Technology & Innovation

Ready Player One’s spectacular VR OASIS experience has us wondering how achievable it really is and when we’ll start seeing immersive VR movies.

The flying drone attack marks one of the latest cases in which criminals have been using consumer models to facilitate illegal activity.

In an immersive virtual environment, what will it be like to kill?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced plans to add a dating feature to Facebook, a move that threatens established companies in the online dating industry.

A Scottish inventor has created a water bottle that could save ocean life the world over. But will the plastic industry let it happen?

Silicon Valley might just be missing the most important aspect of being human: the ability to feel.

Is Mark Zuckerberg’s libertarian data policy responsible for the single worst financial decision in the history of the United Kingdom? Parliament wants to know.

NASA just cancelled its only lunar rover in development, despite President Donald Trump’s orders to expand lunar expeditions.

How good urban design can help us become better people.

Two tech titans can’t agree on the one thing that could come to define our times: A.I. What do they have to say on the matter?

We’ve always used media as a means of framing reality. How will this affect our relationship with VR?

You are who you are because of your environment. What happens in a virtual world in an environment created by another mind?

The masterminds behind Silicon Valley were doing more than coding.

If you see the VingCard logo on your room key, that’s the system in question.

Mark Zuckerberg has infamously downplayed Facebook’s responsibilities as a business in the content creation space. Instead, he defends it as a technology platform.

Hubble telescope celebrates 28 years of being a space sleuth with these dazzling images of the Lagoon Nebula, 4,000 light-years away.

On April 20, Nintendo will release Labo, a new gaming system that tasks kids with creating interactive games with cardboard cutouts and the Nintendo Switch.

For 55 hours, not a speck of coal was used to toast crumpets in England. How did the U.K. give up the dirtiest fossil fuel?

Scientists are developing liquid metal or “electric blood” that can move and form 2D shapes. This may revolutionize the field of soft robotics.

Space X successfully launches TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite a.k.a. “The Planet Hunter.” NASA will use it to search for planets that may support extraterrestrial life.

SpaceX recently secured about $507 million in new funding. Based on recent statements, SpaceX will put that cash toward three ambitious projects.

The impact of this research could help save millions of lives each year. Only thing is, it has to be done from space.

Does everybody really need to work? What three philosophers have to say about our dedication to finding everybody a job.

In the wake of several public setbacks since the start of 2018, Musk said Tesla is currently going through a “production hell.”

This detailed infographic shows the path of Mark Zuckerberg’s life.

Want to improve your business? Hire a philosopher.

Apple reports that it has completed an aggressive, years-long effort to reduce its environmental footprint.

“In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.” ― Rebecca MacKinnon

Instead of beating adversaries in games, we might learn more about intelligence if we tried to teach artificial agents to play together as we do: as paladins and elf rangers.

Those recent tax breaks for the extremely wealthy might just have a new place to be spent.