AI has been going through something of an adolescent phase. It seems each week brings new headline-grabbing breakthroughs that set users and businesses scrambling to adopt the technology and find ways ...

Five times the mainstream media made “laughably inaccurate” but confident-sounding predictions about the future of technology. The mainstream media is full of confident-sounding predictions about the ...

Guest column: For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency is the same. Editors’ note: Welcome to CNET’s new series of ...