Anki put six years of artificial intelligence research to good use when it launched its robot battle-car racing game in the fall of 2013. Now it is revealing a major upgrade that will enable players ...

Dear Tom and Ray: After driving for 40 years and never having blown an engine or transmission, my husband blew up on a recent road trip (in which I was driving), because after two hours, he noticed ...

The last nail in the coffin was technological advancement.

Since the health of our planet became a major societal focus decades ago, automotive engineers have been on a mission to find a balance between performance and efficiency. In the past, the two ...

Automatic transmission cars have the Overdrive (O/D) function which allows a driver to drive faster on the road. The o/d is the highest gear in an automatic transmission. The overdrive function ...

From lock-up automatics to race-ready six-speeds, these overdrive transmissions reshaped street performance, diesel builds, and modern muscle’s success at the dragstrip. There was a time when ...

For years, kids played with electric slot cars that simply went one direction when the trigger was pulled. Tracks had to be pieced together very specifically and did only one thing: go forward. These ...

The coolest connected toys of 2015 are back for round two this fall. Sphero has just rolled out (sorry) the similar BB-9E and the even grander R2-D2 (follow-ups to its delightful app-controlled BB-8), ...

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