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.

A Singularitarian group wants to make you immortal using nothing more than all your secrets and keepsakes...

Are computer scientists, ordinarily classified as engineers, in such high demand in traditional scientific fields that we'd want to reclassify them?

Another day, another Singularitarian idea for measuring artificial intelligence, this time, through statistical problem solving.

A new way of creating positrons hints at a potential shortcut towards antimatter engines. But we're still a long way off from such spacecraft...

The Tau Zero Foundation has a radical plan for exploring interstellar space with an extreme spaceship. Problem is, it might not be radical enough.

Engineers are using evolutionary algorithms to design new ion engines for spacecraft.

Computers that can tell when someone isn't being genuine or mocking them, that's exactly what we wanted...