Computing

An app could help those with face blindness but has raised concerns among privacy experts 

And they’re getting closer to the marketplace all the time

Quadcopters with thermal imagery cameras can help detect vicious mini-mines that often kill or maim children

A new algorithm raises parking rates in busy neighborhoods and lowers them elsewhere, guaranteeing free parking spots regardless of location. Christopher Intagliata reports.

A machine learning algorithm uses EEG traces to find a patient’s odds of waking

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. 

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

Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world 

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