Machines of Loving Grace

The suitors fell one by one. Disney. Alphabet. Salesforce.

Good news: President Obama isn't worried that self-aware robots are going to take over the planet and kill off…

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…

Last month, Tribune Publishing, the company that publishes The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and The…

The mishaps for Tesla's Autopilot have gotten a lot of attention, but the semi-autonomous driving technology has…

Elon Musk just released "Part Deux" of his master plan.

Last year, researchers found that when kids met a robot in the mall, they would often try to beat it up. Last week,…

A team of marvelous weirdos at Harvard have created what they are calling a ‘synthetic beast.’ It graces the cover…

In what's beginning to feel like a depressing weekly ritual, there's news that another Tesla has crashed with…

At the end of last week, almost two months after the fact and later than we probably ought to have learned about it,…

NASA’s history-making spacecraft, Juno, made a spectacularly successful journey to Jupiter this July 4, entering the…

Algorithms discriminate. It's not their fault, they're strings of math, but people program them. Software used to…

Uber drivers who pay a visit to the company's inspection lot near Mission Bay in San Francisco will be met with a…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into Tesla Model S vehicles…

In a stunning display of legal acuity a sole, tireless lawyer has beaten back 160,000 parking tickets on both sides…

Everyone! Please, do not worry about the critically endangered bees. Scientists have a plan for replacing them:…

"It’s official," declares The Washington Post.  "Drone delivery is coming to D.C. in September."

As a general rule, people don't want to die. And they usually don't want other people to die. But because life is…

Our forward-thinking cousins in Europe have proposed that robots, should they achieve sentience any time soon, be…

A group of researchers from Google, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, and OpenAI have released a new paper on the need to…