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Data for Google services will be stored in Cuba, under a deal announced this week between the company and the Cuban government. As the Associated Press reports, the deal will not expand public internet access in Cuba, one of the world’s…

Since 2008, MIT economist Tavneet Suri has studied the financial and social impacts of Kenyan mobile-money services, which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone. Her work has shown that these services have…

Author: Daisy Stapley-Bunten With the support of Robotae, a robotics and mechatronics consultancy, Motion Metrics has developed Carv - the world's first digital ski coach that uses a smart boot insert to capture motion and pressure.…

Using cutting-edge scanning technology in a joint British-Australian exhibition, the hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies up to 3,000 years old have been virtually unwrapped and reconstructed for the first time. Three-dimensional images of…

Johns Hopkins researchers have determined that large bags of blood products, such as those transfused into patients every day, can maintain temperature and cellular integrity while transported by drones, in what is believed to be the first…

The next time you place your coffee order, imagine slapping onto your to-go cup a sticker that acts as an electronic decal, letting you know the precise temperature of your triple-venti no-foam latte. Someday, the high-tech stamping that…

Mission Status Report NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is studying its surroundings and monitoring the environment, rather than driving or using its arm for science, while the rover team diagnoses an issue with a motor that moves the rover's…

Converting speech to text on cellphones, through speech recognition systems, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands or even millions of audio files and their transcriptions, and learns which…