Writing May Have Begun 40,000 Years Ago
Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like...
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Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like...
Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at...
Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at...
Reducing social contact is widely understood to slow disease spread, but because there is no personal health benefit gained from self-isolating, this would seem to...
A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has...
A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has...
Volcanoes and wildfires can inject millions of tons of gases and aerosol particles into the air, affecting temperatures on a global scale. But picking out...
Volcanoes and wildfires can inject millions of tons of gases and aerosol particles into the air, affecting temperatures on a global scale. But picking out...
New evidence published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates humans experimented with symbolic writing as much as 40,000 years...
Part of award-winning filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr's speech in which he says 'Free Palestine" was not aired.
Nassim Taleb has a warning for investors: brace for escalating volatility and potential bankruptcies in the software sector as the artificial intelligence-driven rally enters a...
Analysts think private-equity firms or other strategic buyers might see more value in PayPal than its $40 billion market cap currently reflects.
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude’s AI capabilities, as U.S. officials debate export controls aimed at slowing...
Meta's Summer Yue called her OpenClaw horror story a "rookie mistake."Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMeta's alignment director, Summer Yue, hooked OpenClaw up to her...
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Mexico was on high alert Monday with schools closed and travelers stranded, as members of a powerful cartel launched violent rampages after the death of...
Mexico was on high alert Monday with schools closed and travelers stranded, as members of a powerful cartel launched violent rampages after the death of...
Uber Autonomous Solutions will see the company selling both software and services for all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk...
Recent policy changes and economic shifts have slashed 12 years off the projected life span of the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A,...
President Trump last week said that the US will release files related to aliens and UFOs. On "Bloomberg ETF IQ", Cinthia Murphy from at TMX...
The newly published videos from Apple’s two-day event focus on three key areas related to AI: Reasoning and Planning, Applications to Agents, and Model Development....
Violence across Mexico after the killing of a cartel boss is hitting trucks, ports and air freight for a critical trading partner to the U.S.
The Education Department announced Monday plans to move two more programs to other federal agencies amid President Trump’s effort to “break up the federal education bureaucracy.” The...
Pickup basketball and neighborhood kickball are less common now than for generations past, giving way to more organized and formal youth sports intended to help...