Can These Pornographers End ‘MILFs’, ‘Teens’, and ‘Thugs’?
To consume online porn often entails playing a rough and reductive language game.

October 2, 2016 at 08:22AM
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Can New Technology Bring Baseball’s Data Revolution To Fielding?
For years, players have been valued for their hitting. Now a groundbreaking tool makes it possible to measure how much their defense contributes to a team’s success.

September 30, 2016 at 03:48PM
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The Computer Voting Revolution Is Already Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete
Remember when everyone hated hanging chads and wanted computerized voting? Seemed like a good idea at the time.

September 30, 2016 at 03:48PM
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Robot With A Mind Of Its Own Blasts Tunes, Takes Selfies And Blasts You At iPad Games
This robot’s name is Deltu and you better not get Deltu grumpy or it will get saucy and straight up ignore you.

September 30, 2016 at 03:38PM
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How To Design A Particle Accelerator
Physicists and particle accelerator designer Suzie Sheehy discusses how these wonderful machines work, what form they take, and what champagne means to an accelerator physicist.

September 30, 2016 at 09:43AM
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Inside historic Bell Labs, where tomorrow’s tech is born
Bell Labs, now run by Nokia, shows off its superfast next-gen 5G networks, smarter smartwatches and a drone that delivers new mobile network capacity.

September 30, 2016 at 09:32AM
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Rosetta probe collision signal awaited
European Space Agency scientists say the satellite has come to the end of its useful life and they want to get some final, ultra-close measurements.

September 30, 2016 at 06:31AM
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Some Like It Bot
Algorithms are getting better at entertaining us.

September 30, 2016 at 05:24AM
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Could Human Civilization Spread Across The Whole Galaxy?
We have to suck planets dry using Von Neumann machines and we’d need 4 million years, but maybe, just maybe, we could do it.

September 29, 2016 at 01:11PM
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Kayaking? Ditch The Paddle And Have A Drone Do All The Work
Meet the most interesting kayaker in the world. He doesn’t always kayak, but when he does…

September 29, 2016 at 01:11PM
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