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Identify the ‘influencers’ on your front lines, CEO advises

Chip manufacturer Intel is partnering with the Michael J Foundation, who specialise in Parkinson's disease research, to offer their own expertise in the field of wearables in order to track and analyse those with the disease using wearable devices.

Mesa can hold petabytes of data across multiple servers while fielding millions of updates and queries per day

Small, eco-friendly optical supercomputers may soon be crunching quadrillions of calculations per second (exaflops) if a company called Optalysys has its

Scientists have developed computer monitors that can distort images so that they appear perfectly clear to viewers even when they are not wearing their glasses

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Giorgio Metta is an explorer in the field of humanoid robotics. The Italian professor is best known for developing the iCub robot platform, a child-like humanoid which has become a key…

The Bike Design Project is a huge effort to push urban cycling into the future: Five teams across five cities designed what they believe to be the best urban bike for their respective home towns. So what does a bike designed specifically for San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and other major American cities look like? Cool as hell, for starters.

Two gripping robotic fingers mean one hand can be used to carry out tasks which typically require two.

Cargo ships carry the bulk of the world’s trade – but are a major source of pollution. Could computer control help make them cleaner and more efficient?

It looks like robots can trust us humans to take care of them, after all. Hitchbot has successfully completed its hitchhiking trek across Canada, landing

A team of Harvard engineers who designed a self-assembling, walking robot say the design could be utilised in harsh environments such as space or the battlefield

With Lyft Line, a new service first being offered in San Francisco, the company’s founders hope to make ride-sharing part of the workday routine.

Just because workers are checking their Facebook in the office, doesn't mean they're not committed to their work, says Samsung's Rob Orr

A new way to extend battery life would allow smartphones to last three to four times longer on a single charge, Stanford University researchers have found. A team led by Yi Cui, professor of materials science and engineering, has developed pure metal anode prototypes, which differ from the lithium-ion batteries seen in most devices. "I think this is very promising," Cui said.

Solar power is one of the most reliable forms of renewable power--but it's still expensive. Now, a team has developed a smart, adaptive material that could slash the its cost in half.

Thanks to Princess Leia's famous Star Wars plea, true holograms rank just behind flying cars as tech we want, nay deserve to have in our lifetimes -- and

Sprint Corp. is the latest Kansas City-area company hoping remote-controlled drones can elevate its bottom line.

As the world's largest technology companies look at ways to use drones, small makers of unmanned aircraft are hoping to fly right behind them.