To stop them from becoming space junk, satellite operators send spacecraft to burn up in the atmosphere at mission’s end. The environmental impacts are still uncertain. Early on a Sunday morning in ...

Pentagon leaders are calling for thousands of drones to prepare for war in the Pacific. But as Trump’s tariffs escalate tensions with China, they face an uncomfortable reality: Silicon Valley’s drone ...

Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what they want to hear, even if that means being less accurate. But many reports of this ...

They’ve become cheap to produce but they underperform the competition, falling short of their original promise. By Nate Cohn Anyone can find a group of people. But will it be ...

When and if humanity makes first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, does it matter which country makes the initial overtures? If we contact a hostile alien civilization, how do we promote ...