Majel Barrett, wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, was the voice of Starfleet's computer system. She died in 2008 but a digital version of her voice is being created "for things such as Siri".

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I recently watched an interview with LCARS' creators, Michael and Denise Okuda, and was inspired to seek out something similar. I ...

At the risk of starting a controversy: is there anyone who goes to the effort of setting up Home Assistant who wouldn’t really rather be living on the Enterprise-D? If such a person exists, it’s not ...

March 6, 2016 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The Raspberry Pi can power all kinds of great projects, but building an interface to actually interact with those ...

Captain Kirk (right, William Shatner) confronts Richard Daystrom (left, William Marshall) about the malfunctioning M-5 computer as Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) looks on. Star Trek predicted ChatGPT: the ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Co-founder of @wareable & @theambient. I'd like to go to Legoland with Sean Connery and then afterwards, go for a lovely lamb lunch in the centre of Windsor. Fanboy trekkies, prepare to to boldly go ...