In what seems like HAL 9000 come to malevolent life, a recent study appeared to demonstrate that AI is perfectly willing to indulge in blackmail, or worse, as much as 89% of the time if it doesn't ...

Carolyn Davies Lynch opens our weekend solving with her third themeless puzzle.

Filmgoers have long been captivated by stories about robots. We are fascinated by their utopian promise, their superhuman intelligence and, in the case of the cyborg, their often uncanny ...

From HAL 9000 to M3GAN: what film’s evil robots tell us about contemporary tech fears The killer robot is far from a simple villain. It is a mirror held up to cultural questions we have about ...

Here’s a 2025 milestone for you – this is the exact halfway point of pub quizzes this year. This is quiz number 26, with another 26 to come over the rest of 2025. But don’t go resting on ...

We propose an arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG)-based tunable optical dispersion compensator (TODC) that uses a multiple lens structure with two lens materials. The lenses are realized by filling ...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for the generation of ultralow jitter optical pulses using optoelectronic microwave oscillators. The short pulses are obtained through time-lens ...