This isn't a manifesto. Nor is it a piece of futurist speculation. It's more of brain dump, flushing out things I've been thinking about for the last few weeks (and for the past couple of decades, ...

What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors? A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are ...

MILL VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ambient Photonics has completed the initial financing for its state-of-the-art U.S. solar manufacturing facility. Silicon Valley Bank and Trinity Capital have ...

Smartphones are the most effective attention magnets ever created. Our infrequent breaks from using them are short. And as if the lure of their endless apps wasn’t enough to draw us back in, ...

The concept of an “internet of things” emerged at the end of the 1990s, when Kevin Ashton, a computer scientist working at Procter & Gamble, coined the term to describe a means of tracking products by ...

This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter. Have you ever wanted to live inside a virtual ...

The ambition of smart homes extends beyond simple automation. Homes should instinctively gather context, adapt to their occupants’ needs and interact naturally. A key enabler is ambient sensing, which ...

Terahertz radiation, some of it generated by Wi-Fi and converted to DC current could charge batteries for cellphones, IoT devices, medical implants, researchers say Most things with a measurable ...