Tech News

Energy

- Photonic Crystal Uses Coldness of the Universe to Chill Solar Panels on Earth. [Read the news]

- $0.55 per watt from SolarCity’s record-breaking new solar panel. [Read the news]

- Here's a Peek at the First Sodium-ion Rechargeable Battery

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- Researchers at Finland’s Aalto University have achieved a record-breaking 22.1% efficiency for a nanostructured silicon solar cell with alumina deposited by atomic layer deposition. [Read the news]

- Audi has created diesel from just carbon dioxide and water. [Read the news]

- A Virginia Tech team harvests hydrogen from plant waste at record speeds using a genetic algorithm to come up with the precise enzymatic process. {Read the news]

- Stanford Researchers made a alunimum battery that can charge a phone in one minute. [Read the news]

- Ultra-thin supercapacitors using graphene as electrodes can hold twice as much charge as Li ion battery. [Read the news]

Digital Life

- Terahertz breakthrough allows for ultrafast wireless communications. [Read the news]

- New chip will charge your phone in under 10 minutes

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- Could an optical brain reader be possible in two years?

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- Stretchable Antenna Boosts Range for Wearable Devices. [Read the news]

- Google's Project Jacquard wants to make clothes into touchscreens by creating large-scale manufacturing process of conductive yarns. [Read the news]

- Low-cost, tunable smart windows developed with ‘electrokinetic pixels’. [Read the news]

- Researchers have invented a way to embed activated carbon particles into different types of yarn to form a knitted textile that can store energy to power sensors and electronics integrated into smart clothing. [Read the news]

- Cheap Centimeter-Precision GPS For Cars, Drones, Virtual Reality. [Read the news]

- Self-Powered Video Camera Could Run Indefinitely In Bright Light. [Read the news]

- A new microchip could double wireless data transfer rate by enabling simultaneous transmission and reception on the same radio frequency using dynamically-reconfigurable echo cancellation filters. [Read the news]

- New Fujitsu heat pipe technology could cool your next smartphone: the company hopes to deploy the technology commercially by 2017, which means it could be ready for smartphones and tablets about the same time as 10nm process technology. [Read the news]

- Qualcomm unveils its new fingerprint scanner, which verifies fingerprints in 3D using ultrasonic sound technology, picking up features like the size of fingerprint ridges. [Read the news]

- Samsung Pay takes on Apple Pay, but goes further: magnetic stripe integration opens up new Samsung phones to existing retailer payment infrastructure. [Read the news]

Artificial Intelligence

- Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Human Data Scientists. [Read the news]

- Sirius: an open-source customizable voice and vision assistant with speech recognition, image matching, natural language processing and a question-and-answer system running on the cloud. [Read the news]

- Windows 10 will let you sign in with your eyes and face. [Read the news]

IoT

- A New Chip Fingerprinting Scheme Could Secure IoT Devices Against Malware by Exploiting Random signal Glitches from Process Variations. [Read the news]

- Atmel's Smart SAM L21 processors can run for decades on one battery and harvest energy from body motion. [Read the news]

Cloud

- A Radical Proposal: Replace Hard Disks With DRAM [Read the news]

- Onshape launches CAD on the cloud and smartphone CAD app. [Read the news]

Robotics

- Researchers in Belgium made self-healing actuators for robots. [Read the news]

- Sawyer: Rethink Robotics unveils new robot for machine tending, circuit board testing, and other precise, repetitive tasks in mass electronics manufacturing. [Read the news]

Science

- Rewired Rose Plant Becomes Living Cyborg. [Read the news]

- Stanford researchers invented inverse design algorithms to design arbituary optical components for super-fast and energy efficient light-based computers. [Read the news]

- Game-changing discovery finds direct connection between the brain and the immune system. [Read the news]

- Graphene Could Enable Holographic 3-D Imaging on a Mobile Device. [Read the news]

- Perovskite Leads to 100-Percent Efficient Nanowire Lasers. [Read the news]

- A novel chemistry 3D printer can synthesize molecules from scratch. [Read the news]

- Researchers create glasses-free 3D display with tiny spherical lenses. [Read the news]

- Black Phosphorous Demonstrates Potential in High-Speed Data Communication. [Read the news]