While technology companies once focused on simple biological gestures to operate electronic products, today they are working to harness the power of the mind to alter physical realities.
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Thanks to three solar panels and a large lithium ion battery pack, the stations can capture and store enough power to charge six phones at once and have plenty to spare.
While technologies create seamless payments online and at department stores, the result is a kind of instant gratification that may harm our greater sense of fulfillment.
More employers and employees are looking into using their own personal devices for work instead of a company computer. Writer Brian Proffitt looks at the benefits and challenges for both groups.
If you can’t make it out to a cafe, a new website allows you to bring the bustling energy directly to your computer. The site is called Coffitivity. It’s free and plays an ambient coffee shop soundtrack.
MIT medical researchers have created an algorithm that accurately measures a person’s pulse by tracking how the head moves involuntarily when blood is pumped from the heart to the brain.
MIT scientists have combined a biosensor wristband, a special smartphone, and a mirror attached to a computer to create a system that lets its user review the emotional highs and lows of their day or someone else’s.
A recent US Homeland Security alert calls attention to the vulnerability of pacemakers, insulin pumps, and other health equipment to malicious attacks. As devices become smaller and more efficient, more attention must be paid.
My opinion is that IBM’s Watson computer is able to answer questions, and so, in my subjective view, that qualifies as intelligence.
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who went public with the NSA’s clandestine data mining operation, forms part of an increasing crossover between government and private cybersecurity organizations.
Based on recent findings, scientists in the Netherlands believe that diamond crystals may one day form what amounts to an Internet connecting far flung quantum computers.
A rejoinder to the author of the Neurobonkers blog post criticizing my take on Edward Snowden.
Who is making us more polarized?
Retaliation is illegal in the US, but businesses and organizations tired of being vulnerable to cyberattacks are reviewing what counterattack options they do have.
Accelerating technological change will define how efficiently we use energy, not how much. The accelerating change of technology we use commercially and personally is dramatically increasing the global demand for […]
We are only creating the mansions for the souls that only He can create.
Technology companies can create enormous value, but what about jobs?
Two weeks ago, after turning onto Route 10 from Santa Monica, a truck sped by in the center lane. A hand truck flew from the back as it hit a […]
Researchers are working on a method to teach passwords through a series of repetitive actions that, ideally, become so familiar that the user does them without conscious thought.
A project currently underway at the Pentagon — intriguingly named “Plan X” — aims to make attacking enemies’ computer systems so easy that “even a white-haired general” could do it.
Have you seen the Chipotle Grill animated video “The Scarecrow”? More than four million people have, since it was first published last week. It’s a cry against unsustainable industrial […]
University of Minnesota researchers have built a toy-sized aircraft that moves in response to wireless signals interpreted by an EEG cap.
WiSee uses an existing wi-fi connection to enable people to control electronic devices like TVs or stereos with gestures…and they don’t even have to be in the same room.
Given the amounts of data each of us generates in a given year, we may soon be approaching the point where true anonymity will be “algorithmically impossible.”
You cannot prevent weapons by preventing technologies. We just have to use them carefully, particularly the power of genetics.
More than 120,000 sites are operating in the .su domain space assigned to the former Soviet Union, and a significant number of them are up to no good. Getting rid of the suffix would be “a messy operation.”
As we take seats at that table we have different perspectives.
Yes, it has come to this: A researcher has created a system that uses a depth-sensing camera to detect obstacles and displays warnings via a message on your smartphone screen.
The project, called RoomE, uses off-the-shelf hardware and custom-designed software to create an environment in which the computer is always watching and responds to both voice and gesture commands.
We hear the admonishments all the time; smoking ___ cigarettes a day will take ___ years off your life, drinking ___ glasses of alcohol a day will take […]