Computing

Floods dump tons of pathogen-laden manure into U.S. waterways, often from hard-to-identify farms

NYU’s “Sounds of New York City” project listens to the city—and then, with the help of citizen scientists, teaches machines to decode the soundscape. Jim Daley reports. 

A personal journey to understand what lies beneath the startling powers of advanced neural networks

How to make sure noninvasive neural interfaces stay that way

It leads users down rabbit holes

We don't yet know what the immersion in technology does to our brains, but one neuroscientist says the answer is likely to be that there's good, there's bad, and it's complex.

Imagine a single trained operator making a bridge, home or barracks

By tracking duetting choir singers, researchers found that when an individual singer's pitch drifts off tune their partner’s tend to too. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

The traces we leave on the Web and on our digital devices can give advertisers and others surprising, and sometimes disturbing, insights into our psychology

Researchers are finding new ways to help the voice service improve its performance

At a sports technology conference, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred addressed issues including an automated strike zone and advanced analytics.

The digitization of paintings could help art historians detect previously unknown patterns and connections