Rebooting Manufacturing
Smarter, safer robots could expand automation to new areas of production work and help many manufacturers regain a competitive edge against those using low-cost labor.
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Photo Essay: Curiosity’s Mission to Mars
Key moments in the rover's journey from NASA's JPL to the surface of the red planet.
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Researchers Create "Hate Map" of the U.S. With Twitter Data
The same researchers previously mapped racist Tweets about President Obama. In both cases there's reason to be a little skeptical.
Facebook's Latest Data Science Insight
In new study, Facebook's science team says the company killed automatic sharing on "Offers" because the science said active sharing works better.
Government Lab Reveals Quantum Internet Operated Continuously for Over Two Years
A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers
More Reasons to Clean Up Tweets
Stock plunge another reminder of social media's power -- and the need for fact-checking
Preventing Misinformation from Spreading through Social Media
New platforms for fact-checking and reputation scoring aim to better channel social media’s power in the wake of a disaster.
"12 Hours of Separation" Connect Individuals on Social Networks
Social networks can be used to track random individuals in just 12 hours provided the right incentives are on offer, say computer scientists.
Big Data from Cheap Phones
Collecting and analyzing information from simple cell phones can provide surprising insights into how people move about and behave—and even help us understand the spread of diseases.
Friendly Machines
Making human-friendly robots is a pressing challenge and a big opportunity.
Data Sources
Mobile phones are great sources of data—but we must be careful about privacy.
Smart Watches
The designers of the Pebble watch realized that a mobile phone is more useful if you don’t have to take it out of your pocket.
