There is a problem we used to work out in Computer Science classes.  In basic "top-down" design, the program was read from ...

Each of them was assigned a binary number and divided into several groups.When the "game" began, they calculated the numbers ...

Fears about AI going rogue and turning against humanity have been around since the days of Skynet, the superintelligent neural network in the 1984 film, the Terminator. But this month, those fears ...

Tasha Robinson is the entertainment editor at Polygon, writing about whatever she can get away with: Movies, TV, books, graphic novels, TTRPGs, fandom, and anything else in the cultural sphere. She ...

After reading Jill Lepore’s The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one. I’d set the dial to some night in the ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

Ahead of the release of his new book, Paris Marx tells Computer Weekly how tech companies’ insatiable datacentre demands are accelerating the climate crisis.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...