Does an artificial intelligence need a body to truly become what we could consider intelligent?

According to Jonathan Franzen, books are vital to the continuation of civilization, just as long as they're not in digital form because e-books will destroy the sum total of knowledge.

DARPA wants a program that can monitor your actions and predict your every move. Is that even remotely plausible?

We should always think of the children, especially if we're being told to let our ISPs spy on our every move, ostensibly to protect said children.

A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.

Piracy might not kill entertainment as we know it, but the justifications for why it's supposedly harmless seem to fall short of their goal.

The good news is that we found a way to drastically increase storage density for computers. The bad news is that it's not very practical.

Colleges are trying to figure out who'll actually succeed in a computer science program, and they're starting to find some interesting insights.

While thinking of our bodies as divine or entirely in utilitarian terms is unhealthy, there is a middle ground to consider.

Remember, the cloud is just someone else's computers. And your files could vanish if those computers break or their owners sell them off.

Putting another (incomplete) year in the books for Weird Things...

Computer scientist Nick Barnes shows us pretty much everything wrong with colleges' attitudes towards their students and curricula by example...

Popular science outlets and tech pundits are getting the wrong idea about chips built to function more like biological neurons.

A disagreement between academic and industrial computer science is threatening to leave students in an educational no-man's land.

Bitcoin is supposed to be a whole new way to manage money. But the humans handling it are still the same and falling into old habits with this new currency.