Computing

Humans are increasingly entrusting our security, health and safety to “black box” intelligent machines

Celebrity Twitter accounts look a lot like Twitter bots: They tweet regularly, follow relatively few people, and upload a lot of content. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

Rather than each carrying its own “brain,” they could share a single, remote one

Net neutrality arguments aside, researchers pursue a faster and more reliable way to send and receive large amounts of data through the internet in times of crisis

Sophisticated software could help doctors make better diagnoses

The products that really wow us seem like pure wizardry

We’re not going to stop taking pictures and recording movies, and we need to develop new ways to save them

Roborace is creating a new motorsport to accelerate the arrival of self-driving cars

Shannon, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, thought machines can think but doubted they "would take over”

Her husband, Claude, helped create the computer revolution, but few knew that she was his closest collaborator

Robopocalypse creator Daniel Wilson sets aside his dystopian tendencies to help the XPRIZE’s Sci-fi collection and writing contest find a silver lining in our obsession with intelligent assistants

Researchers in the U.K. trained computers to rate photos of parks and cities for what humans consider to be their scenic beauty. Christopher Intagliata reports.