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The game-show-winning AI struggles to find the answers in health care

Can a $10 million prize turn a sci-fi device into real technology?

Technologies that aim to change behavior shouldn’t focus on motivation

Big data is good for identifying gaps in knowledge but not so good for prediction

Structural “fuses” that heal themselves could protect expensive robots from permanent damage

The government is supporting maker spaces in a bid to boost industrial innovation

Big companies could share revenue from the data you upload through fitness trackers and health apps

Graphene-based supercapacitors enable nearly four times more storage capacity over previous versions

Tiny self-folding magnetically actuated robot creates itself when you want it, disappears when you don't

One woman’s fight against cancer in the new era of precision medicine

The future may be driven by the appetite of China’s smaller cities for better goods and services

A deep learning system works 60 times faster than previous methods

New self-monitoring devices will help collect our vital stats into powerful databases, allowing us to prevent or predict health problems as well as treatment sucess or failure

A quick sampling of the interesting—and quirky—gadgets on offer at the expo

Google and Facebook salaries level off; Netflix pays big bucks for software engineers; and what’s up with IBM and Infosys?

Our reluctance to share our medical data isn’t just preventing breakthroughs, it’s “morally unacceptable”

The 100K Wellness Project aims to meticulously monitor subjects for 25 years

Apple, Google, and Samsung want to capitalize on your personal health data. But is there really big money in it?

Medicine can change if patients and payers demand it

Baseball pitchers, cyclists, and other competitors seek an edge with new gadgets

We need better energy storage—or a way to avoid having to use it

Sensors, actuators, and algorithms can automatically control blood sugar

Hits from the show floor

We humans can cause earth a lot of damage, but we don’t hold the whip hand

Robots break all the time, and if they could just deal with it themselves, we'd all be a lot happier

Free-space optics help old computers learn new tricks

Never enlist your friends or colleagues to be living, breathing crash test dummies

Phased-array laser scanner may finally give cars the sharp vision they need

Simple process improves single-molecule diodes performance by 50 times

The latest on consumer electronics from Shanghai with twice daily updates from our CES ninja, Stephen Cass

Some of the gadgets that caught our eye at the exhibition

First we take Shanghai…

Need some robot wheels for your robot arms? It doesn't get much easier than this

Strange supersensitive transistors could be ideal for brain-computer interfaces

UC Berkeley's VelociRoACH can carry, and launch, an ornithopter

Computer models say: Beware of animals that live fast and die young

For its size, this is by far the fastest legged robot in existence

Here's a hint: It's in the photo

Researchers aim to create a biomimetic robot

Keep tabs on your newborn with this smart ankle bracelet

Who doesn't want a smarter shirt?

Jerktech, earables, and citizen-terminals all mark a brave new wearable world

This week's coolest robot videos are here

Startups make kits that are cheap and easy for even the youngest future engineers to use

Advocates say solar-powered devices, homes, and villages are a real alternative for electrification in developing economies, not just a standby measure

Powerful algorithms will yield perfectly clear calls

Using machine intelligence and data mining, this entrepreneur can make predictions about future events

Exclusive details and images of the stealthy startup’s experimental vehicle

Crowdsourced networks of low-cost sensors and cellphones could have provided life-saving seconds in Nepal

Will 5G become the backbone of the Internet of Things?