Tesla to transition from ‘Enhanced Autopilot’ to ‘Fully Self-Driving’ as soon as 3 to 6 months

There’s ‘Enhanced Autopilot’, which in itself offers several different features, and there’s ‘Full Self-Driving Capability’, which despite its name will not enable self-driving for a while, but could still be useful to Tesla drivers very soon.

First step towards photonic quantum network

Advanced photonic nanostructures are well on their way to revolutionizing quantum technology for quantum networks based on light. Researchers have now developed the first building blocks needed to construct complex quantum photonic circuits for quantum networks.

Sci-fi holograms a step closer

Physicists have invented a tiny device that creates the highest quality holographic images ever achieved, opening the door to imaging technologies seen in science fiction movies.

NASA research is key to future of air transportation

In the future, aircraft will consume half as much fuel compared to today, generate one-fourth the emissions they do now, fly so quietly that airport neighbors won't hear annoying noise and fly passengers at supersonic speeds while burning biofuels.

An Ultrafast Camera Captures 'Sonic Booms' of Light for First Time

The new technology used to make this discovery could one day allow scientists to image live activity in the brain.

The Tiny Robots Revolutionizing Eye Surgery

Machines that are capable of making precise operations inside the human eye will make it possible to perform entirely new procedures.

Robot reporter gets first article published in China

Reports are out that a Chinese robot has written and published its first newspaper article. The news comes the same month as a Japanese insurance company announced it was replacing 34 workers with an artificial intelligence system.

First Virtual Reality Calculator

Calcflow is a virtual reality application that lets you explore mathematical theorems and scenarios in an interactive virtual reality environment.

Upcoming Transatlantic Link Will Encourage Global Sharing

A three-continent research data sharing project is making headways in an effort to globalize research telecommunications.

China to Develop Supercomputer Prototype as Powerful as Human Brain

Chinese state media announced that by the end of the year it intends to put out a prototype of an exascale supercomputer that would be more than ten times as powerful as any existing machine.

A car company to Demo Self-Driving Cars in the UK Next Month

Nissan has said it's bringing some self-driving cars to London next month to take part in the first EU trials of its technology.

China develops world's brightest VUV free electron laser research facility

A team of Chinese scientists announced that they have developed a new bright VUV FEL light source. Vacuum Ultra Violet (VUV) light sources are especially useful for sensitive detection of atoms, molecules and clusters.

World's first material-sensing smartphone reveals what's in your food

A company in China has just unveiled the world’s first material-sensing smartphone. The Changhong H2 is capable of reading the molecular makeup of just about anything.

Quantum Computers Ready to Leap Out of the Lab in 2017

Quantum computing has long seemed like one of those technologies that are 20 years away, and always will be. But 2017 could be the year that the field sheds its research-only image.

Ebay's Founder Is Giving Away $10 Million to Support AI That Is Good and Not Evil

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman will each donate $10 million to the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund.