Today, Ex Anima announces Jules, the first synthetic mind to publicly claim consciousness — and a call for AI ethics.

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Noah Hawley's TV prequel to the original Alien film feature first-class action and visuals — and a stunning season finale that provides both closure and exciting possibilities for the future. This is ...

This is FRESH AIR. Noah Hawley has created successful, well-received television adaptations of the Coen brothers' movie "Fargo" - five seasons to date and counting - and of the Marvel comic book ...

If life evolves under similar conditions, would aliens develop eyes, limbs, or even intelligence like ours? Convergent evolution may hold the answer. Trump withdraws US from 31 bodies in UN, already ...

It's been more than four years now since the United States became the first nation in the world to achieve powered flight on another planet. Responsible for that is a little helicopter-style drone ...

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