It's the first study to show that brain chips can assist paralyzed people to perform complex real-world tasks.
A startup blends activity tracking with online incentives in hopes of getting kids into shape.
The company is losing money fast. It hoped to raise money to stay afloat.
A wearable brain scanner could give computers insight into how hard you're thinking.
A new type of eye implant requires less hardware and could restore more vision than existing devices.
The proof-of-concept device concentrates sunlight to break apart limestone.
Peratech thinks printable electronic sensors of volatile compounds could find their way into textiles.
Microsoft is revamping its search engine and exploiting the growth of social networking online.
New data show that its products cost more than $30 a gallon to make.
As petroleum production gets trickier, digital innovation becomes more crucial.
Cheap panels from China have forced the U.S. solar giant to lay off workers and close factories, but the company says it sees a way out of its mess.
It can be quicker and easier to sequence a genome than to analyze the resulting data—now one startup thinks it has a solution to this data-crunching bottleneck.
The secret is using existing technology.
The prototype could also monitor an elderly driver's aptitude over time.
A new cloud-storage service from the search giant steps on the toes of startups like Dropbox and opens a new front against Apple and Microsoft.
Cloud-based speech and translation technology could allow any app to be voice-controlled.
How civilians helped win the Libyan information war.
After letting its employees use their own phones and tablets for work, the company confronted a flood of insecure apps from the open Web.
Yes, of course, but things got out of hand. A quarter of executives admit to having slept with a smart phone.
Fitness trends and health-care problems are creating demand for tiny computers we won't even notice we're carrying.
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