Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has a warning for investors pouring billions into humanoid robot startups: You’re wasting your money.

Ben Horowitz did not come to soothe. In a conversation with Columbia Business School Dean Costis Maglaras, the Andreessen Horowitz co-founder argued that today’s AI moment is only the prologue to a far longer story.

Geologists have uncovered a colossal iron ore deposit in Western Australia’s Hamersley region, estimated at 55 billion metric tons and valued at more than $5.7 trillion.

Two flying cars collided during rehearsals for an air show in China meant to showcase the country’s cutting-edge technology.

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula over the weekend.

Rail operators in resource-poor Japan are increasingly turning to renewable energy as part of the country’s push to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

The latest video of Tesla’s “Optimus” robot—touted as a pillar of the company’s future—shows the humanoid struggling to function for nearly a full minute.

AI agents have taken over many routine call center duties.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has risen past 1,400, with more than 3,000 people injured.

Time is running out for wild salmon in the Columbia River Basin, where populations of salmon and other native fish have been declining for decades.

Major Japanese camera manufacturers are expanding their mirrorless offerings to meet growing demand for advanced features such as AI-assisted shooting.

A paper in Genes describes how two different types of fish — sturgeon and paddlefish — were bred to create a hybrid offspring.

An experimental vaccine has shown promise in preventing pancreatic and colorectal cancers from recurring.

At least 520,000 people across Japan could be asked to evacuate for a week if authorities issue a special alert signaling an elevated risk of a massive Nankai Trough earthquake.

U.S. authorities secretly placed tracking devices in certain shipments of advanced computer chips they believed could be illegally diverted to China.

We’re officially in the era of “the AI ate my homework”—at least if you’re in the business of making AI.

Scientists have finally uncovered the ancient secret behind the potato’s origin — and it involves an unexpected genetic romance.

The U.S. labor market is cooling, but one potential culprit can be ruled out: artificial intelligence (AI) does not appear to be causing a slowdown in hiring across the U.S. economy — at least not yet.

A new robot shop has opened in Beijing, selling everything from mechanical butlers to human-like replicas of Albert Einstein.

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago.

Elon Musk’s AI video generator has been accused of making “a deliberate choice” to create sexually explicit clips of Taylor Swift, according to an expert in online abuse.

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly engineering, has died at the age of 97.

More than 80,000 people have been evacuated from flood-prone areas in Beijing as the capital braces for additional heavy rain, following devastating storms late last month that killed at least 44 people.

Most human resources (HR) departments now use some form of AI to screen job candidates.