In a move likely to escalate tensions between Washington and Moscow, the Department of Homeland Security has ordered all federal agencies to stop using software made by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, citing concerns that the Moscow-based firm's software could give the Kremlin a foothold in the U.S. government.
A whiff of dystopian creepiness has long wafted in the air whenever facial recognition has come up. Books, movies and television shows have portrayed the technology as mainly a tool of surveillance and social control—aimed by unseen others at you, for their purposes, not your own.
The new iPhone X puts face recognition front and centre. Why? Because it is the quickest and easiest way to unlock your phone.
Researchers are reading and analyzing your tweets and Facebook posts in the name of science. Is it legal? Is it ethical?
It's troubling to think that at any moment you might open an email that looks like it comes from your employer, a relative or your bank, only to fall for a phishing scam.
Frank Chen's e-commerce business has nothing to do with politics but he worries it might be sunk by the Communist Party's latest effort to control what the Chinese public sees online.
From the moment we humans first imagined having mechanical servants at our beck and call, we've assumed they would be constructed in our own image.
Any doubt that Russia has been running a strategically targeted disinformation campaign in the United States was erased on Wednesday, when Facebook revealed that it had deleted 470 "inauthentic" accounts that were based in Russia and had paid $100,000 to promote divisive ads during the 2016 presidential election.
Sometimes an international offensive begins with a few shots that draw little notice.
As Hurricane Harvey dropped anchor over Southeast Texas last week, Zello became the go-to app for rescuers working to save thousands of people trapped by floodwaters.
The first time Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person.
On the evening of October 30, 1938, a seventy-six-year-old millworker in Grover's Mill, New Jersey, named Bill Dock heard something terrifying on the radio.
In late June, I was leaving for a flight from Kiev's Boryspil Airport as news broke that Ukraine was the victim of another massive cyberattack.
Academics are often encouraged to use social media sites to disseminate their research findings, but a new study says that most tweeting on academic research is "almost entirely mechanical and devoid of original thought."
We all know the drill. For the last decade, smartphones have gotten thinner and faster and thinner and faster and, well, you get the picture.
In October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium.
When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls.
A year ago, Andrew Torba would have balked at the idea of regulating the Internet.
As excited as we are about the forthcoming generation of social home robots (including Jibo, Kuri, and many others), it's hard to ignore the fact that most of them look somewhat similar.
"Scribe," by Walter S. Lasecki, et al., is one of the first in a recent set of crowdsourcing papers that demonstrated how human workers can collaborate with computing systems to accomplish a real-time task that is difficult for either one to do by itself.
