Electronics

Mobile optical scanners can check the authenticity of an object with unprecedented speed

John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of lithium-ion batteries” that have led to portable electronic devices that are rechargeable virtually anywhere on the planet.

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”

Officials pressure wireless companies so first responders and residents can communicate and save lives

A slight temperature difference at night between a surface losing heat and the surrounding air can be harnessed to generate electricity to power lights.

It will revamp our ideas of what a display can do

The nation wants to make its AI industry dominant by 2030

New technologies help companies monitor their workers’ every move. But do those data tell them anything useful?

Major technological shifts are fewer and farther between than they once were

A new study demonstrates it is surprisingly easy to ID an individual within a supposedly incognito data set

The pack produces a steady trickle of electricity from the swinging motion of your stuff. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

The technology holds vast potential for insights into the workings of human brains