Hardware Articles

Mae Rice

Updated on November 06, 2025

3D printing is an art — and these companies perfect it.

Brooke Becher

Updated on November 06, 2025

These tailor-made spaceflight vessels explore lightweight alternatives in aerospace engineering.

Brooke Becher

Updated on November 06, 2025

Starlink, a network of low-Earth-orbiting satellites, aims to provide global high-speed internet coverage. Here’s how it works, how much it costs, where it’s offered, why people are using the service and what its future holds.

Brooke Becher

Updated on October 27, 2025

The Neuralink implant is a surgically-implanted brain-computer interface device designed to let users control a computer or mobile device using their brain activity. It is developed by Neuralink, a neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk.

Matthew Urwin

Updated on October 24, 2025

After years of decline, Intel gave the U.S. government a 10 percent stake in exchange for early federal funding — a historic move designed to boost domestic chip production, placing the company at the center of America’s AI strategy.

Jenny Lyons-Cunha

Updated on October 20, 2025

This first-of-its-kind robotics company hopes to augment human productivity with its fleet of AI-powered humanoid robots.

Jacob Biba

Updated on October 15, 2025

Could one of these new battery technologies be a viable alternative to lithium-ion batteries?

Stephen Gossett

Updated on October 15, 2025

Far from commercially scalable — but more than mere fantasy — quantum computing will one day be a transformative reality.

Brooke Becher

Updated on September 14, 2025

From Meta’s new AR glasses to OpenAI’s mystery device, Silicon Valley is racing to build the next AI-first heir to the smartphone. The winner could not only dominate the hardware market, but reshape our entire relationship with artificial intelligence.

Brooke Becher

Updated on September 12, 2025

Founded by Elon Musk, the Boring Company aims to build underground “Loop” tunnels that shuttle passengers around in autonomous EVs. It already has a system up and running in Las Vegas, and is pursuing projects in cities like Nashville and Dubai.