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DeLorean Motor Cars and Epic Electric Vehicles are working together to produce an electric version of the DMC-12, the car made famous in the Back to the Future movies.

Originally posted at The Car Tech blog

To innovate in energy, biotech, and advanced materials, U.S. companies need to locate manufacturing in the U.S. and not outsource production as the IT industry does, according to experts.

Volvo announced it will begin sales of its diesel-electric hybrid plug-in V60 model for the European market next year.

Originally posted at The Car Tech blog

Spanish researchers develop a machine that uses artificial vision and UV light to scan through citrus fruits and get rid of rotten ones.

A key web security system is no better defended now than when hackers undermined it earlier this year, says security guru.

Could technology make train tracks a thing of the past?

Sir Richard Branson has dedicated the launchpad for his space tourism venture in the New Mexico desert - with his usual eye for a photo opportunity.

The meteoric rise of a new political force

More Indians are discovering the delights of shopping on the web

Sesame Street's YouTube channel is taken offline after hackers uploaded several pornographic videos.

Biofuel cells turn the human body into a battery

Dr Val Curtis, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, shows the BBC around her "smart house".

Should we all buy India's new $60 tablet computer?

Dan Simmons looks at how new interfaces could mean that buttons make a return to new mobile touch screen devices.

In the second part of his round-up from the Tokyo tech show Ceatec, Dan Simmons looks at the apps hoping to help you stay in shape and the polyester technology which could control your television.

Sean Curran reports on MPs' decision to allow Tweeting inside the House of Commons chamber

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The T-Pylon has been announced as the winning design for the electricity pylons of the future.