Articles by Technology Review from May 2014

Google came up with a new approach to its self-driving car project because humans trusted its previous prototypes too much.The fact that Googles bubble-like self-driving car, unveiled this week, lacks...

A $70 million program will try to develop brain implants able to regulate emotions in the mentally ill.Researcher Jose Carmena has worked for years training macaque monkeys to move computer cursors an...

Early testers are building a range of prototypes from drones to immersive video games using Googles 3-D mapping smartphone.Four months after Google unveiled Project Tangoa prototype Android smartphone...

A recent demonstration involving two trucks tethered by computer control shows how automation and vehicle-to-vehicle communication are creeping onto the roads.A pair of trucks convoying 10 meters apar...

A startup called Energous aims to let you charge your gadgets without plugging them in.Do you want us to charge your phone? George Holmes asks. Normally, that would be an odd question. But Holmes is t...

Are companies ready for billions of everyday objects to join the Internet?The technology industry is preparing for the Internet of things, a type of computing characterized by small, often dumb, usual...

A French company plans to build a wireless slow lane for small, low-power devices.San Francisco is set to get a new cellular network later this year, but it wont help fix the citys spotty mobile-phone...

How Nest is turning its consumer hit into a service for utilities.Googles $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest Labs in January put the Internet of things on the map. Everyone had vaguely understood that c...

To protect lucrative business servicing machines, GE turns to the industrial Internet.To understand why General Electric is plowing $1 billion into the idea of using software to transform industry, pu...

New technologies give vaccine developers a boost in early development, but large-scale testing and production are bogged down by high costs and lengthy trials.Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS...

Fitness bands like the Jawbone Up are in an unusual and enviable position in the electronics business: people rarely take them off.If you wear a Jawbone Up24 around town, people might ask what it is. ...

Although major reports conclude that avoiding climate change is affordable, costs could skyrocket without smart, immediate action.Major reports are concluding that stabilizing greenhouse-gas emissions...

A movable smart-watch screen makes it easier to read a map or play a game.The first time I tried out a smart watch with a touch screen, I quickly went from feeling excited to feeling clumsy. Tapping o...

A unique gathering of 13 companies showcases a coming year of launches.It was a rare meeting of minds. Representatives from 13 commercial space companies gathered on May 1 at a place dedicated to goin...

Other big Chinese e-commerce companies, including JD.com, merge social networking, payments, and mobile.The planned initial public offering of the worlds biggest e-commerce siteChinas Alibabawill do m...

Animal studies on the revitalizing power of young blood suggest new drug targets for treating conditions like dementia and heart disease.Researchers and investors are already dreaming up ways to devis...

Silicon Valley investors and startups are trying to improve our food. Do they bring anything to the table?Most tech startups are silent spaces where earbud-clad engineers peer into monitors. Not Hampt...

The way some emergency doctors are using Glass highlights the promise, and the limitations, of wearable technology.Kermit the Frog showed up in the emergency room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Cent...

Coal power plants in Saskatchewan and Mississippi will produce fewer emissions, but rely on special circumstances.Two of the worlds first coal-fired power plants with integrated carbon capture are nea...

Tiny hardware imperfections in smartphone and tablet accelerometers lead to unique fingerprints within the data they produce, researchers find.The sensor that lets your phone know which way the screen...