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An expensive new Roomba with features and performance to match

Crystals plus infrared beams bring water to near zero

Mercedes and Hyundai hope they'll be able to send their new autonomous vehicles out on demo drives

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others believe the world needs noncommercial AI research—and they’re hiring

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Engineers soup up off-the-shelf robots to new standards of accuracy

Nanopillars on the surface of photovoltaics are becoming a trend for allowing in more photons

What happens when you eliminate test and QA? Fewer errors and faster development, say Yahoo’s tech leaders

Starting in 2018, U.S. vehicle safety ratings will account for technologies meant to keep cars from crashing

Computer can not only write as well as humans, but invent new symbols

Study finds that 40% of PhDs go to industry and boost economic growth

A report published by NREL found that more than half of energy capacity added in the US in 2014 was renewable

Two education startups look to personalize online help for math and science classes

Will porous semiconductors lead to more efficient photovoltaic cells and lithium-ion batteries?

It may be possible to create digital clones of anyone

New advance could also lead to chips that can smell, taste

Startup piggybacks on social media to make learning-to-code girl-friendly

New analytical approaches turn low-amplitude seismic data into insights about this world and others

The U.S. version of 007's Q branch hopes IBM can take the next big step toward universal quantum computing

Adding some small twists to chemical vapor deposition makes a hexagonal boron nitride that could make the perfect substrate for graphene

Study for the SAT, learn another language, or sound like a cowboy when you send text messages

When self-driving cars become street legal, a world full of old cars will become ripe for retrofitting

Being programmable through headphones could keep Canny relevant for decades

Stalker and K-MAX talk to air traffic control to safely operate while detecting and dousing fires

Among the challenges: competing with Facebook and Google, and figuring out how to integrate commercial technology into space programs

Laser light and special sensors let a camera see around a corner with centimeter precision

One cable to rule them all, and it’ll be optical in 2016

Researchers continue to refine the process for producing laser-induced graphene that promises big changes in energy storage

This group of geriatric engineers probably can’t stop global warming—but maybe they can cool down a few hot spots

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Will sodium replace lithium as the material of choice for rechargeable batteries?

Can more R&D dollars deliver a clean energy future faster?

The size and refrative index of transparent nanoparticles offer unique light scattering abilities

Bee cognition gives hints of how radios could talk on the fly

No robots were harmed (much) during this research

Erik DeBenedictis from Sandia National Labs envisions several technologies that can unlock exascale supercomputing

The UTC decision has been put off until 2023, but changes might happen fast at that point

Its electricity and propulsion section have arrived for stress testing

As far as StarCraft goes, humans aren't doomed (yet)

Metal wires made invisible with nanostructures could increase silicon solar cell efficiency by over 20 percent

Laser eyes designed for robot bees could help driverless cars see

Redox flow lithium battery could store energy from wind and solar

Voyomotive's plug-in device is the latest to promise drivers more control over their cars through their smartphones

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Use an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi to track your water use in real time

Watch over your usage with an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi

Surprise! It's Cyber Monday, and Amazon has a flashy but useless delivery drone announcement

Self-driving cars will be the opening act at the 2016-17 season