Innovation & Future

Facebook on Monday launched two in-home video chat devices, moving the company beyond its social network and into the increasingly competitive market for…

Aditi Roy, Nasir Memon, and Arun Ross Just how unique are partial finger prints? Fingerprint readers, like the TouchID on an iPhone, exist to make your…

Steer Clear We’ve known since January that the Ford Motor Company was developing an autonomous car with no steering wheel or gas pedal. Now we’ve got a…

Disney CEO Bob Iger has formally appointed several key 21st Century Fox executives to leadership positions, as Disney closes its $71.3 billion acquisition of…

Busy Bees If you’ve been paying any attention to environmental news — or if you at least caught that Ellen Page documentary — you probably already know that…

I’m not writing about the Disney Channel or Nickelodeon, Marvel or Harry Potter. This blog is about how high-tech companies like Google use kids and schools…

An exotic kind of magnetic behavior, driven by the mere proximity of two materials, has been analyzed by a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere using a…

Japan is banking on a future with flying cars, launching an initiative with the private sector to develop futuristic vehicles commercialising flying cars.

A Queen’s University research team has taken a page from history, rolled it up and created the MagicScroll – a rollable touch-screen tablet.