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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

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

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

The Tokyo 2020 Robot Project promises an assortment of robots to do useful things for visitors at the games. But will they be more than a novelty?

The famed 19th century engineer may have been inspired by an early example of AI chicanery and hype

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

The small NetBlocks team uses tools for monitoring Internet connectivity to shed light on Venezuela's blackout

A new laser-based EUV source can help crack tough material problems that bedevil 7-nm and under photoresists.

It's round three of invasive lionfish vs. underwater robots

The autonomous, easy-to-swallow device administers a drug injection inside the intestines

Mind reading glasses, goggles that erase chronic pain, a wristband that can hear what the wearer can’t, and more futuristic wearables are on the horizon

Every year in the United States, roughly 20 million hard drives are retired from data centers

Hydraulic actuators will give Nadia a unique combination of flexibility and power

A research team in Belgium says its prototype panel can produce 250 liters of hydrogen gas per day

An ultra-low power cryogenic IC would help quantum computers scale up

Sophisticated 16QAM modulation sends data through a transatlantic fiber-optic cable with record efficiency