What if, instead of watching you with a camera and filling your head with propaganda through its speakers, the telescreen of George Orwell's 1984 could instead just read your thoughts and tell you what it wants you to hear just by vibrating the bones in your head? If that sounds like an absolutely terrible technology pitch, then wow do I have some bad news for you.

Doctor Mae Jemison, who was the first African-American woman in space, recently spoke to HuffPost about the importance of introducing kids to STEM education early in life - and that means all kids.

A mere ten days before Stephen Hawking's death, he recorded an interview with another renowned astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, for Tyson's series, Star Talk, on National Geographic TV. The episode, which originally aired on March 4th, was released today in a commercial-free version in memory (and celebration of) the legendary Hawking.

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking died early this morning at 76 years old, leaving many of us very sad but also very inspired by his life, especially considering he was told he only had two years to live all the way back in 1963, at 22 years old, due to motor neurone disease. He beat the odds in a big way, bringing us all a lot of science and laughter over the years, and this is our small way of paying tribute.

A number of Alexa owners have reported their personal AI assistants displaying some disturbing behavior. One Twitter user posted a video of her Alexa randomly laughing maniacally, apparently with no provocation.

The idea that a vaccine will make your child promiscuous is absolutely ridiculous, but in what world is cancer a better alternative to promiscuity? 

Researcher Janelle Shane, whose work with neural networks we've covered before, is at it again. This time, she tried to train a neural network to create its own candy heart messages.

The robots have added two more skills to their repertoire: skiing and opening doors.

The comics are pretty clear on the ground rules: "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he [OR SHE] be worthy, shall possess the power of THOR." But how does this work?

157 new emojis will be headed for smartphones in 2018. While redheads (and bald heads) will finally be getting some long-deserved representation, we're most excited about being able to express our geekery in emoji form.

The robots can beat us at Jeopardy, chess, Go, and now ... Scrabble?

The good people (and robot brains) over at Botnik Studios, creators of such wonderful neural network-generated monstrosities as Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash, are back at it again. This time, they've turned their attention on something already incomprehensible enough that a computer-created version is nearly indistinguishable from reality: the list of bands to play at Coachella.

Recent confirmation that Apple actually uses its iOS operating system to slow down older iPhone models was met with a lot of uproar, even though the feature is specifically tuned to spread out battery usage over time to prevent phones with aging batteries from unexpectedly shutting off. Apple already launched an improvement to their battery replacement program to try to smooth things over, but now they're planning to let users opt out of the feature altogether.

Google has an app that will more-or-less perfectly (more often less, which is often more amusing anyway) match you up against portraits in museum collections with face recognition, and present you with a side-by-side comparison. It's not quite the festival of living art, but at least you don't have to worry about involuntary muscle spasms or ruining things with an unexpected phone call!

Senate Democrats now have the 30 cosponsors they need to force a Senate floor vote on a bill to preserve net neutrality.

A new trend sweeping up Silicon Valley is "raw water", or "unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized spring water" that will definitely make you sick.

How do how machine learning and algorithm-based artificial intelligence actually work? And when we talk about machines "learning," what process are we really talking about? These YouTube videos help to explain.