power to desalinate their water

The tech incubator Lumi Labs starts out with a bit of Silicon Valley magic on its side

Thriving in today’s world means philosophical sacrifices

App by app and tool by tool, scientists are studying whether digital health interventions work, with mixed results

Bradford W. Parkinson shepherded the first GPS constellation to launch, and pushed for civilian access

Flexible nanodiamonds promise to open up novel optical and electronic properties