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3-D digital preservation not only helps save the memories of historical sites, it also guides restoration projects after natural disasters, such as the earthquakes that damaged the temples of Bagan.

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Technology can improve communication and curb social isolation of kids with autism

For-profit companies use our anonymized medical data in a huge secondary market. Advances in computing make it increasingly possible for outsiders to identify people from among the hundreds of millions of patients in dossiers, putting intimate secrets about our bodies and minds at risk

Updated version of DeepMind’s AlphaGo program was behind a mystery online competitor  

Google, Microsoft and a host of labs and start-ups are racing to turn scientific curiosities into working machines

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?