The year in tech wakes up early with the annual International Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, and it will do so with a jolt in 2018 on Sunday, Jan. 7, at 8pm, when NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang takes the stage. Huang, recently named ...

Episode 2 of “I am AI” docuseries explores safer conditions for truck drivers. Truck drivers haul most of the freight that traverses the U.S. With long hours, mounting demand to fulfill online orders, and the perils of navigating everything from ...

A “Star Wars”-inspired limb provides control of each finger. A galaxy far, far away is a little closer with the invention of a robotic arm inspired by Luke Skywalker’s bionic hand. And while this arm may not wield a lightsaber, it has a greater ...

The story behind NVIDIA’s least likely cult product began in 2016 with VP of Hardware Engineering Andrew Bell, a 15-year veteran of the company. Bell wanted something engineers could slip into their back pocket and take with them to design meetings. ...

He’s 260 pounds. He’s jolly. He and his reindeer travel at hypersonic speeds. We may not understand Santa Claus and his yearly Christmas eve journey. But, thanks to NORAD — which monitors the skies above North America for flying phenomenon of all ...

Christmas comes early and stays late in Austin, Texas, where one home is ablaze with festive holiday lights by mid-November — and delights and dazzles the neighborhood well into January. The sparkling display is created by Lee Franzen, a senior ...

From its sustainable production facility on the Swedish coast, startup Uniti recently unveiled its vision for the future of transportation. The centerpiece: Uniti One, an affordable, all-electric vehicle that sets new standards in sustainability, ...

In a country known for its hospitality, attendees of GTC Japan, the final leg in our global tour GPU Technology Conferences, were warmly greeted and offered a beverage. The courteous host wasn’t human, but a cute, cylindrical rolling robot, named ...

A few years before she died, my mother began to lose her vision to macular degeneration. As her central vision blurred, she had to give up her driver’s license. At first she could read with ever-larger magnifiers, but later she couldn’t do that, ...

More people have probably heard of the annual NIPS conference in the past week than over its previous 30 years as the premier event focused on neural networks. The once obscure gathering — held last week in Long Beach, Calif. — drew coverage from ...