The aerial water tanker they were in crashed while they were battling wildfires in southeastern Australia
The appointment is a possible indication Pyongyang will take a harder line with Washington in stalled nuclear negotiations
A flash of extreme heat was followed by a rapid drop in temperatures, which vitrified brain material
Lehrer spent decades as the anchor for the nightly broadcast before retiring
Lizzo, Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish are among this year's nominees
The story of automation in America has long been told in shuttered factories and declining Midwestern cities. But the latest wave of advancements in artificial intelligence may be bring the prospect of machine replacement beyond blue collar work. Developers are creating algorithms that promise to take over vast amounts of work in white collar fields
"Is she the chief economist or who is she? I’m confused," U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said about Greta Thunberg at a press briefing at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Guy Ritchie made his presence known with a bang in 1998, when the scrappy, streetthug symphony Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels became a surprise hit. In the years since, he has given us two garish but entertaining Sherlock Holmes movies, a liveaction version of Aladdin and one sleek, truly terrific spy caper, The Man
Lidia Yuknavitch, author of such celebrated books as The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, once presented a viral TED talk titled “The Beauty of Being a Misfit.” The characters in Verge, her new collection of short stories, are misfits too: rejects and refugees and runaways and an addict turned yuppie, all
The orphaned teenagers at the center of Paul Yoon’s latest novel like to fantasize about traveling to far-off places at night. They go to Paris or the moon. One visits a “very large” ship. As their days dip into darkness, 17-year-olds Prany and Alisak and 16-year-old Noi, Prany’s sister, imagine that they are anywhere other
While 2019 may not have been an explosive year in pop music, it teed up the personalities and story lines that could define the next decade in listening. A new generational gap opened up, one separating the veteran stars of the ’10s–think Beyoncé, Drake, Rihanna and Taylor Swift–from a new crop of ascendant artists like
The sci-fi novelist on inventing the term cyberspace, the surprising way AI could be truly intelligent and the ending he regrets In the same way Hunter S. Thompson and Pablo Picasso gave us gonzo journalism and Cubism, you’ve been credited with creating cyberpunk and inventing the term cyberspace. How do you plead? I remember early