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“I have legs,” Nick says. “My head alone is twice your worth,” Victor replies. Victor likes to trash talk when he plays Scrabble. My friend Nick does, too. Only Victor is a robot. A trash-talking, Scrabble-playing robot.

Hollywood is changing: Paramount Pictures no longer produces films on celluloid and Old Guard directors like Martin Scorsese are shooting their movies with digital cameras. Here’s a list of important films that helped propel Tinseltown’s controversial shi

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, good citizens attend the feelies—movies that allow them to feel the warmth of a bear rug or the flutter of a kiss. While it might seem as if this can only exist in the fictional world of 2540, researchers at MIT’s Media

Last month, Wired did a study of dating profiles with the help of OkCupid and Match.com in order to assemble some tips on writing the perfect profile. Here are seven things they discovered from crunching the numbers on the words people use in their dating

Talking in the third person, the singular they, and gender-neutral pronouns.

Mind reading used to belong to the realms of sci-fi books and comic strips. But in 2011, a team of scientists from UC Berkeley discovered a way to construct YouTube videos from a viewer’s brain activity.

Although we use them without a second thought, precious few of us know how they came to sit on our high streets and in the walls of our banks.

From the first recording of a kiss to the greatest cat video on the internet, Thomas Edison captured the history of America.

On this date in 1839, the French government released Louis Daguerre’s photographic process to the world—for free.

Oddities from the oldest form of human flight.

Sharks have much more to fear from us than we do from them. But that hasn't stopped inventors from dreaming up with devices that will keep people out of Jaws' jaws.

Shark Cam makes its debut in the Shark Week special "Return of Jaws" tonight at 9 p.m. EST on the Discovery Channel; we talked to Skomal about developing the robot and what it revealed that traditional tracking methods did not.