For those of you jealous of all the cool tech in the new cars my colleague Bill Howard gets to write about, there are lots of alternatives for adding technology to your current car. In most cases, add-ons aren’t as slick, or as powerful, as the versions you can get if …

Google’s Daydream VR platform launched without support for Netflix, leaving Play Movies and TV as the only native video streaming source. Hulu was added a few weeks back, but Netflix is what everyone really wants. That app has just been added to the Daydream Play Store, but it isn’t quite …

We’ve been attempting to reverse-engineer intelligence since the dawn of our own history — or at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, who carved the inscription “know thyself” at the temple of Apollo, Delphi. Throughout the ages, one old chestnut has stubbornly resisted yielding up its secret: the organizational …

A team at MIT has developed a high-tech stamping process that involves a “forest” of carbon nanotubes, capable of printing electronic inks onto almost any surface, whether rigid or flexible. Think of an inkjet, only imagine that the nozzle is the size of a nanotube. When densely packed, nanotubes can …

In our quest to image exoplanets, we have to contend with one major inconvenience: the telescope-blinding light from their host stars. On earth, people just slap on a pair of Ray-Bans to block out the light from our sun. But we can’t exactly put sunglasses on telescopes, at least not …

It has been just over three months since a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launchpad, taking its Facebook satellite payload along with it. The rocket wasn’t even firing its engines at the time, which has made tracking down the cause of the anomaly much more challenging. SpaceX was …

It took years for paleontologists to come to terms with the fact that dinosaurs had feathers. We started with “dinosaurs were like big scaly lizards,” progressed to “dinosaurs probably had feathers,” and now we’re arrived at “here are some actual dinosaur feathers.” A piece of amber discovered at a market …

LAS VEGAS — New Audis will count down the time until the traffic light in front of you turns green. Exciting, huh? Actually, Audi is on to something fairly big. Audi’s Traffic Light Information technology has the potential to save fuel, smooth traffic flow, and reduce driver stress. Seriously. Audi …

2016 came in like a lion and is clearly determined to go out like a total sack of crap: John Glenn has died. Glenn wore many hats during his time on and around our pale blue dot: test pilot, veteran, spaceman, and senator. As a young man, Glenn flew combat …

John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, has died at 95. His legacy as a combat pilot, spaceman, senator, and loving family man will succeed him, along with the John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Godspeed, John Glenn. SpaceX just lost a major contract as an after-effect of …