Software Predicts Which Companies Are an Easy Sell
A former Yahoo search engineer raises funds to bring sophisticated data mining and modeling to the business world.
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How a Cheap Plastic Film Can Give Your Smartphone a 3-D Screen
A plastic smartphone screen cover patterned with tiny lenses could help mobile 3-D take off.
A QWERTY Keyboard for Your Wrist
Zoomboard—a miniscule keyboard that zooms when you tap it—could make it easier to type on smart watches.
What Happened When One Man Pinged the Whole Internet
A home science experiment that probed billions of Internet devices reveals that thousands of industrial and business systems offer remote access to anyone.
A Simple Way to Turn Any LCD into a Touch Screen
Electromagnetic interference can turn a plain LCD into a touch screen on the cheap.
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.
Why Big Companies Are Investing in a Service that Listens to Phone Calls
A startup that converts conversations to text so it can offer instant information gets financing from Telefónica, Samsung, and Intel.
Introduction to the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013
MIT Technology Review identifies the 10 most important technology milestones of the past year.
Building a Picture of the Bomb Suspects through Social Network Analysis
Police can obtain huge quantities of social network data but must sort out the junk to glean useful information.
How Facial Recognition Tech Could Help Trace Terrorism Suspects
The FBI could use software to help identify suspects, and more advanced techniques are around the corner.
