Foundation: Set phasers to Overambitious – season two is like Game of Thrones on psychedelics
Television: Naked robot wrestling sets the scene for the new season of Apple’s daft take on Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi saga
Television: Naked robot wrestling sets the scene for the new season of Apple’s daft take on Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi saga
The Mad Men and Chernobyl star is admired for his ability to bring fragility to dark material
Syfy’s Nightflyers and Apple TV’s Foundation shot at facility
Christopher E Mason, author of The Next 500 Years, on the future of humanity
Films, books and television often get the future right, writes Hugh Linehan
An Irishman’s Diary
€3.1 million Connacht GAA project allows for GAA to be played 24/7, 365 days a year
Top 1000: Until the crisis hit, studios in Ireland were not only thriving, but expanding. What next?
Irish production companies are struggling to survive despite huge demand for content
‘Major’ production for Apple TV+ currently being filmed at Troy
Science fiction convention in Dublin zapped visitors with lively and intense intelligence
Tóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’
The iPhone maker has grown more attached to practices that some argue are unfair
The question is whether media companies will sign up to its TV platform
Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain
What ‘rights’ have artificial intelligence objects, and can you embed a conscience?
Telling international arms traders they can’t make killer robots is like telling soft-drinks makers that they can’t make orangeade
Study concluded that the concept of role models in the sciences is far more complex than we might think
Fear of superintelligent AI has prompted new guidelines that propose close regulation
John Hannigan’s highly readable survey of mankind and the oceans tackles deep-sea mining, superpower rivalries, global warming and popular culture
St Flannan’s pupils beat more than 4,000 others in space settlement design contest
We’re losing our sense of humanity, warns robotics expert
From fingerprint technology to flying cars, just how accurate were the trilogy of films' predictions?
Perhaps more than any other technology, robotisation and automation threaten to reshape society, and we better have some ideas as to how we will adapt to that changed landscape
From iPhones to Daft Punk, technology has made us something more than human and less than people. But there is another vision of the world
Astronomer Alan Duffy has found amazing star-gazing opportunities Down Under
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices