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Elon Musk’s Fixation on Killer AI Distracts from Much More Immediate Problems with Smart Machines

If you know someone's date of birth, you can crack their Myspace account.

The problem with revenge is that it's never enough. The past, as the women of Westeros know, is forever.

A controversial study of the electric grid, requested by Energy Secretary Rick Perry in April, is finally expected to be released this month.

We already have a case study for when VCs promise progress, and it doesn’t look good.

The Structural Genomics Consortium encourages pharma companies and academics to put all their cards on the table in the interest of speeding up drug research.

Last Thursday, a bunch of space capitalists met with a bunch of senators to talk policy.

The young network's flagship shows are back for a second season. Is there room for them in today's fragmented media landscape?

Last week, military officials described how climate change would escalate instability across the globe and make it harder for the US military to conduct its operations.

The new IBM Z mainframe uses "pervasive encryption" to stop data breaches in their tracks.

Stick pens are not elegant, effortless writing utensils. But like so many of life's best things, it's their very badness that makes them great.

We look at a coffee grinder and a brewer that double down on coffee science.

In the director's vision, Madeleine L’Engle’s 1963 story looks like a fantasy world—and the real one as well.

Let's face it: No government is ever going to fund a mission to colonize another planet.

What's behind the recent spat of database vulnerabilities? Good ol' fashioned human error.

Ahmed Best has a new podcast—and a new understanding of Jar Jar Binks, the character that once defined his past.

We take Stromer's new e-bike for a gravel-spewing, torque-laden spin.

The White House exposes voter info, Trump Jr. met with an alleged Russian hacker, and more security news this week.

As the blaze careened towards a neighborhood in Oroville, four firefighters jumped into action.

One podcasting company is betting it can keep listeners hooked with its musical offering '36 Questions.'

From simple film-painting to digital post-production techniques, we've long been searching for the perfect hue.

Tesla has to ramp up the infrastructure to support its new model.

Nope, sorry, a see-through border wall doesn't protect against tossed heroin.

One would think that keeping elections safe would be an issue everyone backed. It's not that simple.

The streaming service's breakout show nabbed an impressive 13 Emmy nods.

You don't need to be a campaign insider to narrowly target American voters with disinformation online.

The anime version of the Dracula-killing, dungeon-crawling game franchise looks like a success—so we'll probably be seeing more like it.

The controversial ride-sharing service is making a push for "differential privacy," a method that masks users' individual data.

Both deal with forces acting on an object, which often leads students to think they are similar. In a way, they are.

The levitating test sled hit 70 mph in a near-vacuum in a tube.

The Day of Action gave the fight for net neutrality its spotlight moment. But it shouldn't end here.

NASA's Juno spacecraft made its first close pass by Jupiter's big red spot, and it's got the pictures to prove it.

The Echo Dot remains the best-selling Alexa device since its debut. So why aren't more companies copying it?