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U.S. Department of Defense backs peripheral nerve stimulation as a tool to improve learning and military skills

Discovery could be the answer to the demands for increasing information storage density as device feature sizes decrease

Japanese group pushes closer to the 29 percent efficiency limit

An integrated platform for complex simulations and analyses is indispensable in bringing a sophisticated device to market quickly

Kid-proof robots are small, cheap, and help turn abstract concepts into interactive lessons

Counting the employed requires not only data but insight into the human condition, something bureaucrats tend to lack

Select customers in Phoenix can now hail rides from the company's robocar fleet, which it is expanding by 500 vehicles

Researchers map an Intel processor down to its transistors

Even at the inexpensive end of the earphone market, audiophiles can find happiness

Fake hardware could open the door to malicious malware and critical failures

Technique could reduce costs for compound semiconductor circuits and lead to new devices

Engineers at NYU have built an AR app to operate robots in the real world

Apple's autonomous development vehicle seems less developed than previously imagined

Global standards drove fuel-saving “mild hybrid” technology, but weakened EPA rules could stall U.S. deployment

We’re closer than ever before to the next generation of wireless, but expectations have cooled slightly

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Cypress Semiconductor is using multiphysics simulation to optimize touchscreens for smartphones, laptops, and more

If people are using them, they are likely hiding the compression metric’s HBO Silicon Valley origins

Integrated photonic circuit development compared to going from vacuum tubes to semiconductor transistors

The creators of Tarzan the robot explain how it works and its potential applications

Facebook promises 100 words per minute, but doesn't detail the technology that can pull that off

Electrical stimulation delivered to the human brain when memory is predicted to fail can improve memory

This Dutch researcher created the code that turns bits into pits

Facebook's Yael Maguire talks about millimeter wave networks, Aquila, and flying tethered antennas at the F8 developer conference

The hand-size unit will be demonstrated this summer, released in test quantities this year, and mass produced in 2018

Experts reflect on whether proposals in various bills in Congress right now could work to improve the H-1B visa program

Should drones be required to broadcast an identifying code by radio?

The mysterious XPoint memory in Intel’s new Optane solid-state drive is a step toward universal memory

Energy harvesting makes the jump from mere man-size stuff to infrastructure

This year many of the formulas, documents, and snippets of engineer-speak on HBO’s "Silicon Valley" will be coming from Stanford postdoc Dmitri Pavlichin

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he has stopped waiting for glasses, and the company is diving into phone-based AR

Two new studies show good results on DBS for depression, but the treatment is still far from clinical use

Enviro Power’s small steam turbine could cut homeowners’ electricity bills by 30 percent

Less than a decade ago, if you were to ask a master chef which type of cook stove he preferred, he would have answered gas, without question. Now there's another option.

Avegant is confident enough about its light-field-based mixed-reality technology that it's willing to show and tell

Unfavorable market conditions are forcing some nuclear power plants to close, removing a carbon-free source of power from the U.S. grid. Plant operators are fighting back

Machine learning uses data from smartphones and wearables to identify signs of relationship conflicts

Gliding drones made out of plywood can deliver supplies from long range with pinpoint accuracy

Holoplot says its directional sound technology can simultaneously send up to 16 different messages to passengers at gates

A mathematical rethink suggests that CO2 will warm Earth more in future than it does today. But better satellites—such as those Trump wants to scrap—are needed to reduce climate uncertainty

In exchange for your undivided attention, the 2018 Cadillac CT6 will drive for you on any highway in the United States

This transparent, soft robot fish propels itself by flapping fins made of dielectric elastomers

But the Federal Aviation Administration is allowing PrecisionHawk to test a system for managing small drones beyond visual line of sight

Highlights for the week of 10 April 2017

Silicon Valley cloud service, networking, and data analytics providers dominate Glassdoor’s latest list of high-paying employers

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New type of logic gate promises to completely replace electricity with magnetic spin waves for computation

Surface plasmon modeling and nanostructured electrode design show promise for increased light output and efficiency in organic LED (OLED) systems.

Final Frontier Medical Devices takes home $2.6 million for mobile diagnostic device

FCC documents reveal car maker’s plan to test 300 autonomous Chevrolet Bolts with new radar