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The Russian investor still thinks that robotics is the next big thing

Watson team and Silicon Valley Labs not immune this time

The 2016 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient turned information theory into practice

Implants could use it to live stream video from inside a patient

Meet Mario and Luigi—two bots on a mission to improve public health, one excrement sample at a time

At the Vintage Computer Festival East, there's proof that good computers never die

A December attack on Ukraine's grid was a wake-up call

Nano- and micro-structures boost OLED light by up to 61 percent

Company will cut 12,000 workers, starting today; cloud and IoT folks are likely safe

For the first time, different lattice structures can be grown together to form a perfectly aligned bilayer

At one of the world’s top treatment centers, care is guided by big data

Company abandons incrementalism, but will keep on annotating road scenes by hand instead of by machine

Joel Bollö of MSAB thinks he can broker a truce between Apple and the FBI with little risk to the public. Others disagree

New way to mesure how heat propagates at nanoscale distances could be critical to building and testing nanotechnology

Reports multiplying that layoffs in the “double-digit percentages” are imminent at Intel, starting as soon as this week

Skill is no longer necessary for 3D printing in mid-air by hand

Laser would propel precise protons to kill cancer

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Long chains of nanotubes self assembled into a circuit

LEDs made out of organic polymers mean wearable, tattoo-like sensors could have their own displays

Breakthrough IC circulator could double data capacity and free up spectrum

More than 35 countries to expand Internet access via Global Connect Initiative

Baseball says yes to some wearables during games, while basketball, football, and hockey say no

A process known as photochemical metallization could offer cheaper display manufacturing

Time-reversed ultrasound provides a vibration mode you've always wanted for that phone embedded in the palm of your hand

Driving without lights is a neat trick for autonomous cars, but reality is a little more complicated

Incorporating nanostructures with light harnessing properties could cost-effectively drive up the efficiency of solar cells

Here's why harnessing white space and adopting "dig once" policies should help

Critics warn that robotic weapons will soon be able to make killing decisions on their own

A look back at some of the notable failures that have occurred when mixing taxes and IT

It will take hundreds of billions of kilometers of testing to confirm the safety of self-driving vehicles, say analysts

Drones. Lasers. Solar power. More details about Facebook's Aquila drone

Tax code and source code don't always play well together

Facebook turns to WiGig technology for connecting mobile users in cities, “Massive MIMO” for bringing higher capacity cellular networks to rural areas without building more towers

Major advance in brain-computer interfaces lets paralyzed man use his hand again

Wireless beacons let your car, drone, forklift or wheelchair go places that GPS can't reach

Mark Zuckerberg kicks off Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference by urging global cooperation, not walls and anti-immigration policies. Will Internet-beaming airplanes and VR/AR glasses bring us together?

Hexagonal boron nitride proves a great material for a separator in Li-ion batteries

Robot waiters in China get fired, and nobody is in the least bit surprised

Curved lenses could be the key to consumer acceptance

Hbar Technologies is hoping to begin working on antimatter containment

New SatPaq device that turns smartphones into satphones has communication giants worried

Pepper may have some competition in the commercial customer service space

On Galactica, a real-world “flying” roller coaster meets Samsung’s Gear VR, creating virtual reality with actual g-forces

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) heads to the ISS for a 2-year test inflation

Filter could enable microchip to operate at terahertz frequencies

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Nvidia's Drive PX 2 system will be standard in all 10 Roborace cars

Out of nowhere, at a conference in Japan today, SCHAFT demoed a new bipedal robot designed to "help society"