We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Have you ever wondered what that strange-looking circle on your car dashboard is for? You know, the one that's placed just below your ...

Repair shops using AI drive through scanners to check cars - Rich on Tech Posted: March 13, 2026 | Last updated: March 13, 2026 Rich DeMuro checks out an AI-powered drive-through scanner that can spot ...

Keeping your camera's image sensor clean is the simplest way to remove annoying smudges and particles from your images — here's how to clean your camera sensor to get a crisp picture of the stars ...

Abstract: A method to increase sensitivity of a resonant sensor for permittivity measurement is presented. The sensor is based on a quasi-lumped-element LC-tank whose resonant frequency is changed ...

A team of engineers at Rice University has developed a tiny new sensor that could dramatically improve the safety of self-driving cars on public roads. This is a compact, low-power millimeter-wave ...

Most modern cars have tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS), which will alert you if your tires need air. While most of the readings they give are accurate, they can still fail like any other part ...

A new gas sensor using ruthenium dioxide nanosheets achieves ultra-sensitive ethanol detection down to 5 ppb, enabling real-time breath alcohol monitoring at under 30 milliwatts. (Nanowerk News) ...

Winter driving is often a white-knuckle experience, primarily because of the dangers you cannot see. Black ice has a nasty habit of looking exactly like wet pavement right up until the moment your ...

United States Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create a prototype of “quantum sensors” alongside a “database with artificial intelligence” designed “to detect illicit ...

One of the most important measurements we make while tuning an engine is finding out what the actual balance of air and fuel was inside the engine. It doesn’t matter if we have a carburetor, port ...

Full vehicle autonomy has been about two years away for a decade or more, but at CES 2026—as happened at its past umpteen predecessors—we got a preview of promising new technologies that claim they’ll ...