Data

Indigenous groups are developing data storage technology that gives users privacy and control. Could their work influence those fighting back against invasive apps?

A “more is merrier” approach to making computer chips would create the vibrant and fast breakthroughs that America needs to succeed

Advanced tools for tracking people’s eye movements and facial expressions can be used to design better places

A computer scientist explains what it means when the inner workings of AIs are hidden

AI-powered facial recognition will lead to increased racial profiling

The 1934 puzzle book Cain’s Jawbone stumped all but a handful of humans. Then AI took the case

Congress and the airline industry must reassess how they approach and fund air transportation modernization

Improvements in how scientists measure plate movement and detect places where stress is building allow them to recognize areas where the likelihood of an earthquake is high

New “exascale” supercomputers will bring breakthroughs in science. But the technology also exists to study nuclear weapons

A cybersecurity expert explains how the FBI’s operation against the ransomware group Hive will impact the rest of this criminal industry

An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us

With little regulation and sometimes outright deception, the possibility of discrimination and other “data harms” is high