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The ILife A9 is a recent addition to the over-crowded robot vacuum market, but it manages to stand out from the pack in several ways. Right up front, its priced under $300. This puts it in the entry-level category of robot vacuums, but it brings more to the …

Following the official announcement of the six-issue miniseries, Marvel Comics has unveiled some new details on Dan Slott, Christos Gage and Pete Woods' upcoming Iron Man 2020. "In IRON MAN 2020, the future has arrived, and Artificial Intelligences present a…

**This article contains spoilers for Season 4 Episode 2 of Mr. Robot** Episode 2 of Mr. Robots final season didnt have a ton of hacks, but were here to dissect the ones we saw. We discussed shoulder surfing, hacking encrypted cryptocurrency wallets, piecing …

An excerpt from Susan Schneiders new book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind.  (Excerpt reprinted with permission from Orbiter Magazine. Courtesy of Princeton University Press). Once we saturate the matter and energy in the universe with intell…

Image caption Stephen Moore was described as the "most sweet, charming and affable of men" Stephen Moore - known as the voice of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy's Marvin the Paranoid Android - has died aged 81. He also played Adrian Mole's father on TV,…

The advent of the smartphone as the personal computing device of choice is still relatively recent — only in the last half-decade or so have people begun to consider smartphones to be their primary computer. That being said, smartphones actually have a long a…

Welcome to the 287th edition of Android Apps Weekly! Here are the big headlines from the last week: Google Play Pass is out, but far from perfect. We took a dive into the app to discover some of its flaws. Most of them are fairly minor and indicative…

A game I mentioned back in September has finally made its way to Google Play, called Grobo, a gravity-centric puzzle platformer. In it, you play as Grobo, a little robot that can control the gravity around it. The game features 48 puzzles, as well as five ch…

Its getting chilly outside (for those of us in the northern hemisphere) and nows the perfect time to fire up this seasons premieres, scary Halloween flicks and classic holiday movies. Ahead of all that fall TV and movie-watching, we worked with YouGov to surv…

Xiaomi makes a lot of stuff these days. Sure, the Chinese manufacturer is known for its phones, but it also sells routers, rice cookers, robot vacuums, scooters, and even towels. Xiaomi's vast selection of devices include keyboards: I have several of the bran…