In exactly a month, on November 13, 2026, the world will end. Fittingly, our impending apocalypse falls on Friday the 13th. At least, that was the prediction made by University of Illinois physicist Heinz von Foerster in a highly cited Science paper published in 1960. Though talks of supposed doomsday have renewed in recent months
On October 16, the National Park Service (NPS)announced the latest additions to a growing list of designated World War II Heritage Cities. The park service began the program in 2020, as a way to honor local ties to history. Officials have since celebrated locations across 46 states and two territories, but there are many more
Jenna Ortega hopes that her new film, the dystopian sci-fi “Klara and the Sun,” can remind people to live in the moment in the age of AI and all-consuming technology. “I think we gotta put our focus on one another and put down the computers and phones,” the star told Variety on the red carpet
Dream rock band Fathom travelled roughly 700km across Australia to play nine shows, setting a new Guinness World Record for most concerts performed in 12 hours across multiple cities. In order to beat the record, venues needed to be at least 50km apart in cities populated by more than 15,000 people, with half of the
Artificial intelligence is undeniably good at playing games, regardless of its larger societal and environmental impact. In 1997, IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue famously beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, and nearly two decades later, Google’s AlphaGo managed to defeat a human champion at the much more complex game Go. Since then, another AI seems to beat
After Mark Zuckerberg’s cautious-looking sip of stout on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s “Cheeky Pint” podcast became a social-media talking point, a new debate has emerged: which tech leaders can actually hold their drink? Soon after Zuckerberg’s much-memed appearance, ETN, a tech podcast, built what it called the “Cheeky Pint Benchmark,” publishing a leaderboard of guests’
