As the clock struck midnight on December 31, 2024, Ghanaian prophets took to the pulpits to give their divine revelations for the coming year.

We’ve had elections, high-minded dramas, down-and-dirty comedies and more filling our screens in 2024, but somehow when a ...

In 2024, humanity – as a whole – took a purposeful stride towards engineering the collapse of modern civilisation. While ...

The so-called "millennium bug" led many to predict a meltdown of critical infrastructure when the calendar changed from 1999 ...

Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has maintained a measure of humanity's proximity to the brink called the Doomsday Clock, which is absolutely not as cool as it sounds when you ...

The first NYE countdown can arguably be traced to the final seconds of 1957, when prominent radio correspondent Ben Grauer ...

A few major tests helped calm the city. On March 6, 1999, Ontario Hydro conducted a major test in central Toronto, where engineers set the internal clocks on its equipment to midnight on New Year’s ...

Reflecting on the actual Y2K is a reminder that computing’s real risks have less to do with murderous robots—and far more to ...

As a warning about how close we are to atomic holocaust, the Doomsday Clock stands at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it ...

In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.

Add this to President Biden's regrettable legacies, though it's notable that progressive states accounted for most of the increase. HUD's annual point-in-time survey found that the number of homeless ...