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We very much doubt that Boeing is actively developing this thing, but we can get excited about it anyway

Nanotextiles move from mere water repellants to mobile phone chargers

Do you know what “Button’s Law” is? How about a “Bus Factor” or a “Dave Ratio”? You can find out in a new Silicon Valley Dictionary

Don't be deceived. The best robot videos are here, and only here

Marine energy technologies are beginning to emerge but are a long way from being competitive

New twist on 2-D black phosphorous allows precise control of band gap

With a material that grades from rigid to flexible, this explosive jumping robot can keep on hopping

Remote-controlled cars are no longer just for Bond movies

A satellite with a net will locate and capture a cubesat in an operational test of an orbital space junk removal system

And why it’s the future of the web

As many as two billion human genomes will be sequenced by 2025

If the robot masters prostate procedures, brain surgery may be next

Study shows gender discrimination in targeted advertisements, cause unknown

Digital Reasoning has trained a record-breaking artificial intelligence neural network that is 14 times larger than Google's previous record

Catch a glimpse of Parrot’s first-ever waterborne drone

The microphone's ideal flat-band frequency response offers opportunities in acoustics

Automakers are losing their stranglehold on pricey, often optional navigation and infotainment systems.

A real-world use case where modular robots could be invaluable

The next generation e-Golf won't outrange a Tesla Model S, but it may be so cheap that it won't matter

Autonomous vehicles would make cities greener and drivers less employable

Construction robotics has the potential to drastically speed up building structures while reducing cost

Computer models provide insight into how to access graphene's flexoelectricity

The first “Glass” wearable? 1997. Early fitness bands that measure pulse? 2002. Wearables have been around longer than you think

Video Friday has arrived early this week

Select research aimed at keeping AI from destroying humanity has received millions from the Silicon Valley pioneer

Cruise Automation’s modified Audis join Google’s experimental self-driving cars and others

Forget the currency; it’s the protocol behind it that matters. It will mutate and take over everything we do (or could one day do) on the Web. You’ve been warned

Robots that can make it from air to water and back again need some novel propulsion designs

The French company takes to the water for the first time as it shows off upgrades to its line of mini-drones

It's a science experiment, more to test the technology than to use it

Turing anticipated many of today’s worries about super-smart machines threatening mankind

The mathematician and cryptanalyst explained his famous test of computer intelligence during two BBC radio broadcasts in the early 1950s

A chunk of ballast going to Mars in the early 2020s could spread its wings and fly

Reclaiming energy that would otherwise be lost offers improved efficiency in vehicles

The brief encounter will generate so much data it’ll take more than a year to send it all back

The brief encounter will generate so much data it’ll take more than a year to send it all back

And to manage that headroom they'll need more powerful computers—and an operating system

Self-driving cars will become places of their own, not just means of transport

Loss of a SpaceX resupply mission comes at an awkward time for NASA's private spaceflight contractors

Energy efficiency and battery management dominate the series

UC Berkeley's robotic roaches roll through clutter thanks to fancy new shells

Boosters of Silicon Valley days are off base: The real tech decade happened rather earlier

Here is what happens when rival self-driving cars want to move into the same lane.

Graphene's umatched charge carrier mobility improves sensitivity and power consumption for Hall effect sensor

Melding spin-based logic and memory could lead to low-power, instant-on electronics

The week's best robot videos

From 18th-century looms to hanging chads, this technology endured

Toyota's Lexus brand has built a functional hoverboard prototype based on superconductors and magnets

Production technique improves graphene's selectivity in biosensing