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Sixteen companies are competing to land robots on the moon before the end of next year.

Florida Company Gets One Bureaucratic Step Closer To Landing On The Moon

Moon Express Inc. has been given a green light to send a robot off the planet, aiming for the moon. It's a milestone in the effort to privatize space exploration.

A row of Google self-driving Lexus cars at a Google event in Mountain View, Calif. The cars use sensors and computing power to maneuver around traffic.

How Close Are We Really To A Robot-Run Society?

From self-driving cars to automated warehouses, humans are being pushed out of the equation. Soon, robots will "do a million other things we can't even conceive of," author John Markoff says.

A Google data center in Oklahoma is shown. Google recently slashed prices for its cloud services; Amazon responded by cutting its cloud prices.

The Price War Over The Cloud Has High Stakes For The Internet

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others are competing to be the main landlords of the cloud. Their terms and prices could control who gets to build what on the Internet, and for how much.

Isabelle Olsson, the lead designer of Google Glass, says she is encouraging more women to enter the tech industry — not just as designers, but in all capacities.

For Wearable Tech, One Size Does Not Fit All

One big criticism of wearable technology: the teams behind these devices are not diverse enough. Some industry watchers say that can result in products designed only with men in mind.

Big Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It

There's a plethora of projects to gather data about the brain, various kinds of cancer and every type of cell in the body. But researchers are struggling to keep up with the information explosion.

Yvonne Cui, a senior at San Gabriel High School, makes a call in Mandarin during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote at the Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on Monday evening, May 23, 2016. Monday was the final day to register to vote in Los Angeles County before the primary election in June.

In This Political Year, Will Asian-American Voters Step Up To The Polls?

Asians are the nation’s fastest growing racial group, but their potential as a voting force has yet to fully materialize. Might that change in 2016?

Andrew Loy begs along a sidewalk in San Francisco, Calif. on June 28, 2016.

Harnessing Social Media To Reconnect Homeless People With Their Families

A San Francisco organization reunites homeless people — or "houseless" people — with their families through social media. They want to reconnect 1 million people in the next five years.

Tom Perkins co-founded a California capital venture firm in 1972.

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Pioneer Tom Perkins Dies At 84

Long before the boom of the California's tech scene, Perkins in 1972 co-founded a prominent venture capital firm, and used a new approach to investment.

Martha Stewart prepares a show-stopping deep dish pumpkin pie that’s billowing with meringue.

MARTHA BAKES: Pumpkin

Airs Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Otto developed technology to allow big-rig trucks to drive themselves. Uber, another transportation company working on self-driving technology, acquired Otto in August.

For The Long Haul, Self-Driving Trucks May Pave The Way Before Cars

Despite being self-driving, big rigs will still need truckers to ride along and take control of in case of emergency situations. But some say they may be the last generation to do their jobs.

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