For as long as I can remember, I’ve wrestled with my own thoughts and feelings about identity. Why am I, David, the person I am? How changeable is that? Where do those thoughts and feelings come from ...

The shipping traffic and factories never stop in China’s port city of Ningbo, but the local housing market has crashed and nearby restaurants sit empty. While Ningbo’s industry fuels China’s foreign ...

Journalist Pollan (This Is Your Mind on Plants) delivers an enlightening exploration of what is and isn’t known about consciousness. Noting that scientists have yet to arrive at a sturdy explanation ...

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information. OpenAI ...

The world seemingly let out a collective "aww" after Mojang revealed its redesign for baby farm animal mobs in Minecraft the first week of January. The chunkier, wide-eyed glow-ups have made every ...

Most presidents profess not to interfere in other countries’ domestic politics and elections — despite decades of nefarious US political game-playing abroad. President Donald Trump doesn’t bother with ...

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. The microwave-size instrument at Lila ...

"Minecraft" world-building has evolved far beyond traditional base-building, turning simple seeds into living, handcrafted story worlds that feel more like handcrafted works than procedurally ...

FPS Games Highguard was reportedly secretly funded by Tencent, and I don't know what hope a multiplayer FPS has in 2026 Action RPGs No Rest for the Wicked lead wants to "repeat" the Early Access ...

Emirates Airlines has ‌acquired Winsing Animation’s Into the Mortal World, which will launch on its global in-flight entertainment system this December. The film follows two siblings, each with ...

Lionel Messi is still refusing to confirm his 2026 World Cup plans, with the all-time great leaving Argentina and the rest of a global audience guessing on whether he will form part of a global title ...