Dave Gershgorn
at 10:36 AM Feb 3 2016

Virtual personal assistants have become another self-fulfilling prophecy of technology. When Tony Stark talks to Jarvis in Iron Man, we want that level of interaction in real life, and making that happen becomes the area of study for hundreds of software developers and researchers (including, recently, Mark Zuckerberg).

Sarah Fecht
at 12:07 PM Sep 11 2015

Elon Musk has often been compared to Tony Stark. The billionaire entrepreneur is the brains behind SpaceX's reusable rockets, Tesla's electric cars, and the solar power provider SolarCity. But last night when comedian Stephen Colbert pressed Musk to decide whether he's a superhero or a supervillain, Musk was evasive.

Nsikan Akpan
at 10:48 AM Mar 16 2015

Today in "Robert Downey Jr. saves the world," the Hollywood superstar presented an Iron Man-style bionic arm to a young disabled boy named Alex.

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