
A Few More Things I’ve Learned about Tesla’s “Enhanced Autopilot”

A Few More Things I’ve Learned about Tesla’s “Enhanced Autopilot”

Antiwar Movement Spreads among Tech Workers
Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting the tech-industry's enabling of U.S. militarism


How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database
New techniques that dig more deeply into genetic databases may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard

Can a Mood-Predicting Smartphone App Work?
Evidence behind a digital tech intervention remains scant

Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy?
It’s possible they could be vastly more efficient, but for that to happen we need to better understand the thermodynamics of computing

5G Devices Are about to Change Your Life
It will make 4G phones seem positively quaint

Clicks, Lies and Videotape
Artificial intelligence is making it possible for anyone to manipulate audio and video. The biggest threat is that we stop trusting anything at all

Will L.A.’s Anti-Terrorist Subway Scanners Be Adopted Everywhere?
Terahertz millimeter-wave technology will screen passengers for bombs and suicide vests from 10 meters distance as they rush to make the next train

Bringing Esports to the Land of Letter Jackets
Expanding the youth sports landscape with the North America Scholastic Esports Federation

AI That Can Argue and Instruct
New algorithms will enable personal devices to learn any topic well enough to debate it

Algorithms for Quantum Computers
Developers are perfecting programs meant to run on quantum computers

Augmented Reality Everywhere
Coming soon: the world overlaid with data