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The end of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now

A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, and rising volcanic gases. In a worst-case scenario, those signals could culminate in a VEI 8 eruption that blasts ash tens of kilometers into the atmosphere, unleashes deadly pyroclastic flows, buries parts of the western United States in ash, and cripples transportation, electricity, water systems, agriculture, and communications across much of North America.

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Tom Cruise Says AI Is ‘Coming and It’s Going to Happen,’ but ‘People Want to See Real Things’: ‘Keep Creating’

Despite the threat of AI to the film industry, Tom Cruise is confident that people will always “want to see real things” on screen. At an intimate BAFTA “Life in Pictures” conversation in London on Monday night, Cruise looked back on his four-decade career including acclaimed roles in “Top Gun,” “Jerry Maguire,” “Magnolia” and the […]