A popular criticism of radical life extension is that society and life cycles would break down. But that's not what happens in organisms whose lives we dramatically increased in the lab.

To Ray Kurzweil and his adherents, the "exponential curve of technology" is an immutable law of nature. But does it actually exist in the real world?

Some engineers are convinced that neurons work the same way as circuits. Neuroscience begs to differ.

For Ray Kurzweil and his disciples, the "exponential curve of technological advancement" is the way, the light, and the cure for all that ails us...

Computers might be able to record your every aspect of your life, but do you really want them to?

Electric cars and the natural next step in the evolution of transport. But they have some hurdles to clear before becoming truly widespread.

Fusion simply has far too much promise not to keep pursing, even if the progress seems slow right now.

When you're promised eternal life as a hyper-intelligent machine, it's hard to not check out its confabs.

A team of engineers from the UK is trying to build a car capable of breaking the sound barrier, testing the limits of our strongest and most heat-resistant materials in the process.

A look inside the secret plot to use porn to... help replace human women with sex bots because reasons?

Brain-machine interfaces are developing at a rapid pace. But don't expect to order implants on demand anytime soon.

Michael Vassar is back for the third and final installment of the Weird Things Singularity debate.

MIT's experiment in capturing how the web views you shows the limitations of parsing through massive, unstructured, loosely related data sets.

Michael Vassar is back for the second round of our debate about Ray Kurzweil and The Technological Singularity.

Michael Vassar of the Singularity Institute offers a rebuttal to Weird Things' coverage of the Singularity and its advocates.