Your phone’s camera isn’t just for selfies—it can also double as a visual search engine. From mystery plants to random gadgets, these top Android and iPhone apps can help you identify almost anything ...

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have had a breakthrough in giving a robot the human-like ability to determine what an object looks like just by ...

If you're going on a hike, consider using this AllTrails feature that can help you stay safe by identifying the plants and ...

If you're new to astrology, sometimes it can be a bit tricky to know what you're looking at. Is what you're seeing overhead just a drone or one of the 200 billion trillion stars we can see throughout ...

Here we round up the best mobile apps to help you spot space stations and satellites in the night sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

MIT has developed an inexpensive sensor glove designed to enable artificial intelligence to figure out how humans identify objects by touch. Called the Scalable TActile Glove (STAG), it uses 550 tiny ...

Since 2007, U.S. authorities have seized and returned an estimated 20,000 stolen art objects, now the Federal Bureau of Investigations is hoping future efforts will be aided by its National Stolen Art ...

"Give people peace of mind, we get that a lot," Jason Compton, a local businessman, said.Compton wanted to answer questions he had about snakes, questions which gave him anxiety."Actually the fear I ...

Interpol launched a new mobile phone app Thursday that lets users search and identify stolen art pieces using image-recognition software, a tool authorities hope will help recover lost artwork and ...