Though they may not be making many headlines these days, supercomputers, once used exclusively by nuclear scientists and government codebreakers, are increasingly finding their way into private hands.
AI is experiencing a resurgence due to advances in neural network technology and the growing need for data mining.
Virginia Postrel criticizes the viewpoint of ethicists who are opposed to life extension research.
A brief article on a big idea. Adam Beberg, founder of Distributed.Net, is working on new do-it-yourself software that will let anyone with a little programming experience and a big idea create similar distributed efforts.
The story behind the teenage hacker who reacted to India's nuclear weapons test by hacking Bhabba, India's top nuclear research center.