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Watch This AI Turn Sketches into Masterpieces
Trained on the ‘history of human art,’ this system can transform your scribbles
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This Keyboard Cover Lets Users Actually Feel the Letters They Type
Two college students found a way have a keyboard tap into our muscle memory of the alphabet
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The Intrepid Teachers Bringing Internet Access To Women In Rural India
The gender disparity among internet users in the country’s small villages is staggering. A program called Internet Saathi aims to help
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The Roots of Computer Code Lie in Telegraph Code
Émile Baudot, born a year after the first long-distance telegraph message was sent, helped advance the technology
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This Algorithm Can Tell How Much Pain You’re In
Doctors may soon measure pain with an app
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New Letters Show Alan Turing Wasn’t a Fan of the U.S.A.
The groundbreaking mathematician and computer scientist who spent 2 years at Princeton wrote that he ‘detests America’ in newly found documents
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AI Is Edging Into the Art World in Psychedelic Ways
The team at Google is using neural networks to create tools that they hope will inspire and channel creativity
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The CIA Experimented On Animals in the 1960s Too. Just Ask ‘Acoustic Kitty’
Turns out that cats really don’t take direction well
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The World Wide Web Was Almost Known as “The Mesh”
The inventor of the World Wide Web had a few different name ideas
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After Fans Rallied Around App, Windows Announces It Will Save Microsoft Paint
The classic Windows program responsible for so many wobbly works is getting a new home in the Windows Store
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AI Project Produces New Styles of Art
Researchers let two neural networks critique each other to create the images
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New Badges Will Make Today’s Girl Scouts Tomorrow’s Cybersleuths
Camping and cookie sales are just the tip of the iceberg for modern scouts
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Three Very Modern Uses For A Nineteenth-Century Text Generator
Andrey Markov was trying to understand poems with math when he created a whole new field of probability studies
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This Tool Makes it Easy to Compare Art From Different Museums
IIIF frees images from the confines of individual websites
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A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic
How an image format changed the way we communicate
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Supercomputers Create Breathtaking Simulations of Spiral Galaxies
The simulations took months of modeling to complete—and the results can help scientists learn about the formation of galaxies
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The MP3 Format is Music History’s Latest Casualty
The Institute that licenses MP3 tech recently stopped, but the format that began the digital music era may live on indefinitely
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Could a Doodle Replace Your Password?
Drawing your own unlock pattern on a touchscreen is faster and easier to remember than a password, and much harder to crack
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Scientists Want to Freeze and Pulverize Your Old Computers
E-waste is a growing problem worldwide, but a new method could help take a byte out of the issue
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