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From vampires and wendigos to killer asteroids, TikTok users are pumping out outlandish end-of-the-world conspiracy theories, researchers say, in yet another misinformation trend on a platform whose fate in the United States hangs in the balance.

Vladimir Putin has cracked down on dissent, but it hasn't stopped critics from speaking out. Many of them now live in Vilnius, Lithuania, a place some might view as the capital of free Russia.

A rape survivor, guilt ridden after learning that an innocent man had been sent to prison in her case, brings together crime victims and exonerees to help heal those impacted by wrongful convictions.

Former Vice President Mike Pence made clear on Sunday that he "cannot in good conscience" endorse former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

With Problemista, writer / director Julio Torres is at the height of his powers.

For people at the trend-setting tech festival here, the scandal that erupted after Google's Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers was seen as a warning about the power artificial intelligence can give tech titans.

The actor was welcomed by Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup in 1980. Find out more about them here.

Nearly a decade after ‘The View’ alum made the infamous comment about Latinos in America, Kelly broke her silence on the matter during a January 18 interview.

The real reach of the conspiracy theory surrounding the pop star, explained.

At what point can we believe that an AI model has reached consciousness?

The offscreen drama of the Netflix reality hit, from Jeramey to Trevor, explained.

We’ve been trained to think of the royal family as a machine. Kategate upended that narrative.

Voters who skipped the midterms are different.

In her new memoir, the psychology professor writes about the reactions she received following her testimony during Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings - from support by survivors of sexual assault, to death threats directed at her and her family.

The COVID pandemic transformed our lives in ways many of us are still experiencing, four years later. One of these changes was the significant uptake in gaming as a hobby, chief among them being "cozy games" like Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020).

With misinformation and disinformation proliferating online, many may wish for a simple, reliable, automated "fake news" detection system to easily identify falsehoods from truths. Often with the help of machine learning, many scientists have developed such tools, but experts advise caution when deploying them.

China on Thursday slammed the approval of a US bill that would ban TikTok unless it severs ties with its Chinese parent company, blasting Washington's "bandit" mentality and vowing Beijing would "take all necessary measures" to protect the interests of its companies overseas.

Interest in shared e-bikes and e-scooters, or "micromobility" devices, has skyrocketed in Australia. Every capital city and over 25 local councils have trialed shared e-scooter systems through private operators including Lime, Beam and Neuron.

A new University of Michigan study on how humans and robots work together on tasks with conflicting objectives is the first to demonstrate that trust and team performance improve when the robot actively adapts to the human's strategy.

Using artificial intelligence to "resurrect" dead loved ones has become a business accessible on Chinese e-commerce platforms, where users can place