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Redefining “Safety” for Self-Driving Cars

Even when autonomous vehicles are doing everything they’re supposed to, the drivers of nearby cars and trucks are still flawed, error-prone humans

How an Underwater Sensor Network Is Tracking Argentina’s Lost Submarine

An expert from a nuclear-test-monitoring system explains how his team is trying to help in the search for the ARA San Juan

How Fit Is Bitcoin?

A new analysis treats bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as species in an evolutionary model—and finds bitcoin has no selective advantage. Christopher Intagliata reports.

How to Fight Format Rot

The Library of Congress has your back

Technology from Harry Potter Movies Brings Magic of Brain into Focus

Software lets scientists explore the brain in 3-D and perform “virtual dissections”

Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2017

Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world

Jobs and Robots: Bracing for Technological Disruptions to Come

Jobs are not created or lost because of a single technology, but because of the business models designed to leverage the power of the technology

Insect Brain System Knows What You Want

Computer scientists borrowed insights from the fruit fly brain to create a more accurate search algorithm. Christopher Intagliata reports.

How to Read Old MS Word Files When Word Says You Can’t

On-Board Computers and Sensors Could Stop the Next Car-Based Attack

Much of the necessary technology already exists

Stop Doing Companies’ Digital Busywork for Free

Consumer technologies—whether user reviews and recommendations, social media or health care portals—involve logistical effort that means more administrative work at home.

Falling Walls: The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence

This is more than just another industrial revolution—it is something that transcends humankind and even biology

WannaCry Report Shows NHS Chiefs Knew of Security Danger, but Management Took No Action

The damage that the ransomware caused to Britain’s National Health Service was not a cybersecurity failure in the practicalities but a failure of cybersecurity management at the top level...

Could a Machine Identify Suicidal Thoughts?

A new study uses brain imaging to separate those who think about and even attempt suicide from those who don’t 

AI Scans Twitter for Signs of Opioid Abuse

Geotagged tweets using slang like “dummies,” “Captain Cody” or other drug handles could help pinpoint clusters of opioid problems more quickly than traditional methods do...

Out of the Syrian Crisis, a Data Revolution Takes Shape

Aid organizations have been piloting a nimble approach to cut through the fog of war

Quantum Leaps in Quantum Computing?

New qubit designs could enable more robust machines

DNA Techniques Could Transform Facial Recognition Technology

Early tests of the “vide-omics” principle have already demonstrated its potential

Keep Your Wi-Fi off KRACK

Up-to-date software, apps, browsers and router software offer the best protection against a potential flaw in wi-fi security called a key reinstallation attack, or KRACK.  

AI versus AI: Self-Taught AlphaGo Zero Vanquishes Its Predecessor

DeepMind’s Go game-playing AI—which dominated its human competition—just got better