African Entrepreneurs Deflate Google’s Internet Balloon Idea
Kenyan tech leaders say the high-flying Internet balloons may not be a realistic networking solution for their continent.
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Why Tesla Thinks It Can Make Battery Swapping Work
Tesla is set to announce a way to make recharging its electric vehicles faster than filling up a gas tank.
Is Facebook Reading Status Updates to Co-opt Comment Threads?
Facebook may be going a step too far by adding unsolicited gift card suggestions to people's status updates.
Laser Scanning Reveals New Parts of an Ancient Cambodian City
LIDAR technology continues to reveal archeological evidence of urbanization
Mobile Call Logs Can Reveal a Lot to the NSA
Research shows how much the NSA could glean from call records, and why efforts to downplay the significance of such metadata are misleading.
High-Tech Cheetah Tracking Reveals the Cat’s Hunting Secret
Research into wild animal locomotion could inform the design of future robots.
So, You Wanna Be an Android?
Inside the evolution movement that wants machines to replace people.
A Chocolate Maker’s ?Big Innovation
In transforming the way cacao farmers supply manufacturers, a ?San Francisco startup is creating a superb product.
Flying Robots
Compact unmanned aerial vehicles will perform many valuable jobs if aviation regulations allow them to operate commercially.
Adapting to Automation
From different angles, two of our feature stories explore the role of humans in an automated world.
