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Apis Are Changing the Way We Pay
Application programming interfaces are being used increasingly to facilitate electronic payments.
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize applications and redefine the digital economy.
Because it is easy to fool, machine learning must be taught how to handle adversarial inputs.
Will Visual Programming Crack the Code on Learning?
An emerging generation of visual coding platforms is introducing software development to young people and other beginners.
Wi-Fi Kiosks Replacing Payphones in Nyc
A move to provide free Internet services yields some unexpected consequences.
Surprise Comes Out of Black-Hole Studies: Error-Correcting Codes
Attempts to reconcile quantum information and gravity have yielded new types of error-correcting codes for proposed quantum computers.
Exploring ways to push more data through a fiber one-tenth the thickness of the average human hair.
While 3D technologies that make headlines are not truly holographic, holographic techniques are furthering advances in important applications such as biomedical imaging.
Computer Science, Math Laureates Convene in Heidelberg
Recipients of the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the ACM A.M. Turing Award met with 200 young researchers from over 50 nations.
Can Electronics Replace Opioids?
Sophisticated algorithms allow electrical nerve stimulation products to quell pain, in some cases, better than drugs.
Advances in biometric authentication are finally pushing the technology into the mainstream.
Lasers Create Tiny, Flexible Power Sources
Researchers are developing more flexible power sources for wearable technologies, in new and different shapes.
In Memoriam: Boris Trakhtenbrot, 1921-2016
The mathematician discovered and proved the Gap Theorem, as well as what is now called Trakhtenbrot's Theorem.
Remote Repairs, Healthy Crops, Police Surveillance: The Future of Drones, Ar, and Vr
The future, according to the world's largest vendor of networking gear, is all part of the Internet of Things.
Columbus, OH, claims the $50-million top spot in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge.
Companies are exploring the use of a "human dialogue interface" to interact with customers and employees more effectively.
Reconciling Quantum Physics with Math
Mathematicians explore the root of many problems in developing a proof for the Kadison-Singer problem.
Graphical processing units have emerged as a major powerhouse in the computing world, unleashing huge advancements in deep learning and AI.
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