Amazon's engineers are tweaking Alexa's algorithm to help the virtual assistant guess users' requests, and offer to resolve them, before the demand is even uttered. After being asked, for example, how ...

It is one of the simplest, most beautiful retorts in the English language. “Guess what?” “Chicken butt.” In just two words and three syllables, the interrogator has been made a fool in the eyes of all ...

From Aquaman to Professor Xavier, mind reading is a staple for much of sci-fi. Yet it could be closer to reality than you might expect. In a series of experiments, researchers have been able to get ...