Computing

Increased testing of quantum computing techniques will open the door to solving new kinds of problems

Researchers are working on ways AI could digest these massive texts and extract their meaning, presenting it in terms that people can actually understand

The device will use artificial neurons and synapses to improve self-driving vehicle and drone performance 

Researchers built silver–zinc batteries that can bend and stretch—meaning they could be more elegantly integrated into future wearable devices. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

People are good at picking out voices of familiar people’s speech but ear-witness testimonies of strangers’ voices are notoriously unreliable and inaccurate

Machine learning is crucial to staying ahead of hackers trying to break into at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) massive worldwide computing grid

Results from the Micius satellite test quantum entanglement, pointing the way toward hackproof global communications

Cybercrime researcher Gianluca Stringhini explains how he studies hate speech and fake news on the underground network 4chan

The breakthrough could lead to better data-storage devices and quantum computers

IBM AI expert Murray Campbell reflects on the machine’s long, bumpy road to victory over chess champ Garry Kasparov

A new bot uses feedback from sensors to stretch and fold dough 

Artificial intelligence has staged a revival by starting to incorporate what we know about how children learn