Are we alone in the universe? For scientists working on NASA's proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, that question is no longer purely philosophical. It is increasingly becoming an engineering problem.

Joe Jackson.

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Although he is originally from Portsmouth, England, Joe Jackson can justifiably lay claim to being a New Yorker, too. In addition to paying homage to New York City on his 1982 classic album Night and Day, which yielded the hit single “Steppin’ Out,” the veteran singer-songwriter was a longtime resident of the Big Apple who absorbed the city’s musical and cultural influences.

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​Gartner researchers project that 40% of enterprise applications will embed task-specific AI agents by the end of this year, but many organizations racing toward that number have governance frameworks that weren't designed for it.​

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Marvel has released an official plot description for Avengers: Doomsday, detailing the scale and scope of the movie as the MCU's Multiverse Saga "begins its final chapter."

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Holly Willoughby, best known until recently as the host of ITV’s daytime show “This Morning,” is set to make a comeback. Rather than return to ITV, however, she has opted to launch her new lifestyle series “Holly Willoughby Together” on YouTube.

Trick question: How many Final Fantasy games are there? Sure, Square Enix has made plenty of sequels and spinoffs over the years in addition to the mainline 16 games. But you might not realize there’s been more than 100 Final Fantasy games since the series got its start on the NES back in 1987. Even if you’re a series superfan, odds are you haven’t played most Final Fantasy games.

I run a single SSD gaming PC, which I'm aware is giving me a wonderful case of 'single-point-of-failure-itus.' Which is why my ears (eyes?) perked up when I read about GigaWiper, a wonderfully-named malware that can potentially do terrible things to your storage drives.

Africa is home to around 70% of the world's burned area—the total area of land scorched by wildfires each year—making it the planet's biggest wildfire hotspot. Yet despite this, satellite observations have revealed an unexpected trend over the past two decades: The amount of land burned across the continent has been steadily falling.

Dragonlance is, for me, a formative fantasy series. As a young teen, the orcs and elves and hobbits of Tolkien's Middle-earth passed me by. Instead, I was entranced by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragons of Autumn Twilight, first published in 1984. Oblivious to the games of Dungeon & Dragons upon which the novel was based, I fell in love with the book at face value. For years, my school bag always had at least one book in The Dragonlance Chronicles or the Dragonlance Legends trilogies inside, ready for yet another read through.