The fictional form of the mental steps doctrine is inapplicable to digital computers and computer-implemented inventions for several reasons. First, prior to the widespread usage of the general ...

Soon, we won’t need to use the Help function. The computer will sense that we have a problem and come to the rescue by itself. This is one of the possible implications of new research at University of ...

The Pentagon’s information warfare experts are warning about brain hacking, a technology capable of extracting and inserting information into minds. The effort to turn humans into X-men seems no ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a journalist covering emerging tech and its effects on society. Brain-computer interfaces will initially be used for assistive ...

When Sid Kouider showed up at Slush, the annual startup showcase in Helsinki, wearing an ascot cap and a device he claimed would usher in a new era of technological mind control, no one thought he was ...

Declassified CIA documents reveal a covert program that tested the behavioral and toxicological effects of drugs and chemicals on humans and animals. The project, known as MKOFTEN, ran from the late ...