Powerful countries and large corporations have invested tens of billions to continue scaling quantum computers, which means this will be a “white swan” event—something entirely predictable ...

The world is of course seeing this right now, writ large. And it should be noted that COVID-19 is not one of Nassim Taleb’s “black swans”. It’s a white swan, because we knew something like ...

BERLIN — A long love story is over at a German zoo: Petra the swan and her swan-shaped paddleboat are parting ways. Petra, a black swan, became a minor celebrity in 2006 when she grew so ...

WHITE SWAN — It could have been a scene out of a science fiction movie. Large monitors took up several walls as people tried out computers with three-dimensional, augmented reality displays ...