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Whether we concede it or not, humanity longs for its cosmic significant other. 

At the Black Hat security conference later this month, two Spanish engineers plan to demonstrate a $25 gadget that can take over a car’s electronics.

If it runs Android, you can install an app, created by designers at the University of California-Berkeley, that will let the phone crunch data during downtime.

Clean Lahore was created in response to a 2011 epidemic that sickened 20,000. Along with a dedicated public health campaign, the app helps officials monitor all efforts to stop the disease’s spread.

A Quebec designer set up an installation that combines a standard “For Rent” sign with a surveillance camera, computer software, and a motorized track.

A few weeks ago Mayor of London Boris Johnson said some questionable things about IQ tests and the benefits of greed, income inequality and shaking boxes of cornflakes. Dorothy Bishop wrote an […]

Can computers learn the same way a children learns? Yes. We are starting to tap into the power of cognitive computing.

The public gains made by AI, such as beating chess champions and winning Jeopardy tournaments, have ironically also demonstrated its limits.

Guest post by Kevin Flora In a recent podcast, the discussion was focused around inventions.  The question was asked, “have all of the good inventions already been invented?”  The answer […]

Not because winning could turn you into a literal fat cat: Research suggests that simply buying tickets leads to materialistic thoughts followed by diminished self-restraint in the here and now.

Once upon a time, a car was an industrial machine you climbed in and drove around. Today, it’s also a tracking and nudging machine that second-guesses you for your own […]

Today’s (Sept. 10) removal of Hewlett-Packard from the Dow Jones Industrial Index demonstrates how quickly advances in technology are speeding up companies’ rise and fall.

A team from Tokyo’s University of Electro-Communications has created a system that creates an interactive surface from a tub of opaque water, basically “[taking] immersive entertainment to a whole new level.”

Ray Kurzweil’s dream of internal nanobots floating around our bloodstream making us immortal by eradicating diseases and slowing down the aging process may actually be a reality sooner than any of us […]

Ray Kurzweil is singularly sure about The Singularity.

According to government estimates, over half a million young people between the ages of 12 and 18 have problems with Internet addiction. The program will address the severe lack of treatment available from public and private institutions.

A new artificial intelligence has proven more effective than human engineers at regulating Internet traffic, say researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. 

Expanding access to education and research tools, Ramez Naam says, “is accelerating this process of the Darwinian evolution of ideas.”

The major investment that’s required for the future is in human capital.

“If you want to go to a top-tier school…;” It’s a “lower-tier school, but good…” In conversations about college, you often hear rankings-focused comments. It’s difficult to remember the time […]

Meet e-David (Drawing Apparatus for Vivid Image Display), a robot who is programmed to copy works of art.

The iPhone is essentially an extension of the human mind, and that’s totally natural. 

A California school district says that safety is the reason why it hired tracking company Geo Listening to monitor students’ posts.

Do black holes exist? The world’s most famous scientist vs. the actual science. “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the Universe, why it is as it is […]

Even the White House is getting involved in YouTube’s “Geek Week,” hosting a special We the Geeks: Robots Hangout today at 2:00 pm EDT for “a conversation about the state of American robotics and the possibilities for robots to improve life on Earth.”

In September I covered a paper that described the massive amount of bias created in the legal system in parts of the US where forensic laboratories are paid in return […]

“I do not know whether I shall return from my long weekend trip alive,” the mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport once wrote. “But I do know that the number of traffic […]

Thanks to a mandate passed by Congress in 1996, the US government is about to get out of the business of producing helium. The resulting shortage could affect a range of sectors across the industrialized world.

At a recent convention in London, manufacturers displayed prototypes of next-generation machines “that had the look, and feel, of oversized smartphones or tablet computers.”

Biologists at Princeton University have used 3-D printing technology to create a bionic ear capable of detecting frequencies one million times higher than the normal range of hearing.