Computing

Genetically engineered coral, electronic wildlife sniffers, sand mines and more

Artificial intelligence picks up bias from human creators—not from hard, cold logic

Gordon Briggs, a postdoc at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, talks about the article he and Matthias Scheutz, director of the Human Robot Interaction Laboratory at Tufts University, wrote in the January Scientific American titled "The Case for Robot Disobedience."

Obama promised a response to hacking and other election interference, but what are his options?

Artificial-intelligence algorithms can learn a lot from playing immersive 3D video games

For decades, deterrence has effectively countered the threat of nuclear weapons. Can we achieve similar results against cyber weapons?

Sixty-two percent of survey respondents said self-driving cars would not make them more productive. Another 36 percent said they’d be too concerned to do anything but watch the road. Erika Beras reports. 

A new AI system generates short videos that are similar to how humans can visually imagine how a scene will evolve

The new administration will likely defang efforts to enforce Net neutrality and online privacy protections, and potentially ramp up domestic and international surveillance  

Space-based transmission of quantum cryptographic keys could make the “unhackable” Internet a reality

An approach to artificial intelligence that enables computers to recognize visual patterns better than humans are able to do