Electronics

Peeled strips of single-layer carbon could be useful in electronic circuitry

While it's not news that the Turing test has flaws, the new study highlights just how limited the test is for answering deeper questions about artificial intelligence, study co-author says

The game app’s pocket monsters may be taking over the world—but they’re not quite part of it yet, a tech pioneer insists

Mission scientists are investigating what caused a suspension the Mars rover's activities on July 2

Tesla says neither the driver nor autopilot noticed a truck turning in front of the car

The Internet of Things will remain a cumbersome wireless landscape until it finds a way to connect to us

Why haven't all of our objects gone wireless? Because nobody's buying this stuff

Google, LG and others are experimenting with gadgets that come with swappable cameras and sensors and could hit the market next year

Smartphones, GPS and energy-efficient lighting are just a few of the innovations that originally came from work that was often purely theoretical

Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University talks to Cynthia Graber about electric eel research that led him to accept 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's account of electric eels attacking horses.  
 

Are screens a sinister trap or magical portal for children as young as 18 months? 

An expert says machine systems are going beyond talking and will soon sense our moods, personalities and behaviors