Communications

The era of antisocial networking has begun with the development of apps such as Cloak, which identifies locations of your contacts so you don't have to see them. Larry Greenemeier reports

 

Despite what some critics say, brain imaging holds plenty of promise for real solutions to treating mental disorders

Medical implants would monitor vital signs or dispense therapies before vanishing

Three weeks into the search for Flight 370, clues to its whereabouts remain scarce while fanciful theories explaining the disappearance abound

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the jetliner at the junction of several international air traffic control regions—the kind of fringe location where radar coverage is known be spotty

White House data splurge meant to "change the game" on climate

Virtual “telescopes” for big data make it possible to see through the deluge

There’s more to it than geography and corporate culture

In March 1989, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee proposed a way to link together documents on different computers that were connected to the Internet.

A consortium including Facebook and Qualcomm wants to launch solar-powered atmospheric satellite drones that can carry equipment for relaying wireless networks in remote areas that currently have no Internet connections. Larry Greenemeier reports

 

A new technique exploits sensor noise patterns unique to each camera that can help identify criminals via photographs posted online