Virtual Reality is Coming to Real-Life Rollercoasters
Soar with Superman or pilot an alien-fighting jet
Google’s New A.I. Can Tell Exactly Where a Photo Was Taken
A new neural network is better than humans at sussing out the location of a picture
What the All Writs Act of 1789 Has to Do With the iPhone
How a law signed by George Washington is being applied to Apple
Steve Wozniak’s Apple I Booted Up a Tech Revolution
With only a circuit board, keyboard and tiny, blurry monitor, the circa 1975 computer looks crude by today’s standards
Check Out These Vintage Computer Viruses at the Malware Museum
Relive the horror of watching your computer catch a ‘90s-era virus
Google’s New AI Can Beat Human Champions at the Game of Go
Google appears to have won the long race to develop a Go-winning artificial intelligence, considered a major step towards more human-like AIs
Inside Iran’s Budding Video Game Industry
The Iranian video game industry, shaped around piracy and economic sanctions, is slowly growing
Missouri Mathematicians Discover New Prime Number
At more than 22 million digits, it’s the longest prime yet
Watch 100 Drones Dance Their Way to a World Record
The swarm recently took to the skies to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Washington State Has Released up to 3,200 Inmates Early Thanks to Computer Glitch
The software bug has been miscalculating release dates for 13 years
These Old-School Internet Browsers Are Like Real-Life Time Machines
A new tool lets you experience the glory—and embarrassment—of the internet of yore
Army Ants Act Like Algorithms to Make Deliveries More Efficient
The marauding ants know just where to place living bridges to create shortcuts without sacrificing their food-gathering prowess
The Search For Elusive Neutrinos in Antarctica Generates Massive Amounts of Data
The IceCube observatory at the South Pole collects roughly 36 terabytes of data a year in the search for ‘special’ neutrinos
New Software Makes Cyberbullies Think Twice
Teen programmer Trisha Prabhu created a program called ReThink to make cyberbullies reconsider before posting cruel messages
How the Tetris Theme Song Was Made
A small piece of hardware produced the iconic sounds of gaming
Thanks to Augmented Reality, These Coloring Books Come to Life
The new technology takes 2D pictures and turns them into 3D magic
Scientists Can Now Sequence a Human’s Genome in 26 Hours
New tools cut sequencing time almost in half
This Interactive Installation Rains a Poem Down on Viewers
Artists Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv wrote the software that drives an artwork, in which onlookers catch letters falling on a large screen
This Computer Can Track How Fashion Spreads From the Runway to the Street
Researchers created an algorithm to recognize and analyze fashion on the runway and in the street
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