Don't let cybercriminals hide from the FBI
May 09, 2016 12:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
Imagine that a criminal investigator has identified one or more computers that are part of ongoing criminal activity. Unfortunately, the people operating these computers are hiding them. The machines could be anywhere in...
Want to build better computer games? Call an architect
May 09, 2016 06:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Business
If I said I was a licensed architect helping to fight dementia, youd probably assume I was designing a care home or some similar building. Actually, Ive been working alongside neuroscientists, psychologists, doctors and...
Everyone wants love, but most still turn their nose up when it's sold to them
May 06, 2016 16:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Matchmaking and dating services used to advertise in small rectangles on tube carriages, next to the vitamin drinks and food delivery services, and in smaller rectangles still on the classified pages of newspapers and...
Simulating evolution: how close do computer models come to reality?
May 05, 2016 16:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Darwins theory of evolution is a simple but powerful framework that explains how complexity can come from simplicity: how everything biological around us from the microbial biofilms on your teeth to the majestic redwood...
Cybersecurity's weakest link: humans
May 05, 2016 16:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
There is a common thread that connects the hack into the sluicegate controllers of the Bowman Avenue dam in Rye, New York; the breach that compromised 20 million federal employee records at the Office of Personnel...
Robot revolution: rise of the intelligent automated workforce
May 05, 2016 16:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Losing jobs to technology is nothing new. Since the industrial revolution, roles that were once exclusively performed by humans have been slowly but steadily replaced by some form of automated machinery. Even in cases...
Google has got involved in healthcare data – can we trust it?
May 05, 2016 15:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Google has some of the most powerful computers and smartest algorithms in the world, has hired some of the best brains in computing, and through its purchase of British firm Deepmind has acquired AI expertise that recently...
Japan Leadership Candidates Back Wage Growth, Differ on Strategies for Household Support