Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# tech
Command economies haven't worked with people. Now, some groups want to try it with machines.
# tech
The flip side of technophobia and lamentations about the dehumanizing effect of gadgets? Trying to force everyone to code and insisting it's a vital skill, like literacy.
# tech
AI enthusiasts love to write about machines as black boxes with inputs and outputs because they don't know how they would actually be built.
# tech
The jobs tech execs are thinking would be gained through monetized crowdsourcing don't seem like the kind of sustainable jobs we'll need in the future.
# tech
North Korea's computer-based insult towards South Korea's head of state was supposed to be meaningless but offensive nonsense. Too bad pop sci writers took the bait and tried to explain it anyway.
# astrobiology
A study using soldier crabs to emulate computers is actually a perfect illustration of how different alien computing could be.
# tech
Pseudoscience and fact-free manifestos, now with anger management issues...
# tech
A Singularity by any other name is still just a utopian cold reading of where technology is headed.
# tech
The NSA wants to scan the internet in real time and store whatever it can catch for later. But are they ready for the challenge that poses?
# tech
Like all communities, open source programming has its fair share of drama and emotional flareups over prominent tools and apps.