An AI far smarter than any human may want to have no contact with us. Unfortunately, it won't have a choice in the matter.

Some activists want to see virtual crime punished by real world consequences. They do not want to go down that road and what it would entail.

Tech companies are having a lot of trouble recruiting and keeping skilled coders, and the advice floating around the web is not helping them at all.

Just because you can write an app without going to college, don't discount the value of a degree if you decide to seriously pursue computer science.

More than 200 scientists with over 2,000 studies claim that cell phones cause cancer. Well, depending on your definition of "cause cancer." And "scientist." And "study."

Neither Ray Kurzweil or Jaron Lanier seem to lack imagination as to what jobs computers could do. So why are they so uncreative when it comes to coming up with ideas for humans working alongside AI?

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

A city within a single massive building has been a staple of science fiction and a dream for many designers. Unfortunately, for them, it seems no one actually wants to live in one for a number of good reasons.

Not only are robots stealing your job, more often than not, you're helping them with nowhere to go after receiving your pink slip...

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

The next job in line to get automated seems to be line cooks, raising even more alarms about the future of work and the economy.

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.

Tech pundits keep pitching anatomically correct robots built to be interactive sex toys as a solution for many societal woes despite a lot of red flags that it won't work.

The American healthcare system today is a mess of paperwork and confusion. More data and smarter, fact-based decision making could improve its highly mixed outcomes.

Techno-utopians sold a world on the narrative that the web was built for a free exchange of information. But that's never actually been true...