A few years ago, just about anyone could turn up at a college library, sit down at a bank of public-access computers, and cruise the Internet with no password, little trouble, and only the slimmest ...

Concussions can occur in sports and in combat, but health experts do not know precisely which jolts, collisions, and awkward head movements during these activities pose the greatest risks to the brain ...

Can depression lead to asthma? How about over-medicating? Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and UPMC are trying to answer these questions with a new computer program that has the ...

An old adage says that a picture is worth a thousand words, owing to how picture can convey a wide variety of emotions and sentiments. However, can a computer look at a photo and determine what ...

Computer scientists have developed a new program that can recognize rough sketches in real time, something that up to now had been very difficult for computers to do. To make the program work, the ...

Like his work or hate it, it’s clear that the painter Jackson Pollock pioneered a distinctive visual style with his drip paintings. If you admire his work (which I do), then you probably admire his ...

Seven people die in Clockwork Orange. Ninety-five die in Kill Bill Volume 1. Eight hundred and ninety six die in the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. We know this all because someone counted ...

Researchers in Spain have developed a system that analyses a video signal in real time and calculates the gender of the faces pictured in the images. This way, a computer can determine whether the ...