The notion of using implantable chips to authenticate people is gaining support, but it raises important privacy questions.
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Detecting Mental Illness by Watching You Type
Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify whether you suffer from a brain disorder.
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have great impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
Tech Gives Bike Riders Some Spin
Apps and connectivity have improved bicycles for serious and casual riders.
Artificial intelligence video system sends smartphone messages based on how you move.
Assessing the Impact of Cryptography on Internet Privacy
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman on the relationship between cryptography and Internet privacy, and the impact the Turing Award has had on their lives, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
The Dangers of Automating Social Programs
Is it possible to keep bias out of a social program driven by one or more algorithms?
Floating Voxels Provide New Hope for 3D Displays
In search of holograms that can be viewed from any angle.
Transient Electronics Take Shape
Advances in materials science and chemistry are leading to self-destructing circuits and transient electronics, which could impact many fields.
How Software Enabled the Thai Cave Rescue
Software-defined radios allowed the rescuers to communicate, when simple radio technology could not.
Financial Services Firms Battle Cyberthreats
The growing number of cybercrimes, combined with a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, means the financial services sector faces higher security costs, greater risk.
.S. Election System Security Still Vexing
There appears to be no standard approach among the state and local jurisdictions that will administer the next election.
Detecting Illness by Watching You Type
Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify your brain disorder.
AI Helps Doctors Use Data Better
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have a significant impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
Driver’s Licenses Going Digital
Iowa plans to be the first U.S. state to replace hard-copy driver's licenses with an app.
New data protection laws raise questions about whether certain jurisdictions are trying to thwart the ability of foreign governments to obtain data on their citizens.
Scientists are developing tiny medical machines that stretch the definition of the term "robot."
Exploiting the techniques of game theory to come up with the superior poker hand.
Genomic research has led to remarkable insights and medical breakthroughs, but it also represents serious privacy risks.
Blockchain's undeletable data can address privacy and security issues in the fine art markets.
MIT's Josh Tenenbaum on how people think and learn, and how to make machines do likewise.
Maturing bug bounty programs spot data abuse, secure the Internet of Things.
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