Technology

Chicago tried and failed to use big data to predict crimes

Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report? If you haven’t, all you need to know is that it’s about a special police...
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Google believes artificial intelligence will be bigger than virtual reality

When Mark Zuckerberg thinks about the future, he sees a world that’s dominated by mobile devices and virtual reality, but when...
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China wants to build floating nuclear power plants for its new islands

I’m sure you’ve heard about that man-made island chain that China has built in the South China Sea, the one that’s...
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Japan wants tourists to use their fingerprints to make purchases

Japan is already one of most tourism-friendly countries in the world, even going so far as to offer free Wi-Fi to...
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MasterCard wants people to verify purchases with selfies

In what may be the first practical use for selfies in history, MasterCard will soon allow some of its customers to...
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5D discs could preserve mankind’s knowledge for billions of years

All things come to an end eventually, and mankind is no exception. Even if we don’t drive ourselves to extinction through the over-consumption of resources, unchecked scientific advancement,...
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Americans trust scientists more than politicians

Seeing how much attention people like Honey Boo Boo and the Kardashians get genuinely depresses me at times, and it’s even worse when...
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Brain scans might replace passwords one day

Biometric authentication is seen by many to be the natural successor to passwords, but nobody has been able to figure out which method...
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Elon Musk has an idea for an electric plane that takes off vertically

There’s just no stopping Elon Musk, is there? While answering questions at the awards ceremony for the Hyperloop Pod competition earlier this week,...
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SpaceX declared MIT the winner of today’s Hyperloop competition

Thousands of engineers from colleges and high schools from across the world gathered at Texas A&M University in College Station on Saturday to...
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Adobe Flash will cease to exist within the next couple of years

This has been a pretty good week for digital security, because not only is Oracle finally killing off its cancerous Java plug-in...
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Google has reached a major artificial intelligence milestone

It’s been almost two decades since IBM taught a computer to be a master at chess, which is regarded as one of...
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Aecom is helping SpaceX build its first Hyperloop test track

When the idea of the Hyperloop was first made public back in 2013, most people thought that it was a really interesting...
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Lyft’s partnership with Waze could give it an edge over Uber

Google hasn’t done much with Waze since it acquired the crowd-sourced navigation app back in 2013, but it looks like that’s about...
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The human brain is capable of storing almost the entire Internet

A group of researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California have discovered that the human brain is capable of...
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Nanoparticles could be used to kill antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as superbugs, have become a serious problem in recent years, and many experts believe that the problem will...
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