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The case that Will Zell slides onto his iPhone doesn't look that unusual, but it's doing something pretty out of the ordinary: capturing some of the radio waves that the phone transmits when connecting to cell-phone towers and Wi-Fi routers, converting them to electricity, and feeding that power back to the phone's battery.

One cognitive scientist thinks the leading approach to machine learning can be improved by ideas gleaned from studying children.

A year ago I interviewed Deborah Fletcher, a 54-year-old manager at Deloitte who was fighting inflammatory breast cancer with all her professional skills. She carried a briefcase of spreadsheets, documenting treatments, bills, research, notes about who'd said what and what her plans were. Like many patients with advanced cancer, Fletcher eventually put her hopes in an experiment. In her case it wasn't a new drug but a new kind of test, called a liquid biopsy.

A few Tesla drivers are rewriting the programming in the Model S to make the car do interesting new things.

Sports leagues should do more to protect children from the long-term problems that stem from hits to the head.

In a country of rigid teaching styles and scarce university slots, students and professors are exploring what online learning can be.

Dropbox, the provider of online data storage, is adding productivity features as it wades into the corporate market dominated by Microsoft and Google.

In a first-of-its-kind endeavor, electricity-starved Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are trying to get power from a lake - and avert catastrophe.

Researchers have created an artificial neural network that identifies the activities in a user’s average day through a catalogue of images.

Phones and other compact devices with silicon neurons and synapses inside could be much more useful.

Plant scientists can swiftly modify crops in ways that would take years with conventional breeding.

The world’s poor could benefit from a system that is blanketing half Earth’s surface with a signal that provides free access to Wikipedia and other useful websites.

A professor who created an algorithm that may overturn an orthodoxy of computer science has the field’s experts excited.

The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: “We are interested in robots that create and are creative.” Lipson, an engineering professor at Cornell University (this July he’s moving his lab to Columbia University), is one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence and robotics. His research projects provide a peek into the intriguing possibilities of machines and automation, from robots that “evolve” to ones that assemble themselves out of basic building blocks. (His Cornell colleagues are building robots that can serve as baristas and kitchen help.)

Engineering the structure of metals and ceramic materials at the nanoscale can give them superpowers that might transform how we build just about everything. They can become incredibly flexible, strong, and extremely light all at the same time, and gain the ability to spring back into shape after being crushed flat.

The iPhone could become a new tool in genetic studies.

Twitter unveils initiatives aimed at making money from its users’ data and behavior.

Tesla says its new Autopilot feature is not synonymous with autonomous driving, but some drivers are acting like it is.

Here are some key numbers for content licensors in digital media: Netflix will pay approximately $3 billion in licensing and production fees this year to the television and film industry; Hulu is paying $192 million to license South Park; Spotify pays out 70 percent of its gross revenues to the music labels that hold the underlying rights to Spotify's catalogue.

An algorithm might create a playlist you enjoy, but don’t mistake that for creativity.