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Issue #4

Can today's speech recognition software outperform a generation that grew up texting? | iStock/tamergunal

Aug 25, 2016

Smartphone speech recognition is faster and more accurate than typing

Computation & Data

Siegfried Hecker (second from left) tours a secret Russian nuclear facility in the city of Sarov in February, 1992. | Photo courtesy of Stanford CISAC

Aug 4, 2016

Why the Soviet nuclear arsenal stayed secure as the nation collapsed.

Security, Technology & Society

Stanford researchers have completed the first detailed map of how the human body produces defensive antibodies. | Collage by Tricia Seibold

Aug 2, 2016

A team of researchers explore how our immune systems create antibodies

What can we learn from the way squid use light to blend in with their surroundings? | iStock/Cor Bosman

Jul 5, 2016

Squid camouflage themselves through natural processes that manipulate light

Electronics & Networking, Materials

A tech startup in Vietnam | REUTERS/Kham

May 31, 2016

Lost in Translation: Can Silicon Valley Export Its Best Practices?

Technology & Society