The Internet of Things portends a world in which physical products, devices, vehicles, buildings and other items are infused with digital identities, capable of collecting and exchanging data. It a...
Such toys wirelessly connect with online databases to recognize voices and images, identifying children’s queries, commands and requests and responding to them As Amazon releases an Echo Dot ...
The explosion of health–related data could transform clinical trials and drug development. But only if we learn how to make sense of the data first. Humanity generates about 16.3 zettabytes (...
‘Google should not be in the business of war.’ Last month, it was revealed that Google was offering its resources to the US Department of Defense for Project Maven, a research initiative t...
The U.S. Northeast may be more geologically active than thought. For the past 200 million years New England has been a place without intense geologic change. With few exceptions, there have been...
“I’ve always thought our ‘open but punitive’ stance was particularly vulnerable to suicide bombers.” The publication of a June 2016 memo describing the consequences of Facebook’s growt...
The move follows the Cambridge Analytica data scandal which used details from 50 million users of the social networking giant. Facebook has announced new privacy tools that will allow u...
Hugh Everett, creator of this radical idea during a drunken debate more than 60 years ago, died before he could see his theory gain widespread popularity Over several rounds of sherry late...
Slow-onset climate impacts could displace 140 million in their own countries by 2050 As the sea creeps steadily inland in countries such as Bangladesh, and as dwindling rains put already marginal farm...
This month, my Scientific American column tackles the new era of vertical video—videos shot and viewed as tall, thin rectangles, suitable for smartphone screens without having to turn them. It...
