Emerging Tech
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California-based company Coco Robotics announced a pilot program in the Heights neighborhood last week, nearly a year after Uber Eats teamed with Avride for downtown robot delivery service. -
As Hollywood imagines our future, are brain and human microchip implants nearing a “ChatGPT moment” in 2026? Medical progress collides with privacy fears and state bans.
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The Kansas City Council is beginning to rethink the city’s approach to future data center construction while striving to learn more about the booming industry’s impact locally.
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Michigan, Minnesota and Polytechnique Montreal finished first, second and third Monday in the American Solar Challenge, a solar car race that gives engineering students an opportunity to put their studies to a practical, real world test.
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This September, private firm Northwest Energy Innovations is slated to start testing its prototype Azura device, connected to Oahu's islandwide power grid used by energy customers.
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Among the Internet of Things' most important functions will be to help individuals, communities and cities become smarter energy consumers.
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The USGS Coastal Change Hazards Portal shows changing sea levels, retreating shorelines and vulnerability to extreme coastal storms.
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It’s not just other cars vehicles will be in constant contact with, they’ll be keeping close watch on their drivers too.
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The Pennsylvania utility touted itself as a pioneer when it installed 1.3 million meters. But those devices proved obsolete in just four years, failing to meet the minimum performance requirements of the state's new regulations.
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Lenovo is using the new platform to position tech startups, including makers of smart glasses and intelligent home appliances, under its brand.
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Justices cited the growing intersection of privacy and technology, and seemed to recognize citizens' growing dependence on cellphones and their general expectation of privacy in using them.
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The detailed satellite imagery used in Google's free mapping software looked fine when viewed from above. But before recent imagery updates, Chattanooga appeared to be featureless flatland with two-dimensional buildings.
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Craig Stuart-Paul, chief executive of Maryland-based Fiberight, described how the company’s demonstration plant, that turns municipal solid waste into ethanol, biogas or compressed natural gas through a distillation process, could be copied in Maine.
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Among the report's recommendations: The United States should develop a sophisticated export control strategy for drones to strengthen the domestic aerospace industry.
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Reusing water is a possible solution as half the country experiences severe drought.
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Several public drinking water systems in Texas have quality issues that have not been adequately addressed, the Environmental Protection Agency told the state in recent correspondence obtained by the Tribune.
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In partnership with Xerox, Indianapolis created ParkIndy, a pay-by-phone meter system and app that's using predictive analytics to make parking more convenient and boost infrastructure revenue.
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Fire officials for Idaho's Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest are testing a new system that’s been especially useful in keeping an eye on blazes that they choose not to suppress.
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Plus, a new kind of fruit tree is popping up in Europe -- green- and red-colored solar charging stations.
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A new federal loan program, patterned after a successful one for transportation, has a lot of potential for badly needed water projects.
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The Academy looks to reduce energy use and cost at its wastewater treatment plant and convert food waste from its dining hall into energy.
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