They call it “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) and it may be only a matter of a few years away. AGI is the imagined point at which computers finally achieve consciousness, surpass human ...

Strings of radars stretching across Canada were built to give early warnings of Soviet bombers coming over the Arctic. The ...

The decades-old Indus Waters Treaty faces its gravest challenge as India suspends it, prompting Pakistan to warn of war.

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Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian writer whose books include the novels Landing , Room , Frog Music , The Wonder, The Pull ...

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Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. believes that the United States and whoever sits in Washington have nothing to do with ...

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As readers, we are used to spy thrillers being set during the Cold War. Think, Russians in Gorky Park, or Britain’s slow ...

Controllers which weigh less than a pinch of salt are strapped to the back of a worker bee and connected to the insect’s ...

Russia’s oil exports fund the Kremlin’s splurge on defence and trickle into ordinary Russians’ pocketbooks. The technocrats ...

Pan Macmillan has won a six-way auction for Soumaya Keynes' and Chad Bown's How to Win a Trade War: A Guide to an Anxious ...