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.

Threatened by the open, permissive architecture of the internet, Russia is doing a dry run at building its own. If it succeeds, the effects on the global economy and geopolitics would be far-reaching and unsettling.

Automation is responsible for most jobs lost in the industrial world and could replace as much as two thirds of the developing world's workforce. Why are we still pretending it's decades away?

Australian lawmakers stunned the country's techies by passing a law requiring them to help law enforcement snoop on encrypted data on request, and putting e-commerce and basic digital security at risk.

In a move straight of a Dickensian cyberpunk novel, a Chinese app alerts citizens if someone in debt is within 500 meters, and encourages spying on their spending habits.

Earthquakes might be both powerful and inevitable. But we have the tools to soften their blows, save millions of lives, and save billions when cleaning up after them.

Followers of viral regressive ideologues found a new supposed hive of politically correct scum and radical feminist villainy: computer science.

Pundits are charging that not only are tech billionaires taking advantage of their employees and automating them out of a job, they're actually on a mission to make humans obsolete.

Particle colliders have a huge, seldom discussed problem when trying to record experimental data. Solving it could help us find ground breaking new physics and give us a more reliable internet.

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.

As 2018 winds down, it's time to take a quick look back at what happened this year before we ring in the new one...

Weird Things has returned, but because this hiatus was so different, so is the comeback. This site is changing in new and very important ways to tackle the year ahead.

While rapidly accelerating automation should make it easier to modernize nations still mired in poverty, in the real world, it's upending the economic models on which development experts rely...

Hyperloop designers are dreaming big, which is admirable. What's less admirable is their failure to dream of practical solutions to real world problems.

According to researchers and experts, emojis aren't replacing the written word, they're just helping us understand the emotional context in which that written word was deployed.