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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?

Connecting a smart watch to a glucose sensor lets parents keep tabs on diabetic children

The latest class of startups coming out of HAX make products to test blood, monitor the bladder, and print human tissue

3-D integration lowers energy needs for self-powered IoT device

An antenna that can adjust its size and shape electronically could cut down on components

A Silicon Valley production re-creates the Doug Engelbart demo that foreshadowed modern computing

Next week, Google’s experiment in patent purchasing ends. Will it really have helped fight the trolls?

OSRF is branching out to keep developing ROS and Gazebo

Accion Systems to test compact modular thrusters for the tiniest of satellites

Skating bug-bots, homemade roller coasters, and other oddities

First fabrication of composites containing large sheets of graphene outperforms all others in conductivity and strength

Even with two giant robotics events coming up, there's still tons of stuff happening in robotics this week

A system designed to support healthy living can, in principle, be subverted

Startups introduce the Keurig of cocktails, the Keurig of Jell-O shots, and the Keurig of dinner. Let’s retire this metaphor before we get a “Keurig for Cats”

You'll hit the turn indicator to prime the car for lane-changing, and thereby accept the legal responsibility for doing so

One of the world’s first electronic multi-state memory cells mimics the brain’s ability to simultaneously process and store multiple strands of information

No robots have ever been as capable as the ones that we’re going to see compete in June

Will keeping magnetic fields out allow the exploration of new physics?

The CEO of Terrafugia has a vision for how robotic flying cars could transform our future commutes

They figured that by 1976 we'd be driving jet-powered cars guided by glass-towered traffic controllers

As if a traditional Rubik's Cube wasn't hard enough, a new algorithm can turn any shape into a twisting puzzle and then create it on a 3D printer

Research provides greater understanding of how plasmonics works for an entire device, potentially offering a simpler alternative

Computer scientists take valuable lessons from a human vs. AI competition of no-limit Texas hold'em

Urban life makes keeping pets difficult, and robots may become the new normal

Breakthrough promises a way to have "wiring" of wearable electronic embedded in textile yarns

Need to control a lot of robots? This tablet interface makes it easy

Startup Lily Robotics comes out of stealth this week with an autonomous flying videographer

Four of Google's twenty three self-driving cars have been in accidents since September, but Google isn't concerned, and you shouldn't be either

A flying car pilot and inventor managed to walk away unharmed from an emergency crash of an Aeromobil prototype

Top poker players fought a computer program to a draw despite winning slightly more chips

3-D microbatteries could power sensors and medical implants

Preliminary reports suggest that Nepal’s 25 April earthquake wrought extensive damage on the Himalayan nation's hydropower facilities, and also that the damage could have been far worse.

Sometimes, headlines just write themselves

CXC Simulation's Motion Pro II could provide enough force feedback to break your wrists

Chronic pain reduced with no side effects by delivering drugs directly to the site of injury

Efficient Power Conversion says gallium nitride's day has come