Computing

It's not just about data protection; it's about strategies designed to induce addictive behavior, and thus to manipulate

Automated social media accounts can create “misinformation networks” that spread falsehoods and fan the flames of partisan disagreement

In the Steven Spielberg movie’s vision of the future, people go to school, go to work, socialize and spend leisure time in a vast virtual environment

Interactions between people and artificially intelligent machines pose tricky questions about liability and accountability, according to a legal expert

Crude data is similar to crude oil—in its raw form, it’s usually too messy to be useful

Machines that learn like children provide deep insights into how the mind and body act together to bootstrap knowledge and skills

A new debugging tool can pinpoint errors that cause neural networks to make mistakes

Justices are considering whether a law passed prior to the Web and cloud computing allows companies to hide data stored abroad

But those who do tweet in big cities are more prolific—tweeting more often, on average, than their small-town counterparts. Christopher Intagliata reports.

The launch also marked the company’s first attempt to recover and reuse the fairing of its Falcon 9 rocket

The country’s cybercrime efforts are all seemingly state-sponsored and steal money that is then used to fund its cash-strapped government

New algorithms show how very simple robots can be made to work together as a group