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The first round of globally-important automobile auctions takes place in Scottsdale in January. This year the highlight of the Scottsdale sales will be a 1939 Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser Offener Tourenwagen used for several years as the parade car of Adolf Hitler.

In good news for the sweet-toothed, the burger enthusiasts and indulgers of all things naughty over nice, Stanford scientists have identified an electrical signature in the brain that precedes dangerous impulses, and say that by delivering a timely pulse they might be able to keep them in check.

Full specs are now available for the barnstorming Nikola NZT range of side-by-side off-roaders, and they look absolutely crazy. The lowest-spec model has nearly 100 horsepower more than any of the competition, and the top-spec NZT 440 is going to pack supercar-level horsepower.

Funicular railways are cable-based train lines that shuttle carriages up steep inclines, and they don't come any steeper than the Stoosbahn that has just opened in Switzerland that connects the mountain village of Stoos to the valley below.

The technology and science history auction year drew to a close last week with major auctions in London and New York by Christies and Sotheby's. Both auctions contained some important and spectacular specimens of mankind's most important discoveries.

McIntosh says that it's tapped into over 45 years of loudspeaker manufacture know-how to create a pair of 7 ft high audiophile pleasers. The XRT2.1K full-range speakers feature a total of 81 drivers for the promise of "spacious sound reproduction with an unusually deep sound stage."

After covering major international auto shows throughout 2017, we've seen a lot of concept cars. Our favorites of 2017 include past icons reinvented as vehicles of the future, electrifying ultra-premiums, hard-to-define segment-benders and utterly insane hypercars.

Boeing has released a partial image of its entry in the US Navy's MQ-25 Stingray unmanned tanker competition. Currently completing engine runs before starting deck-handling demonstrations next year, the swept-wing drone is designed to act as a carrier-based in-flight refueling aircraft.

Cyberwarfare is a growing problem, with 2017 seeing some of the most devious attacks ever. As part of a US$50-million DARPA program to improve cybersecurity, computer scientists at the University of Michigan are developing a security system baked into the hardware that's said to be “unhackable.”

Hydrogen is a clean fuel source, and using sunlight and water is the cleanest way to produce it. Now, engineers from Columbia University are developing a “solar fuels rig” that floats on the ocean, captures energy through a solar cell and uses it to harvest hydrogen from the water beneath it.

Samsung has announced the first phones of its 2018 lineup, the new Galaxy A8 and A8+. Packing specs closing in on the flagship Galaxy S8, the new phones follow the screen-stretching trend by banishing bezels from the front, and now sport dual front cameras and a host of other photographic features.

Scientists have long suspected that ticks feasted on the blood of dinosaurs. Preserved in a 99 million-year-old chunk of amber lies a hard tick grasping the feather of a dinosaur, suggesting that the parasitic insects did indeed harbor a penchant for prehistoric plasma. ​