When Pat Fitch started working on artificial intelligence in the 1990s, he concluded it was a waste of time. It now takes up a big chunk of his day. About two years ago, Fitch, the deputy director of ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with ...

The water temperature of the Rhine River could rise by up to 4.2° degrees Celsius by the end of the century due to the ...

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The success of the BRICS project does not signal an overthrow of capitalism as a global system, but it does mark a shift away ...