The life, death, and rebirth of BlackBerry’s hometown
It’s a little after 5:30 p.m. on a Wednesday night, and I’m sitting in a freezing rental car outside the BlackBerry headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, looking for signs of life.
February 8, 2015 at 11:12AM
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How Urban Farming Could Change Hawaii
For all its lushness, the state imports the vast majority of its food. Advocates like Hunter Heaivilin think they have the solution.
February 8, 2015 at 06:15AM
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How safe is sexting?
Many teens, and their parents, aren’t aware that sexting, even when the images aren’t shared beyond the sender and receiver, can be considered child porn under Canadian law.
February 7, 2015 at 03:12PM
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Zipping And Unzipping Things Every Day Wastes Hours — Have A Robot Do It For You!
Coming soon to a Brookstone near you!
February 7, 2015 at 02:10PM
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Pasquale’s ‘Black Box’ Challenges a Digital Sphere Run by Algorithms
Pasquale’s “Black Box Society” takes on the destructive power of money-hungry computation.
February 7, 2015 at 12:13PM
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Where’s Wally? There’s an algorithm for that
A researcher has used machine learning to examine the 68 “Where’s Waldo” books — and developed a algorithm to find him more efficiently.
February 7, 2015 at 11:03AM
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Can technology and prisons get along?
Tech-minded advocates say that technology has gotten secure enough to be used safely in prisons today. And they’re confident that these devices will do more good than harm, by reducing the demand for smuggled cell phones and giving inmates something productive to do while they’re incarcerated.
February 7, 2015 at 11:03AM
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IBM Watson Cloud Gains Eyes, Ears, And A Voice
IBM Watson developer cloud adds speech-to-text, text-to-speech, visual recognition, and decision services. Will businesses build their own Jeopardy apps?
February 7, 2015 at 08:02AM
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Words in the mouth: device lets you hear with your tongue
Researchers at Colorado State University are mapping human tongues in hopes of teaching the tongue to hear with a new device.
February 7, 2015 at 05:00AM
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We Can Now Build Autonomous Killing Machines. And That’s a Very, Very Bad Idea
Clearpath Robotics was founded six years ago by three college buddies with a passion for building stuff. Its 80 employees specialize in all-terrain test rigs like the Husky, a stout four-wheeled robot vehicle used by researchers within the Department of Defense. They make drones too, and have even built a robotic boat called the Kingfisher. But there is one thing they will never, ever build: a robot that can kill.
February 6, 2015 at 05:39PM
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