Washington State University has developed a wireless network on a computer chip that could reduce energy consumption at huge data farms by as much as 20 percent. Researchers led by Partha Pa... Read more
Might downloading a 50-cent coupon for Cheerios cost you legal rights? General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quiet... Read more
The data center of the future might do more than crunch and store information. In addition to serving web pages, streaming Netflix videos, and hosting social networks, data centers might pro... Read more
Stung by revelations of ubiquitous surveillance and compromised software, the internet’s engineers and programmers ponder how to fight back SECURITY guards (at least the good ones) are paid... Read more
May offer a path to lower payment processing and more secure transactions The currency known as bitcoin — a much-hyped and much-doubted type of digital cash that can be bought with tradition... Read more
The self-driving car, whenever it arrives, is sure to be hailed as a breakthrough. The truth is, autonomous cars have been arriving in bits and pieces for years. Bristling with sensors and m... Read more
There is conventional wisdom about what kind of material will go viral on the Internet: celebrity slide shows, lists like 10 tips for losing belly fat, and quirky kitten antics. Then there i... Read more
MANY concerned about climate change, including President Obama, have embraced hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. In his recent climate speech, the president went so far as to lump gas wit... Read more
Known for their knowledge-sharing and openness, research universities in the United States are being forced to beef up security after a recent spike in cyberattacks that shows no signs of sl... Read more
American consumers gained considerable knowledge and power when a huge Medicare database was recently distributed to the public in easy-to-understand language. The data revealed what many pa... Read more
WHEN he was a Yale Law School student, Reuben Grinberg wrote one of the first academic papers about Bitcoin, a novel virtual currency that uses sophisticated cryptography to validate and sec... Read more
An ambitious project to map the brain is in the works. Possibly too ambitious NEWS of what protagonists hope will be America’s next big science project continues to dribble out. A leak to th... Read more
Trading stocks, targeting ads, steering political campaigns, arranging dates, besting people on “Jeopardy” and even choosing bra sizes: computer algorithms are doing all this work and... Read more
And, the scientists say, they are already seeing the harmful effects in some regions. Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermini... Read more
Will the future be printed in 3-D? At first glance, looking at past predictions about the future of technology, prognosticators got a whole lot wrong. The Web is a garbage dump of inaccurate... Read more
