Dystopias

OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research group co-founded by Elon Musk and whose website touts a vision of "discovering and...

In the 1983 film War Games, a teenage hacker accesses WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a military supercomputer programmed to...

As robots and artificial intelligence begin to take on more roles in our daily lives, there are bound to be hiccups, some bigger than...

Traveling around the holidays is always a nightmare, but for those going in and out of London's Gatwick Airport yesterday it was pure...

We previously reported on Google's DeepMind AI being able to generate new, photorealistic images of scenes that never existed, as well...

If you thought the face of AI oppression was going to take the form of robots going down the street killing people (as Elon Musk...

Over the years, we've covered some stuff that seemed straight out of a cyberpunk novel, from technology that may allow you to control...

It was fun while it lasted, guys. We all knew that the day would come when humanity would spark the flame that would destroy the...

While everyone is playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and Black Ops 4, developers and engineers at the MIT Media Lab are going for a game...

Machine learning and neural nets have been adapted to everything from writing fortune cookie messages to developing new drugs, but...

If there's one thing society can agree on, it's that going through airport security and waiting to board a plane sucks. From arriving...

Each year the Global Footprint Network (GFN), an international environment think tank, assesses how much of the Earth's resources...

Companies are manufacturing computer-generated influencers-slash-models to sell you on their products.

Facebook has secretly used billions of publicly available photos on Instagram to teach software how to better identify objects.

If you thought erasing historical events like Tiananmen Square from search engines and instituting facial tracking across the country...

Like a collapsing star, Stephen Hawking's death has left a black hole in our hearts. Though the man himself is gone, his words live...

What a time to be alive.You've heard of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Now get ready for a series of billboards that...

We all know how zombie apocalypses kick off. All it takes is one infected patient escaping quarantine before a deadly disease starts...

While sci-fi has been portraying technologies like human genetic modification and cognitive enhancers for decades, real-life...

Orphan Black had quite a few crazy revelations last night--M.K. is officially a Helsinki survivor! Rachel is letting Charlotte die!...