Excerpted from the short ebook Weaponizing Facebook: How Companies Like Cambridge Analytica Are Manipulating Your Mind, and What You Can Do About It, ...
Several websites have picked up on the story of Robbie Barrat, an AI researcher at Stanford who trained a Generated Adversarial Network (GAN) how to 'paint' nud...
In the modern, scientific age the word 'imagination' tends to have a sense of being the inverse of 'reality' - a non-substantial 'escape' from the real world wh...
Uh-oh, those Boston Dynamics guys are at it again. Not content to bully their humanoid Atlas robot, now they're smacking their robot dog SpotMini on the head wi...
I want to believe. But maybe I shouldn't want to, as finding alien life - of The X-Files type, or even something much more basic, such as single-celled life-for...
The internet had it's collective mind blown today when Elon Musk's SpaceX undertook a test-launch of its 'Falcon Heavy' rocket (a strengthened Falcon 9 with two...
Science fiction has always been a wonderful way of exploring where the cutting edge of science might take us in the future, and one of the best authors in that ...
HBO's sci-fi series Westworld has been on hiatus for the past year, but season 2 returns in April this year - and the trailer for the new season landed as an ad...
by Mark Pesce
(This article is excerpted from Darklore Volume 7, which is available from Amazon US and Amazon UK. For more information on the series, includi...
Just in case you had nightmares about Terminator-style robots trampling on puny, flesh-constructed bodies when the robopocalypse eventually comes around, never ...
