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LAS VEGAS — Can R2-D2 do this? (Would R2-D2 want to do this?) CES 2017 brings us a robot that automatically folds your laundry. It’s Foldimate, the brainchild of a US-Israeli company of the same name. A typical laundry hamper of clothes can be folded in about three minutes. A …

Large-scale solar projects work because they use concentrators to achieve much greater efficiencies than what’s possible with traditional silicon photovoltaic panels. Up until now, residential projects have not had access to concentrator technology, and the limited spectral response and effectiveness of silicon has made it hard to get efficiencies much …

LAS VEGAS — Once again, the craziest week of the consumer electronics year has ground to a close. Nearly 200,000 attendees, thousands of exhibitors, and no one is really sure exactly how many products. Two days of media events, followed by four days of the show means close to 40 …

LAS VEGAS — If there was a word of the year for CES 2017, it’d be “smart.” Nearly every booth, and every product category featured supposedly smart versions of the previous year’s products. Of course, in the rush to incorporate the latest fad in technology into their products, not everyone …

On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an updated report on whether or not Russia was responsible for both hacking the Democratic National Committee and aiding in the distribution of the stolen material. The report pulls no punches and argues that, in both cases, the answer …

Hubble is nearing the end of its mission, and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been under construction for years. Now that the telescope has been built and is undergoing final testing, NASA has turned its attention to the future — namely, what the Webb Telescope is going to …

NASA is preparing for a pair of new asteroid-exploration missions, which will launch in the early 2020s. These missions are part of the Discovery Program, which seeks to investigate remnants of the early solar system in a somewhat low-cost way. Past Discovery missions include Mars Pathfinder, Stardust, and Dawn. The …

Apple last month released a new TV app in an attempt to centralize all the streaming TV options available across Apple TV, iPhone and iPad. Now, Samsung is rolling out its own take on the matter, with the launch of a trio of new Smart TV services focused on sports, music and …

Do you like making lists of things to do, but then end up failing to accomplish the items you’ve laid out? A new application aimed at those with a tendency towards procrastination can help. Instead of a simple checklist or time tracker, Time, as the app is called, lets you …