Can Apple build a new car? It’s no more laughable than the idea that Apple, or Radio Shack, could create a personal computer infrastructure in the 1970s...
Nanowire breakthrough could recycle vehicle exhaust, improve car efficiency
A group of researchers at Sandia National Labs have announced a major step forward in thermoelectric nanowires, hopefully paving the way for new types of efficiency-boosting mechanisms...
Mercedes-Benz May Have The Best Ad Of Super Bowl XLIX: Video
The classic tale of the tortoise and the hare gets a fresh, modern spin in Mercedes-Benz’s ad for Super Bowl XLIX. The tortoise is still the winner,...
China is going to mine the Moon for helium-3 fusion fuel
China’s Chang’e lunar probe dynasty is already having a great year. The Chang’e 3 lunar lander surpassed all expectations last week to emerge from its 14th hibernation...
Sequoia Supercomputer Breaks 1 Million Core Barrier
The Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science, using the Sequoia supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a...
How One Startup Just Changed the Game in the Internet of Things
We've known and loved littleBits for some time, and now, they just got a lot more useful with the introduction of cloudBit. CloudBit is a module, a.k.a....