NYU and Facebook team up to supercharge MRI scans with AI

Magnetic resonance imaging is an invaluable tool in the medical field, but it's also a slow…

It’s Friday so relax and watch a hard drive defrag forever on Twitch

It's been a while since I defragged — years, probably, because these days for a number…

The Automatica automates pour-over coffee in a charming and totally unnecessary way

Most mornings, after sifting through the night's mail haul and skimming the headlines, I make myself…

VR optics could help old folks keep the world in focus

The complex optics involved with putting a screen an inch away from the eye in VR…

This robot maintains tender, unnerving eye contact

Humans already find it unnerving enough when extremely alien-looking robots are kicked and interfered with, so…

StarVR’s One headset flaunts eye-tracking and a double-wide field of view

While the field of VR headsets used to be more or less limited to Oculus and…

FCC accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ in failing to dispel cyberattack ‘myth’

Following the issuance of a report from the FCC's Inspector General essentially saying the reports of…

Google keeps a history of your locations even when Location History is off

In a wonderfully clear example of "dark patterns" designed to mislead users and retain control over…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches tonight to ‘touch the sun’

NASA's ambitious mission to go closer to the Sun than ever before is set to launch…

Facebook says it gave ‘identical support’ to Trump and Clinton campaigns

Facebook's hundreds of pages of follow-ups to Senators make for decidedly uninteresting reading. Give lawyers a…