The biggest discourse in the Marvel's Spider-Man community has to do with Peter Parker's replaced face model. Fans have ...

Marc Andreessen [archival audio]: The deal was somebody like me basically could start a company. You could invent a new ...

This very gap—being close to human but not quite—is what causes the sense of unease, and it’s referred to as the “uncanny valley.” But what is it about the almost-but-not-quite human ...

Apollo gets around the uncanny valley effect by not having a human-appearing face. Instead, the robot’s sloped ‘face’, round eyes, and digital ‘mouth’ give it a friendly, helpful appearance.