Researchers from LiU and the Royal Institute of Technology propose a new device concept that can efficiently transfer the information carried by electron spin to light at room temperature –... Read more
Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT have developed a new search engine that outperforms current ones, and helps people to do searches more efficiently. The... Read more
Many biology labs fight with a glut of measurement data. New software aims to make this a thing of the past: it simplifies laboratory experiment evaluation and unifies how data is saved. It... Read more
Imagine an Internet that enabled its users to slice and dice content into subsets of content relevant to their interests and needs, rather than top-down keyword searches that commercial sear... Read more
Unprecedented torrents of data flood out of research labs on a continual basis, but making sense of it all remains a major scientific bottleneck. How software is evolving to transform this d... Read more
“This will be the biggest inflection point for IT for a number of years.” Intel expects the Internet of Things to be the next game changer for the IT industry, allowing firms to sift through... Read more
Chinese Academy of Sciences Team Describes a Portable Diagnostic Device that can Travel to the Patient in the journal Biomicrofluidics Reaching a clinic in time to receive an early diagnosis... Read more
University of Akron researchers have developed new materials that function on a nanoscale, which could lead to the creation of lighter laptops, slimmer televisions and crisper smartphone vis... Read more
Design for seniors to tap market, industry urged Hardware and software vendors are foolish to ignore the needs of the growing population of older computer and information technology users, t... Read more
As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson — it’s simply the growing p... Read more
The ways we report and consume news have changed radically in recent years. Now not only are journalism schools adapting to answer the challenges of producing content on all shapes and sizes... Read more
Manufacturers are not investing in improving the overall technology due to a lack of incentives from a cost perspective, while customers are also not hankering for improvements. The l... Read more
“Reality Deck” designed to assist scientists, engineers and physicians in tackling modern-age problems requiring vast amounts of data Stony Brook University unveiled its latest engineering f... Read more
This provides a very intuitive experience, like the hand being ‘pulled’ toward the target. Researchers at HIIT and Max Planck Institute for Informatics show how computer vision -... Read more
LUIS VON AHN, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, sold one Internet start-up to Google in 2009, and is now on to another. With the new company, Duolingo, he hopes to tap the... Read more