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TuSimple, an autonomous trucking company, has also engaged in test programs with the United States Postal Service and Amazon.

The first wave of the retailer’s anticipated automated delivery fleet hits the sidewalks.

Though quantum teleportation has been demonstrated, the beam-me-up kind is still fiction.

They’re made from stretchy, electroactive polymer films.

When it comes to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has long been the king of the hill thanks to its status as the founder of the young industry and its first-mover appeal. A […]

Historian Maragaret O’Mara explains why a tech utopia was, and still might be, a pipe dream.

Fionn Ferreira will receive $50,000 for winning Google’s annual student competition.

The risk of space debris collisions grows greater every year.

Eric Weinstein says that we need to rethink the current scientific model to allow for more dreaming.

Richard Lyon’s visionary plan for the future of innovation at Berkeley.

What are the best ideas out there to innovate our rapidly changing education system? The Lumina Foundation has partnered with Big Think to find them.

Designers from Luxembourg created a smart planter that can give anyone a green thumb.

The history of Silicon Valley: The rise of a technological unicorn.

Ask very silly questions to spur very serious innovation.

A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated.

MIT and Google researchers use deep learning to decipher ancient languages.

If AIs can generate photos of people who don’t exist, what else can they imagine?

Astronaut company Virgin Galactic will become first to be publicly traded.

Harvard engineers make a breakthrough polarization camera.

Scientists discover how to predict megaquakes earlier to improve warning systems.

Why Django Reinhardt might just be the greatest musical innovator you’ve never heard of.

Japanese researchers carry out quantum teleportation within a diamond.

Could 16 Psyche make every person on Earth a billionaire? The space mining race is heating up.

It marks another milestone in SpaceX’s long-standing effort to make spaceflight cheaper.

Your next payday could be all digital.

Don’t underestimate the power of play when it comes to problem-solving.

Facebook was careful to say that Libra is not maintained internally and is instead serviced by a non-profit collective of companies.

NASA JPL takes a first step toward a GPS for space.

Here’s why generalists triumph over specialists in the new era of innovation.

The Tesla Motors CEO has plans for a James Bond-like car that drives on and under water.