Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. "We do not mean that as hyperbole," they write. They believe ...

On Dec. 29, 2025, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reported one of the most intense single-day episodes of Chinese ...

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that ...

In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old mummified women and found DNA that does not match any living population. The ...

Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025) is somewhat mis-named. Undoubtedly selected by publishers, ...

As chatbots grow more sophisticated, some people are forming romantic bonds — and even marriages — with artificial partners.

A recent study published in NeoBiota indicates that thousands of non-native plant species could now find suitable conditions ...

CrossWorlds, Sonic Rumble, and several other Sega games have fallen below sales expectations, as the company promises a big year to come.

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Larian recently streamed Divinity: Original Sin 2, the studio's last RPG in the Divinity series before it made Baldur's Gate ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...