Every three months, participants in the Metaculus forecasting cup try to predict the future for a prize pot of about $5,000. Metaculus, a forecasting platform, poses questions of geopolitical ...

That’s according to Elon Musk, at least. In recent months, the tech tycoon has been pushing the idea of “sustainable abundance” — or, the more appealingly named, “amazing abundance.” He claims that ...

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Imagine looking into the mirror and seeing a completely different version of humanity, one with huge eyes, advanced technology wired into the brain, and even the ability to regrow lost limbs. While it ...

The breakthrough, announced by Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue in a post on X, is the first commercially available open-source humanoid robot, news site Decrypt.co notes. In his X post ...

Science fiction has been warning us for decades. But the most dangerous version of anthropomorphism is not a robot uprising. It is something quieter more intimate and already beginning.

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forecasters estimate the probabilities of the events occurring—a more informative guess than a simple “yes” or “no”—weeks to ...