The biggest trends at International CES were actually technological concepts that have been around for decades, if not centuries. Friday is the last official day of International CES, the giant technology trade show in Las Vegas. It is also, as it happens, the eighth anniversary of the introduction of the original iPhone. These two facts stand in interesting contrast — one is a loud and flashy expression of what the future may hold, and the other is a life-changing technology we hardly...

The handheld computers we carry in our pockets represent almost unimaginable complexity. Batteries, sensors, chips, circuits, and touch displays in a space age shell, all painstakingly assembled by thousands of workers and shipped globally.

Materials scientists may have unlocked a new battery technology.

Scientists at Yale have created a new semiconductor laser which could significantly enhance image production. The development could mean major improvements in several areas of science and medicine.

It’s hard to imagine life without mobile phones, radio and television. Yet the discovery of the electromagnetic waves that underpin such technologies grew out of an abstract theory that’s 150 years old…

Is it dangerous to leave your smartphone plugged into the charger overnight? What's the best way to charge your smartphone and what should you avoid? Find out as we seek out the truth about charging.

Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Thursday and said it had a deal in place to sell as many as 2,400 stores to Sprint and an affiliate of hedge fund Standard

Electric cars are quick and quiet, with a range more than long enough for most commutes. If you want a car with extremely fast acceleration, the Tesla Model S is hard to beat. And, of course, electric vehicles avoid the pollution associated with conventional cars, including emissions of carbon dioxide from burning gasoline. Yet they account for a tiny fraction of automotive sales, mainly because the batteries that propel them are expensive and need to be recharged frequently.

After 94 years in business, RadioShack -- one of the most recognizable retail brands in American history -- is rapidly disappearing. Jon, a former employee, talks to a current store manager over the course of its dying days.

Gaming enthusiasts have been griping for months that Nvidia's GeForce GTX 970 graphics chip doesn't operate up to snuff, and now someone has taken the company to court over it. Nvidia was hit with a class action lawsuit Thursday that claims it misled customers about the capabilities of the GTX 970, which was released in September. Nvidia markets the chip as having 4GB of performance-boosting video RAM, but some users have complained the chip falters after using 3.5GB of that allocation.

MWC 2015 is coming, so LG is doing what it does best: announcing new devices even before the event takes place. The Korean manufacturer may not have an LG G4

The future of electronics could lie in a material from its past, as researchers work to turn germanium -- the material of 1940s transistors -- into a potential replacement for silicon.

If you want to proclaim to the world that you’re a geek, one good way to go about it is to wear a wristwatch that displays the time in binary. [Jordan] designs embedded systems, and he figured that by building this watch he could not only build up his geek cred but also learn a thing or two about working with PIC microcontrollers for low power applications. It seems he was able to accomplish both of these goals.

If you've ever toyed with the petals of a rose, you'll know that they're pleasingly stretchy. Now, their material properties are being aped to produce a new breed of stretchable electronics.

On a workbench illuminated by slats of low winter sun sits a small glass jar containing a dark grey powdery substance. It doesn’t look much—like ground-up pencil lead—but this is the first time I’ve actually seen a form of graphene. Back in 2010, graphene sprung into the public eye when two UK-based scientists won the Nobel Prize for their work on the two-dimensional material.

The PlayStation 4 may be poised to make gaming more accessible for people with disabilities. An upcoming firmware update could add new features catering to people with visual, auditory or other impairments. Twitter user Ahsan Rasheed posted photos of a friend's beta version of the 2.50 firmware patch, including one that shows a list of new PS4 settings like text-to-speech, color inversion, text enlargement, closed captions and...

The performance of mobile phone cameras and solar cells could be boosted by 'nano-earthquakes', researchers have found.

It sounds like a spaceship and hauls ass like one too.

Graphene, a honeycomb-like sheet of pure carbon only one atom thick, it's one million times thinner than a human hair and yet 200 times stronger than steel. It's also an excellent conductor of heat and electricity and is stretchable, flexible, transparent, and impermeable.

A device resembling a plastic honeycomb yet infinitely smaller than a bee's stinger can steer light beams around tighter curves than ever before possible, while keeping the integrity and intensity of the beam intact. The work, conducted by researchers at the University of Texas El Paso and at the University of Central Florida and published in the journal Optics Express, introduces a more effective way to transmit data rapidly on electronic circuit boards by using light.