A new experiment is attempting to find out whether we may be living in some sort of simulation.

Military bureaucrats and the public is learning how messy and complicated huge programming projects can be thanks to the F-35.

We've reached a phase in computer development when everything old is new again. And this approach can work. Up to a point.

We evolved to be social animals that live in close-knit communities. But sharing minds via brain implants with our fellow humans may be far too much for us right now.

Xanadu was the ultimate nightmare project for any programmer. And we're lucky it was never completed, much less lived up to its lofty goals.

First, Congress was telling engineers how to build their rockets. Now it's telling programmers how to write their software.

If you're going to network thousands of important devices together, make sure your network is actually secure.

Command economies haven't worked with people. Now, some groups want to try it with machines.

The flip side of technophobia and lamentations about the dehumanizing effect of gadgets? Trying to force everyone to code and insisting it's a vital skill, like literacy.

AI enthusiasts love to write about machines as black boxes with inputs and outputs because they don't know how they would actually be built.

The jobs tech execs are thinking would be gained through monetized crowdsourcing don't seem like the kind of sustainable jobs we'll need in the future.

North Korea's computer-based insult towards South Korea's head of state was supposed to be meaningless but offensive nonsense. Too bad pop sci writers took the bait and tried to explain it anyway.

A study using soldier crabs to emulate computers is actually a perfect illustration of how different alien computing could be.

Pseudoscience and fact-free manifestos, now with anger management issues...

A Singularity by any other name is still just a utopian cold reading of where technology is headed.