Computing

Roborace is creating a new motorsport to accelerate the arrival of self-driving cars

Shannon, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, thought machines can think but doubted they "would take over”

Her husband, Claude, helped create the computer revolution, but few knew that she was his closest collaborator

Robopocalypse creator Daniel Wilson sets aside his dystopian tendencies to help the XPRIZE’s Sci-fi collection and writing contest find a silver lining in our obsession with intelligent assistants

Researchers in the U.K. trained computers to rate photos of parks and cities for what humans consider to be their scenic beauty. Christopher Intagliata reports.

 Security has to start with sound itself

It’s not easy, but a newly proposed test might be able to detect consciousness in a machine

U.S. firms have both the incentive and the opportunity to use information about us in undesirable ways

“Being a scientist doesn’t absolve me of my humanity”

An experimental cell phone works by absorbing and reflecting radio waves—meaning it's incredibly energy efficient and needs no battery. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Instead of laws to restrict robot behavior, robots should be empowered to pick the best solution for any given scenario

Optical computers may have finally found a use—improving artificial intelligence