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Proposals for floating wind farms such as Trident Winds' California project no longer sound like science fiction

Mechanical connection between membrane and electrodes offers fuel cells that are less expensive, more efficient, and easier to manufacture

Meet six of the most interesting robots from the 2015 IROS expo hall

Quick-as-lightning communications will let cars share highway info

Jetpack Aviation's JB-9 is a compact, high-performance jet turbine backpack that can fly for a solid 10 minutes

Pledged carbon emissions fall well short of what's needed to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius this century. Emissions denial could ultimately turn up the heat even more

But money could make them walk, and work-life balance could be better

In minutes, you (yes, even you) can design a complex, customized walking robot

The company has backed off major awe-inducing claims as the cold reality of physical limits sets in

Two quantum leaps in quantum communication

“I’m going to use a couple of MEMS mirrors and a laser,” he says

In October, California passed a bill requiring the state to get half of its electricity from renewables by 2030

Hydrogen improved both the the transport and storage capacity of lithium in graphene-based electrodes

Tiny graphene devices capable of folding in response to laser light could inspire future microrobots

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The Japanese automaker is establishing a Silicon Valley company and hiring hundreds of engineers to advance AI for cars and robots

Researchers replace electricity and magnetism with surface acoustic waves to move data quickly and efficiently

3-D arrangement of electrons was unexpected

Volkswagen denies new EPA findings of emissions-cheating software in luxury and sports car models

The FLARES system uses one enormous drone to launch (and capture) another

Silicon Valley technologists and VCs debate that and other questions about hot tech topics—such as, Is mining the killer app for 5G?—at an AT&T salon

Using only onboard hardware, this drone can dynamically avoid outdoor obstacles

Phototransistor has a wide range of applications, including digital cameras and smoke detectors

Reaction Engines' futuristic Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine could be in ground testing by the end of the decade, with test flights by 2025

Era portrayed in the Steve Jobs movie was a good time for women in tech

Technology takes on the drought at Singularity University competition

Investigators are still tight-lipped and some observers disagree on just what happened

Finally an urban delivery robot that might actually work

A grind and an acid bath produces silicon good enough for batteries and solar cells

Math proves that GPS distance, on average, exceeds the actual distance traveled

The country is plotting a separate path to the Large Hadron Collider's successor

Plan to deploy pCell in major cities is a confirmation that the tech “isn’t cold fusion,” says Artemis founder

They are not killing tens of thousands of birds and bats as some early media reports suggested, and mitigation strategies show signs of further reducing avian impacts

New sensor chip is not only more sensitive, but also tunable and resistant to temperature changes

Eight decades on, this device still has a niche among ham radio enthusiasts and audiophiles

A new architecture could enable silicon quantum computing to scale in size and correct quantum errors

A flexible skin device capable of track ing blood flow could monitor the health of patients around the clock

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Bitcoin's key players have until January to agree on a path for the currency, or there will be potential for mayhem

The crash rate is a bit higher but also a bit less severe than for human-driven cars

Georgia Tech researchers want to build humanity and personality into human-robot dialogues

A silicon hybrid material looks to replace graphite in anodes of Li-ion batteries

The galaxy is full of exoplanets. Now we’ll find out what they’re made of

Lithium-air batteries can have up to 10 times more capacity than lithium-ion ones

Technique could monitor brain dysfunction or control machines with thought

Add gesture control to an HDTV to browse through a museum’s worth of art

New startups can get their hands on NASA inventions, but must offer commercial products within five years, or the deal's off

Another massive retailer wants to use drones to deliver packages, and consumers are still buying the hype

The cadavers of dead IT projects are buried under mounds of cash