It’s time to claim ownership of our digital lives OPINION: Either we start changing the model or we stop playing.
Soon computers can decipher your great grandmother’s scribbles A program that can recognise old handwriting will soon be introduced in Denmark. Historians describe it as revolutionary and fantastic.
New app could save you a trip to the hospital Apps have great potential in the health service sector, but what are the challenges of implementing them?
Are computer games a teacher’s friend or enemy? New Book: Games as a learning tool are here to stay and teachers need to learn how to use them effectively.
Tablets enhance play by taking toddlers on a digital adventure Tablets do not necessarily make children passive or sedentary. In a Danish nursery, a group of scientists, educators, and education consultants have studied how digital technologies can be used to enhance playful activities.
Creative machines: The next frontier in artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is making huge advances but it still struggles to be creative or collaborate with us.
3D-printed organs give insights to complex anatomy Inexpensive 3D-printers create detailed plastic models of organs and help scientists study complex anatomical structures.
Tablets help students write faster – but is that better? If they need to remember what they write, pencils work better. So what is really best?
Quantum computing: designing the internet of the future Mathematician hopes to uncover how to communicate most efficiently in a network based on the laws of quantum mechanics.
Professor revolutionises computers with the most random function ever Computers need to be able to generate random results in order to work. A Danish researcher has now created the most random function in the world.
Scientists prepare future language technology If we want to communicate through phones and computers in the future, they need to learn to understand what we say. New research aims to teach machines to distinguish between polysemantic words – now also in Danish.
On a mission to save search engines With the exploding amounts of data, search engines will not always work reliably in the age of Big Data. A Danish researcher has set out to find new methods of rescuing our search engines.
Secure computation on confidential data How can data from multi-party computation be used in a calculation if this data must be confidential? Danish computer scientists have come a step closer to an answer.
Quicker internet comes with a twist Scientists have come up with a new way of boosting internet bandwidth. They aim to twist the light in the net’s optic cables.
Play a computer game and help solve big physics mystery The human brain can recognise patterns and make irrational choices much better than any computer can. Now you can help researchers develop a quantum computer by playing an online game.
Swedish engineers launch hackable mini-drone A trio of friends in Sweden has created a miniature helicopter kit with open source code. Users can hack into the drone's software and adapt it to their own needs.
For online media, survival is success Times are hard for the traditional media, but actually even harder for the new online media. For them, bare survival is a success in itself, new research suggests. This can have consequences for democracy.
Web rebels – old wine in new bottles Wikileaks and the hackers group Anonymous are the talk of the town: political web rebels are a new phenomenon. However, there's nothing new about their tactics.
