If you're in a creative, artistic industry, relying on your looks and presence to make a living, computers couldn't possibly come for your job, right? Actually, they can, and here's how.

To address income inequality, economists and philosophers keep coming up with the same ideas, most of which involve resurrecting heavy-handed control economies and adding computers.

When the internet really doesn't like you, there isn't much you can do but get better. Just don't tell that to angry aging lawmakers. They will refuse to believe you.

Imagine a computer the size of a solar system, powered by a star and built for speed. It sounds impressive, but it may not be as good of an idea as it may seem.

A new set of chips shows a lot of promise in drastically reducing the vast amount of energy used by artificial neural networks.

Technophobes and worried Singularitarians concerned about a violent AI need to stop worrying about the machines and start worrying about who's programming them.

When the courts encounter computer science and chemistry, the end result isn't sophisticated regulation but utter confusion as judges and lawyers try to figure out what's legal, what's not, and what should be.

Bitcoin isn't about to crash, but it's very unlikely to scale up to a currency freely used around the world.

Big Think's informative and educational Q&A feature once again produces answers that fail to inform or educate.

A widely covered article about math confuses readers by equating volume of proof and code with quality of proof and code to imply that computers will take over math as a discipline.

Coding is a useful skill, but some Silicon Valley luminaries are tackling their mission to teach kids how to write apps with a little too much zeal and overly rosy stats.

A new Singularitarians' approach to space exploration: why bother going to space when we could simulate anything we want after the Singularity?

A group of Republicans is trying to advance a conspiracy theory that Romney's campaign tool to detect voter fraud was sabotaged from the inside.

Data centers are getting a bum rap, but behind the scenes, they're working hard on trying to keep the internet more reliable and their power usage more efficient.

One of the biggest limitations on the computing power of our spacecraft is shielding them from radiation.