"St. Pat's Snake Invasion," an arcade-style video game connected with a 107-year-old campus tradition, is now accessible from the Missouri S&T website.

A small group of high-ranking Pentagon officials made a quiet visit to Silicon Valley in December to solicit national security ideas from start-up firms with little or no history of working with the military.

BrightBytes has developed data-analytics software for schools that links the implementation of classroom technologies, and other strategies, to student achievement.

A Canadian startup is working to make monsters, fish, and other creatures seem to come alive inside a tabletop box.

China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security "backdoors", a potential escalation of what some firms view as the increasingly onerous terms of doing business in the world's second largest economy.

Not long ago, Google execs would have been popping champagne corks over today's big news from the Federal Communications Commission.

Two years ago, a small group of engineers from a company called RF Digital launched a Kickstarter campaign for the RFduino, a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 4.0-enabled embedded controller that would be compatible with the open-source Arduino platform.

MIT Senior Sheldon Trotman designs computer programs to streamline anything that catches his eye.

University of Utah engineers have designed filters capable of separating different frequencies in the terahertz spectrum, the next-generation communications bandwidth. The filter can be fabricated using an off-the-shelf inkjet printer.

Hunched over a keyboard, surrounded by computer monitors, Donny Moore, 37, controls the fate of the National Football League.

When do you think the fax machine was invented?

Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.'s Global Math Challenge will be available to students in the United States for the first time. The challenge will be held online on March 22, 2015.

The Dark Web is not so much a place as it is a method of achieving a level of anonymity online.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new electrolyte for lithium batteries that eliminates dendrites while also enabling batteries to be highly efficient and carry a large amount of electric current.

China has dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase lists, while approving thousands more locally made products, in what some say is a response to revelations of widespread Western cybersurveillance.

During a famous scene in Star Wars, Princess Leia has R2D2 play a holographic video message in midair in which she pleads for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the near future, smartphones and other mobile devices will have the ability to show something quite similar, according to David Fattal.

Frank Schembari loves books—printed books.

In a spare conference room in Boulder, Colorado, planetary scientists Leslie and Eliot Young quiz a graduate student to prepare him for his upcoming exams.

Research scientist Kalyan Veeramachaneni is tackling some of the bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.

I made it a point to visit Eric Migicovsky on September 10, 2014. It was the day after the lavish event announcing the Apple Watch, the long-anticipated wrist computer that many observers predicted would be the end of the nice little smart-watch business called Pebble that Migicovsky had been building since 2008.

How do you solve a problem like Europa?

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast are creating ground-breaking computer software which has the potential to develop some of the world's fastest super computers.

Last year, in a lab at the University of Barcelona, an anonymous woman was fitted with headphones, a microphone, a head-mounted virtual-reality display, a motion-capture suit, and a small remote-triggered vibrator, which was positioned carefully over her larynx.

We may be on for an actual space race. Two competitors for the Google Lunar XPrize say they will buddy up to get their rovers to the moon by the end of next year.

When Google hosted a boot camp here this month for its Android operating system, there were some new faces in the room: auto manufacturers.

The Utah Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would create a computer science initiative requiring a range of computer science instructional resources,  professional development for teachers, and a software curriculum for computer coding classes.

This week at the 2015 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Intel will provide an update on its new 10nm manufacturing process and new research on how it's maintaining the march of Moore's law to 7nm and beyond.

The Internet of Things started in the mid-1990s, when a quirky young brand manager in the U.K. puzzled over why a shade of brown lipstick kept disappearing from store shelves.

Genetic testing has entered a new realm, with the ability to read a person's genetic code and predict how it will affect his or her health.

A new study finds that people rate job candidates as more competent, thoughtful, and intelligent when they hear the person's pitch than when they read it.