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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

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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

The device could be an affordable way to harvest water from air in under-developed, arid regions

At-home telepresence gets significantly more affordable, although it's still not cheap

Machine learning algorithms that readily pick up cultural biases may pose ethical problems

Slow moo-ving cows pose a danger on Indian roads

New methods show that encryption alone will not keep attackers from identifying your video streams

The Japanese chipmaker Renesas and its partners are hoping to steal a march on US rivals by offering a one-stop shop for ADAS and autonomous driving

The new design offers energy-storage at half the cost of batteries, the company says

What can we expect from Neuralink, the new Elon Musk company devoted to brain-computer interfaces?

Two new prototypes tackle the challenge of making soft robots that can move

The new molybdenum disulfide microprocessor has 115 transistors