Robots are starting to keep tabs on and fire warehouse workers. And the day they'll be tracking all of us to evaluate our performance and make HR decisions is unsettlingly close.

As more and more people become disillusioned with social media, a new breed of grifter blaming old human follies on technology is trying to cash in on their misery.

When we talk about regulating artificial intelligence, we need to step back and ask ourselves a very important question. What are we regulating and why?

Law enforcement agencies can't wait to deploy facial recognition AI in daily policing, and pressuring lawmakers to get out of their way. But their zeal for face-seeking AI can easily backfire.

The experiment to turn laid off coal miners into rockstar programmers has been going on for years now with little to show for it except more right wing rage on social media.

Every computer system can be compromised, even artificial intelligence. But despite some recent warnings, it's not about to become a prime new target for hackers.

Tech evangelists promising an internet-powered utopia helped design of social media as we know it. Their plan to unite the world was doomed the minute it met reality.

Interaction with robots on a regular basis has the potential to blur some important lines when it comes to dealing with the world around us. But the good news is that our machines can still enforce them.

We need a blockchain for ethical, friendly artificial intelligence about as much as a fish needs an umbrella. But in true Singularitarian fashion, one is being proposed.

It's not your imagination, social media and product rankings are being gamed with very obvious tricks tech companies are refusing to stop.

Another month, another case to remind us that investing in the economic Wild West has real consequences for thousands of people.

Experts are worried we're ceding too many decisions to recommendation algorithms and are on a slippery slope to exploitation and learned helplessness. In reality, we'd be lost and very frustrated without them.

The American military may be the best in the world, but too often, it's fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century ideas. Its foreign counterparts have an opportunity to master the wars of the future.

In the next ten years or so, your internet experience will be the same as today. But that internet may be built on complex quantum interactions instead of bits and bytes flying between routers and servers.

Gadgets connected to the internet and controlled by apps are everywhere, even in things that don't need to be linked global communication networks. Unfortunately, they're not working out well for us...