When ordering your technological assistant to complete a task, you’ll get a response from a female voice — a polite and reliable female assistant. Siri, Alexa and Cortana all respond with a...

Lyft, Zipcar, Capital Metro and Austin B-cycle join forces to reduce your need for a car. “Ditch Your Car” is a program that just started Monday where 50 participants receive credit for...

With a new commitment to full carbon neutrality and 100 percent renewable energy, you can now “Lyft” your environmental standards every time you use the ride-hailing app. Being carbon neutral...

Tucked between tourist central Grand Cayman and less known Cayman Brac lies Little Cayman, which serves as a tropical record of the past, said Scarlette Hsia, geoscience graduate student. While the island...

Creating a robot that can make decisions and navigate its environment isn’t easy. Students from Texas Aerial Robotics, a student organization at UT, did just that by creating a drone capable of intelligent...

Tinkertoys aren’t just for tots, they’re for mathematicians too. UT-Austin researcher Samuel Payne and alumnus David Jensen developed models that turn geometric shapes into games, providing...

A new bacterial discovery by UT researchers could help you spend more of your vacations hitting the beach instead of the toilet.   UT and the Naval Medical Research Center collaborated to investigate...

The Army Futures Command (AFC), a division of the U.S. Army, may have moved into Austin only two months ago, but the local tech scene has already seen some benefits from having a prominent, technology-based...

While science fiction is full of green martians and blue Avatars, the protagonists are almost always the same color: white. On top of this, representation of female and LGBTQ main characters is lacking...

Tendrils of yarn may make for an interesting game of cat and mouse, but for artist Brooke Frank, they represent borders, forests and canyons.  Featuring the diverse work of Frank and four other...