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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

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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

Low-resistance nanowires offer an interconnect capabilitiy in self-assembled nanostructures

With mass production, it should cost around US $40—less than one percent of the price of today's least expensive revolving sets

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Language barriers and human interfaces slow adoption of diagnostic-aid tech

This first-in-primate study tested out tech for future human trials

Vulnerable IoT devices put everyone at risk, and government regulation could help

New electric race series join Formula E

It's taken a century to get this thrust-vectoring aircraft off the ground

In Kosovo, the World Bank considers funding a new coal plant. But renewables would be cheaper

Researchers hope prototype will someday help doctors target brain surgery sites with more patient comfort and greater accuracy

Hardware and software engineers looking to work on autonomous vehicle technologies have lots of choices, according to an analysis by Indeed.com

Optical Tweezer Techniqe Holds 50 Atoms in Place for Several Seconds

Researchers develop an algorithm to determine how much screen time kids are getting using a commercial TV color sensor

Medium-sized, plastic silicon cell and solar concentrator photovoltaic modules achieve 5.8 efficiency

Analysis suggests that crabs in Sweden are not negatively affected by Lillgrund farm

This iPhone-sized metamaterial radar can spot power lines from hundreds of meters away

Wind farms can emulate the rotational inertia that conventional power plants provide to stabilize power grids. Next-generation technology will do it even better

The powers of man, robot, and drone combined

California regulators reportedly discovered a software cheat to minimize carbon-dioxide emissions during testing