Advocates of the supposedly incoming Technological Singularity have been long on talk but short on detail and seem to see no reason to reverse this trend.

Supercomputers may be able to perform calculations at the speed of light, and maybe slightly faster if we're feeling adventurous, according to a pair of studies.

Before we build practical quantum computers, we need to learn how to read quantum states. One idea may be to make the circuits bigger. Much bigger. At least on a nano scale that is...

Oil is a finite resource, and if it runs out before we're ready, it will be a massive economic disaster, as a NatGeo doomsday scenario shows in grim detail.

Defense contractors are trying to turn the internet into an arena for state-sponsored espionage of dubious efficacy and legality.

Small, simple robots are making amazing leaps and bounds in evolving behavior similar to that of living things. But why? And how?

For nearly than half a century, the consensus on what makes a machine intelligent has eluded the computer science field, and it's not getting any easier with more time and new technology.

Intel gives us a humorous peek at a surprisingly plausible future of robotics with its "Lunch Room" ad.

The Daily Galaxy takes up preaching the gospel of the Singularity to its fans while dodging the sketchy history and problematic future of the concept.

In order to make their cinematic universe work, the creators of The Matrix had to make their robots invulnerable. In reality, they wouldn't have won the war against humans.

China wants its citizens connected to the internet. Just not the kind of internet where their daily propaganda blitz could be questioned with the click of a mouse...

Defining and measuring intelligence is very difficult. It will be even more difficult if that intelligence is artificial.

Turns out, insects have basic forms of intelligence and the path to thinking robots may be through emulating how their tiny minds work.

A biologist tried to give a neuroscience lesson to the utopian futurists at H+ and they did not take it well.

In another major step for brain-machine interfaces, a stroke victim can speak using a computer with amazing accuracy.