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Emerging Technologies
This solar-powered car lets you drive for free
Solar-powered cars look set to be hitting the roads next year, ending the need to stop to fill up on fossil fuels or charge your electric vehicle.
Electronics
Google wants you to stop using your Android so much. Here's why
Google Wellbeing is a new collection of features that make you more aware of the time you spend on your phone and remind you to disconnect once in a while.
Workforce and Employment
Your smartphone is distracting you at work. Even if it’s switched off
A new study finds smartphones are having an even bigger impact on your work performance than you might realise.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
This microfactory is turning e-waste into reusable material
Scientists are using machinery to separate useful materials from scrap.
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
This device lets you talk to your computer - without saying a word
MIT researchers have developed the interface that transcribes words, without you speaking them aloud.
Electronics
Time's up: Apple overtakes Switzerland in watch sales
Switzerland's reign as the home of timekeeping could be over, as corporations win another victory in the competition with national economies
Innovation
This self-healing glass means your smashed phone screen will repair itself
A new type of glass has been developed that can repair itself after being cracked.
Future of Health and Healthcare
This video game is helping doctors to recognise serious injury
University of Pittsburgh's Deepika Mohan, MD, and game developer Schell Games have created a game to improve doctors' ability to recognize severe trauma in patients.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
You know the world has a problem with waste, but you probably haven't thought of this
Electronic waste is becoming a major global issues, as more and more people gain access to electronics.
Automotive
Electric car range could be about to get a lot better
New research from the University of Waterloo could triple electric car range.
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
These ‘soft robots’ are set to narrow the gap between man and machine
Researchers from MIT CSAIL and Harvard’s Wyss have implemented the art of Origami in Soft Robotics to provide a strong and flexible skeleton to the structure.
Electronics
Chart of the Day: What happens in an internet minute
The world's first text message was sent 25 years ago. The world now sends 16 million text messages every minute, or 23 billion every day.
Electronics
Tweaking the design of electronic goods could reduce poverty. Here’s how
Exports of used electronics support a growing number of jobs in repair and refurbishment in the developing world. If we want this trade to help and not harm those in poverty, we need to a...
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
3 ways to teach robots right from wrong
Producing a 'good samaritan robot' could mean finally defining what humans have failed to agree on for millennia – how to define morality.
Workforce and Employment
Why the amount of emails we're receiving is stressing us out
Five myths about email at work and how to cope with communications overload.