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THOR fights fires on ships, while ESCHER will take on disaster areas

A quantum computing team hired by Google has built the first system capable of correcting its own errors

New QR code could stem the tide of counterfeit chips

“Real” projects are Facebook’s strength—but where are the napping pods?

What do you do when you don't have an inertial guidance system? Use your eyes.

This is as close to a salamander robot as we can possibly get

Getting the right mix of nanoparticles and polymer can increase the efficiencies by eleven percent

His networks of solar-powered phones can detect the sounds of illegal logging

The ACLU’s technologist exposes attacks on privacy by government agencies and corporate collaborators

It’s almost certainly not what you picture when you think of a robot, much less a robot that’s intended to head into space

Germans hope to achieve higher efficiencies by switching to silicon carbide in silicon melting process

Autonomous-vehicle training could include recovering from errors the car makes

Zinc-polyiodide flow battery packs in twice the energy without using corrosive acids

He is inspiring students to tackle urgent problems in the developing world

This engineer at Underwriters Labs is a counterfeiter’s worst nightmare

His work on water purification, cookstoves, and arsenic removal has helped tens of millions of people worldwide

This roboticist has transformed robot soccer into a global phenomenon

He just wanted to help some kids learn to code. Five million units later, his $35 computer has sparked a revolution

Optical nanosensor film can attach to human skin, detect motion and chemicals

U.S. and Israeli researchers show how Android phones can be tracked by power use

Net neutrality rules decried and praised

Industrial and enterprise apps are the near-term future of AR

The best robot videos of the week are right here

Will a low-cost high-speed camera create new applications?

Harvard's experimental forest is wired up and down to study how changing conditions affect entire ecosystems

If you have an Aibo, now is the time to start taking very good care of it

The FCC approves Net Neutrality rules for wireless and fixed broadband

Nanoparticles loaded with blood clot busting drug proves to be up to 1000 times faster

By preempting state laws that restrict municipal Internet service providers, the FCC hopes to provide customers with more choice

If you're not backing up your data onto a RAID, here's why you should, and one way to start

MIT researchers say their new place-and-route algorithm will help design faster multicore chips

Proposed exemptions to the DMCA could free white hats to make networked devices more secure

Japanese automaker plans fleet of prototype autonomous cabs within two years

Atlantic pilot installation of 300-kilowatt generators set for 2016

Though it means different things to different people, those people mostly fall into a few camps

Lasers make everything better, especially cars

MIT engineers build a 100-fold more efficient transmitter by stopping up leaky transistors

Deep learning artificial intelligence that plays Space Invaders could inspire better search, translation, and mobile apps

Now is an excellent time to be in the market for a mobile manipulator

Today's IoT is full of security flaws. We must do better

Making computers unbeatable at Texas Hold 'em could lead to big breakthroughs in artificial intelligence

An East Coast company files suit; Tesla’s Musk appears to like competing with Apple for engineers

Even anonymized phone data leaks information about you

Nanofiber material gets silicon into Li-ion anodes using a scalable production trick

Sony's SmartEyeglass developer kit, available in Germany and the UK, hits 10 countries in March

Apple plans to build green data centers in Denmark and Ireland amidst data privacy concerns

A company wants to integrate drones into its trucks to make short deliveries semi-autonomously

Technology has transformed photos from treasured keepsakes to personal propaganda

I'll worry about an Apple car when Apple starts worrying about a Mercedes phone, he says

Some manufacturers qualify their test drivers in hours; others take weeks