- Bell Labs Invents Lensless Camera
A new class of imaging device with no lens and just a single light sensitive sensor could revolutionise optical, infrared and millimetre wave imaging
- Technology That Knows When to Hand You a Hankie
Happy? Sad? A startup called Beyond Verbal has developed technology that can understand how you’re feeling just by listening to your voice.
Yuval Mor might make it possible for your stereo to set the mood automatically, simply by listening to the sound of your voice.
- Samsung Says New Superfast “5G” Works with Handsets in Motion
Samsung has made some bold claims about its “5G” technology, but experts await published confirmation.
When Samsung announced two weeks ago that it had prototyped a new wireless technology that could transmit data far faster, many researchers were skeptical, because the high-frequency signal is easily blocked and would be hard to work in moving handsets (see “Crazy-Fast Wireless Tested in New York”).
- Microsoft and IBM Researchers Develop a Lie Detector for the Cloud
A way to check whether calculations have been tampered with could make cloud computing more reliable, and boost privacy.
It is now common for all kinds of data—from personal photos to business documents—to be stored on third-party servers. But despite increased use of outside commodity “cloud computing” equipment, confidence that a third-party service is using your data appropriately is still based more on old-fashioned trust than on technology. As digital break-ins at Twitter and LinkedIn in recent months show, even the biggest services aren’t immune to attack, and this is a big challenge to companies looking to outsource calculations related to sensitive data.
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