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IBM’s layoffs have been a frustrating story to cover in recent years; ProPublica and Mother Jones take it on

New mesh Wi-Fi networks improve coverage, but at the cost of interoperability

Playground Global leads a sizeable round with the goal of turning walking robots into useful tools

Playwright picks Robert Noyce to be the conscience of a female founder as he sets Silicon Valley to song in "Venture"

Tech giants and startups alike want to bring quantum computing into the mainstream, but success is uncertain

With a full investigation underway, we can start to untangle the strands of responsibility—and ask what it means for the future of self-driving cars

This soft robotic fish is reef friendly and won't scare away the real thing

A helmet records wearers' brain activity using magnetoencephalography (MEG) while they move around

The Icarus project will track tens of thousands of animals from the International Space Station

Supercapacitor technology could make tiny accelerometers as much as 1 million times more sensitive

The death of a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., sparks a blame game

The Avatar XPRIZE is a compelling idea, but it needs to recalibrate in order to significantly advance the technology

Silicon Valley start-up’s SpaceBees are being tracked on orbit, but they could be the company’s last

The company’s software minimizes the limitations of small speakers and headphones

Ducted fans in its toes help this robot to balance while taking giant steps

These two technologies have long been hyped, and proponents of each are finally starting to work together

It’s time for deep learning algorithms to come down from the cloud and get into your gadgets

Researchers combine 3D-printed hydrogels and origami to create an electric eel-inspired power source

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Security experts say Georgia Senate Bill 315 could criminalize legitimate research

With a vibrating gadget and some nerve rewiring, prostheses users get sensation in their plastic arms

Pressure-sensitive coating prevents button batteries from conducting electricity inside the esophagus

A machine learning algorithm for detecting ripeness levels in papaya fruit could help both shoppers and producers

Last year, I took SCiO food shopping and tested apples and cheese. Now the gadget has moved up the food chain and into the dairy barn

Shelly is fun to play with, but if you hit it, it'll hide inside its shell until it's safe to come out again

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How do you get to a net-carbon-free global energy system by 2070?

Hackaday announces the 2018 Hackaday Prize Competition

Founded by ex-iRobot engineers, this startup is building a remote presence robot powered by sophisticated sensors and autonomous navigation

A deep neural network that's mapped to the innards of a yeast cell reveals its inner workings

If this were a “Jeopardy” clue, the category would be “IoT” and the answer would be “Who is physicist Hendrik Hamann?”

InterOperability Device Testing (IODT) determines whether the base station and device can establish and maintain a robust communication link that can carry out 5G performance in prescribed test conditions.

Electricity may be fully restored this May—but the hard work of hurricane-proofing the grid remains

With a payload of 100 kilograms, Magni aims to make it easy to prototype a useful mobile robot

Alexa, Google Home, Siri, and Cortana will learn to adjust to your changing life

To prevent deadly pile-ups, the state is installing hundreds of transceivers in semi trucks

NASA scientists rethink the "habitable zone"

Breakthrough thermal shielding tech will let delicate electronics survive the brutal heat of the sun's corona

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The U.S. communications agency says tiny Internet of Things satellites from Swarm Technologies could endanger other spacecraft

Sinking project mismanagement to new depths