What if Twitter's future is becoming Facebook's live media app?
The suitors fell one by one. Disney. Alphabet. Salesforce.
President Obama is worried about robots taking your job, not your life
Good news: President Obama isn't worried that self-aware robots are going to take over the planet and kill off humans.
Meet the artists who have embraced artificial intelligence
Sam Kronick has a bunch of rocks arrayed in front of him on a raised desk in his Oakland studio. He’s an artist and his…
New journalist job requirement: 'Develop, maintain, and upgrade content harvesting robots'
Last month, Tribune Publishing, the company that publishes The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore…
Tesla Autopilot reportedly saved a pedestrian
The mishaps for Tesla's Autopilot have gotten a lot of attention, but the semi-autonomous driving technology has also…
Elon Musk just released Tesla's new 'master plan'
Elon Musk just released "Part Deux" of his master plan.
Security robot accidentally attacks child
Last year, researchers found that when kids met a robot in the mall, they would often try to beat it up. Last week, at…
Why have scientists created this half-machine, half-flesh robo-stingray?
A team of marvelous weirdos at Harvard have created what they are calling a ‘synthetic beast.’ It graces the cover of th…
Another Tesla has crashed and the driver claims he was using Autopilot
In what's beginning to feel like a depressing weekly ritual, there's news that another Tesla has crashed with…
One of Tesla's beta testers has died. Should the Autopilot test on open roads continue?
At the end of last week, almost two months after the fact and later than we probably ought to have learned about it,…
The Juno space probe now orbiting Jupiter is 'manned' by a Lego crew
NASA’s history-making spacecraft, Juno, made a spectacularly successful journey to Jupiter this July 4, entering the…
EU citizens might get a 'right to explanation' about the decisions algorithms make
Algorithms discriminate. It's not their fault, they're strings of math, but people program them. Software used to…
Uber hired a robot to patrol its parking lot and it's way cheaper than a security guard
Uber drivers who pay a visit to the company's inspection lot near Mission Bay in San Francisco will be met with a…
Tesla owner dies in the first fatal crash involving a self-driving car
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into Tesla Model S vehicles…
This robot lawyer has beaten over 160,000 parking tickets
In a stunning display of legal acuity a sole, tireless lawyer has beaten back 160,000 parking tickets on both sides of…
Harvard scientists made robotic bees for pollination and 'surveillance'
Everyone! Please, do not worry about the critically endangered bees. Scientists have a plan for replacing them: robot…
Why D.C.'s sidewalk delivery drones are doomed
"It’s official," declares The Washington Post. "Drone delivery is coming to D.C. in September."
Who lives, who dies, who decides when a self-driving car must kill?
As a general rule, people don't want to die. And they usually don't want other people to die. But because life is cruel…
Europe wants robots to pay taxes
Our forward-thinking cousins in Europe have proposed that robots, should they achieve sentience any time soon, be…
Google scientists are tackling the most dangerous AI out there: Roombas having accidents
A group of researchers from Google, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, and OpenAI have released a new paper on the need to…