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These desktop gadgets should make DIY genetic engineering much easier

New sensing tech uses infrared lasers and tiny nanoantennas on a chip

The 2016 LA Auto Show Design Challenge showed some innovative and bizarre concepts for 2050s travel

The material inside the first transistors could have a new life at the cutting edge

Automation allows thousands of possibilities when building weird new organisms

With wireless optogenetic tools, neuroscientists steer mice around their cages

Raytheon's Phaser microwave weapons system can fry swarms of drones at long range

A wearable device capable of reading health signs from sweat could become so cheap that it's disposable

Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders Join Forces to Celebrate Women ’s Entrepreneurship Day in San Francisco

A Kenyan startup scales up its processing of human waste with a new continuous flow system creating a new fuel stream for cooking

Our annual roundup of techie presents for every budget

Root is a programmable robot that solves the main problem with teaching kids to code: it helps grown-ups learn to code too

New material ticks all the boxes for future super-fast electronics

An Apple IIe and a Commodore 64 are pressed into service

Mitsubishi Electric to take its new mapping technology overseas

Touch screens are on the way out; piezoelectric gesture control is on the way in

The Optune device is also being tested as a treatment for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer

Volkswagen cuts 30,000, NetApp, and Marvell also slash jobs. But Tinder is on the hunt in Silicon Valley and Tesla puts out a help-wanted sign in Germany

Economic growth isn’t as high as billed, and besides, it doesn’t give the whole story

Researchers take a step toward a low-cost, portable water desalination system suited for developing countries and remote areas

A robot built like an ironing board is surprisingly good at walking without falling over

The company will expand the autonomous-taxi experiment it began some months ago in Singapore

Cloud computing is raining metaphors

Silicon nanoparticles change the direction of light based on the intensity of the lncoming light

Some industry members, politicians, and researchers believe a proposal in Finland is far from being a pipe dream

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Zcash’s new cryptocurrency promises complete anonymity

Startup Ommo wants to take a magnetic field generator in your pocket and sensors on your fingertips into the world of virtual reality

Startup Peeq introduces a system that combines video from smartphones and data from a tracker to automatically edit a personalized highlight reel of team sports

Startup RecoverX says its portable ice therapy machine replaces hot packs too

Flo Labs packs an IoT puck with sensors to collect and share data on surf conditions and track rides

A controller that can twist in your hand makes VR even more immersive

Using cockroach-like shells and wings keeps this robot bug upright and mobile

And Tesla wants to use robocar smarts to transmit the noise selectively

A hybrid between a blimp and a humanoid robot can do amazing things

New devices could lead to speech control of video games and robots

Even as the first grid-scale batteries come online, ARPA-E underwrites R&D for next-generation grid storage

MIT's MoVR phased array reflector solves the line of sight issues holding back wireless VR

The cars chatted with sub-millisecond lag, enough to make coordinated action feasible

KAIST's PIBOT can sit in the pilot's seat and fly a regular aicraft just like a human would

I don't know what a symbiotic robot-plant biohybrid is, but I'm sure there's a horror movie in there somewhere

Comparing maximum efficiency is a good place to start, but it takes more than that for a commercial breakthrough

See how the most efficient solar cells have evolved over time

Experts in New York debated the latest virtual reality trends and whether users are really ready to embrace this new medium

New process will lead to large-area synthesis of device-quality tungsten disulfide that could be good enough for flexible and RF circuits

They're an even match for computing power, too

The new device can wrap around objects to image items with 3-D curves

Matrix Industries comes out of stealth today to say that wearables can—and should—power themselves