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Open-frame chokes suppress noise in switch-mode power supplies, LED supplies and electronic ballasts, while saving valuable space and simplifying the bill of materials.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab's Dragonfly is a finalist for a NASA mission to Titan in the 2020s

A new ingestable capsule may also make it easier for doctors to diagnose gut disorders

Byton promises 2019 deliveries in the shadow of stalled vehicles from Lucid Motors and Faraday Future

These gadgets being launched at CES aren’t going to change the world, but I’m still eager to check them out

Home and office users will reap the benefits of smarter connected devices at the 2018 CES

The IEEE Spectrum team on the hottest gadgets and technology trends

A dozen intriguing tech projects to look for in the coming year

The glass arcs that will let astronomers peer back millions of years are decades in the making

The elephant’s new protector is PAWS, a machine-⁠learning and game-theory system that predicts where poachers are likely to strike

Oak Ridge’s 200-petaflop Summit supercomputer will come on line in mid-2018

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Georgia Tech spin-off SoftWear Automation is developing ultrafast sewing robots that could upend the clothing industry

Randomness makes some computations simpler, now it can be done in a single MRAM-like device

This long-awaited technology will extend the life of Moore’s Law

They're big, they're shiny, they're charmingly round-ish, but are they actually useful?

A startup called Amber will deploy truly driverless cars this year—but they’ll move only by night

Berkeley students find it’s hard to fix society’s big problems with technology, but tech is not a bad place to start

The oil state readies the Arabian Peninsula’s first nuclear power plant

Researchers in Austria came up with a countermeasure before they even knew the attack existed

Many attempts to mine cryptocurrencies for charity have failed, but Bail Bloc hopes its approach is different

Neurable’s brain-scanning headband brings hands-free control to virtual reality entertainment

Sound-based imaging reveals the location of engineered bacteria inside the gut or in tumors

If you have a 900 series Roomba, you might be able to test out some fancy new tricks

Google and Facebook need the new Pacific Light Cable Network to keep up with demand

Here are some of the technologies you’ll be reading about this year

Doctors order by app and wait for medical supplies to drop from the sky

This year’s Winter Games promise a sneak peek at a high-bandwidth, low-latency wireless future

Sensor-laden streetlights will spot parking spaces, listen for gunshots, and track air pollution

The next step may be the first-ever soft landing on the lunar far side

Sadly, the 1-gram spy craft couldn’t withstand a gentle breeze, but later dragonfly-inspired UAVs proved far more capable

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Yahoo, Brocade acquisitions spark the biggest layoffs; a good time to be a defense engineer

How a research institute near Barcelona exploits graphene’s potential in light-based technologies to advance 5G efforts

Here are the technology stories that captured your attention this year

Startup Natilus’s prototype aims to complete its first water trials, with flight tests to follow

Without GPS or any other kind of external localization, a dozen of UPenn's quadrotors can fly in formation outdoors

Watch animals of all sizes attack, lick, befriend, and otherwise interact with electronic devices

Public opposition to sequestration will make it harder to reach the country’s carbon reduction goal

The U.S. agency is going big on solving the spectrum management problem

Sam Zeloof has turned his parent’s garage into a 1970s-era fab

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An MIT student lab shows how to trick computer vision AI so it sees the wrong objects in pictures

A dystopian future in which killer robots are massacring innocents is terrifying, but let’s be clear: It's very much science fiction

Little was digitized, much was lost, but some copies of Hewlett-Packard’s key historical documents may remain in the wild