The United States military is trying to come to terms with the fact that advanced technology is on the cusp of making it possible for machines like armed drones to make killing decisions.

There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.

A series of studies at Cornell investigate how humans behave in the company of robots. The article highlights its findings.

Two schools of economic thinking have been engaged in a debate about the potential effects of automation on jobs, employment and human activity: Will new technology spawn mass unemployment, as the robots take jobs away from humans? Or will the jobs robots take over release or unveil—or even create—demand for new human jobs? The artcle looks at some of these arguments.

Retailers and hotels are increasingly using facial recognition technology to track your face in order to minimise losses and increase sales, give VIPs preferred treatment and more, giving rise to privacy concerns.

If Apple's employees refused to help the F.B.I. access the contents of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, their decision would be supported by the Association for Computing Machinery.

A group of computer science students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and North Carolina State University examined how gender impacts the acceptance of contributions on the open source code repository site GitHub. They found women's contributions tended to be accepted more that mens, if they hid their gender.

The World Economic Forum warned in a report that advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and other modern technologies are currently likely to lead to a net loss of 5.1 million jobs worldwide by the year 2020.