Cricket World Cup: Tech to Tackle Bad Bowling by Crispin Andrews on 2015-02-17 20:21 (#39RX) Faster sensor systems and motion capture could speed decisions about suspect bowlers
Successful Flight of Angara-A5 Rocket Marks New Era for Russia's Ambitions in Space by James Oberg on 2015-02-17 18:00 (#39HA) The launch of a new space booster is a key to understanding the state of the Russian space program
Grids Could Balance Themselves, Says Study by Katherine Tweed on 2015-02-17 18:00 (#39H9) At least on paper
New Robot Contests Feature Free Trips, $1 Million, and $5 Million in Prizes by Evan Ackerman on 2015-02-17 15:40 (#3989) These newly announced robot competitions have some pretty impressive awards
Britain Will Rewrite Its Traffic Laws for Robocars' Sake by Philip E. Ross on 2015-02-17 15:00 (#396H) Tailgating? You say that like it's a *bad* thing
FAA Unveils Drone Rules: Autonomy Is In, Drone Delivery Is Out by Evan Ackerman on 2015-02-16 15:49 (#371R) The proposed rules are surprisingly reasonable, but there are things that need work
Europe's Reusable Spaceplane Completes First Test Flight by Jeremy Hsu on 2015-02-13 21:10 (#31ZV) An experimental mini-spaceplane's first flight paves the way for a reusable spacecraft called Pride
Video Friday: RoboCore, Anki Overdrive, Valkyrie's New Moves by Evan Ackerman on 2015-02-13 19:50 (#31X9) This week's best robot videos
Could Europe's New Grid Algorithm Black-out Belgium? by Peter Fairley on 2015-02-13 19:11 (#31VP) A "flow-boosting" upgrade to Europe's power market algorithms, years in the making, is delayed again amid concerns that it could aggravate grid reliability problems.
Cosmic Ray Particles Will Reveal the Molten Hearts of Fukushima Daiichi's Reactors by Eliza Strickland on 2015-02-13 17:00 (#31P4) Workers begin testing muon detectors to help decommission three melted-down reactors
A Snapshot of Software Engineering Salaries at Silicon Valley Startups by Tekla Perry on 2015-02-13 15:15 (#31FF) Who is the hottest Bay Area software engineer? Probably a Berkeley grad who is working with Hadoop at a San Francisco startup
Li-Fi-like System Would Bring 100-Gbps Speeds Straight to Your Computer by Neil Savage on 2015-02-13 14:00 (#31AJ) System sends light signals from the optical fiber fiber through the air to your computer
Mollusks Show the Way to Better Li-ion Batteries by Dexter Johnson on 2015-02-12 21:00 (#2ZZW) Inspired by the process snails use to build their shells, researchers develop a method to make better electrodes
Net Neutrality's Technical Troubles by Jeff Hecht on 2015-02-12 16:03 (#2ZJ9) The debate has centered on policy, law, and finance, as if the network itself were a given. It is not
Desperately Searching for Net Neutrality by Jeff Hecht on 2015-02-12 16:03 (#2ZBZ) Everyone says they’re for Net neutrality, but not everyone agrees on what it means
SpaceX Drone Platform Landing Scrubbed by Jeremy Hsu on 2015-02-12 15:03 (#2Z6C) The climate satellite launch would have given SpaceX a second chance to land a rocket on a drone ship
DARPA and OSRF Developing Next-Gen Prosthetic Limbs in Simulation and Reality by Evan Ackerman on 2015-02-12 15:00 (#2Z6D) DARPA wants amputees to have prosthetics that act, and feel, just like real arms
A New Material For Wearable Spintronic Devices by Prachi Patel on 2015-02-11 21:00 (#2XDT) Researchers have made a bendable, stretchable multiferroic film
This Invincible Flying Robot Just Won a $1 Million Drone Competition by Evan Ackerman on 2015-02-11 18:30 (#2XDV) Flyability's cleverly designed drone wins Drones for Good competition
U.S. Defense Department Chief Engineer: We Want Your Help With 2030's Tech by Evan Ackerman on 2015-02-11 18:04 (#2XDW) Have an idea for some crazy new technology that won't be ready until 2025 or later? The DoD's Stephen Welbey wants to hear from you
California’s No Drone Zones by Tekla Perry on 2015-02-11 15:00 (#2XDX) Proposed law would ban “trespassing†by low-flying drones
New Manufacturing Method Promises Scalable Graphene Electronics Production by Dexter Johnson on 2015-02-10 20:00 (#2XDY) Novel method enables commercially viable production of electronic devices from graphene
Molybdenum Disulfide Shows Promise For High-Temperature Electronics by Prachi Patel on 2015-02-10 17:00 (#2XDZ) Thin-film transistors made of the 2-D electronic material work at over 220 °C
How to Build a Better Entangled-photon Detector Array by Alexander Hellemans on 2015-02-10 16:00 (#2XE0) Mounting hundreds of single-photon detectors on a single chip may yield key to quantum computing
Totally Autonomous Cars May Not Evolve From Semi-Autonomous Ones by Philip E. Ross on 2015-02-10 15:00 (#2XE1) Reason: nobody wants to pay for systems that you still have to supervise