Privacy

Researchers used the light reflecting off the wrapper to build an image of its surroundings

A supersensitive detector system can also glean clues about health

Digitization of patient charts was supposed to revolutionize medical practice. Artificial intelligence could help unlock its potential 

Unfortunately, it won’t be here by 2020

Stealing Ur Feelings sounds an alarm about how companies could use emotion-recognition technology

As quantum computing creeps closer, IBM successfully demonstrates a way to secure sensitive information

New technologies help companies monitor their workers’ every move. But do those data tell them anything useful?

A new study demonstrates it is surprisingly easy to ID an individual within a supposedly incognito data set

Why are VR companies launching their mental health care programs in the nation?

The science and art of password setting and cracking continues to evolve, as does the war between password users and abusers

The traces we leave on the Web and on our digital devices can give advertisers and others surprising, and sometimes disturbing, insights into our psychology

A preliminary study shows how it might be possible one day to use a smartphone app to look around a bend without the help of a mirror