Larry Greenemeier is the associate editor of technology for Scientific American, covering a variety of tech-related topics, including biotech, computers, military tech, nanotech and robots.
Can the World's Telecoms Slash Their Energy Consumption 1,000-Fold?
Tech companies, government agencies and academics are uniting to develop the technology needed to increase global telecommunications networks' energy efficiency
Powerful Chips Aimed at Providing Massive Data for 3-D TVs and Smart Phones
Intel introduced several new processors at CES that are aimed at helping Internet-connected electronic devices more easily manage the data explosion
Talking Down Roadkill?: Ford Expands SYNC for Drivers Unable to Leave the Internet at the Curb
The next generation of Fords will feature a number of new voice- and touch-activated controls
Games and Search Engines Likely to Drive Consumer Technology in 2010
Although CEO Steve Ballmer's CES keynote was light on major new technology announcements, the company will have Project Natal for Xbox 360 ready to go in time for next Christmas
Charge 'Er Up: OnStar's New Mobile App Keeps Tabs on Chevy Volt Recharge System
Blackberry Storm, iPhone and Motorola Droid users will be able to control when their Volt charges with the help of this new smart-phone software
Loopy Hearing Aid Idea Brings In Speech Loud and Clear
U.S. slow in adopting helpful hearing induction loops
New Drone Spies Combat Targets from the Stratosphere
The U.S. military hopes Sanswire-TAO's STS-111, which looks like a cross between a weather balloon and a dirigible, will stealthily gather intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance info
Hybrid Solar Panels Combine Photovoltaics with Thermoelectricity
Columbia University and N.Y. engineering firm Weidlinger Associates are developing a layered approach that will draw electricity from the sun's energy in multiple ways
Christmas with the leatherbacks
Microsoft exits this year $290 million lighter, thanks to Word patent infringement ruling
Obama chooses Howard Schmidt to coordinate national cybersecurity
Hoisting One for Wind Power: Climbing Crane Expected to Keep Vestas Turbines Spinning [Slide Show]
A Danish wind-power provider develops its own technology to maintain towering turbines in gusts roaring at up to 15 meters per second
Inflated Expectations: Crowd-Sourcing Comes of Age in the DARPA Network Challenge
The M.I.T. and Georgia Tech teams proved most successful in using social networks to pinpoint the locations of 10 red weather balloons scattered throughout the U.S.
SciAm's 2009 Gadget Guide: 10 Tech Toys You Deserve after a Tough Year [Slide Show]
This year will be remembered for the federal economic stimulus package, Wall Street bailouts, and just possibly a fun new gadget or two
How to Make Plastic with Less Petroleum--Just Add CO2
Using technology developed at Cornell University, Novomer gets additional funding to develop a plastic-manufacturing process that requires less oil by folding in carbon dioxide
4G networks open for business (sort of) in Norway and Sweden
On a Roll: Autonomous Navigation Lasers and Robotics Push "Smart" Wheelchair Technology to the Cutting Edge [Slide Show]
One of the latest attempts to build a commercially viable smart wheelchair is leveraging lessons learned from the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge
Will fast-tracked "green" patents yield useful new technologies or the next generation of frivolous lawsuits?
Convergence of old and new media remained elusive for AOL and Time Warner
When universities and businesses collaborate, it's "yours, mine and ours"
DARPA Challenge Competitors Already Mobilizing Social Networks
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Network Challenge begins Saturday, but social networks have been buzzing for weeks about the nationwide quest to find 10 big red weather balloons
Vint Cerf: Connecting with an Internet Pioneer, 40 Years Later
Cerf reflects on the cobbling together of four network nodes, a moment that helped usher in the invention that changed life as we know it
E-Motion: Next-Gen Simulators to Blur the Line between Person and Avatar
New motion-sensing technology lets trainees react more naturally to action, without the need for controllers or sensor tags
CERN cuts power to part of the LHC, says the setback is minor