The more important the technology, the more ruthlessly and brutally it will be mocked. It helps if the technology was, itself, a bit flawed when new. But even when a piece of tech is well received ...

When Amazon and Barnes & Noble announced that they would soon allow e-books (and free e-book sharing) on computers and mobile devices, it sent me into a quixotic tizzy about the future of e-readers.

Quantum computing is often described as the technology of the future, capable of solving tasks inaccessible to traditional ...

In 1965, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, came up with a theory of technology progression that held true for more than 50 years. Coined "Moore's law," the theory suggested that the speed of computer ...

One of the most notable studies of gender and philosophy of the 1990s is Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990) wherein she critiques the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray in order to ...

A new theory-guided framework could help scientists probe the properties of new semiconductors for next-generation microelectronic devices, or discover materials that boost the performance of quantum ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's recent X post, seemingly mocking the platform with a comment on LLM-run accounts, ignited a debate around the 'dead internet theory'. A user then revealed a ChatGPT response ...

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. For psychologists who study humor, this statement is a classic. It embodies the ambiguity of language that much humor exploits. In this case, the ...