The true menace of autonomous artificial intelligence is not that the machines are coming to steal jobs, but that they are learning to lie, deceive, and subvert accepted human behaviour in ways that ...

More tellingly, games with the word "factory" in their summary have gone up 325%, because we sure do love a management sim on PC, while "adult" went up 314%. The keywords "expand" and "shop" have also ...

One of the most important characters on Pluribus might look familiar because you've seen them in two different Marvel roles.

Former US President Barack Obama sparked an online frenzy after suggesting that aliens are “real” during a podcast appearance ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

A recent Afrobarometer survey has revealed a deepening distrust of Malawi’s legislators with many citizens describing members ...

INSIDE THIS REPORT The discovery did not arrive with spectacle. It arrived in spectral lines—quiet, technical, and unmistakable. NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has now detected organic molecules streaming ...

When county clerk Brianna Lennon got an email in November saying a newly expanded federal system had flagged 74 people on the county's voter roll as potential noncitizens, she was taken aback.

In the valley, everything echoes. When a truck hits a pothole on Business Route 6, a car engine backfires on Wildcat Road or ...

Starfleet Academy is the latest Star Trek show, and one of its big hallmarks is diversity. This includes showcasing characters from very different backgrounds (a human thief, a childlike hologram, ...

The switch to “amazing abundance” is actually a very new change compared to the last mission statement, released in Sept. 2025. Tesla Master Plan Part 4 called it “sustainable abundance,” a nod to ...

And spoken language is more varied than written text. There are accents and dialects, meaningful hesitations that can’t be ...