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Europe, perhaps a little bit embarrassed about being so far behind the US’s deployment of 4G LTE, has announced that it will work together with South Korea to develop the next-gen 5G standard. Both the EU and South Korea will work to harmonize the spectrum requirements of 5G networks, too, to ensure easy global roaming (at least between Europe and Asia, anyway) ... read more

Home automation company Nest Labs acquired the video-monitoring startup Dropcam, which makes Web-connected home security cameras, in a deal worth $555 million in cash. Nest will fold the company into its existing line of smart-home products, which currently includes the Protect smoke detector and Learning Thermostat. Dropcam's products will now be under Nest's privacy policy ... read more

The Machine is HP’s latest invention that could revolutionize the computing world. According to HP, The Machine is not a server, workstation, PC, device or phone but an amalgamation of all these things. It’s designed to be able to cope with the masses of data produced from the Internet of Things, which is the concept of a future network designed to connect a variety of objects and gadgets ... read more

Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, today announced that its customer support organization has achieved certification under the Service Capability & Performance (SCP) Standards for the eighth consecutive year ... read more

Tel Aviv University researcher develops locust-inspired robot capable of jumping twice as high as existing robots of its kind.

Researchers at Oregon State University have designed and fabricated the world’s smallest electro-optic modulator, which could mean major reductions in energy used by data centers and supercomputers.

Many natural organisms have the ability to repair themselves. Now, manufactured machines will be able to mimic this property. In findings published this week in Nature Materials, researchers at…

bioLogic is growing living actuators and synthesizing responsive bio-skin in the era where bio is the new interface. We are imagining a world where actuators and sensors can be grown rather than…

Colorado State University polymer chemists have taken another step toward a future of high-performance, biorenewable, biodegradable plastics.