Long before Christa Pike was brought into Tennessee’s execution chamber, prison leaders reviewed and approved a backup plan detailing exactly what to do if the first attempt at lethal injection failed. But the backup plan also failed, and Thursday — 24 hours later — Pike was still alive but in critical condition at a Tennessee
The execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike has been halted just over an hour before it was due to happen. Pike, 50, has been awaiting execution since she was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer. In their ruling on Wednesday, judges from the Sixth Circuit Appeals court said
Bill Gates says there’s a light at the end of the tunnel for AI, so long as humanity can wait a couple of decades. During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the billionaire businessman said AI will evolve in two phases. He told host Kristen Welker that humanity is entering the first phase, in
Despite the threat of AI to the film industry, Tom Cruise is confident that people will always “want to see real things” on screen. At an intimate BAFTA “Life in Pictures” conversation in London on Monday night, Cruise looked back on his four-decade career including acclaimed roles in “Top Gun,” “Jerry Maguire,” “Magnolia” and the
Over the past week, AI’s own builders have sounded the alarm. Several of the industry’s leading CEOs are now publicly calling for a slower pace of AI development, citing risks from loss of control to cyberattacks to bioterrorism. That news came days after Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, chairing the Financial Stability Board, told G20
What do you want to happen to your body when you die? Have you thought about the environmental implications? Do you care? On this episode of Ask Us Anything, Popular Science editors Sarah Durn and Laura Baisas discuss the most eco-friendly burial options. And, as it turns out, the greenest choice is the simplest one.
