Artificial Intelligence

Tech Experts Predict What 2025 Will Look Like

Nearly everyone surveyed was hopeful about the life-changing prospects of the Internet of Things.

Digital Government

This Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Robot Arm Lets You Actually Feel What it Touches

The robotic arm is connected by wires that link up to the wearer’s motor cortex and sensory cortex.

Emerging Tech

Inside the New SpaceX Spaceship

The launch video looks like something a luxury car manufacturer might use to show off a new sedan.

Modernization

Absolutely Everything You Need to Know About Today’s Apple Event

Apple definitely had a lot to share, detailing updates to its watches, phones, tablets and set-top box.

Emerging Tech

NASA Creates New 'Self-Healing' Material

Hurtling through the endless void of space in a thin aluminum can as debris zips around in every direction may have just gotten a little safer.

Emerging Tech

NASA Wants to Turn Human Waste into Plastic and Vitamins

When tomorrow’s astronauts feel the call of nature, they may be engaging in an act of creation.

Modernization

A Digital Rat Brain Could Power Future Smartphones

Rather than a traditional computer, these computer chips are designed to work like neurons.

Emerging Tech

Robots Are Learning How to Build Better Clones of Themselves

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have created robotic natural selection.

Digital Government

There’s Finally a Great Use for IBM’s Watson: Making Fantasy Football Picks

Gone are the days of wasting hours searching for reports on fantasy football players, and having to weigh one pundit’s analysis against another’s.

Emerging Tech

International Space Station Astronauts' New Hobby? Space-Gardening.

A crop of red lettuce could pave the way to future crops grown on the space station and even on other planets.

Emerging Tech

All of Google’s—er, Alphabet’s—Companies and Products from A to Z

Google has announced it will be folding itself into a larger company, called Alphabet. Here's what that entails.

Emerging Tech

Why This Team Is Teaching Robots to Play Jazz

This is the future that researchers, funded by DARPA, are hoping to produce.

Emerging Tech

NASA Building Flying Space Drones

Drones offer a way to explore other planets and asteroids that rovers can’t.

Digital Government

FDA Approves First 3-D Printed Drug

Pharmaceutical company Aprecia says 3-D printing will allow doctors to know the medicine they’re prescribing delivers the exact dose intended.

Digital Government

There's Now an X-Ray Pill You Can Swallow

This new development could make important medical procedures like colonoscopies a little less invasive.

Emerging Tech

The Slow Death of Google Plus

The tech giant announced it will be slicing out its social network from the rest of its services.

Emerging Tech

Here's What Its Like to Pilot a Giant Fighting Robot

MegaBots was founded by three engineers who didn’t want to use their skills to go work for another large tech firm in the valley.