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Companies go to great lengths to lock us out from our own stuff

In 2012, low quality turbines and delayed grid connections wasted as much of China’s wind power potential as forced outages. But today’s picture could be quite different

Not every personal product should join the Internet of Things

The HoloLens Development Edition shines despite rough edges

The best robot videos of the week, ICRA edition

Startup Courtmatics hopes its smart dampener makes it easier—and cheaper—for tennis players to quantify their strokes

Tin is good and antimony is bad, but together they're perfect for the electrodes of magnesium-ion batteries

Watch-Bot will never let you forget to put the milk back in the fridge

Long-Haul trucking offers robots a particularly good target

The Liv Smart Bracelet is likely to lead off a wave of motion-tracking products that do far more than count steps

Hack a vintage Casio keyboard synthesizer to create sounds that its designers never dreamed of

With lower power consumption comes clock speeds two orders of magnitude faster

We'll need new efficiencies in home heating and insulation to counteract thermal pollution

Moves closer to theoretical limit

A robotic tobacco hawkmoth joins Harvard's collection of artificial insects

Vlad Zamfir is helping Ethereum make a world where any exchange can happen using blockchains. And he's really worried about it

U.S. federal agency awards $200,000 to BACtrack Skyn wearable alcohol sensor

This chatty humanoid is finally coming to America

A new aggressive control algorithm helps this self-driving car drift around a dirt track at 30 kilometers per hour

A plastic band with zipper teeth can interlock into a cylindrical robotic arm

While self-healing conductors have been a leading research focus, there's now a self-healing dielectric material

With the "Aware" earbuds, quantified selfers can add brain-tracking data to their quantified lives

Implanted electrodes make this haptic hand feel like the real deal

A customized computer model showing a heart's unique pattern of electrical activity can guide medical intervention

A leisurely push on the pedal gets a biker of a certain age up to truly steroidal speeds

New study suggest wearing a body camera may put police in greater danger of assault

The best robotics research from the largest IEEE robotics conference

New 3-D printing technique combines direct ink writing with a laser to build structures in midair

The electronic tattoo gets a wearable power pack

Edward Snowden's revelations may have tightened the NSA's leash, but the agency can still request tens of thousands of records for each case

Quantum mechanics help perovskites perform well in fuel cells

Everyone want to supply the brains to tomorrow's cars—because that's where the money is

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

A former uBeam engineer says the company hyped its tech. Investor says he never heard it from him

New kind of power supply for RFID and IoT logic circuits could eliminate a sizable chunk of circuitry

Meta-Holograms Work At Any Wavelength

After decades of repressive rule, consumers are demanding 3G service

They showed a 22-fold increase over existing 4G networks

DARPA shows off all of its cool new toys

Mating a topological insulator with a stable magnetic material produces surprising results

International teams compete to develop tools to harness biomedical big data

Perching drones can extend their useful mission life from minutes to hours or days

The first consumer generation of the ReliefBand is too big, ugly, and looks and feels like a cheap toy. And I will never again leave the house without it.

The cars will have two independent motors to be sure that at least one of them turns the steering wheel

Some of the craziest computer interaction prototypes we've ever seen are on display this week in San Jose

No one wants to deal with a pesky bot that won’t shut up

This underwater drone is looking for work at fish farms—and as a research robot at universities

Plasmonic nanostructures push tungsten diselenide to massive increase in photoluminescence

A Stanford roboticist (and fencer) discusses drones, swords, and why mixing them is such a great idea

Experts say self-driving cars should start with vibrations in your seat