Business Impact Half-Measures on Encryption Since Snowden Amid a wave of corporate privacy and security pronouncements, 2014 was supposed to be the “year of encryption.” It didn’t pan out that way. by David O’Brien 2016-01-25T00:00:00-05:00
Artificial Intelligence The Roomba Now Sees and Maps a Home iRobot is adding vision and mapping to its robot vacuum cleaners, and says its devices could eventually recognize and manipulate objects. by Will Knight 2015-09-16T16:30:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines A Japanese Robot Is Learning the American Way Developed for cute-centric Japan, a robot called Pepper is getting a personality adjustment for its launch in the United States. by Will Knight 2015-09-16T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines A Video-Game Algorithm to Solve Online Abuse How a team of psychologists and scientists at Riot Games is unlocking the secret to eliminating abuse within an online video game. by Simon Parkin 2015-09-14T00:00:00-04:00
Sustainable Energy A Fix for Maximizing Energy from Solar Panels on Slanted Roofs Researchers have shown a new way to help solar cells track the sun as it moves across the sky, which could boost a panel’s energy generation by 40 percent. by Mike Orcutt 2015-09-11T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Baidu’s Duer Joins the Virtual Assistant Party Baidu, Amazon, and others are now pushing to make computers more capable of holding a decent conversation. by Will Knight 2015-09-10T09:50:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines AI Software Goes Up Against Fourth Graders on Science Tests Making AI software take real school exams might accelerate progress toward machines with common sense. by Tom Simonite 2015-09-09T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Why NASA Wants Microsoft’s HoloLens in Space The rocket carrying two HoloLens headsets to the International Space Station blew up in June, and NASA is planning another launch. by Rachel Metz 2015-09-08T16:42:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Allegations of Dirty Tricks as Effort to “Rescue” Bitcoin Falters A debate over the future of Bitcoin seems to be getting ugly – some people say their computers are being attacked to suppress their preferred changes. by Tom Simonite 2015-09-08T15:20:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Inside Illumina’s Plans to Lure Consumers with an App Store for Genomes Gene-sequencing company’s CEO hopes to store the public’s DNA data in online trove. by Antonio Regalado 2015-08-19T13:20:00-04:00
