Tóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’

The iPhone maker has grown more attached to practices that some argue are unfair

The question is whether media companies will sign up to its TV platform

Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain

What ‘rights’ have artificial intelligence objects, and can you embed a conscience?

Telling international arms traders they can’t make killer robots is like telling soft-drinks makers that they can’t make orangeade

Study concluded that the concept of role models in the sciences is far more complex than we might think

Fear of superintelligent AI has prompted new guidelines that propose close regulation

Artificial intelligence raises very big ethical questions

John Hannigan’s highly readable survey of mankind and the oceans tackles deep-sea mining, superpower rivalries, global warming and popular culture

St Flannan’s pupils beat more than 4,000 others in space settlement design contest

We’re losing our sense of humanity, warns robotics expert

From fingerprint technology to flying cars, just how accurate were the trilogy of films' predictions?

Perhaps more than any other technology, robotisation and automation threaten to reshape society, and we better have some ideas as to how we will adapt to that changed landscape

From iPhones to Daft Punk, technology has made us something more than human and less than people. But there is another vision of the world

Astronomer Alan Duffy has found amazing star-gazing opportunities Down Under