An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps ...

Americans are betting billions on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. What could go wrong?

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In an appearance at the SXSW Film & TV Festival, Steven Spielberg revealed his own feelings about intelligent life ...

Will the U.S. government confirm that aliens exist this year? Want to bet on it? Well, you can if you participate in what are known as prediction markets on apps like Kalshi or Polymarket, online ...

Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers to ever step behind the camera, and his legendary work dates back over 50 years to Jaws. Spielberg is now 79 years old, but the multi-time ...

In a small New Mexico town called Piedmont, 66 of its 68 residents lay dead, their bodies seeming to fall right where they stood or sat — in their homes, at the store, in the street. Only two ...

A single prediction delivered to Congress by a U.S. admiral five years ago has shaped military strategy and spurred billions of dollars in spending in preparation for a potentially catastrophic ...

The Trump administration is wading into a legal fight between prediction markets and state regulators seeking to enforce gambling laws within their borders, in a dispute splitting Republicans.

Prediction markets' contracts are just another word for "gambling," says former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney is leading a new group that wants state authorities, not a ...

A new coalition is taking aim at the rise of prediction markets by pushing for enforcement of state and tribal gaming laws, arguing that the platforms facilitate illegal sports betting. Gambling Is ...

Mick Mulvaney wants to be clear: He really likes gambling. “You're talking to the only former member of Congress who's won a poker tournament in Las Vegas,” he tells WIRED. When he was representing ...