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Stanford’s “Hacking for Defense” class to be offered at 13 universities next year; Defense Department gets ready to send students classified problems

Pattern recognition software enables amputees to control prostheses in a natural and intuitive way

Early adopters of LED street lighting are struggling with glare and light pollution

Quantum computing pioneers want to patent AI telerobotics controlled by humans, and monkeys

A new manufacturing approach for hybrid materials provides an avenue for new device designs in a range of electronic applications

Autopilot 8.0 makes more use of cars' existing radar and works harder to keep the driver focused on the road

Startups and established players think they have the key to inexpensive lidar

The charged dust around airless bodies provides a surfable environment for tiny electric spacecraft

A unique mobile design and easy voice programming help this social robot stand out

Science, technology, and society programs will become more effective if they’re embraced by scientists and engineers

Instead of an ultrasonic transducer array, you can now make tractor beams with some plastic and a 3D printer

Now used to brighten displays, quantum dots could one day guide a surgeon’s hand

More precise spectroscopy technique reveals phosphorene is as good as predicted

A hybrid delta biplane design results in efficiency, range, and pinpoint landings

There’s no shortage of talented minority engineers. Experts weigh in on how to find and keep them

Coal interests oppose technologies and rules that would prevent the waste of pollution-free power

New guidelines, due out today, will speed robocars into use as soon as possible

Smart homes could play music to fit your mood

Giant analog computers, 3-D printing, and catapults could be the future of asteroid mining

Could anti-IED tech developed for Afghanistan and Iraq help in U.S. city streets?

Outraged over price hikes for the drug-injector, pharma hackers take matters into their own hands

This robot uses innovative direct-drive motors go pretty much anywhere

Acrylic glass, a common polymer, controls the growth of perovskite crystals to make a 21%-efficient solar cell

Because millimeter waves are the most meaningful 5G wireless innovation. Others experts disagree

Silver nanowires linked together by graphene offer a cheaper and better alternative to indium tin oxide

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Niantic CTO Phil Keslin says the $35 Pokémon Go Plus accessory was designed to be kids’ stuff

Researchers use fMRI feedback to "brain train" volunteers so that they had more positive or negative feelings about a person's face

Generalized approach to producing nanorods using block copolymers could open up new applications

A big donation and new partnership help ensure a robust future for the Robot Operating System

NASA-funded study makes compelling arguments in favor of traveling to Mars in an unconscious state

Multiple lidar sets provide not only an overlapping view forward and aft, but also a close-up view of the side

Raising $2.7 million was the easy part. Making devices for 13,000 backers has proven harder

An inorganic semiconductor has excellent electronic properties and flexibility, all thanks to a double-helix structure

China, South Korea, and Japan envision Northeast Asia as center of global power grid

Games were played to get this pioneering game company off the ground

After successful trials earlier this year, Dutch police are training 100 humans and four eagle chicks to take out drones

The brain-computer interface is already being tested in humans with Lou Gehrig's disease

No window is safe from a quadrotor incursion

"No steering wheel, no brake pedal" for self-driving car, says CEO

Fabric woven from fiber-based solar cells and kinetic energy harvesters generates power day and night

Turning burdensome software into simple hardware speeds core-to-core communication in microprocessors

The MVP robot tackling dummy takes hits so football players won’t have to

Realizing the promise of over a century of thermoacoustic-based speakers, simple process means the technology could find its way into portable speakers

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Brain wave-based authentication systems are giving away a lot more than just your name

This is much harder to do than it sounds

Fly my pretties! Vans will release and retrieve drones and wheeled cargo bots

Researchers build a photonic integrated circuit that could one day give smartphone security true random numbers

A handheld spectrometer could help farmers optimize harvests and improve fruit and vegetable sorting and storage