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So what do we do if video game AI opponents become smart enough to question the "matrix"into which we've put them?

A janitor takes in some of the Internet's knowledge sometime in the future, in this scene by flyingdebris.

ASIMO’s 9th birthday party was held last September. Here are a bunch of pictures of the precursors to the capable little robot that we’re familiar with today.

“We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.” Almost the future, but not quite… W... More

Each line represents a different space mission, highlighting notable missions, including those from different countries, those of historical significance, and those which have failed.

One of the most disturbing trends in robotics are the animatronic human heads that are sometimes attached to robotic bodies. Hanson Robotics did it with Einstein (Albert HUBO), Kokoro and AIST recently... More

Willow Garage has Jorge Cham of PhD Comics doing a series of panels for them entitled simply “R.O.B.O.T. Comics.

A funny sketch by xkcd on the world's first ant colony to search for intelligent life.

Ever wondered what a supernova explosion looks like from a physics perspective? Wonder no more, because scientists at Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory have created this virtual simulation of the e... More

A look at how information moves now, and how it moved 100 years ago.

This is a panoramic view of the Eureka Tower Observation Deck.

CG illustrator Macoto Murayama takes a unique look at the organic beauty of flowers by highlighting their geometric and mechanical structure.

Here’s a collection of 60 Examples of Beautiful Night Shots, taken by avid and professional photographers who jumped into action when the sun sets.

A close up of Jupiter.

As rainy season approaches, Japan’s Ishikawa prefecture has been receiving some unusual precipitation — it’s been raining tadpoles and fish. According to prefecture officials, tadpoles have re... More

Since the personal computer debuted in 1971, a Darwin-esque evolution process has lifted the PC from modest beginnings to its current role as an indispensable part of life in the 21st century. Over ... More

A collection of concept arts depicting how cities and landscapes of the future might look as envisioned by the artists.

What will automobiles look like 50 years down the road? If they turn out to be anything like these concepts from the design studios of four major automakers, we are in for quite a ride.

The release of the new Star Trek film got us thinking: how much of the fictional technology first seen in the original Star Trek of the 1960s now exists in real life?

On Monday, May 11, after months of delays and preparation, NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final servicing mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Th... More

Modeled after the wings of a dragonfly, this incredible urban farm concept for New York City’s Roosevelt Island intends to ease the problems of food mileage and shortage, and reconnect consumers with... More

If you were stuck in eternity...what would you do?

A closer look at something seemingly ordinary as a minuscule patch of darkness in space can reveal truly extraordinary and majestic truths about the Universe. Existence is beautiful.

A hint of what's to come?

See the related link for the entire Flickr photoset. Photographer heiwa4126’s “Stereographics” photoset is an eye-bending collection of “little planet” panoramas and ultra-wide fisheye ima... More