A better, safer battery could be coming to a laptop near you
Executives at Ionic Materials announced a design breakthrough that could make solid-state alkaline batteries a viable alternative to lithium-ion and other high-energy storage technologies.
It’s not exactly George Jetson’s aerocar, but flying car closer to becoming reality
The approaches by companies vary and the realization of their competing visions seems far in the future, but they have one thing in common: a...
Robert Taylor, internet and personal-computer pioneer, dies at 85
Robert W. Taylor was instrumental in creating the internet and the modern personal computer.
Real ethics for artificial intelligence
Claims about what robots and artificial intelligence can do often have been exaggerated. But as scientists make rapid advances in some areas of AI, the...
Submarine-drone startup wants people to look underwater
OpenROV, a small California startup that builds submarine-drone kits, hopes to create a mirror image of the airborne-drone craze.
Microsoft study finds online searches may ID people with cancer
Microsoft scientists found that by analyzing large samples of search-engine queries they may in some cases be able to identify internet users who are suffering...
Want to buy a self-driving car? Trucks may come first
Despite Silicon Valley’s enthusiasm for self-driving cars, it could be years before there are many of them on the road. But autonomous eighteen-wheelers? One startup...