Computing

Doris Tsao mastered facial recognition in the brain. Now she’s looking to determine the neural code for everything we see

Internet queries about opioids are linked to drug-related hospital admissions 

Will a general algorithm that masters chess, go and shogi succeed as well for games with less-defined rules?

By analyzing the network connections between 47,000 films on IMDb, researchers found the most influential films ever made. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world 

Apple adopted them early and brilliantly, and they usually made sense

How digital drug dealers and virtual users are providing clues to help stop the U.S. opioid epidemic

Which are the next walls to fall in science and society?

The computer has one million processors and 1,200 interconnected circuit boards

Researchers are developing wristbands and apps to predict moods—but the technology has pitfalls as well as promise

A new machine-learning technique mimics the brain’s ability to adapt to new circumstances

How algorithms designed to alleviate poverty can perpetuate it instead