A system of automated electric vehicles, known as WEpods, just made history by becoming the first self-driving shuttles to take to public roads. They’re the first vehicles in the world without a steering wheel to be given license plates. Unlike ...

China may be the world’s largest startup incubator. Seven new companies are born every minute — or 10,000 a day — helped by a government campaign to support new businesses. That’s why we’re focusing on the world’s second-largest economy at our ...

NVIDIA will host a conference call on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) to discuss its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2016, ending Jan. 31, 2016.

Traveling to remote islands. Scrambling across cliffs to track their quarry. Installing acoustic sensors to detect its every move. Ornithologists — scientists who study birds — often have a little James Bond in them. And they’re increasingly using ...

Once so numerous that early settlers said you could cross Cape Cod Bay by walking atop their backs, the North Atlantic right whale is today one of the most endangered whale species. Decimated by whaling, only about 500 remain. Time may not be on the ...

The five-minute VR film “Giant” is sure to be a highlight at this year’s Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Program. Drawing on director and co-creator Milica Zec’s personal experiences as a child in war-torn Serbia, the narrative takes the viewer ...

AliCloud, the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group, China’s largest ecommerce company, became the latest major player to turn to GPUs to speed up its artificial intelligence efforts.

Dozens of top graphics descended on our Silicon Valley headquarters Tuesday for our first ever Vulkan Developers Day. Attendees were eager to get a head start on porting their applications to Vulkan, the new cross-platform, open-standard graphics ...

It may be 10 degrees outside of the Cobo Convention Center in downtown Detroit, but things are heating up inside as the 2016 North American International Motor Show (aka the Detroit Motor Show) opens its doors to the public tomorrow. The Big 3 and ...

Self-driving cars were the hot topic at CES last week, and the talk of the Detroit Auto Show this week.