How do you make a sexy story out of clean energy? You humanize your solar energy brand by incorporating it into a home and taking that home on a road trip. Brilliant. After all, we can all relate to a home. Even if it is tiny. Tesla, Elon Musk’s clean energy company,...

Two years ago journalist James Vincent wrote an article about being at work in the office from 3,500 miles away. Vincent lives in Britain and he needed to speak to his boss and meet colleagues in the New York office. He managed that via a telepresence. Telepresence...

The coming participation of robots in every aspect of our lives is a confusing prospect: it’s at once exciting and threatening. Above all, it’s inevitable and there is not a job that is not threatened. And what do you to earn an income if you have to give up your job...

The age of technology is really hard on regulators. They have to figure out how to incorporate internet-of-things to make smart cities a reality; how to provide sustainable clean energy; where AI fits into all this and they have transport challenges. If it isn’t...

The world's largest solar power plant, Karmuthi in Tamil Nadu, India, covers an area of almost 4 square miles, and is expected to power 150,000 homes. That’s impressive, but tiny compared to what Elon Musk has in mind. Think 100 square miles powering the whole of the...

Over the last 15 years, the emergence of Big Data has been perhaps the single largest change in how business is done. It's important for everyone to understand what it is and how it's changing the world. Early on, companies struggled to create the basic infrastructure...

Can you imagine a world where machines can be controlled by thought alone?

Inspired by hairy, semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and sea otters, a group of MIT engineers are fabricating fur-like rubbery pelts learn how these mammals stay warm and even dry while diving underwater.

As machines become increasingly autonomous by which I mean they can sense their environment and they can make decisions about what to do or what not to do. Of course it’s based on the programming and their experience. But we don’t have as direct control over what they do as we do today with the kinds of technology that we have.