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...

Foreign policy wonks want tech companies to battle censorship with the devices they sell to foreign countries. Unfortunately, they can't defeat math, even for a noble cause.

Giant bipedal robots look cool in anime and movies. In real life, you probably wouldn't want to use them to fight giant eldritch creatures made of teeth, fangs, and acid.

Some computer scientists are so eager to work work quantum computers, they created a new language to make working with quantum circuits easier.

NSA's PRISM is a huge mess that the public somehow really doesn't care about.

A study finds that couple who met online end up in more stable, happier marriages. But there are a few small caveats that need to be addressed...

We have the tools, know-how, and technology to make this a better, more advanced world. We're just refusing to do it because the public is used to the droning of naysayers.