Computers

How the Tetris Theme Song Was Made

A small piece of hardware produced the iconic sounds of gaming

Screenshot from "Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings" video

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

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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

Search Engines Can Sway Undecided Voters

New research uncovers "the search engine effect" and its potential to influence election outcomes

Jobs holds up an iPhone 4 at a tech conference in 2010.

Steve Jobs is About to Get His Own Opera

But will it include a singing Woz?

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

How Emojis Could Help People With Food Allergies

Bread emoji. Disappointed face emoji.

The NSA Has a Summer Camp for Cyberspies

43 camps nationwide teach teens white hat hacking skills

Brain-to-brain interfaces may soon be a therapeutic technique.

Linking Multiple Minds Could Help Damaged Brains Heal

Monkeys and rats hooked up as "brainets" may lead to innovative treatments for Parkinson's, paralysis and more

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

This Computer Runs on Water

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

Researchers Are Training Robots Using Minecraft

The popular game helps robots learn real-world skills

Recycling Company Seeking Woman Who Dumped $200,000 Apple I Computer

The machine was one of just 200 assembled by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the 1970s

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

Laptops of the Future May Not Have Space Bars

A recent Google patent points to a time when trackpads replace the trusty key

This track pad fits on your thumbnail, and can be customized with nail stickers.

This Tiny Trackpad Fits on a Fingernail

But why would you actually want one?

MIT Researchers Think They Can Spot Early Signs of Parkinson's in the Way People Type

By monitoring how long we hold down keystrokes, it may be possible to detect neurological diseases years before other symptoms appear

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