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What Sensors Are in a Smartphone?

Smartphone sensors locate your phone in time and space. Working together, several sensors can paint a fairly complete picture of your daily activity, with implications for your privacy.

Alexa, How Do We Take Our Relationship to the Next Level?

If voice interfaces are to replace keyboards and touch screens, they are going to have to get a lot smarter

IKEA-Building Robot Conquers Touchy-Feely Challenge

The Swedish furniture has become something of a benchmark for robotics engineers

New Studies Link Cell Phone Radiation with Cancer

Researchers call for greater caution, but skeptics say the evidence from rat studies is not convincing

Ready Player One: We Are Surprisingly Close to Realizing Just Such a VR Dystopia

In the Steven Spielberg movie’s vision of the future, people go to school, go to work, socialize and spend leisure time in a vast virtual environment

Video Looks Most Natural Horizontally, but We Hold Our Phones Vertically

We see horizontally but tend to hold our phones vertically

Spot the Fake: Artificial Intelligence Can Produce Lifelike Photographs

By pitting AIs against one another, tech companies are creating realistic computer-generated images

A Brief History of Aspect Ratios, aka Screen Proportions

Embroidering Electronics into the Next Generation of “Smart” Fabrics

Unlike today’s wearables, new fabrics promise to come with antennas and batteries that are flexible and washable

New Tech Options are Helping Seniors Age in Place

Systems that offer reminders and assistance are creating “monitored independence”

Using Blockchain to Secure the "Internet of Things"

The ability to better track and distribute security software updates would help fortify insecure IoT devices, which have already contributed to major cyber disasters

1 in 7 Teens Are “Sexting,” Says New Research

Is consensual teen sexting a cause for concern?

North Korea’s Growing Criminal Cyberthreat

The country’s cybercrime efforts are all seemingly state-sponsored and steal money that is then used to fund its cash-strapped government

Intelligent Machines That Learn Like Children

Machines that learn like children provide deep insights into how the mind and body act together to bootstrap knowledge and skills

When AI Steers Us Astray

A new debugging tool can pinpoint errors that cause neural networks to make mistakes

Tech Dealers Now Trying to Save the Tech “Addicts” They’ve Created

The new Center for Humane Technology aims to lead the fight against society’s obsession with the Web, apps and social media—but it may just add to the confusion

“Smarticle” Robot Swarms Turn Random Behavior into Collective Intelligence

New algorithms show how very simple robots can be made to work together as a group

Is Art Created by AI Really Art?

When AI creates compelling art, the meaning of creativity gets blurred

How Many Gigs are You Wearing?

Magnetic clothing could be used to store passwords and other data