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Almost half a century ago, IEEE Spectrum reported on the future of autonomous cars, and it sounded a lot like the present

This island nation is doubling down on self-driving tech, particularly car-hailing applications

Pokemon Go may just be AR-light, but it is preparing its users for a time in which AR relationships help people deal with real-world challenges

Low-cost technology could finally make lab-on-a-chip devices available for home users

Pinholes are a big problem for blimps, so Lockheed Martin built a swarm of robots to find and fix them

By applying a voltage to graphene sandwiching a piece of paper, researchers have created a new display technology

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GPS is vulnerable to spoofing attacks. Here’s how we can defend these important navigation signals

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Though it never flew, this 1969 astronaut prototype influenced later NASA models

Silicon Valley’s ThinAir Labs aims to bring fraud detection tools from the credit card industry onto your computer

A Turing test alternative, the Winograd Schema Challenge aims to determine how well AI handles commonsense reasoning

App developers must respect the quirks of smartphone culture when crowdsourcing

Two insulators become an amazing conductor when joined, promising efficient power electronics

“Distracting Ourselves to Death” isn’t just a metaphor anymore

The device gives a discreet, disposable way to measure the alcohol level in your body

Multiphysics simulation reduces risk and shortens product development time

This paragon of technological moxie bet heavily on outsourcing and lost. Can it recover its luster?

Mix in a little bit of licensed LTE, and everyone wins

Cloud-computing services deliver AI to the rest of us

Tesla says it will develop its next-gen self-driving software in-house

Researchers fabricate a photovoltaic device with hundreds of organic nanowires connected to nanoelectrodes

It's not working yet in the United States, so why not move autonomous delivery to the U.K. and hope for better luck?

JVC and Sony transformed the video recording technology pioneered by Ampex into a major industry

That still-working but dusty VCR you have on a shelf somewhere? It’s now officially irreplaceable

A motorized skateboard plus a machine-learning algorithm help infants explore the world and form valuable brain connections

But don't expect these robots to steer themselves through the body any time soon

Languages like Go, Julia, R, Scala, and even Python are riding the number-crunching wave

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This could be the first robot ever to do the worm

The enabling of 3D printed electronics through nanomaterials is changing 3D printing and electronics

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, bunnie Huang, and Mathew Green say the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's onerous copyright rules

Mass spectrometry will bring drug testing to new heights at the Rio Olympics

Surgically implanted bioelectronic devices may one day treat inflammatory conditions with electrical nerve stimulation

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Advocates of an Ethereum "hard fork" got what they wanted, and Ether is now rebounding on the markets. But the future of the technology remains unclear

The driver says the robot slammed on the brakes before he could, stopping just before hitting a pedestrian

Porous silicon nanoparticles offer harmless diagnostic and therapeutic solution for many types of cancer

The ESP8266 microchip is an unexpected powerhouse

The last ITRS report forecasts an end to traditional 2D scaling

At ABB, engineers develop multiphysics models and custom applications to minimize noise level in transformers

Low production costs make technique available to developing countries for detecting a wide variety of diseases

This engineer is turning her skills toward creating a new TV show

A Pittsburgh startup wants to build a robot that can pick items off of shelves, the holy grail of warehouse fulfillment

With traffic accidents soaring, Charles Adler imagined an intelligent transportation system that was ahead of its time

Rio's lab is back in the Games, but remains closely monitored by international regulators shaken by corruption in Russia

Aluminum-based device produces industrially useful compounds

Ramo’s seminal contributions to engineering spanned decades

Iris scanners provide excellent biometric identification, but they can be spoofed