Computing

As midterm political campaigns shift into full gear, start-ups are pushing for blockchain-based voting

The guidelines come from the Association for Computing Machinery

Researchers programmed a computer to compare structures and toxic effects of different chemicals, making it possible to then predict the toxicity of new chemicals based on their structural similarity to known ones.  

Google's new assistant sounds almost scarily human

The Swedish company’s furniture has become something of a benchmark for robotics engineers

IoT devices often have weak security, making them prime targets for criminals looking to score digital cash

Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender

YouTube, Facebook and other sites are working together to find and delete extremist propaganda and recruiting videos, but a new study says they can do better

Extreme sea level rise could swamp internet cabling and hubs by 2033—and coastal cities like New York, Seattle and Miami are at greatest risk. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Shark researchers used a system for recognizing patterns in star field photographs to identify whale sharks, which have individual spot patterns.

The feat could pave the way for more powerful computing, although the technology is still in its early stages