The definition of what constitutes artificial intelligence is still highly subjective.

Computer scientist Jaron Lanier wants to you remind you not to worship technology as a panacea to all the world's ills, albeit in a very bizarre, rambling way...

It's one thing to criticize junk science or lack of detail when it comes to transhumanism. It's something else to dismiss the entire concept based on glorified statism and fatalism.

Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.

Getting naked in front of digital devices with cameras as a teenage minor can become a huge legal problem. So why aren't states fixing the laws for modern times?

Armies of smart microscopic robots roaming your bloodstream are still science fiction. But simpler beneficial nanoparticles may be coming sooner than later.

Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But what futurist ideas seem to be on the right track and more likely to happen than not?

If you froze yourself in a cryogenic chamber, would anyone actually want to unfreeze you in the future?

Despite the popular rumor, you can't hack a speed camera XKCD-style with some code on your license plate.

Machine vision still has a long way to go before it can do something as simple as identify objects at a slight angle.

Tomorrow, it's Weird Things vs. transhumanist George Dvorksy on Skeptically Speaking.

The city of San Francisco wants cell phone makers to display information showing that their phones are harmless in the most menacing and confusing way possible.

Joe Lieberman decided that the best way to tackle cyber-security is by literally shutting off the country's internet on demand with nothing more than an executive order by the president.

IBM has big plans for its Watson engine. Question is whether it will live up to the hype.

If Nicholas Carr's attention span has been undermined by technology, he reasons that so has everyone else's and it's his duty to warn us.