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Self-driving and electric technologies are slowly infiltrating everyday cars

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What challenges do we need to consider for the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles at scale?

It adds electricity in three ways

Lawsuit says the company pushed longtime workers out because of their age and tenure, then coerced them into waiving their rights

Slips through the air with the greatest of ease

Medtronic discloses medical device vulnerabilities, while Purdue University scientists propose countermeasure to block attacks

Visitors can play with the pioneering technology that helped turn the war

Swapping spark plugs for microwaves

Using robots as intermediaries, a school of zebra fish communicate with a colony of bees

Surprisingly muscular, with plenty of range

Designed from scratch for electric propulsion

President Trump and a top U.S. general spoke with Google’s CEO about the U.S. tech company’s AI ventures in China

TossingBot, developed by Google and Princeton, can teach itself to throw arbitrary objects with better accuracy than most humans

Rooftop solar and battery energy storage are helping rural electric cooperatives declare independence from centralized power stations

White LEDs offer better luminous efficacy and a color balance more pleasing than any previous lamp, but they still have a way to go

A Space Act Agreement shows Blue Origin is paying NASA to assist with the company's lunar lander

The world’s premier technology event taking submissions until April 23 on AI, security, cloud-to-edge computing, embedded software development and more

Avoiding obstacles is a must for flying without a remote operator

Companies like Desktop Metal aim to go beyond airplane parts and medical implants

Bluetooth Low Energy data packets can now be sent by millimeter-size IoT motes

magniX and Harbour Air team up to make the first all-electric commercial airplane fleet

These gliders fly autonomously or via radio control to deliver supplies, and then are left where they land

Radar, remote ID, and other tools can counter rogue drones 


What challenges do we need to consider for the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles at scale?

The U.S. space program is developing gigabit-per-second deep-space comms. China is on the hunt too

Customers warned to expect regular system outages well into the future

The founder and CEO of SCHAFT joins space robotics startup GITAI to develop telepresence robots

The “human computers” who operated ENIAC have received little credit

There’s new advice on how to handle tampering that fools algorithms and enables healthcare fraud

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A new class of ultrathin light absorbent material could harvest solar energy, boil water, and work as an infrared detector

The SPUDwrite has everything you need to write creatively—and nothing else

Oracle takes a page out of IBM’s playbook this week, with unannounced layoffs, rationalized by a restructuring to the cloud, and little acknowledgement that they are happening

The technical challenges are very difficult, but the promise is too great to quit so early in the quantum computing marathon, writes Intel's Jim Clarke

The software suite allows base stations to connect to one another in small groups

Caltech crew’s computer runs dozens of programs using a few hundred chemical instructions

Industry has been focused on speeding the many matrix multiplications involved, but a search algorithm may provide better performance

Roboticists need to discuss openly and honestly not only our successes but also our failures

A revised design means dead satellites will burn up completely in the atmosphere

Outfitting headphones and earbuds with sensors will make them an ideal way to keep track of your health

One day your doctor could prescribe drugs based on how a biochip version of you reacts to them

Fine-tunable liquid crystals steer the beam electronically—with no moving parts

California Governor Gavin Newsom wows a crowd of distinguished computer scientists, educators, and other Silicon Valley luminaries at Stanford Human-Centered AI symposium

Chipmaker partners with Georgia Tech researchers to produce a low-power circuit that keeps encryption keys safe

Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to electrify every household, but gaps remain in rural India

Adafruit is betting the language will make sense for makers


The NeuroAD system, from Israeli company Neuronix, uses non-invasive brain stimulation

Emoji domain names have been around for years, but they're still not in common use

In a study of senior computer science majors in the U.S., China, India, and Russia, U.S. students are tops in skills, if not in gross numbers