Analysing the footage from camera pills is a time-consuming task for medical professionals. Now computer scientists are attempting to automate the process

Apps that proactively help people with their lives represent a significant departure from earlier approaches to software.

A new type of mobile app is departing from a long-standing practice in computing. Typically, computers have just dumbly waited for their human operators to ask for help. But now...

Researchers use phone records to build a mobility model of the Los Angeles and New York City regions with new privacy guarantees.

Researchers at AT&T, Rutgers University, Princeton, and Loyola University have devised a way to mine cell-phone data without revealing your identity, potentially...

Micro-display LED tech could light up the next generation of face-wearable gadgets.

A tiny head-mounted display, like the one in Google Glass, will only be useful if you can see on-screen alerts and information clearly. And that’s tricky to achieve, especially without draining battery life—as Google ...

The same researchers previously mapped racist Tweets about President Obama. In both cases there’s reason to be a little skeptical.

The same researchers previously mapped racist Tweets about President Obama. In both cases there’s reason to be a little skeptical.

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We’ve hit 400 ppm of carbon dioxide, but we won’t know what that means for decades.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Scripps Institution of Oceanography say that the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere hit the symbolic milestone of 400 parts per million yesterday,...

Researchers attach “viral hitmen” to surfaces to demonstrate a possible antibacterial defense for catheters and other medical devices.

Medical implants like catheters and pacemakers can be a hotspot for bacteria, which grow in hard-to-treat films on the surface of such devices. Scientists and...

In new study, Facebook’s science team says the company killed automatic sharing on “Offers” because the science said active sharing works better.