Novel Process Promises Atomically Thin Semiconductors for Electronics by Dexter Johnson on 2015-04-29 17:15 (#82Q8) Novel manufacturing process brings uniform 2-D films to the wafer scale
Now Any Team Can Buy the Performance Analysis Engine that Helped Germany Win World Cup by Crispin Andrews on 2015-04-29 16:00 (#82AZ) SAP's Sports One combines on-field performance analysis software, with fan engagement and business operations support, in a single unified system
Robot Taxis Will Reshape Urban Landscapes by Willie Jones on 2015-04-29 15:00 (#82B1) A study predicts that cities will be dramatically changed when no one drives to work and few people have their own cars
Sentinel’s Mission to Find 500,000 Near-Earth Asteroids by Harold Reitsema on 2015-04-29 15:00 (#82B0) The privately funded space telescope will hunt for objects on a collision course with Earth
Fetch Robotics Introduces Fetch and Freight: Your Warehouse Is Now Automated by Evan Ackerman on 2015-04-29 11:00 (#82B2) This pair of robots is ready to take over in warehouses, autonomously picking and delivering goods
IBM Shows First Full Error Detection for Quantum Computers by Jeremy Hsu on 2015-04-29 10:00 (#82B3) IBM's four-qubit array is the first to detect both types of quantum computing errors
How Oculus Story Studio Learned Storytelling in Virtual Reality by Jeremy Hsu on 2015-04-28 22:00 (#8157) Oculus Story Studio founders take inspiration from films, games, and live theater to do VR storytelling
“Holey” Graphene Improved as an Electrode Material by Dexter Johnson on 2015-04-28 20:30 (#810X) Researchers develop a more refined process for making holes in graphene that promises greater charge capacity for supercapacitors
Mildred Dresselhaus: The Queen of Carbon by Mark Anderson on 2015-04-28 19:00 (#80WB) Electronics made from nanoscale tubes, wires, and sheets of carbon are coming, thanks to pioneering researcher Mildred Dresselhaus
DORA Telepresence Robot Gives You Fully Immersive Experience by Evan Ackerman on 2015-04-28 17:30 (#80PJ) "You feel like you are transported somewhere else in the real world"
Micromotors to Boost Hydrogen Fuel Cells by Charles Q. Choi on 2015-04-28 17:00 (#80N4) Microparticles could zip inside fluid to generate hydrogen gas
The Murky Origins of "Moore's Law" by Rachel Courtland on 2015-04-28 16:00 (#80FB) A hunt for the very first time the term was used
First X-ray Views Inside Overheating Lithium-ion Batteries by Charles Q. Choi on 2015-04-28 15:30 (#80DW) Gas pockets and short circuits can destroy battery innards during thermal runaway
When Integrated Circuits Couldn’t Be Trusted by Stephen Cass on 2015-04-28 15:00 (#80AQ) In the 1960s, microelectronics were often unreliable
App to Driver: Get Ready to Roll! by Philip E. Ross on 2015-04-28 14:00 (#807G) A free phone app warns you when a red light is about to turn green
A New Bionic Eye: Infrared Light-Powered Retina Implant Coming by Eliza Strickland on 2015-04-28 13:00 (#803E) A photovoltaic device implanted in the retina will be tested in humans next year
Finding People In the Nepal Earthquake Zone by Tekla Perry on 2015-04-27 22:00 (#7YRD) Google, Facebook, activate people finder tools
A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System by Tekla Perry on 2015-04-27 21:00 (#7YN4) A Silicon Valley company sets out to prove that earthquake-warning systems can easy to set up, effective, and cheap enough for Nepal
Graphene Could Enable Holographic 3-D Imaging on a Mobile Device by Dexter Johnson on 2015-04-27 20:00 (#7YHW) New photonic process would help eliminate the need for 3-D glasses
The Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors by M.V. Ramana on 2015-04-27 19:00 (#7YEV) Economics killed small nuclear power plants in the past—and probably will keep doing so
Computer Models Show Terror Birds Hunted by Sound by Crispin Andrews on 2015-04-27 18:35 (#7YE5) Prehistoric killer used low frequency sounds to follow its prey's footsteps
The Promise of Precision Agriculture in Drought-Ridden California by Katherine Tweed on 2015-04-27 18:07 (#7YBR) What will it take to unlock high-tech farming?
ULA's New Vulcan Rocket Comes Back to Earth via Helicopter by Evan Ackerman on 2015-04-24 20:32 (#7RVK) Mid-air engine retrieval will be necessary to make ULA's new launch system competitive with SpaceX
Return of the Elf: Making a 1976 microcomputer more user friendly by Stephen Cass on 2015-04-24 19:00 (#7RQ1) A home-brew programmer for the low-power Membership Card microcomputer
Amazon Wants to Put Packages in the Trunk of Your Car by Philip E. Ross on 2015-04-24 17:00 (#7RFQ) Cars that take deliveries can get around the "last hundred meters" shipping problem
Video Friday: Sphero Droid, Drone Jogging, and Robot Feeds You Marshmallows by Evan Ackerman on 2015-04-24 15:45 (#7RBC) Your weekly dose of robot videos is here
Will the Whill Hi-Tech Wheelchair Sell? by Tam Harbert on 2015-04-24 15:00 (#7R8A) A Japanese startup is betting that an aging population of tech savvy first adopters will want their super-wheelchair
Silicon Valley Gets Ready to Code for Cuba by Tekla Perry on 2015-04-24 14:30 (#7R4T) In the Bay Area this weekend? Want to experience a hackathon at Facebook? It’s not too late to Code for Cuba
Neurosurgeon Who Stimulates Brains in the Operating Room Coaches Neural Engineers by Eliza Strickland on 2015-04-24 14:00 (#7R2G) By shifting focus from neural nodes to networks, engineers can build better brain-computer interfaces
Happy Birthday Hubble! by Alexander Hellemans on 2015-04-24 12:33 (#7QWT) After 25 years and a tumultuous life, Hubble is still going strong
NASA Uses Mars Rover Tech to Design the Perfect Urban Car by Evan Ackerman on 2015-04-23 20:09 (#7PEX) The Modular Robotic Vehicle can drive in any direction and doesn't even need you behind the wheel
3-D Printed Graphene Aerogels Could Improve Sensors and Batteries by Dexter Johnson on 2015-04-23 19:00 (#7PAS) Using 3-D to manufacture predetermined architectures for aerogels opens up energy storage and electronic applications
Keep On Flying by Vaclav Smil on 2015-04-23 19:00 (#7PAR) Look past the screaming headlines and you’ll see that airliners have never been safer
Documentary on eSports Shows Video Games in Transition by Jeremy Hsu on 2015-04-23 18:30 (#7P8T) The rise of eSports leaves plenty of uncertainty among professional gamers and tournament organizers
NordLink – a landmark project enabling a more interconnected Europe by Magnus Callavik Technology manager, ABB Power Syst on 2015-04-23 18:19 (#66D7) This video is sponsored by ABB.com
Android Creator Andy Rubin's Playground for Hardware Startups by Tekla Perry on 2015-04-23 17:00 (#7P31) Thinking about hatching a hardware company? A new incubator might be the place for you
Proposal Would Put Laser Cannon on ISS to Blast Space Junk by Evan Ackerman on 2015-04-23 15:00 (#7NV8) A powerful orbital laser could eliminate centimeter-scale orbital debris in just five years
How Google Handled a Year of “Right to Be Forgotten” Requests by Lucas Laursen on 2015-04-23 15:00 (#7NV7) Following a European court ruling, Google expunged more than half a million links
Baseball's Player-tracking Statcast System Debuts by Joshua Romero on 2015-04-23 13:24 (#7NM2) After limited trials last season, Statcast, a radar and motion-capture system, is now ready for live TV coverage
Soggy Computing: Liquid Devices Might Match the Brain's Efficiency by Rachel Courtland on 2015-04-22 15:00 (#7KB6) Vanadium dioxide switches could be great for a new kind of computing, but maybe they're just too strange
Baidu's Boffin Describes Beijing's Homegrown Self-Driving Car by Philip E. Ross on 2015-04-22 14:05 (#7K7F) China's Google also wants a wondercar, and China's regulators are opening the roads for it
Building a New Home? Better Make It Solar Ready by Tekla Perry on 2015-04-22 13:00 (#7K3Z) Palo Alto celebrates Earth Day with green building codes targeting solar energy use and water conservation
New Material Can Change Its Color and Texture Like a Cuttlefish by Dexter Johnson on 2015-04-21 20:00 (#7HJA) Beyond camouflage applications, material holds out promise for speeding up growth of biological tissue
MIT Turns Thumbnail into Trackpad by Charles Q. Choi on 2015-04-21 17:00 (#7H8A) Could allow mobile device use even when hands are full
From Engineer to Manager: How to Cope With Promotion by Stephen Cass on 2015-04-21 16:00 (#7H4H) Swapping technical expertise for management skills can be difficult
All-photonic Quantum Repeaters: a Major Step Towards a Worldwide Quantum Internet by Alexander Hellemans on 2015-04-21 16:00 (#7H4G) Matter quantum repeaters: The end of a dogma?
Laser-printed polysilicon transistors on paper by Charles Q. Choi on 2015-04-21 15:00 (#7GZT) Could improve wearable electronics, lead to trillions of cheap sensors
PR2 Robot Figures Out How to Make a Latte by Evan Ackerman on 2015-04-21 14:00 (#7GVQ) Your robot butler is now closer than ever
Disney Does Better Dubbing by Charles Q. Choi on 2015-04-21 14:00 (#7GTP) More than 9,600 alternatives found for "clean swatches"
40 Percent of Hanford Nuclear Waste Would Fit in One 5-km Deep Borehole by Charles Q. Choi on 2015-04-20 20:00 (#7ETR) All of the U.K.'s high-level nuclear waste could be buried in just a few extremely deep holes