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The next Google Maps update could show how bad the parking is

Google's next iteration of its popular Maps app looks to be adding a whole bunch of new functions, if the recently released 9.34 beta is any indication. [Read more...]

Tesla Model X: The official SUV of the future

My eyeballs feel weird. It's the fault of Tesla's Ludicrous mode. With the feature enabled the Model X P90D is the world's fastest SUV -- launching from zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds. [Read more...]

ICYMI: One Pen to rule all and video you can manipulate

Today on In Case You Missed It: Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab formulated a way to interact with existing videos, so they can prod and move objects within the frame. [Read more...]

University of Miami's sports VR app goes behind the scenes

The Olympics aren't the only sports-in-VR news this week -- college athletics will take the (virtual) field too. [Read more...]

Dust-sized wireless sensors could control prosthetics someday

See that minuscule component in the image above? That's a wireless sensor, and someday, doctors could slip it into our bodies to monitor our organs like a microscopic Fitbit or even to give quadri- and paraplegics the power to control robotic arms or legs. [Read more...]

Pepper the robot is ready to greet the great American public

Pepper's resume is already packed with an impressive list of multinationals in both Japan and Asia, but now the robot is ready to meet and greet in English, specifically in San Francisco, where it'll be working inside tech retailer b8ta's flagship store. [Read more...]

NASA maps the thawed parts of the Greenland ice sheet

NASA has created the first map of the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, showing which parts have begun thawing and which remain frozen as ever. [Read more...]