What will we do when artificial intelligence becomes self-aware? Nothing! It'll be too caught up with the existential issues that sentience brings with it to do anything more than marvel at its own intelligence. Maybe. [xkcd] More »

It's common knowledge that a story which is incredibly popular on Reddit won't necessarily register a single Like on Facebook. But the same is true the other way round, too. More »

Great ideas for band names pop up all the time. Just last week, Vapor Rush was suggested as a possible name for my future Brit Rock project— a phrase stolen from a medical device designed to treat emphysema. But those weird little phrases, previously tossed aside and forgotten about, actually get put to use these days: as Tumblr sites. More »

Great ideas for band names pop up all the time. Just last week, Vapor Rush was suggested as a possible name for my future Brit Rock project— a phrase stolen from a medical device designed to treat emphysema. But those weird little phrases, previously tossed aside and forgotten about, actually get put to use these days: as Tumblr sites. More »

I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank Kate who perfectly sums up how I, and probably a good chunk of the population, feel about those giant stacks of unclaimed phone books showing up at apartment buildings every year. More »

When Dr. Pepper sued Dr. Pepper, we joked that real life was imitating Coke Zero commercials, where a company sues itself as marketing humor. This deal with Dr. Pepper ain't no marketing joke. Dr. Pepper, the parent company, just killed off Dublin Dr. Pepper, the best version of Dr. Pepper there is. What the hell! More »

You see, the thing is that, in order to make the future happen, you need to have people in the present to work on it. So if you happen to invent machine-induced hibernation, just don't tell anyone. [XKCD] More »

Sometimes, in our darkest hour, a hand reaches out through history, a fellow traveler from years ago who walked our same blighted road. Which is kind of magical, except when it's incredibly frustrating because he apparently didn't get his error message resolved either and ugh. More »

Comic Con NY is wrapping up this weekend and it's mostly a nerdfest shit show with the occasional girl dressed in cosplay, creeps who don't know they're being creepy creeping and the same people over and over again. Here's 15 people you'll see at Comic Con: More »

What? Everybody knows Jules Verne totally called the Cellular Revolution back in 1874—wrote a book about it called 'The Camera-Phone" and everything. There's even a write up about it here, in The Onion. More »

While we doubt the 3-year-old construction "hole" that's plagued Seattle neighborhood Green Lake will actually become a play area—complete with 65-space unicycle parking lot—it's really the thought that counts, and the thought here is pretty clever. More »

Four stars? That app must be something special! Until you remember that those ratings are just a simple average, that people, by and large, don't know what they're talking about, and then the tornado hits. [xkcd] More »

Here's a humorous segment from Jon Stewart that pokes fun at Twitter pundits who spend their day tweeting to national news. More »

Okay, so it's a pain that every time the littlest thing goes wrong with parents' computer you're their go-to IT guy or gal. But let's be honest: there's something not terrible about being a sci-fi hero—even if the real Neo is a search engine. [TNW via 9gag] More »

Sometimes when you're running for office, being smart and likable and well-dressed doesn't really matter. Not nearly as much, at least, as the fact that you're not the incumbent. And that's why you're going to try Google+ despite yourself. [xkcd] More »

TheWorlds LargestWebsite.com, located in the center of town and featuring thousands upon thousands of long, scrolling pages of text and images, is an impressive computer-age curio. But to the people of Sunnyvale it's much more than just a roadside attraction: It's a point of pride-and an economic boon-in a corner of Silicon Valley that has been all but forgotten since the late '90s.. More »

That MacBook Air was pretty fancy. And the iPad? No slouch either. But Apple's not the type of company to just sit on its heels, no matter how much money they're stuffing in their coffers. And as Conan O'Brien shows us in this parody ad, Cupertino's already introducing the next big thing... even if they're not exactly sure what it is yet. More »