Theo Jansen thinks a lot, and designs stuff that walks, feels, and learns as it shuffles seashells on the seashell shore.
Whether we enter a robot utopia, a robot smog or somewhere in between, we will close the gap between robotically aware and organically alive. Do we create new life forms, as Jansens suggests of his progeny?
When Dr. David Yusko speaks with people who've suffered traumatic experiences -- roadside explosions, gunshot wounds, rape -- he sometimes has difficu...
When former governor and current U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford admitted during a press conference that he'd been unfaithful to his wife, his 20-minute apolog...
By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/07/2013 03:42 PM EDT on LiveScience Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords? The idea...
Technology is risky business. At least, that's what some scientists fear: the proposed Center for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of C...
We’re used to asking computers for facts, like the population of San Francisco, the GDP of Indonesia, or the square root of 5,929. But can a compute...
There are good reasons to be skeptical of machines grading essays. Their algorithms can't distinguish between arguments supported by factual evidence and cases built on canards. They're reliable enough to dock points for clichés, but they're not subtle enough to reward subtlety.
I can imagine Shakespeare laughing at all of us today, as we enslave ourselves to technology. When will this all stop? When will we take a moment and realize that originality, which resides in every human being, cannot be measured on a scale of 1 to 100?
A growing number of virtual assistants, like Siri, have charmed the world with their human characteristics -- they can speak, crack jokes and even get...
How do you improve the kiss? The same way you upgrade warehouses and factories: with robots. Hooman Samani, a professor at Taiwan’s National ...
Whether its our genes, environment or food today, our intelligence seems to be going down, while we are now discovering that chimps are smarter than we once thought.
A good therapist will care for us, accept and even love us, in her or his own way, and thus allow us to accept and love ourselves a little more. I don't know if we can ever achieve such a relationship without a human connection.
According to entrepreneur Raj Singh, smartphones have so far failed to live up to their name. As Singh sees it, that Android or iPhone in your pock...
INSEAD marketing professor Philip Parker has, by his estimation, authored over 1 million books. His name is on their covers, but he hasn’t actua...
A job listing recently posted to Apple's career site suggests the tech giant has plans to bring Siri to its Mac computers, the last major class of App...
We all know what it's like to suffer through a first date -- the canned conversation, awkward good night hug/kiss, forced laughter. Rather than endure all that alone, artist and programmer Lauren McCarthy has hired a team of anonymous online strangers to help her through the awkwardness.
TROY, New York (AP) — Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world's best human "Jeopardy!" champions, is going to college. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Martin Ford saw it everywhere, even in his own business. Smarter machines and better software were helping companie...
The world got its first inkling of the quick wit that would make Apple’s Siri an icon during a packed press conference held before an auditorium of ...
A survey of 1,000 cell phone owners commissioned by Nuance, a provider of voice recognition software, suggests that people are developing closer relationships with the virtual assistants on their smartphones.
Professor and entrepreneur Francisco Vico is staking out new ground for machines by proving they can reach beyond artificial intelligence to a higher ...
The new year is starting with a new, louder wave of warnings about the robots coming for our jobs. They're better at things than we are, goes the ...
Like pen pals, landlines and citizen band radio before, cyberculture is about navigating social spaces through use of new tools.
