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Leighton Anderson, a student in the first BMW MSTEP class at Camp Pendleton studying to become a level 3 service technician for the luxury car maker, is pictured in this undated photo.

Corporations Prepare Troops For Civilian Jobs At Camp Pendleton

Corporations such as BMW are offering training to active duty service members at Camp Pendleton getting ready to transition out of the military.

The American Epic Sessions

Airs Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Tesla's new glass-covered solar roof tiles are designed to look like a traditional roof, doing away with the need for separate solar panels.

Tesla Begins Taking Orders For Its Solar Energy Roof Tile Systems

The company offers an "infinity" warranty on its tiles that integrate solar power into roof coverings. Tesla has published a web tool that can estimate costs and savings.

Demonstrators support former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont in front of the regional parliament in Barcelona on Tuesday. Puigdemont, who fled to Belgium to avoid arrest for leading a secession bid, is facing possible charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds and faces arrest if he returns from Brussels.

Memes, Video Games Mock Catalonia's Prolonged Deadlock With Spain

Smartphone game apps "help us survive the sad, difficult, demoralizing reality of politics," says a Catalan illustrator who helped create a version of Donkey Kong making fun of Catalonia's crisis.

For Video Soundtracks, Computers Are The New Composers

In some cases, the job of composer might be going the way of typewriter repairman and bowling pinsetter as software creates music more cheaply and quickly than humans. Can you hear the difference?

The Rough Translation podcast explores how ideas we wrestle with in the U.S. are being discussed in the rest of the world.

Bridging The Familiar And Unfamiliar Around The World, In 'Rough Translation'

In NPR's new international podcast, host Gregory Warner, a longtime foreign correspondent, travels the globe to drop in on stories that reflect back on subjects we're talking about in the U.S.

According to the researchers, there are 10 to the power of 170 possible board configurations in Go — more than the number of atoms in the known universe.

Computer Learns To Play Go At Superhuman Levels 'Without Human Knowledge'

Researchers say they have constructed an AI program that can teach itself to play the ancient strategy game at a level far beyond humans.

China's Chang'e-5 craft, seen here at an exhibition in 2014, will carry out a lunar soft landing, according to the country's space agency.

China Will Launch Moon-Sampling Mission In November

Ahead of a separate plan to visit the moon's far side, China hopes to return lunar samples to Earth in late 2017.

'Irresistible' By Design: It's No Accident You Can't Stop Looking At The Screen

Technology is designed to be addictive, offering gratification that's similar to that of drug abuse or gambling. Author Adam Alter says a new frontier could soon provide another escape from reality.

Dr. Winston Watkins, an internist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston, volunteered to do a shift in the ER to give his colleagues a break.

In A Houston Emergency Room, It Was A Week Like No Other

At the only emergency department providing care in downtown Houston, staff stayed in the hospital throughout the week to care for patients. It was an emotional experience.

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