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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

A new low-cost lidar can detect approaching cars

Researchers find a way to greatly reduce the amount of regeneration data signals need

Researchers are developing small robots that can self-assemble into a functional Gauss gun

This expert guide will get you off the ground

A record $1.17 billion goes to support startups doing launches, creating satellite networks, and cleaning up space trash

No strap-on solar panels here: this “photo battery” charges directly from light

A humble device reminds me of electrical engineering's foundations

NASA is giving out Valkyrie robots to universities for space training

A new movement tries to define engineers' roles and responsibilities in the innovation process

Could help enable safer, more powerful next-generation batteries

Augmented reality can impair our perception, but good design can minimize the hazards

Researchers discover that valley polarization makes electron spin polariation in silicon transistors easier

Why cool an entire building when you can just cool the people in it?

The Wyndham New Yorker Hotel new mini-museum shows off the hotel’s high-tech origins

To avoid hurting the car's occupants, the system can be triggered only at sedate speeds

A piezoelectric-powered pacemaker would do away with bulky batteries and speed up surgeries

In this state-by-state plan to eliminate fossil fuel use in the U.S. by 2050, California leans on solar power, Maine on wind

Will flashristors perform better than memristors?

This documentary explores solutions to a crucial tech diversity problem

The week's best robot videos. Right here.

Frequency modulated square waves help chip-makers resurrect a defect-detection technique they had nearly abandoned

Stressed-out mice exhibit fewer depression-like behaviors when researchers activate certain neural circuits

Residential solar installers innovate to get around utility grid fees

Resesarchers believe that graphene could replace tantalum nitride within two chip generations

Manufacturing and big data are among the hot sectors in IEEE Spectrum’s annual roundup

Microspine grippers will bring an asteroid back to Earth in the 2020s

Microspine grippers will bring an asteroid back to Earth in the 2020s

Artificial muscles powered by expanding and shrinking spores could power robots, sensors, vehicles

It’s time to have a global conversation about how AI should be developed

The test pilot barely touched the wheel, probably because he was being whipsawed by g forces

A brain implant reads a paraplegic man’s intentions to let him pick up a beer

A robotics company that didn't exist a year ago gets a huge investment from Japan

Biology is accelerating faster than Moore’s Law, says IndieBio founder. It’s time for scientists to be entrepreneurs

And because it lets each carmaker do things in its own way, it may just survive the onslaughts from Google and Apple

Simple battery could lead to a self-contained biosensor system costing only five cents

SRI unveils a walking humanoid robot that's 20x more efficient than ATLAS