The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that in the government’s eyes, each of Google’s autonomous vehicles will be treated as if they were an ordinary driver.
VR may be the next big thing, but the Teslasuit goes beyond headsets and headphones. So, what is it and how does it simulate human touch?
A device the size of a matchstick, implanted next to the brain’s motor cortex, could one day help paralysed people move their limbs.
Rigetti Computing uses liquid helium to cool experimental quantum computer chips to a fraction of a degree from absolute zero. The two-year-old company is trying to build the hardware needed to power a quantum computer, which could trounce any conventional machine by tapping into quantum mechanics.
Elon Musk is changing the world one idea at a time. First, with Tesla, the man so many people call the real life Tony Stark has done an incredible job of bringing electric vehicles to the mainstream. Second, Musk has been doing an impressive job over at SpaceX in the realm of space travel.
Plane-like drones could someday beam 1Gbps to 10Gbps Internet down to Earth. Google has yet another Internet-in-the-sky program in the works. This one is called "Project Skybender," and it aims to outfit drones with millimeter wave transceivers—radios that work in a slice of the spectrum that could be used in next-generation "5G" networks.
Scientists are figuring out how to create a 'quantum Internet' that will be totally secure and virtually unhackable.
In the relentless torrent of high technology news that rushes past each day, it can be easy to miss the good stuff. For example, the debut of a cleverly designed exoskeleton that helps paraplegics walk again — and that the average person can actually afford.
We spend so much time touching our devices — but what if they could touch us back? Apple’s recent leaps with 3D Touch technology show that this could soon be a reality.
For the past century, the price and performance of computing has been on an exponential curve. And as futurist Ray Kurzweil observed, once any technology becomes an information technology, its development follows the same curve, so we are seeing exponential advances in technologies such as sensors, networks, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
Virgin Media has unveiled its latest multi-million pound campaign to promote Vivid - a brand that encompasses all of its ultrafast broadcast speeds and service of 100Mbps and above.
How you look at a robot and how it looks at you can make you more comfortable
A new wearable monitor that keeps track of your health by measuring chemicals in your sweat can be synched in real time to your smartphone.
This is seriously cool. American aerospace company Orbital ATK has tested a 3D-printed hypersonic engine combustor, one that could supposedly be used in a high-speed plane known as a scramjet.
Harvard University has been awarded $28 million (£19m) to investigate why brains are so much better at learning and retaining information than artificial intelligence. The award, from the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA), could help make AI systems faster, smarter and more like human brains.
