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New System Allows Individuals to Pick and Choose What Data to Share
A new prototype system from MIT stores data from your digital devices in a single location that you specify, allowing you to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps. Cellphone...
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A Prototype Battery Could Double the Range of Electric Cars
An experimental lithium-ion battery based on materials developed at a U.S. Department of Energy lab stores twice as much energy as the batteries used in most electric cars. If the technology can be...
View ArticleResearchers develop new-generation 'thinking' biomimetic robots as ocean...
NUS Engineering researchers are closer to creating underwater robotic creatures with a brain of their own – besides behaving like the real thing. In the near future, it would not be too tall an order...
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NASA approves first SpaceX milestone for Crew Dragon spacecraft
The milestone is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program (Image: NASA) At the moment, if you want to fly to the International Space Station, your only option is to hitch a...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Hyperloop Will Revolutionize Transportation, But That’s Only The...
San Francisco to Los Angeles in 35 minutes flat—that was the dream of the Hyperloop. Back in 2013, Elon Musk introduced the world to this dream a 60 page white paper. The paper caused a stir. The...
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Multi-delta design enables lighter, more economical robotic arm
Double- and triple-delta robots are light and flexible, but take up little volume (Photo: Aad van der Geest) The design of a standard robot arm is, more or less, a mechanized representation of an...
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JPL enters RoboSimian in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
Bigger may be better, but better isn't always better. In October, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California unveiled a new and improved version of its RoboSimian robot. Called...
View ArticleNew Form of Memory Could Advance Brain-Inspired Computers
A new form of computer memory might help machines match the capabilities of the human brain when it comes to tasks such as interpreting images or video footage. Researchers at IBM used what’s known as...
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The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True In 2014
As 2014 comes to a close, it's time to reflect on the most futuristic breakthroughs and developments of the past year. This year's crop features a slew of incredible technological, scientific, and...
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Delivery drone test success in France
If pilot projects from companies like Bizzby and DHL Parcel are any indication, the skies of Europe could soon be buzzing with parcel delivery drones. GeoPost, the express delivery arm of French mail...
View ArticleAt HP Labs, an effort to make the biggest change to computing since the 1940s
They call it “the Machine,” an ambitious project to create an entirely new computing architecture. HP Labs director Martin Fink outlines what it took to make it happen. HP Labs has been...
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Researchers Combine Robotics & Artec Spider for Unrivaled 3D Scanning of...
As the new year looms and the holiday season comes to a close, we’ve all had our share of wrapping gifts that were complicated in shape, sometimes with numerous angles that poked out all over the...
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Scientists Discover New Mechanism of Protein Synthesis
The Rqc2 protein (yellow) binds tRNAs (dark blue, teal) which add amino acids (bright spot in middle) to a partially made protein (green); the complex binds the ribosome (white). Image credit: Janet...
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Growing greens on the Red Planet
The Southampton #LettuceOnMars experiment When the first living visitor from Earth lands on Mars we might well expect it to be a man or a woman, but if students from the University of Southampton...
View ArticleHow Our Inventions Reinvent Us
In two recent videos, Jason Silva visits the idea of ontological design—that as we design our tools, so our tools design us in return. We devise and engineer computers and the internet, and now...
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Toshiba announces high-end Portégé Z20t convertible with 17 hour battery life
The Z20t is capable of both tablet and laptop functionality, but also offers tent mode Toshiba’s Portégé Z20t convertible is designed to take on heavyweight offerings like the Microsoft’s Surface Pro...
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Scientist Sees Possible Signs Of Ancient Life On Mars In Rover Photos
Evidence that Mars once harbored alien life continues to mount. Just weeks after NASA's Curiosity rover detected spikes of methane in the Martian atmosphere--possible evidence of biological activity--a...
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Mercedes F 015 leaps into the future of autonomous driving
When you choose to debut a full concept car at the Consumer Electronics Show, rather than the looming international auto show a few days later, it's gotta be a piece of forward-looking, high-tech...
View Article'Pop-Up' 3D Structures Can Mimic Brain Circuits
By mimicking children's pop-up books, scientists can now make complex microscopic 3D shapes that model brain circuitry and blood vessels, researchers say. These intricate structures, which could...
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Do We Really Want Immortality? By David Brin, Ph.D
Suppose you had a chance to question an ancient Greek or Roman -- or any of our distant ancestors, for that matter. Let's say you asked them to list the qualities of a deity. It's a pretty good bet...
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