I’m not going to feign a modesty that, like all writers, I lack. I’m pleased to quote myself: “Beyond bombing, the White House’s only foreign contribution these days is sending Antony Blinken around ...

A mysterious and ancient tradition in China involves practitioners who try to predict the future and communicate with the spirit world via a ritual known as rice divination, or mun mai, in the south ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s funny how perceptions change. In September, Oracle raised its estimate of next year’s capital expenditure ...

Ms. Goodman is the author of two novels, “Helen of Nowhere” and “The Shame.” Several years ago, I stopped going to therapy. I no longer trusted myself to tell the story of my life in a way that felt ...

(RNS) — A woman in Greece files for divorce after an AI chatbot reads signs of infidelity in her coffee grounds. A business owner in China types her birth date and location into Chinese artificial ...

It’s not a Warren Buffett, but AI can help investors separate the signals from the noise. If you could be in the 99th percentile in one of these two skills, and just 55th percentile in the other skill ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

If you had to imagine an object that could tell the future, you’d probably envision a crystal ball or a deck of Tarot cards—not a utensil. Nevertheless, experts on the Isle of Man have revealed an ...

When will I find true love? Will I get the job? Will things get better in the new year? From the I Ching and palm reading to tarot and astrology, humans have long used all kinds of tools to predict ...