Fully immersive brain-jacked virtual reality sex may still be a few decades away, but we're inching closer with each passing year. The latest news on this crucial technological front comes in the form of a new collaboration between software developer Sinful Robot, an Irvine-based startup, and Oculus, a hardware…

Like many other critters, bats can be identified by the sounds they make. Now a group of researchers has put together a website where you can upload a bat's echolocation noises, and it'll tell you what sort of bat it is.

Flustered pundits claim that blogging has changed writing forever, but they're wrong. You know what has really changed writing? Google search. Thousands of internet puppies are writing "content" that is perfectly optimized to rise to the top of search rankings. Search engine optimization (SEO) has become its own art, a…

Computer-generated people and animals may still fall into the uncanny valley, but some CG architectural renderings are just plain uncanny, leading you through a version of a familiar city that never really existed. In Megalomania, we get a tour of an empty and decaying London.

A new app lets you turn your iPhone (or other i-device) into an old-school Super 8 camera. And it's chock full of hints for J.J. Abrams new movie Super 8. It's part tie-in app, part viral marketing, part movie-making tool.

After the "flash crash" that brought the stock exchange to its knees a few months ago, data analysis firm Nanex started looking into some odd patterns in stock trades. They discovered bot armies are affecting trades on a microsecond-by-microsecond basis.

You want to start doing art and design work on your computer, but what are the tools you need? We got professional Hollywood concept artists to tell us - and their answers won't drain your wallet too much.

Sometimes it's hard to tell when somebody online is complimenting you or being a douche. That's why a group of Israeli researchers invented the "Semi-supervised Algorithm for Sarcasm Identification," a program that recognizes sarcastic statements with 77 percent precision.

These images represent four steps in one computer program's progress towards recreating the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi-transparent polygons. Swedish programmer Roger Alsing did this simple weekend project with genetic programming that resulted in a program that could generate, on its own, a pretty awesome likeness…