This film by Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle skirts gimmicks to examine a creator’s drive to build a humanoid device powered by artificial intelligence. By Alissa Wilkinson Vince Vaughn plays a ...

The compass, or, as it is even now called in Chinese, tchi-nân, appears to have been first used at sea by this remarkable nation about the third century of our era, during the Tsin dynasty.

As long as you’re within this region, your compass needle can still pick up Earth’s magnetic field and point you in the direction of that spot in Canada. Beyond the outer edge of the magnetosphere, ...