The Troubled Life of Patent No. 6,456,841
Tracing the tortured legal trail of a simple smartphone patent
Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC
New developments in high-voltage DC electronics could herald an epic shift in energy delivery
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Nanowire Transistors Could Keep Moore’s Law Alive
Researchers are perfecting ways to produce gate-all-around devices
The Smartest, Greenest Grid
What the little Danish island of Bornholm is showing the world about the future of energy
Cheetah-Cub Quadruped Robot Learns to Walk, Trot Using Gait Patterns from Real Animal
Researchers used motion-capture data of a horse to make a cheetah robot walk and run
This Week in Cybercrime: You Can Be Convicted of Hacking Even If You’re Not a Hacker
Plus: Critical infrastructure left unguarded, and cyberthieves hunt from up close
Dreamliner Okayed for Flight in U.S., but Battery Faces Scrutiny
Public hearings over the 787 battery fires answer—and raise—questions
Video Friday: Angry Romibos, Rockets in Flight, and Real Dogs Dropping Robot Snakes
Enjoy this Video Friday as IEEE Spectrum Automaton heads to Switzerland and Germany for two weeks of robotics research
Japan's Telepathy One Aims Smaller Than Google Glass
A Japanese wearable visor promises the social sharing of real-time experiences
A Solar Mirage in the Middle East?
The oil-rich monarchs’ ambitions for solar power will be tough to achieve
FIRST and NI Announce New Robot Controller: Smaller, Faster, Super Rugged
National Instruments will provide FIRST teams with a brand new, and much more powerful, control system for their robots
Marriage by Skype
When advanced telecommunications is the only way to get you to the church on time
Cornell Tech to Receive $133 Million from Qualcomm Founder Irwin Jacobs
Innovation Institute at new university campus to be named after IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient
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Nanosponges Soak Up Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria and Toxins
Survival rates in mice infected with deadly bacteria dramatically increase when administered the nanosponges
Mobile Broadband’s Boom
Are wired data connections going the way of phone landlines?
Beware the Unstoppable Robot Turtle
Flipperbot explores how sea turtles use their flippers to move on land
Fisker Automotive: Fraught With Failure
Does the U.S. Department of Energy have the guts to tolerate defaults on its loans?
When Spectrum Auctions Fail
For some microwave links, cooperation beats competition as a way to share the air
Samsung Imagines a Future With Mind-Controlled Tablets
A tablet controlled by the brain could help the disabled sooner than average consumers
Irwin Jacobs: Captain of CDMA
Qualcomm cofounder Irwin M. Jacobs wins the 2013 IEEE Medal of Honor for his pioneering work in digital communications
IEDs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Boston
The U.S. Army knows more about countering IEDs than any other organization
Researchers Discover New Structure Inside Nanowires
In the corners of hexagonal nanowires researchers discover a new space for electrons and holes
New York Politicians Decline to be Anti-Nuclear
Candidates are remarkably responsible on energy and climate
The Hacked Tweet That Took Down Wall Street
A rogue AP tweet roils Wall Street; algorithmic trading on machine readable news partially to blame
Not Surprising: Brain Scans Show Humans Empathize With Robots
Nobody likes to see robots getting tortured, but scans reveal that it bothers us almost as much as seeing it happen to humans
Brain Scans Show Humans Feel for Robots
A show of affection or violence toward either robots or humans causes similar changes in the brain
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Nanowires Grow Better on Graphene
Nanowire core and shell grow in one step on graphene substrate
Face Recognition Failed to Find Boston Bombers
Facial recognition software didn't spot the Boston Marathon bombers; armchair "investigators" found too much
Beware the Unstoppable Cyborg Turtle
Run! Or walk. Or, you know, whatever. No rush.
Eye-Tracking Software Goes Mobile
Umoove aims to bring hands-free control to phones and tablets
Telecommuting and Yahoo's Desperate Need for Innovation
Management expert John Sullivan says Yahoo is right to end telecommuting
Why Did NanoInk Go Bust?
After a host of high-profile nanotechnology companies have bit the dust, the question of why is this happening is getting more desparate
The All-Electric Car You Never Plug In
Wireless power transmission would let EVs draw their power from the road
Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life
What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear
Robots Are Not Killing Jobs, Says a Roboticist
A Georgia Tech professor of robotics argues automation is still creating more jobs than it destroys
"The Most Hated Climate Scientist in the U.S."
Yale University profiles one of its more notorious physics PhDs
European Parliament Vote Leaves Carbon Trading System in Shambles
It is another indicator of a dramatic shift in current balance of action on climate
Sixteen New Iranian Reactors
Will they actually be built, or is the plan just a cover for military plans?
The Gene Machine and Me
Ion Torrent’s chip-based genome sequencer is cheap, fast, and poised to revolutionize medicine
Learn How to Program a TurtleBot and Use ROS
What can you do with a TurtleBot 2? We're about to find out
Bizarre Soft Robots Evolve to Run
These simulated robots may be wacky looking, but they've evolved on their own to be fast and efficient
Boston Marathon: Can Technology Do a Better Job of Finding Bombs?
New sensors can detect explosives by scent and sight
TurtleBot 2: Unboxing and First Demo
Let's see what happens when we take our TurtleBot 2 out of the box and try to get it to follow us around
Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion
Are Boeing's Battery Difficulties Part of a Much Bigger Problem?
Seventy percent of the Dreamliner is preassembled by a tiered system of subcontractors that Boeing has never used before
Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Halts Trading After Price Plummets
The Bitcoin economy shed a billion dollars overnight—and it may not have hit bottom
The Real Story of Stuxnet
How Kaspersky Lab tracked down the malware that stymied Iran’s nuclear-fuel enrichment program
Carbon Dioxide and Temperature Levels Are More Tightly Linked
But will the new research convert any climate skeptics?
Plasma Ring Experiment Offers New Path for Fusion Power
Self-contained plasma rings could enable new fusion power experiments and energy storage
A New Large-scale Bitcoin Merchant Sets Out to Teach Amazon A Lesson
The Bitcoin Store keeps prices down on its electronics inventory by saving on credit card fees.
Whoa: Quadrotors Play Catch With Inverted Pendulum
Watch these quadrotors balance a stick on its end, and then toss it back and forth
West Virginia Taken to the Cleaners by Cisco
State massively overpays for unnecessary Cisco routers using federal stimulus money
Get on the Optical Bus
IBM's light-powered links overcome the greatest speed bump in supercomputing: interconnect bandwidth