To Prevent Crime, Walk the Dog on At-Risk Blocks
The LAPD plans to release maps showing where future crime is most likely to happen, in hopes that residents will help stop it.
Toward a Pill That Helps Us Learn as Fast as Kids
Scientists are using mood drugs to return the adult's brain to an earlier stage of development. Here's why that won't be easy.
In Defense of Google Flu Trends
If the system failed, it did so only in the outsize dreams of Big Data acolytes.
'What's Oculus Rift?' And Other Questions About Facebook's New Foray Into Virtual Reality
“The dominant reaction to the move could be summed up in three letters: WTF.”
The Prosthetic Voice
Technology now allows us to think about the voice "like we think about fonts for written text."
This Is What a Facial-Detection Algorithm Looks Like in 3D
Mathematics made metallic onto a face of flesh
Before There Was the Like Button, There Was ... the 'Radiovota'
In the 1930s, an engineer tried to bring two-way communication to mass media.
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How a California Earthquake Becomes the News: An Extremely Precise Timeline
An amazing feat of algorithmic journalism — and data gathering
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An Amazing App for Learning Music
A simple idea—notation synced with recordings—done beautifully
The Engineering of the Chain Restaurant Menu
At IHOP and Applebee's, menus are sales documents. And navigational guides. And explainers.