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The co-founder of DeepMind issues a terrifying warning about AI and synthetic biology but how seriously should we take it? On 22 February1946, George Kennan, an American diplomat stationed in Moscow, dictated a 5,000-word cable to Washington. In this famous telegram, Kennan warned that the Soviet Unions commitment to communism meant that it was

It was the afternoon of 4 July 2020, and Melissa Rein Livelys video was about to go viral. A PR executive in Arizona, she already had the appearance of a person for whom a viral video was part of the plan, but with the super-groomed blondeness better suited to a branded beauty tutorial than a

My brother bought me a jacket and told me not to wear it outside. But I decided to go to the cinema in it My brother comes to visit me on the weekend bearing a gift. Its a fancy North Face puffer jacket he found at the op shop for $10, in excellent condition.

Nearly four months after the deadly wildfires, Lahainas youngest residents still face displacement, housing insecurity and lingering trauma When the destructive summer blaze swept across Lahaina, in west Maui, Maryann Kobatakes nephew helped ferry a friends grandmother and cousins to safety. On the drive out of a burning Front Street, the towns main thoroughfare, she

From Neil Gaimans evil Mr Punch to Hannah Berrys characters in eerie peril on a night train, these graphic novels are full of muted horror and seasonal unease I was recently invited to contribute a graphic story to a collection of uncanny tales, Congregation of Innocents, published by the Curious Tales collective. For the past