Computing

In addition to addressing safety concerns, Silicon Valley firms have a strong incentive to create a new venue for increasing the use of their digital devices

Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world

In principle, you could share your password with anyone

New “qubit” designs could enable more robust quantum machines

Even when autonomous vehicles are doing everything they’re supposed to, the drivers of nearby cars and trucks are still flawed, error-prone humans

An expert from a nuclear-test-monitoring system explains how his team is trying to help in the search for the ARA San Juan

A new analysis treats bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as species in an evolutionary model—and finds bitcoin has no selective advantage. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Software lets scientists explore the brain in 3-D and perform “virtual dissections”

Jobs are not created or lost because of a single technology, but because of the business models designed to leverage the power of the technology

Computer scientists borrowed insights from the fruit fly brain to create a more accurate search algorithm. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Much of the necessary technology already exists