On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vernor Vinge is one of the first thinkers to popularize a technological Singularity. Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer ...

Google is certainly devoting a lot of attention to an agent-driven scientific future. The big scientific announcement at I/O was the new Gemini for Science package, which unites several of the company ...

Beep beep boop. Beep beep – boop. This could be how we’ll all talk one day if Google’s predictions about humanity’s future come true. Well, kind of. Metro attended the tech giant’s annual developer ...