Reinventing the wheel is a common refrain for doing something unnecessary. But what if you really can make a better wheel like Goodyear is trying to do?

Let's not surgarcoat this. We will build autonomous killer robots because we have every incentive to. So let's make sure we get them right.

The bad news is that we can't wipe offensive speech and trolls off the web. The good news is that trolls tend to turn on each other quickly.

After analyzing millions of comments researchers can say for sure that the best way to deal with trolls is with deafening silence.

Amazon is not a nice or fun place to work, even if you're one of its supposedly vaunted techies. But it's not like we expect any better from a company that big.

If your code can result in people being sent to jail for decades, if not death row, that code should be open source and subject to review. The courts don't seem to understand that yet.

Of all the terrible ideas conceived in the social media age, a Yelp for people has to be, by far, one of the absolute worst and poorly thought out.

Tracking what's happening inside a biological system on a computer is not the same thing as recreating that system.

The City of Berkley took on science and the science lost because it was represented by a trade group that argued about free speech rights instead.

A dive into the limitations of using an artificial neural network to reanimate yourself inside a computer.

Outrage has become the web's most lucrative and eye-catching product, and quite a few news sites have now streamlined its distribution for those sweet, sweet clicks.

Ad blockers aren't just a way to stop annoying banners pop-ups, and videos. They can also keep your devices safe.

As we're living our lives online, we have to adjust to the idea that what we do in private might become public and act accordingly.

Nancy Jo Sales tackles Tinder and modern dating. Or rather she filled in some stereotypes and bad science into an article she was planning to write all along.

The founder of Soylent is trying to make outsourcing your carbon footprint an accomplishment. It's not.