“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Even if you’venever seen the movie, you know the voice. Other WRAL Top Stories HAL 9000, the seemingly omniscient computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” ...

A few years ago, you could buy an IRIS 9000 Bluetooth speaker. Its claim to fame was that it looked like the “eye” from the HAL 9000 computer on 2001: A Space Oddessy. There’s something seductive ...

Artificial intelligence has come a long way in the past decade or so, but one of the scariest portrayals of how AI could ultimate doom us was created way back in the late 1960s. HAL-9000, the ...

Tech companies think they're so clever. They build these artificial intelligence assistants and (try to) make them sound friendly, so that we don't suspect a thing. When these machines are really ...

You knew it had to happen. The charming but murderous computer from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey has made to the iPhone/iPod touch. Hal 9000 [App Store link] awaits you for US $0.99. It's ...