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We cozy up for Christmas and let our freak flags fly for Halloween. But on the Fourth of July, we let freedom ring baby. Smack in the middle of summer comes Independence Day, when we Americans spend ...

When humanoid robots dominated the stage of last year’s Spring Festival Gala with sleek dance routines, Ai Lin saw more than a spectacle. He saw a business. Soon after, the e-commerce livestreamer in ...

On a recent sunny day in Silicon Valley, I visited the industrial headquarters of 1X Technologies. Security was tight, so I had to put a sticker over my cellphone’s camera and talk my way out of ...

This article contains spoilers for the film Disclosure Day. As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third ...

Miami airport is getting in on the social media phenomenon that a self-proclaimed psychic hinted at for the Scotland and Brazil World Cup match. Last week, Vo Bahiana, a Brazilian spiritualist, told ...

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SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology but found nothing beyond human-made interference. Even so, the ...

Dozens of new robot arms have been installed at General Motors’ flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit—even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following what was supposed to be a temporary ...

GM has drawn the ire of the UAW once more, following the installation of dozens of new collaborative robots shortly after the recent firing of about 1,000 workers. General Motors’ decision to cut jobs ...