Communications

Pizza Hut has started to test eye-tracking technology for ordering in some of its U.K. restaurants, but it may not get your order right

Telephones lie about sounds because odd numbers aren't even. Once again with those integers and sound perception! Telephones can only pick up frequencies above 300 or 400 Hertz (cycles per second, also called Hz), but most adults’ speaking voices are lower than 300 Hz (approximately the D above middle C).

A recent report from Europol's European Cybercrime Center includes a forecast that the world's first "online murder" will likely occur before the end of 2014.

Movie audiences who went to theaters this fall to see The Theory of Everything got a glimpse of the challenges physicist Stephen Hawking has overcome to deliver his groundbreaking insights into the nature of black holes, space and time.

Paging through some old Scientific American scrapbooks recently, I found this gem from Gerard Piel, a past publisher, in a 1958 article: "Science moves forward in little jumps with small accretions to the total body of knowledge.

An efficient way to beam electricity through the air

The race to find a better on-screen keyboard has spawned new ways for machines to understand us

Four novel energy-gathering methods will keep gadgets abuzz

Entering text on a touchscreen doesn't have to suck

New progress in flexible displays

Self-correcting screens on smartphones and iPads tailor themselves to a viewer's vision—no glasses necessary

822 Martian days after landing, NASA’s Curiosity rover, carrying the Mars Science Laboratory, continues on its extraordinary journey across landscapes that are both utterly alien, and remarkably familiar.