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The Star Trek Universe has inspired many modern technologies, from transparent aluminum (aluminum oxynitride or ALON) to communicators (smartphones) to AI (Majel Barret is the best) and more. If you want a rundown, ask a Trekkie and brace…

AI and smart algorithms could allow drones to pilot themselves using visual landmarks to navigate. That's the aim of researchers at the University of Missouri, who received a $3.3 million grant from the US Army Engineer Research and…

AI and machine learning can do so much for the good of humanity. Scientists are using it to improve the taste of our beer and help people find their next best friend. And, more seriously, all of this cool stuff. Scientists at MIT have…

Tesla will offer its U.S. customers a one-month free trial of its driver-assist technology, Full Self-Driving (FSD). The company is trying to offset the slowdown in demand and pressures from price competition. The driver assistant…

Google-backed EV charging startup Gravity opened its first public charging location to provide what Green Car Reports calls  the "fastest EV charging in America." It is in a parking garage in Manhattan, and it features 24 charging stalls…

Beer drinkers already have a wide plethora of brews to choose. From Hefeweizens to IPAs to Stouts, it seems we have a beer for every taste. And, with the upswing in microbreweries and home brewers, our choices are even more broad.  With…

400 Stellantis workers received an unexpected pink slip email this week telling them not to report to work the following day. Instead, they were told to attend a mandatory remote meeting, where they were devastated to hear their jobs were…

Stellantis Ventures has invested in SteerLight, the developer of a new high-performance LiDAR technology. SteerLight LiDAR senses the surrounding environment in 3D with higher resolution and precision at a lower volume production cost…

Did robots just become almost human? Artificial intelligence is transforming android robots from dreamy figments of our childhood imagination into awe-inspiring realities of today's tech landscape. Witness the groundbreaking…

Brown University researchers just developed a novel approach for a wireless network that efficiently transmits, receives, and decodes data from microelectronic chips the size of a grain of salt. Their research is published in Nature…