They may represent an early precursor to writing, according to the newly published research by linguist Christian Bentz of Saarland University in Germany and archaeologist Ewa Dutkiewicz of the Berlin ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

If you're searching for science fiction movies that will make you question or contemplate humanity, these are some of the best.

Steven Spielberg may be one of genre filmmaking’s all-time greats, but in recent years, he’s focused on period pieces like Lincoln, The Fabelmans, and his lavish adaptation of West Side Story, with ...

That’s one way to visualize a large language model, or at least a medium-size one: Printed out in 14-point type, a 200-­ billion-parameter model, such as GPT4o (released by OpenAI in 2024), could fill ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

He isn't from here, but Sunny has decided to tour our planet. Did we mention that Sunny is a pink alien? This modern-day "Where's Waldo" has been spotted in Rio, Greece... even Coachella. Alan Shope ...

Washington — The Senate confirmed Admiral Kevin Lunday as Coast Guard commandant Thursday night after agency guidance on the display of hate symbols such as swastikas and nooses was clarified.

The Coast Guard will remove divisive language from its new workplace harassment policy that downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” Homeland ...

What allows humans to infer “a notion of structure” (Otto Jespersen) when using language, art, music, and mathematics? All of these domains have their own unique representational units (words, notes), ...

The first teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg’s UFO movie has been released. Spielberg’s next movie, which is being released by Universal Pictures, arrives in United States theaters in 2026. With this ...