Besides the food and the company, lights are perhaps the best part of Christmas. Sadly, it takes a lot of time and effort to get them in place. It can be even more difficult to ensure they stay where ...

A group of Bay Area entrepreneurs has paired artificial intelligence with traffic lights and may be blazing a trail to the future. San Anselmo is a small town, but you wouldn't know it from the ...

In a deal that surprised some industry observers, chipmaker Qualcomm has agreed to buy Arduino, which is best known for supplying microcontrollers to the DIY community. The acquisition, whose terms ...

We love to drive here at Jalopnik; cars are cool but driving them is what really brings the experience to life. I'm not an advocate of total automation, but I am an advocate for logic, and in many ...

Hue is teaming up with Sonos to let you control your smart lights using its built-in voice assistant. As rumored, the new function, which launched at IFA 2025 this week, lets you turn your Hue lights ...

Researchers in Germany have unveiled the Metafiber, a breakthrough device that allows ultra-precise, rapid, and compact control of light focus directly within an optical fiber. Unlike traditional ...

Sleep scientists are changing how they think about screen use at night. By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Experts have long warned about the dangers of blue light before bed. When exposed via smartphones, ...

In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light ...

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Researchers use circularly polarized light to control the direction of exciton polaritons in 2D semiconductors, enabling new tools for nanoscale photonics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Directing light along ...

Cruise control is a driver's best friend for the barren stretches of highway where nothing much changes for hours — set a speed, relax the right calf, and let today's electronics handle the monotony.