It's a possible step on the road to a total surveillance AI like the one in Person of Interest. Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a computer program that teaches itself everything there is to know about any visual concept — without any human supervision.

A look at Solar Impulse 1 and 2 as the second aircraft makes its inaugural voyage in preparation for the aircraft's global trip in 2015.

In the daily hubbub of current “crises” facing humanity, we forget about the many generations we hope are yet to come. Not those who will live 200 years from now, but 1,000 or 10,000 years from now.

Speaking about self-driving cars last September, Elon Musk preached caution. The man who wants to send us all to space and shuttle us between cities at outrageous speeds told the FT that "my...

“Constructor theory” unites in one framework how information is processed in the classical and quantum realms

Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light - a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago.

The geographer David Harvey says fixing inequality will take more than tinkering.

Across the pond in Germany, companies are doing incredible things with 3D printing. Mainly, they're using it to make food. Actual food, like the kind that tastes good. 

Traumatic memories might be eased by a pill now used to treat multiple sclerosis, a study suggests.

Technology innovation is enhancing human experiences at almost every turn. In our series celebrating the second anniversary of iQ by Intel, we introdu

The analysts at the Institute for the Future present new research about our weird times. 

Since the 1930s, U.S. G.D.P. has grown, in real terms, by a factor of sixteen. Why hasn’t that wealth translated into more leisure time?

The ubiquity of data gathering has staggering implications for understanding, predicting and influencing human behavior.