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Broadcom’s mass-market GPS chips boost accuracy to 30 centimeters

The flexibility of FPGAs will protect the world’s network of smart devices

A sampling of recent technology job news shows positive signs if you want to work on Amazon’s Alexa or autonomous driving. Networking, not so much

Wifibroadcast promises digital video for FPV flyers using Raspberry Pi computers and ordinary WiFi dongles

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The experimental implants stimulate the vestibular nerves in the inner ear to treat dizziness

Plasmonic interconnect circuits represent first step towards carbon nanotube-based CMOS integrated circuits

Study shows millennials are about to dominate the tech workforce, and even some GenX-ers have age discrimination worries

H1ghlander narrowly took second in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Just last week, CMU figured out why

The news network is now allowed to film over crowds using a lightweight video drone

Videos: Five biomedical bots you never want to have to face

Qing-Chang Zhong lays out his vision for a harmonious grid

The best earthquake monitoring system is already installed under our feet, say Stanford researchers

A new elastic skin morphs to produce different textures

Perhaps we’re not alone in the universe; it’s just that everyone else is snoozing

Google DeepMind takes deep neural networks where no machine has gone before

Israeli startup AdaSky says their infrared camera will help cars navigate gnarly conditions

Another 2D material combined with silicon leads to a light-emitting diode and photodetector in one

They hoped artificial airglow would teach them more about the northern lights

After years of preparation, two giant human-piloted robots will face off in an epic battle

High-frequency flickering patterns from LED lighting can ruin photos or videos taken by smartphone-grade cameras in a room

Chinese startup Unitree Robotics unveils Laikago quadruped robot

The "air-breathing" battery is energy-dense and made of abundant, low-cost materials

The phenomenon, which produced gravitational waves and was closely followed by a gamma-ray burst, occurred 130 million light-years from Earth

The two companies have unveiled the latest iterations of dueling computing platforms

Wrap your head around SRI's new actuator, based on an ultra-compact infinitely variable transmission

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The robot made more precise cuts with less tissue damage

Days after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City, CMU sent its snake robots in to look for survivors

Solar-powered picrogrids and battery storage are spurring hopes of a silver lining for Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. But cost, time pressures, and resilience may keep fossil-fueled generation front and center

Police see drones as key tools in law enforcement. “We are negligent if we aren’t using drones,” says one officer

Adding a tail to a cockroach-inspired robot helps it flip itself over with ease

A new self-calibrating pressure sensor is helping scientists monitor underwater seismic activity

Photonic crystals and topological cavities are a new way to shape laser beams

The ingestible, self-powered device tracks food ingestion

Tiny photocells with a special blend of 2D materials could improve photovoltaic arrays

It's been over a decade, but Sony may be releasing a new version of one of the most sophisticated consumer robots ever made

Job search data shows U.S. tech employees looking for Canada's Silicon Valley target Ottawa and Toronto

Chip shipped to Netherlands to test error correction and other algorithms

Researchers on two continents hoped to learn if multiple systems could work together to stabilize a storm-damaged grid

Wind power's potential is far greater if turbines are placed in the open ocean, where winds rebound more quickly

The small startup is developing cheap, smart lidar on a chip

An MIT team shows that spotting moving objects around the corner only requires a smartphone camera and an algorithm

With Mott memristors, a system could solve intractable problems using little power

NYU's Yann LeCun and Gary Marcus debated the degree to which algorithms will need the inherent understanding of the world with which we are hardwired

A new process offers greater precision and tunability in adding creases to graphene to improve its electronic properties