Computing

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

It might sound scary, but the ‘dark web’ is not much different from the rest of the internet

An upcoming “hackathon” is designed to accelerate their use in scientific visualization

Physicists say this futuristic, super-secure network could be useful long before it reaches technological maturity

Falling behind our adversaries would put U.S. and allied intelligence services at a critical disadvantage in their efforts to protect encrypted secrets

More than two million internet respondents pondered dilemmas to consider in letting vehicles make moral choices

A few very brief reports about science and technology from around the globe, including one from Mongolia on horse dentistry.

Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting the tech-industry's enabling of U.S. militarism

New techniques that dig more deeply into genetic databases may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard

Evidence behind a digital tech intervention remains scant 

It’s possible they could be vastly more efficient, but for that to happen we need to better understand the thermodynamics of computing