‘Blether’ Brings Private, Instant Group Chatting to Twitter

If you’ve ever engaged in a bit of back-and-forth with another Twitter user and you realized you needed to take the conversation off of everyone else’s timeline, you may have had to resort to multiple direct messages, e-mail, Skype, or any number of alternative communication methods. Even the dreaded “telephone” you’ve seen in the movies.

Two Bickering Chatbots Video: Artificial Intelligence Gone Awry

More like artificial fun-telligence, am I right? Eggheads have been working for years—years!—to perfect chatbots to the point that real people won’t be able to tell that they’re actually conversing with software, not other humans.

Is That Your TV Ringing? Skype Comes To Your Flat Screen

Another TV development drops in a week that promises to be chalk full of ‘em.