For the past three years, Motorola has distinguished itself from all the bigger players in the smartphone market with a radical idea: Modular phones that can be altered and upgraded. The company’s Z ...

Modular housing has come into its own—recent years have seen a crop of stylish, higher-quality modular construction units rolling off the assembly lines and being fit together (like Lego blocks) on ...

Everywhere I turn today, I’m reminded of just how modular our world has become. Think about today’s automobiles. Many times, it’s far easier to replace an assembly rather than replace a single smaller ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

The world’s tallest modular hotel — which will carry a brand of Marriott International — is on track to be stacked in late fall in New York City with prefabricated and pre-furnished guestrooms. Once ...

When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most "modular" yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS ...

The world's tallest modular hotel is coming to New York City. The 360-foot-tall AC Hotel New York NoMad will include 168 guest rooms that will be built in a factory in Poland before being shipped to ...

Anyone who thinks modular smartphones are a cool concept was dispirited last week when Google postponed tests of its Project Ara until next year. But developing such devices is particularly ...

GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s small modular reactor has reached regulatory milestone in the UK. BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) has completed Step 2 of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) ...

On this week’s episode of Lost Notes, composer and synth wizard Suzanne Ciani tells contributor Michelle Macklem the story of her journey in modular synthesis. Ciani’s story is one of breaking through ...