Solar And Wind Energy May Be Nice, But How Can We Store It?
Renewable energy is taking off across the nation, but storing the energy is still a problem that is challenging companies to innovate, with solutions ranging from molten salt to ice.
View ArticleFashionable Prostheses Trade Realistic Color For Personal Pizazz
A firm in New York is making brightly colored, personalized covers for prosthetic legs that each wearer helps design — sort of like a tattoo.
View ArticleLaid-Off Tech Journalist Joins A Start-Up, Finds It's Part Frat, Part Cult
Dan Lyons was in his 50s when he lost his job reporting on the tech industry. He took a job at a start-up, where he was the old guy. His new book is Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble.
View ArticleWhatsApp Adds End-To-End Encryption To Its Communication Services
That means only the sender and recipient of a message can view it. The people who run the popular messaging service cannot, and they cannot hand data over to law enforcement.
View ArticleA 'New' Rembrandt: From The Frontiers Of AI And Not The Artist's Atelier
A newly unveiled portrait bearing all the hallmarks of the Dutch master is actually the result of 18 months of analysis of 346 of his paintings, plus 150 gigabytes of digitally rendered graphics.
View ArticleHow An Idea To Develop A Safer, Smart Gun Backfired
If we can lock and unlock our smartphones with a fingerprint, why can't we do the same with guns? One company tried to make a safer so called smart gun and found itself hated by everyone.
View ArticleThe Newest Public Transportation In Town: Uber
Altamonte Springs, Fla., is the first U.S. city to subsidize Uber fares. It's a public-private partnership, with local businesses helping foot the bill. Officials hope it will help reduce traffic.
View ArticleThe View Of Gaza, On 24/7 Video
At the high-tech center where Israel's military keeps an eye on Hamas-controlled Gaza, soldiers monitor the border using remote-controlled cameras and machine guns.
View ArticleStanford Challenges Young Designers To Help Older Adults
The Stanford Design Challenge is a competition to encourage students to design solutions for mobility and mental stimulation. The contest could change the way people live in the future.
View ArticleYouTube Star Revives Traditional Alaskan Culture
Byron Nicholai lives in a remote Alaskan village, but he's become a hit on YouTube and one of President Obama's Arctic Youth Ambassadors.
View ArticlePanama Is More Than A Hashtag
Panamanians are upset about their country's international reputation in light of the Panama Papers leak, which exposed the country as helping the world's rich and corrupt hide their money.
View ArticleWith Hollywood's Advanced Digital Face-Lifting, Do We Even Need Actors?
You can now digitally replace just about anything on an actor's body — including the actor himself. Journalist Logan Hill explains this practice of often invisible digital retouching in media.
View ArticleA Fitbit Saved His Life? Well, Maybe
A man shows up in the emergency room with a speedy, irregular heartbeat, but can't say when it first went awry. No problem. The ER doctors just checked the phone records of his fitness tracker.
View ArticleJust Like Human Skin, This Plastic Sheet Can Sense And Heal
Human skin has properties that are hard to mimic, but a Stanford engineer is working to create a type of artificial skin that can sense, heal and generate its own power.
View ArticleCollege Student Uses 3-D Printer To Fix His Crooked Teeth
A college student in New Jersey figured out how to straighten his crooked teeth using his school's 3-D printer.
View ArticleA Real-Life Tax Scam: This Is What IRS Phone Fraud Sounds Like
It's tax season, which also means it's tax scam season. People around the country are getting phone calls from criminals pretending to be tax collectors. Here is one of them.
View ArticleNew Jersey Student Uses 3-D Printer For DIY Dental Work
Tired of his crooked teeth, 24-year-old Amos Dudley made a mold of his teeth and fabricated a set of aligners using orthodontics reference books, a 3-D printer and other digital fabrication tools.
View ArticleIRS Head Says Cybersecurity Problems Leave Taxpayers Vulnerable
With taxes on the minds of many Americans this week, a Senate committee looks at how vulnerable taxpayers' information is to cyber theft. The head of the IRS testifies on Capitol Hill.
View ArticleFacebook's New Master Plan: Kill Other Apps
Reading NPR. Trying out a live video. Ordering an Uber. All in Facebook. The company is trying to manage your entire digital life, but not talking about how to do it safely.
View ArticleTechnology Helps A Paralyzed Man Transform Thought Into Movement
An implant and wires that reroute nerve signals from a man's brain to his hand allow him to grasp and lift objects, after much practice. But easy, wireless signaling from the brain is still the goal.
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