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We're observing the emergence of tech that doesn't just augment our intellect and lives, but is now beginning to automate and outsource our humanity. I talked to the makers of BroApp, which sends automated daily text messages to your significant other ("seamless relationship outsourcing"). Shared here is their rationale, which I believe goes beyond just this one app -- and captures widely held convictions in the tech community we need to pay attention to.

We're observing the emergence of tech that doesn't just augment our intellect and lives, but is now beginning to automate and outsource our humanity. I talked to the makers of BroApp, which sends automated daily text messages to your significant other ("seamless relationship outsourcing"). Shared here is their rationale, which I believe goes beyond just this one app -- and captures widely held convictions in the tech community we need to pay attention to.

Forget hacking a computer. Some researchers want to hack the brain to create human superintelligence to compete with AI.

Elon Mush explains the need for regulating Artificial Intelligence, because of robot that performed a backflip. His concern is regarding future AI robots being able to move at exceptional speeds, becoming a danger to humans.

For many people, it's terrifying to go a day - heck, a few hours - without their smartphones. Is this unprecedented access to technology improving human intelligence, or fueling a mindless dependency? Hosted by Carlos Watson with guests Daniel Levitin, Emily Dreyfuss, Jeff Glasse, and Kathryn Finney.

Scientists in the US have linked up the brains of participants almost 1.5 km apart, allowing them to play a 20 questions-style game using nothing but their thoughts. This is the first experiment to demonstrate that two brains can be linked up directly to allow one person to accurately guess what's on the other's mind, and it's a pretty huge deal.

They are ready to be injected into the most delicate areas of a human body -- the heart and the brain -- to deliver drugs with extreme precision or work like an army of nano surgeons, operating from within.