Occupy your mind and hands while keeping your distance

Proponents say it will reduce the cost of doing blockchain-based business by 80 percent

World-renowned medical robotics expert Guang-Zhong Yang explains what we can learn from this crisis to prepare for the next one

Combining old hacks like NTSC artifact colors with modern hardware makes a surprisingly capable machine

The WHO app collective is rushing to release an app that provides hyperlocal information

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Data centers consume 205 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually

Startup Subspace emerged from stealth early to tackle the low-latency problem exacerbated by everyone working and learning remotely because of COVID-19

AI helps designs AI chip that might help an AI design future AI chips

The porous mostly-silicon films can hold more lithium ions and move them around super-fast. And they're cheap

Constructing a universal quantum computer will be hard but not impossible

Quick fixes that don’t scale probably won’t make much difference to this pandemic, but they might get the ball rolling for the next one

A new road map offers a strategic look at the technology, which promises smaller, faster, and more reliable devices

BER analysis of 400 GbE SERDES

The BBC Micro Bot will try to run anything you can code in 280 characters or less

Four Australians developed a new kind of blood-glucose sensor in just three months

China’s 2020 HX-1 Mars mission will draw on previous lunar explorations and human spaceflights

A novel energy-efficient metamaterial can efficiently absorb sunlight while limiting blackbody heat-loss to almost zero

Lasers, chips, and quantum circuitry could all benefit from this obscure phenomenon

In some coronavirus cases, the body’s immune system begins to attack itself; a new technology could counteract the harmful effects

Digital contact tracing using mobile phones can help stop the spread of COVID-19, but could also put us all under surveillance