TikTok users are showing off their makeup skills with looks designed to make viewers feel uncomfortable in a very specific way. The trend is called “uncanny valley makeup,” and it stems from the ...

A young adult diagnosed with autism recently told me about how they are aware that, when interacting with peers and striving to act neurotypically, and even seemingly doing this well (they are an ...

Increasingly, movies featuring humanoid robots, like Terminator or Ex Machina, are showing the titular “robot” akin to humans not only in intelligence but also appearance. What if Terminator-esque ...

On the surface, creating humanoid robots makes a lot of sense. After all, we look at ourselves so much that interacting with something that has a similar appearance should be easier to accept into our ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Even at the end of a decade marked by surveillance capitalism and Russian trolls — a period of time ...

“It was easy to get me to want something,” the New Yorker columnist Anna Wiener confesses in her tech-industry memoir, Uncanny Valley, out today. She left publishing for her first tech job, at a New ...