Maybe the real monster in the Alien franchise isn’t actually the killer alien. Because behind the acid blood and jump scares is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power.

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There is a whirr, a flurry of dust, a pause as the grainy image recalibrates, and then a devastating blast. Underground, dozens of miles away, veterans of the most brutal urban battles in Ukraine, of ...

In 2024, the 13th Brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard carried out the first ever robot-only assault, using a team of drones and ground robots. The non-humanoid robots were the size of a quad bike and ...

The robotics startup Figure AI livestreamed humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for more than a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern ...

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense minister, sees futuristic military technology as crucial to his country’s survival. The Global Profile Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense ...

When Neil deGrasse Tyson was 9 years old, he visited the Hayden Planetarium for the first time. Growing up gazing into light pollution in the Bronx, he had no idea there were that many stars. “I was ...

Unitree is a Chinese company known for making adorable, relatively affordable robots that dance and shuffle and such. Last night, it revealed its latest creation, which is something of a departure: a ...

A hacker in Germany was stunned to find he had complete control of a robotic lawnmower. Weighing over 200 pounds and equipped with cameras to navigate, Wi-Fi and 4G to connect to the Internet, and ...