Mark 2013 down as the year that the global cyberweapons arms race started. Already, there have been five cyberattacks of unprecedented size and scope in just the first six months of the […]
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For other subjects, an app that allows teachers to create, analyze and grade assignments online, and provides students with instant feedback on their work, may seem like no big deal. For music theory, it’s a big deal.
A recently-formed production company is the newest in a growing line of people and organizations that are creating stage works tailored for viewing on computers and smartphones.
Siri’s underlying technology is designed “to solve a different, simpler variant of the human language problem” than Watson.
Partners HealthCare’s new system may be one of the first in the nation to wirelessly populate official electronic health records with data collected by an increasing number of remote home monitoring devices.
The sensor knows: Taiwanese researchers have created a prototype of an implantable device that may one day give dentists and others insights on patients’ oral habits and hygiene.
There’s going to be much more, much stronger emphasis on kind of creative work, on generating content.
It’s the most fantastic idea ever bandied about: that there are an infinite number of Universes identical to our own out there, and that everything that could have possibly happened […]
For five months out of every year, the citizens of Rjukan live in the shadow of neighboring mountains. That won’t be the case this year.
If you were to orbit a black hole the sights you would see would be strange, to say the least.
Using social media to participate in faraway religious gatherings is now officially grounds for the granting of “indulgences”, or time off a purgatory sentence given for confessed or forgiven sins.
Taking a clue from the mobile computing industry, major automakers are either designing or thinking about designing customized apps that a driver can download from their car’s monitor.
Not only are machines rapidly catching up to — and exceeding — humans in terms of raw computing power, they are also starting to do things that we used to […]
You want to make this macroscopic object, you want to keep it behaving quantum mechanically which means isolating it very carefully from, within itself, all the interactions and the outside world.
An Indiana-based technology startup is working to create new heads for computer hard drives that could improve their storage density and assist in the development of light-driven cancer therapies.
While many colleges offer open online courses, Georgia Tech is the first to offer a full-credit graduate program. What’s more, the degree will cost about a quarter of those offered at traditional, onsite schools.
No matter what industry you’re in, chances are you have a few products or services in your line that are commodities. From food and beverage items to household products to […]
MIT developers have created a system that uses a computer-generated face and specialized software to help people with social phobias and others practice their interpersonal skills.
A partnership between Google and NASA has resulted in the purchase of a quantum computer which both organizations expect to aid in the development of artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning.
One closely-debated theory has been that heavy metals were a byproduct of collisions between dense dead stars. Now, an event observed through NASA’s Swift satellite may have provided a literal “smoking gun.”
Beyond the microchip lies quantum computing. Beyond that lies quark-scale computing, made from materials a billion billion billion times smaller than the current computational scale.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a brain-computer interface that allows a person to guide a flying robot with their thoughts.
Designed at Chicago’s Toyota Technological Institute, it can help a car figure out its location even when it’s under a bridge or going through a tunnel…a useful skill in the coming driverless age.
In a recently released report, an organization proposes that content owners be allowed to distribute software that could perform unpleasant actions on the computers of those caught downloading or viewing content illegally.
In an effort to bolster its already impressive cybersecurity talent, the Israeli Defense Forces have called for a two-fold increase in the number of young people scouted for computer programming talent.
It might look similar to a material, developed by an engineer at North Carolina State University, that received high praise from attendees at a recent conference.
Computer scientists and artificial intelligence experts say that a project to create digital roundworms represents an essential stepping stone toward the fusion of life and non-life.
The Russian intelligence service has put in an order for typewriters and ribbons in hopes of avoiding Edward Snowden-type digital leaks. Writer Marc Herman notes that for the rest of us, this approach won’t make much difference.
Not humans, but computers, are endlessly trading parts of companies, and even generating hundreds of thousands of fake orders to fool other computers so that high frequency traders can take advantage of the confusion.
In the future, we will hack our genetic code as easily as we hack computer code. Bio-hackers will become more powerful than cyber-hackers: armed with computers and samples of DNA, they […]