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The solid-state transformer is poised to remake the electrical distribution grid

Millions of conventional cars rolling off assembly lines today could benefit from automated driving technologies. But where are the startups to build those systems?

The extreme saltatorial skills of this "hyper-aggressive pogo-stick" will amaze you

How good is the return? Try 44-fold—yep, that’s 4,400 percent

Hedge funds are testing new quantitative strategies that could supplant traditional fund managers

To respond to a plague of drones, airports and other venues deploy AI systems to track and identify intruders

HAX’s Ben Joffe takes a look at what’s going on in China’s startup sector

A dataset of 6.7 million robust point clouds and grasps can train your neural network to reliably pick up objects

Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman wrote the first biography of the digital pioneer

Data is about to revolutionize the treatment of depression, schizophrenia, and many other disorders

Derive is taking technology that lets hot rodders soup up their vehicles and using it to make drivers behave themselves

With an easy-to-use interface based on MIT's Scratch, you can command Cozmo to do complex tasks without any programming experience

Where ferromagnetic domain wall memory fell short, the ferroelectric variety is ready to pick up the slack

A startup challenging Google and IBM sees opportunities for quantum computing in both the short term and long run

HAX executives preview trends in hardware startups

Deep brain stimulation for Tourette's is experimental, but showing promising results

In Europe, new tech boosts the appeal of previously pricey offshore wind

A GPU-based neural network was the only way to handle a garage full of Lego

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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other big Silicon Valley players want to make commercial gadgets for your brain

Car-to-car communication serves as a sixth sense—or is it a seventh?

It may be more than you’d like

How a desire for corporate synergy gave rise to the “embarrassing” TI 99/4

The TMS9900 could have powered the PC revolution. Here’s why it didn’t

The Canadian company wants to use AI to rate your car insurance risk in real time

The trick is to make a motor that can tweak its magnetic fields to run more efficiently

The most efficient way to exploring other planets may be sending humans to orbit, and letting robots do everything else

The wearable microsystem “bites” the wrist of patients with diabetes to autonomously monitor blood glucose levels

Intel says its new Olympics sponsorship is about “changing the experience” for the digital generation

Specialized neurons in a rat’s brain may be the key to autonomous robot navigation

The preliminary work for simulating the human brain is already under way

The massive €1 billion project has shifted focus from simulation to informatics

Nearly 400 teams have already signed up to create an AI with true generalized intelligence

Personalized medicine, self-driving cars, big data, AI, and machine learning will mainstream supercomputing

A five-year project at Imec aims to make big boosts in the density of thin-film transistor circuitry

We complain about split attention, but why then do we embrace distraction?

At last, a killer app for the nanocomposite miracle material?

The most amazing prediction was that of legal roadblocks

We can adopt technologies early, but adaptation takes time

The world running on wind, sunlight, and hydropower—championed by Stanford's Mark Jacobson—has captured the public imagination, but it faces a fierce attack from 21 climate and power-grid experts

For the first time since 1996, the U.S. holds none of the world's top three supercomputers. An upgraded Swiss machine takes third

A team of ETH Zurich undergrads has created an innovative hexcopter that can move and turn in any direction

With massive MIMO, future 5G networks will be able to cram more data onto the same amount of spectrum

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BRASTER had contracted with a product design company in the Netherlands to source a camera module that met their quality requirements. But nobody was able to move fast enough—that’s when Avnet stepped in.

Engineers have found a way to save space and power by quickly redesigning microcontrollers to strip them of unused logic gates