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Researchers program DNA to respond at different temperature ranges

An ’80s synthesizer is reborn as an avant-garde instrument

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Replacing bulky film cameras allowed astronauts to become filmmakers

It stored data in cathode-ray tubes and a rotating magnetic drum

Movidius puts a 1-watt neural network accelerator in a mobile friendly form

Indium tin oxide is surprisingly adept at interacting with photons

Electrochromic polymers are not just for darkening windows anymore thanks to plasmonics

DARPA’s HAPTIX program aims to develop a prosthetic hand that’s just as capable as the original

Google, Ford, Volvo, Uber and Lyft have just founded a self-driving car lobby to press for favorable treatment in Congress and the regulatory agencies

How a Japanese and Indian team of sonar engineers came together to help the endangered Ganges River dolphin

Two registries have claimed the Internet domain, leaving it stuck in limbo. The court battle begins next week

OceanOne is smaller, nimbler, and easier to control than traditional underwater ROVs

A new twist on a 40-year-old material could lead to infrared color televisions and three-color infrared imaging

The profession could be putting itself out of work

A cutting-edge system detects the spread HIV infections in near real-time

Hackers can eavesdrop on calls through flawed handoffs between the world’s mobile phone carriers.

10 million strands of synthetic DNA will encode mystery data in test

A deep learning approach could make self-driving cars better at adapting to new situations

It takes energy to make things, and the two best things to illustrate the point are phones and cars

Nanowire batteries can last for hundreds of thousands of charging cycles

Hover Camera follows you by face recognition. Zero Zero Robotics says its camera drone may evolve into the eyes of a home robotics system

With an all-in-the-wheel system, you can race along without breaking a sweat

So says exoskeleton pioneer Homayoon Kazerooni as he brings Phoenix, his latest invention, to market

The classic combination of government research funding and entrepreneurial gumption won’t take energy storage to the next level anytime soon

Radical new display and content-delivery technologies will kill off the television set

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A low-cost technique offers purer transitional metal oxides for supercapacitor electrodes

Juniper Networks, Google, and VMWare shine among U.S. companies that offer high salaries, says recruitment firm Glassdoor

Catch a glimpse of some classic machines displayed at the Vintage Computer Festival East

Viber and WhatsApp have switched it on to protect 1.7 billion users worldwide

Owner of Faraday Future, investor in Atieva, and partner of Aston Martin unveils flashy LeEco car in Beijing

CMOS compatible process could enable the next generation of photonic-based computing

With none of the flaws of fingerprints, a "brainprint" could be the perfect biometric key

Email phishing is far more sophisticated than it used to be—and even you could fall for it

Concerns mount over the safety of Japan’s two active nuclear reactors located about 120 km south of where the main shaking is occurring

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