Our behavior here in the valley feels untenable and self-destructive EVERY Saturday in late December and January, as reports of brutal temperatures and historic snowfalls streamed in from fa... Read more
Early next year, all the disparate connected devices measuring and recording conditions in tiny areas around the world – the “Internet of Things” – will be searchable thanks to a Google-like... Read more
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner. If Amazon can imagine delivering books by drones, is it too much to think that Google might be p... Read more
“This will allow us for the first time to see how individual canopies are functioning on a landscape level” As U.N. climate talks continue in Warsaw, soon a flying, insect-like robot d... Read more
Well, Elon Musk can relax now. Having previously announced his intention to at least build a demonstrator of his Hyperloop transporter for high-speed, high-capacity inter-city transport, he... Read more
In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is the Pentagon. In the last yea... Read more
“It’s a cross between a Concorde, a rail gun, and an air hockey table.” Now that the media kerfuffle surrounding Elon Musk‘s Hyperloop transit system proposal has set... Read more
Administering antiparalytics topically via a nasal spray A team of researchers led by Dr. Matt Lewin of the California Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Department of Anesthesia... Read more
In a bid to become ubiquitous, Dropbox unveils tools to help developers sync apps across mobile platforms. Dropbox, the fast-growing file-synching and file-sharing service, today announced n... Read more
San Francisco (where else?) has launched a new plan to deal with disasters using collaborative consumption. Will they actually be able to make a difference? After superstorm Sandy ravaged th... Read more
The Solar Impulse is getting ready for a promotional cross-country flight before embarking on a trip around the world. But the tech that has gone into it is already having an influence acros... Read more
To increase the city’s dismal recycling rates, Houston’s government is trying something else: One Bin for All. It will collect all trash together in one bin and then convert it to biofuel. H... Read more
To keep a growing world population filled with nutrients, startups like Beyond Eggs are finding new ways of making protein that don’t involve the resource intensity of raising animals. Here... Read more
Millions of tons of food are thrown away each year because the ‘best before’ date has passed. But this date is always a cautious estimate, which means a lot of still-edible food... Read more
Printing speed is increased by factor of about 100 At the Photonics West, the leading international fair for photonics taking place in San Francisco (USA) this week, Nanoscribe GmbH, a spin-... Read more
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