David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the author of eight books, most recently “Livewired.” ...

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...

Ten years after a milestone victory, AI now dominates Go training. Players are figuring out what that means for the game.

Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract ...

Vitalik Buterin proposed what he called a quantum roadmap on Thursday. He wants to update the cryptography that secures the blockchain. At least one change could make its way into an Ethereum upgrade ...

A San Francisco startup is pitching using AI to check people's eligibility for benefits and welfare for the government.

University of California, Irvine computer scientists have discovered a critical security vulnerability in autonomous target-tracking drones that could have far-reaching implications for public safety, ...

Bringing that mindset into the autonomous vehicle space, safety concerns and legal compliance require an entire staff, not just someone occasionally wearing a hat and performing a safety audit.

Historically, cosmological models rely on "free parameters"—arbitrary, human-tuned variables inserted into the math to force the formulas to match reality. Kulkarni's updated simulation completely ...

Today, PKC forms the foundation for e-commerce, allowing more than US$1 trillion per day in foreign exchange transactions in North America alone. 10 This technology also allows electronic banking, ...

The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...