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A study released in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies has revealed the complete decipherment of four ancient Babylonian tablets, and it’s not comforting. Study author Andrew George and his partner, Junko Taniguchi, worked on the project, deciphering the writing on four clay tablets believed to be about 4,000 years old. The tablets were discovered over…

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According to NASA, a meteor soared over the Statue of Liberty before crumbling about 30 miles above Midtown Manhattan. The space rock passed through the atmosphere over the Big Apple around 11:15 a.m., the same time New Yorkers reported seeing a flash of fire streak across the sky and felt the ground slightly shaking under…

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The rapid growth of artificial intelligence over the past year has sparked dialogues about whether the era of human domination of our planet is drawing to a close. The most ominous predictions claim that the machines will take over within five to 10 years. Fears of AI are not the only things driving public concern about…

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Thousands of AT&T customers were left without service for hours for their home phone, internet and mobile phone services, according to Downdetector. The outages started popping up just before 3:30 a.m. ET, according to a graph shown on the website that tracks outages. Just before 2 p.m. ET, the number of reports had declined drastically…

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