Co-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.

Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.

Running against corruption is not new. But Democrats have turned the familiar attack into a broader message tied to voters’ economic pain.

It takes a lot of water to generate the power consumed by server farms.

Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.

Once hired purely for pest control, these employees are driving foot traffic and racking up thousands of viral views on social media

He’s right to complain that a few provocative quotes do not capture his worldview.

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Conservation groups sued the US government this week over plans to blast the cliff walls of an eastern Utah canyon and build an oil truck highway through an area covered in ​historic inscriptions and ...

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May be the most important film of the year.

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

He does incredibly stupid things and doesn’t understand basic concepts, for starters

Visiting mixed villages in former Yugoslavia before it careened toward its violent breakup in 1992, I spoke to neighbors who dismissed the idea of a coming war as simply unimaginable. But as each tuned in to the increasingly nationalistic TV stations of their respective Serbian or Croatian capitals, they were bombarded by commentary posing as news that recalled historical wrongs and alleged plots for coming atrocities. Steeped in these bilious alternative realties, the neighbors stopped talking.

The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...

Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.

A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.

ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think ar...

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines A mathematician has uncovered what may be one of the longest-running myths in history after studying optical illusions and the Parthenon, the famed Greek temple that overlooks Athens. Scholars have marvelled at the building on the Acropolis hill for more than 2,000 years and heaped praise on its architects for their clever use of geometry. Its subtle curves are said to correct optical illusions that would have otherwise ruined the Parthenon’s clean lines. Continue reading...

Accident occurred as news crews in Los Angeles were covering a bus crash that had killed at least two people hours earlier A news helicopter crash in a Los Angeles neighborhood has killed at least three people, after it came to the ground and burst into flames near the site of a bus crash that occurred hours earlier. The helicopter crashed near a one-storey commercial building in the neighborhood of Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley, as news crews were covering the bus crash that left at least two people dead and six others injured, according the Los Angeles Fire Department. Continue reading...