Tech Trends

A famous thought experiment from the 1970s is more relevant today than ever before.

Contact-tracing apps can be a useful tool for public health, but they have considerable false positive and false negative rates.

Curious about the most used emoji on social media?

A new study calls the technique “location spoofing.”

Ever lose track of time while doing something? It gets worse with a VR headset on.

Our love-hate relationship with browser tabs drives all of us crazy. There is a solution.

A new study explores how investors’ behavior is affected by participating in online communities, like Reddit’s WallStreetBets.

A machine learning system lets visitors at a Kandinsky exhibition hear the artwork.

A team of scientists managed to install onto a smartphone a spectrometer that’s capable of identifying specific molecules — with cheap parts you can buy online.

Companies can identify you from your music preferences, as well as influence and profit from your behavior.

Do you sound friendly? Hostile? And which voice would be more likely to buy something?

And is anyone protecting children’s data?

The pandemic has many people questioning whether they ever want to go back to the office.

The design of a classic video game yields insights on how to address global poverty.

The more you see them, the better you get at spotting the signs.

When we look at the night sky, we may see junk instead of stars.

The conventional wisdom may be wrong. Consulting Google for information about medical symptoms might not be as counterproductive as commonly thought, new research suggests.

The bird demonstrates cutting-edge technology for devising self-folding nanoscale robots.

The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.

The key? A computational flattening algorithm.

Using machine-learning technology, the genealogy company My Heritage enables users to animate static images of their relatives.

It may be old tech, but it’s super-reliable.

Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.

Can playing video games really curb the risk of depression? Experts weigh in.

“Deepfakes” and “cheap fakes” are becoming strikingly convincing — even ones generated on freely available apps.

In the future, you might voluntarily share your social media data with your psychiatrist to inform a more accurate diagnosis.

A crash course in the history of money, the birth of Bitcoin, and blockchain technology.

Northwell Health is using insights from website traffic to forecast COVID-19 hospitalizations two weeks in the future.

The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.

She’s the reason you’re able to work and chat from home.