The upcoming "L" version of Android version brings a new user interface, and Google's Web apps will adopt it, too. It's one of many new Android features Google showed at its Google I/O show. Stephen ...

In construction, accuracy is everything. One missed measurement or miscounted material can result in cost overruns, project delays, or lost bids. Traditionally, estimators relied on manual takeoffs to ...

Industrial applications need lighter, stronger, safer and cleaner materials on a daily basis. Additionally, new techniques like additive manufacturing require the development of new metal powders, as ...

“It is a sufficiently advanced form of paper as to be indistinguishable from magic.” Matias Duarte, vice president of design at Google, is telling me about the central principle of Material Design. It ...

“Nobody has the time and the money to go and melt hundreds of prototype materials and test them one at a time and say, aha, we found the one that works,” said Jason Sebastian, president of QuesTek, in ...

AI, machine learning and autonomous vehicles will require massive improvements in performance, at the same power consumption level (or better), over today’s chips. But it’s obvious that the usual ...

The future of advanced semiconductor technology is about to split evenly into three different areas. On the leading edge of manufacturing, Applied Materials CEO Mike Splinter called it correctly—it’s ...

Stocks of companies in the materials and the software and services industries are best poised to outperform the broader market in the next six months, analysts at financial-services firm Goldman Sachs ...

State and local governments depend on a tangled mix of commercial software, open-source components, cloud services and, increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI). That complexity makes it hard to ...

FIRST ON FOX – Artificial intelligence has entered the construction industry, and early adopters say the efficiencies and cost-cutting measures will revolutionize the $10 trillion sector of the global ...

Material Design launched in 2014, and it was mostly thought of as a new design language for Android — though it later came to the web and iOS. It had a bold idea: there should be a physicality to ...