Electronics

The basics of the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA)

At the “Innovation: An American Imperative” symposium October 20 on Capitol Hill, industry leaders and members of Congress talked about shoring up federal support for basic research and development

MUSICA is part of a new DARPA program to explore new ways that people can interact with computers and robots

Mr. Fusion aside, this 1989 time-traveling comedy was spot-on about many devices that we now take for granted

Verizon is merging its cellphone tracking supercookie with AOL’s ad tracking network to match users’ online habits with their offline details

Some of the brightest minds in science and tech think we need a plan to keep humans safe from supersmart machines

The toy company WowWee brings expensive university bots to store shelves

Phosphorene could make a better transistor

The hack against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was bad—really bad—but the theft of biometric data was more symbolic than practical

The German carmaker’s emissions-testing cheat reveals how car companies and government regulators negotiate trade-offs between fuel efficiency and performance

The Pentagon hopes to generate more "disruptive" weapons technologies by pursuing closer ties with researchers in Silicon Valley and elsewhere

DARPA’s claimed breakthrough in sensory prosthetics taps directly into the brain to send and receive signals