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The world is probably ready for a temperature adjustable, precise, coffee pot that learns. But is it ready for a desktop edible insect farm?

MoS2 would filter 70 percent more water than graphene, because of its peculiar chemistry

Squishy optoelectronics should make longer-lasting implants

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Gene Amdahl, who died yesterday, started companies because “people’s needs aren’t all technical”

Really, those are serious problems.

An electrically driven shockwave can push the salt out of brackish water; uses much less energy than other methods

Protection from UV radiation could be the recipe for nanowires making it into a wide range of electronic products

Vanderbilt researchers launch open-source platform for make-your-own ingestible capsule robots

Discovery could lead to more robust quantum computers

Latest launches from hardware accelerators go beyond measurement of health and fitness to intervention

The ultrasound phone-charging company has backed off some awe-inducing claims as the cold reality of physics sets in

Your Vizio smart TV tracks viewing habits by default so that advertisers can target you elsewhere

UBTECH Robotics has big plans for this small and affordable robot

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