How technology is merging with the human body

 The gulf between “human” and “machine” is closing. Machine learning has enabled virtual reality to feel…

Neurable nets $2 million to build brain-controlled software for AR and VR

 As consumers get their first taste of voice-controlled home robots and motion-based virtual realities, a quiet…

Artificial leaf captures light to power drug production

 Drug production is generally a matter of big factories churning out millions of aspirin or ibuprofen…

Facebook’s secretive hardware team signs rapid collaboration deal with 17 universities

 Facebook’s shadowy Building 8 research team needs help from academia to invent futuristic hardware. But today’s…

Moth eyes inspired the design of this hypersensitive camera

 If you wanted to see in the dark, you could do worse than follow the example…

NASA tech could track firefighters where GPS can’t reach

 In the chaotic environment of a fire or disaster area, knowing where your fellow firefighters and…

Microsoft’s plan to use machine learning to improve eyecare in India

 Competition that results in better care for people suffering from visual impairments is the right kind of…

5-year, 2-petabyte digital survey of the night sky is the largest ever released

 Astronomers have a powerful new resource in the Pan-STARRS survey of the night sky, carried out…