The cultural conversation about the Internet of things has tended toward a highly functionalist, utilitarian set of ideas: Connected objects can make smart homes a reality, where toasters will ...

If we’ve learned anything from post-apocalyptic movies it’s that computers eventually become self-aware and try to eliminate humans. BYU engineer Dah-Jye Lee isn’t interested in that development, but ...

Two MIT researchers are working on creating "smart sand," a system in which people can bury a small object, then, moments later, pull out a 3D duplicate of that object, created out of the ...

In contrast, rival object recognition systems only managed at most 98-percent success at distinguishing in the original four categories, never mind matching ECO features within categories.

From counting cards to recognizing Lego models, computer scientists from the University of St Andrews in Scotland recently demonstrated how Google’s Soli sensor can be used to make dumb objects ...

Tech companies love making things "smart." Smart phones, smart cars, smart TVs, smart watches: there's no shortage of ways to turn regular household objects into smart, connected objects. Chronos ...