STORY OF THE WEEK

Voice control everywhere

Low-power special-purpose chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in electronics. The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago,…

8 years ago

Piaggio Group Reinvents the Future of Transportation with Introduction of Gita, the First Offering by Piaggio Fast Forward

Piaggio Group, the largest European manufacturer of two-wheel motor vehicles, a leader in light mobility founded over 130 years ago,…

8 years ago

Toward all-solid lithium batteries

Researchers investigate mechanics of lithium sulfides, which show promise as solid electrolytes. Most batteries are composed of two solid, electrochemically…

8 years ago

Paris experiments with driverless buses

Paris began its first experiment with driverless buses on Monday, with city officials saying they were eager to prepare for…

8 years ago

Solar Team Great Britain designs the UK’s first family-sized solar-powered car

Solar Team Great Britain has created the UK’s first family-sized solar-powered car. The newly formed team has launched a Kickstarter…

8 years ago

Artificial intelligence learns to predict heart failure

Computers have learned to predict survival in patients with a heart condition more accurately than is possible today. In the…

8 years ago

World’s first floating city one step closer to reality in French Polynesia

San Francisco’s Seasteading Institute has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French Polynesian government that brings the world’s first…

8 years ago

Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes…

8 years ago

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye will have autonomous test vehicles on the roads by the second half of 2017

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye will have autonomous test vehicles on the roads by the second half of 2017 The…

8 years ago

New drone dives like a bird and leaps like a flying fish

Engineers have developed a prototype drone that dives like a gannet and launches like a flying fish, to collect water…

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