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Industry leaders from around the globe use multiphysics simulation to stay ahead of the curve

FCC documents reveal car maker’s plan for 725-strong fleet

Ultrafast synthesis of high-quality graphene films combined with roll-to-roll processes ushers in a new era in graphene production

A spin switch translates between light and voltage using little power

Solid-state lidar sensors are going to be critical to autonomous vehicles—if they can be made reliable and affordable

The latest robot vacuum from iRobot is $200 cheaper, without sacrificing the features you care about

Hundreds of flight cancellations today are just the latest in a string of airline industry IT problems

It's the most prominent departure yet in the self-driving industry's game of musical chairs

Transient batteries could power military, medical, and environmental devices, then simply melt away

Expert says system calls, but not source code, were copied from CP/M to MS-DOS. But there's $100,000 if you can prove he's wrong

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The team behind the victorious Cyber Reasoning System will receive a US $2 million prize

Every tool a hardware engineer could want—plus swings and a slide

Smaller than a dime and with no moving parts, MIT's lidar-on-a-chip is exactly what cars and robots need

Orbital angular momentum could take optical and radio communication to new heights

For the first time a one-dimensional chain of atoms separate from their two-dimensional substrate leading potentially to greater miniaturization in data storage

Software that can analyze tiny motions in video allows real objects to be dynamically simulated in augmented reality

Athletes have been training for the 2016 Games using tDCS

Hear from simulation experts about their experience with computational apps and how they are creating the future of numerical simulation

$72 million-worth stolen, Bitcoin price plummets, individual customer accounts hacked despite multisignature protection

Gary Kildall’s story shows how he paved a path for the start-up culture, say his children

Stretchable ultra-thin device can be powered wirelessly by smartphones

MARLO has fallen over more times than any legged robot we’ve ever seen, but it won't give up

ConnectedYard is the kind of company that could only have been cooked up at a backyard barbecue in Silicon Valley

New production technique could break 2D silicon out of the lab

This autonomous mobile robot helps to check in on patients more regularly

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

Build a custom application based on your mathematical models and let your colleagues and customers benefit from your expertise

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?