Speeding up communication between humans is surprisingly tricky. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every ...

Tool suite helps avoid systems conflict in a crowded environment. Communication decision aids are enabling U.S. Navy shipboard-system developers to improve system designs and on-station communicators ...

Many people with Lou Gehrig's disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), first start to lose the ability to move their arms and legs. That's not Pat Bennett. She can move just fine. She ...

Today's business users rely on a collection of reports and dashboards to better understand the data underlying their operations. These tools are most often designed by IT organizations, which use ...

Recently, coding metasurfaces, incorporating active components, have enabled real-time and programmable controls over EM functionalities, which used to be static or quite limited in conventional ...

Since then, scientists have designed and developed BCIs that have enabled people with quadriplegia to control a computer cursor, a robotic arm, and even move their own limb. Recently, a person with ...

Emotive communication in computer-mediated interaction encompasses the ways in which individuals convey, interpret and respond to emotional content in text-based digital environments. Absent the ...

Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology ...

What are brain-computer interfaces? Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are devices that allow for the action or control of an external device from brain signals. These technologies have a broad range of ...

Loss of communication can be among the most devastating symptoms for patients with paralysis. A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and Brown University ...