A woman has sued The Nerd, a downtown Las Vegas bar on Fremont Street, after she said she was injured while riding a bull-ride like attraction.

Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss class, caste differences, and destructive ethnonationalist ideolo...

Autonomous vehicle designers have to worry about riders getting frisky in public.

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams.

Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".

A judge in Washington has agreed to permanently dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

Russia has warned NATO it would be ready to resort to nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted ​to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the Baltic Sea.

Sable Offshore CEO Jim Flores’ base salary fell to $1.3 million last year, but the Houston oil executive also received a $3.9 million bonus and millions of shares of stock worth about $69...

The 38-year-old Florida man’s case is among a string of wrongful arrests linked to faulty use of facial recognition and a lack of investigative rigor by police.

A recent bombshell report documents brutal cases of forced labor in Mexico. Why can’t the government take it seriously?

Paulina Borsook saw there was something rotten afoot in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and in her book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, she set out…

How Trump plans to break America so it can’t be repaired

Actor Laurence Fishburne delivered an animated reading of a prescient 2018 letter by comedy writer Connor Relyea addressed to future robots.

President Donald Trump said that he and many artificial intelligence companies signed a voluntary accord that will include reviews of the technology during a meeting at the White House on Tuesday.

Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling

Autumn Daniels went to the hospital with a severe migraine. After four hours in the waiting room, she left to try a different facility — but the ER still charged her.

The world webcam map, a defunct format from Web 1.0, is back — as a foil to today’s algorithmic internet.

Organizers are calling to stop the collections, the wage garnishments, and the credit score reductions.

Anthropic says its AI models could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity” and can “resist shutdown,” according to an initial public offering prospectus obtained by Reuters.

The Trump administration has launched a revamped website, America.gov, to simplify access to government information.

Protesters gathered at OpenAI’s Dev Day event in San Francisco today to demand that Sam Altman and OpenAI stop contracting with the military and ICE.

Hope Florida says it empowers disabled people by linking them with essential resources, but families said the DeSantis program let them down.

Use of e-cigarettes makes it more likely that young people will experience mental-health disorders and take up smoking. Governments must act.

A new study suggests coffee may influence mood and brain function by changing the activity of microbes in the gut. Both caffeinated and decaf coffee were linked to lower stress, depression, and impuls...

The U.S. Department of War, Secret Service and other federal departments and agencies unwittingly purchased digital forensics software from a Virginia-based firm that was owned by Russian nationals an...

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”

Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims

A firearm enters an S.C. forge and emerges as something unexpected — part of a church-led effort to turn weapons into symbols of peace.

Auden Alsop revisits Cormac McCarthy's The Road at 20 years old and considers the tradition of apocalypse passed from parent to child.

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

Solar flares, geomagnetic storms, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 appears to be changing how it writes, with new analysis showing fewer obvious AI writing patterns, shorter sentences, and simpler wording compared with Opus 5.

Idealistic tech executives believe superintelligent machines will inevitably arrive—and that when they do, homo sapiens must step out of the way.

The nascent nation's leaders fled to the inland city as the British advanced on Philadelphia in September 1777. They held one meeting at the local courthouse before moving on to York

Congress’ slow pace and inexperience with AI are colliding with a fast-moving technology. Though one Democrat countered: “We don’t have to be biologists or chemists to set up the FDA.”

He's also wearing a totally different expression.

A large Danish study found that children diagnosed with ADHD or autism today more closely resemble their peers in the general population than those diagnosed 10 years ago. The shift suggests that risi...

Polygraph+ will use new sensor technologies and AI to vet staff and hunt leakers. Experts say AI-enabled lie detection is “the worst of both worlds.”