Samsung's latest laundry tech puts a smart steamer in your closet to effortlessly straighten your clothes.

Back in 2015, Tim Cook threw his weight behind a water-efficient shower head called Nebia, which sprays in a way that uses less water, but still keeps people warm. It doesn't have an Apple logo on it, but looks like something the company would design – if it made bathroom hardware.

By now, surely all of us are aware of the huge problem posed by plastic pollution. Humans created the material because of its durability, and now that very same durability means the stuff is clogging up our oceans and destroying marine habitats.

Rainway has launched its peer-to-peer game streaming iOS app, which uses cloud gaming to enable PC games to run on iPods, iPhones, or iPads for free. The cloud gaming market is getting crowded. Google has launched Stadia, and Sony has its PlayStation Now service. Blade’s Shadow is on the market for a monthly subscription fee. Microsoft is preparing Project xCloud, which is in preview right now. And other services are in the works.

"Tax the rich" is now a common refrain in American politics. But could "tax the robots" ever become popular as well? The idea of a so-called "robot tax" has gained steam in recent years, particularly after a barrage of studies that suggested automation threatens the future of a substantial chunk of jobs in the United States. The risk is especially pronounced within manufacturing, and increasingly those in white-collar positions.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas this past week, Uber and Hyundai revealed a full-scale model for an electric flying vehicle that they say customers will be able to summon through Uber’s app in future.

Cast your mind back a decade or so and consider how the future looked then. A public horizon of Obama-imbued “yes we can” and a high tide of hope and tolerance expressed in the London Olympics provides one narrative theme; underlying austerity-induced pressure another. Neither speaks directly to our current world of divisive partisan politics, toxic social media use, competing facts and readily believed fictions.

Lithium — a component of electric vehicle batteries — is a growing market, expected to near $100 billion by some estimates in the next decade. Mining the metal can come at a high environmental cost, so some Alberta companies are developing greener extraction methods by partnering with an unlikely ally — the oil and gas industry.

In an era when our most important personal tech devices are all starting to merge into one hardly distinguishable, super-powered glass slab, smartphone makers will do anything to stand out. They’ll ship flexible displays. They’ll boast about faster screen refresh rates. They’ll peddle nostalgia.

Samsung may announce a new phone keyboard at CES 2020. It isn’t physical and it isn’t on your screen. Its name is Selfie Type and it uses the Galaxy’s selfie camera plus AI to track your hands, allowing you to type on an invisible full size keyboard on any surface. It may sound like a gimmick but this may actually work great. Take a look.

Inspired by the computing powers of biological cells, researchers have demonstrated a general-purpose computer that relies on only a handful of chemicals.

As society moves away from fossil fuels, we will need more radical new technologies for storing energy to support renewable electricity generation.

Microsoft president Brad Smith has predicted that artificial intelligence will transform society in the next three decades, just as the internal combustion engine did during the first half of the 20th century. Smith was speaking at the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal on Wednesday, where he discussed the intersection between tech and society.

Fossil has spotted a gap in the market and filled it with the new Hybrid HR smartwatch, which fits in between a full touchscreen watch and a full hybrid model. The Hybrid HR has a screen behind the mechanical hands, ensuring it always shows the time, yet still provides space for helpful notifications and data.

A man has had a microchip implanted in his brain to help him overcome his addiction to pain medication. With a history of overdoses, Gerod Buckhalter has struggled for more than decade with addiction to opioids and benzodiazepine for more than a decade. But the 33-year-old has now been implanted with a Deep Brain Simulation (DBS) chip. Placed in the addiction and reward centre, it will send signals designed to limit cravings.

It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago that if you decided to strap an electric motor and battery to a bicycle, you were looked at like a crazy person. A few decades ago, a guy named Erik Buell started a motorcycle company with some pretty unique ideas and he was looked at like a crazy person too.

While noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Bloomberg, and others have claimed that Apple plans to release an augmented reality headset as early as 2020, a new report suggests that the head-mounted device may be a few years away.

Yes, there are pros and cons of this new reproductive technology. But there are many other issues about maternal and child health we need to tackle first.

Boat building is a long-winded and tedious business, even when what is going down the slipway is a small craft made from modern materials such as fibreglass, rather than something nailed together out of planks of wood. Construct a mould. Build up layers of resin and glass fibre inside that mould. Extract the completed structure and finish it.

There are few things more heartbreaking for a parent than having a sick child, especially when their child is sick during the first few months of their life. Researchers are hoping to help alleviate at least some of that burden through a new prototype technology that would allow sick babies to go home with their families much sooner.