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Check Out These Vintage Computer Viruses at the Malware Museum

Relive the horror of watching your computer catch a ‘90s-era virus

New Software Can Actually Edit Actors' Facial Expressions

FaceDirector can seamlessly blend several takes to create nuanced blends of emotions, potentially cutting down on the number of takes necessary in filming

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

Missouri Mathematicians Discover New Prime Number

At more than 22 million digits, it’s the longest prime yet

Stanford Scientists Create an Algorithm That Is the "Shazam" For Earthquakes

The popular song-identifying app has inspired a technique for identifying microquakes in the hopes of predicting major ones

The Most Popular Class at Yale Is From Harvard

Can a computer science course that teaches students how to think help Yale beat Harvard in tomorrow's game?

How Computers Learned to Play Nintendo

Super Mario World is a great test for artificial intelligence

HyperCam

This Camera Sees What Your Eyes Can't

HyperCam, an affordable hyperspectral imaging camera, can tell if your food's gone bad, among other things

New Software Makes Cyberbullies Think Twice

Teen programmer Trisha Prabhu created a program called ReThink to make cyberbullies reconsider before posting cruel messages

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

A screenshot of the Tone Analyzer at work

IBM's Tone Analyzer Could Save You From Sending That Awkward Email

The new service, part of IBM's Watson artificial intelligence system, scans emails for emotions like cheerfulness or negativity

The NSA Has a Summer Camp for Cyberspies

43 camps nationwide teach teens white hat hacking skills

Ultrasonic Fingerprint Readers Can Unlock Phones Even When Your Fingers are Gross and Sweaty

Experts say ultrasound fingerprint sensors are harder to hack

The algorithm ranked the "The Scream" by Edvard Munch as a highly creative work of its time.

History’s Most Creative Paintings, As Picked by a Computer

Some masters got snubbed

Though still in development, Google's Im2Calorie program can compute the number of calories in a glamor shot of your food.

Google is Trying to Count Calories in Food Porn

All you need is an Instagram photo and an algorithm

This Computer Runs on Water

A new class of computers takes advantage of the physical properties of water

IBM Watson Makes Things Elementary, Indeed

The cognitive computing system makes for an ideal sidekick—in museums, kitchens, hospitals and classrooms

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, France

Computers Are Learning About Art Faster than Art Historians

An algorithm took just a few months to draw connections between artists that scholars have been working on for years

High Schoolers Might Code Rather Than Speak French

But proponents of foreign language schooling aren’t pleased

A visitor to MoMA views Jackson Pollock's painting "One (Number 31, 1950)"

A Computer Can Tell Real Jackson Pollocks From Fakes

Genuine Pollacks really are distinguishable from random splatters of paint—there's now software to prove it

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