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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

The controversial Universal Credit program to roll six benefits payments into one received an amber rating

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Carriers argue that 5G will enable intelligent vehicles and the Internet of Things, but not everyone is convinced

If you suddenly became unable to work because of an illness or accident, disability insurance can help protect your lifestyle.

As the first phase of 5G NR wraps up and the 3GPP finishes defining the communications protocol, the standards body also has identified specific frequency bands intended for 5G.

Gore is recruiting startups to Silicon Valley to make wearables or flexible electronics from the same material used in Gore-Tex

After nearly four decades of development, interactive home robots have made exactly as much progress as you'd expect

AI in a test tube could help detect complex patterns of molecules

A single subatomic collision has opened a new door in astronomy

The Australian company hopes to sell lidar systems with no moving parts for a few hundred dollars

The German companies follow in the footsteps of Waymo and GM's Cruise

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An optogenetic technique tested in gerbils, if it can be replicated in humans, could pave the way to better hearing aids

Facebook's DensePose technology lets anyone turn 2D images of people into 3D models

Early stage robotics startups can get up to $2 million in funding from Toyota to work on home assistive robots

A new application seeks approval to beam the company's unlicensed CubeSats’ location, course, and speed down to Earth—and then share that data online

This programmer saved the Apollo 14 mission with 61 keystrokes

ITX-N-3800 SBCs provide lower cost IIoT solutions in small form factor

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A new report finds a “litany of failures” in Australia’s attempt to digitize government services

A new device records the brain’s quiet response to noisy electrical stimulation

Finding the optimal solutions to complex problems can be dramatically faster

Safer reactors designed in the U.S. and Europe make their power grid debuts in China

Popcorn is a cheap, biodegradable way to actuate a robot (once)

Honda is teaching its robots to take longer and faster steps to recover from shoves by transitioning to a running gait, which is exactly what humans do if we need to

Ginkgo Bioworks hopes to catch rogue DNA before and after it's made

Parrot reenters the consumer drone space with the innovative new Anafi

IBM's new chip is designed to do both high-precision learning and low-precision inference across the three main flavors of deep learning

Scientists have been able to move atoms around for 30 years, but moving molecules has proven much more difficult

The first CPU-on-a-chip was a shoestring crash project

This chip put a radio into countless consumer products

Despite bad management, the first CMOS microprocessor went all the way to Jupiter

NASA didn’t want it, but the PB-100 popularized the tech that became the way people capture photos and video

Algae could be the environmentally-friendly superfood we've all been waiting for. But will anyone actually eat it?

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Plaintiffs accuse the company of withholding information about a software flaw that caused 2017 Chrysler Pacifica minivans to stall

Ernesto Blanco came up with a workable design in 1962, but it never went into production

Electrical engineer and artist Jim Campbell explains the technology behind the highest public art installation in the world, and the challenge of avoiding window washers