A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 1, 2000, an anxious world held its ...

Some thought the world was going to end. Others worried about a catastrophic technology collapse. Tennesseans stockpiled water, food and other emergency supplies. Many others simply celebrated. A ...

"These days, artificial intelligence, AI, is a big worry. Could smarter computers rebel against human direction?" columnist Terry Woster writes.

If you’re of millennial age or older (or if you’ve seen a certain comedy-horror film now in theaters), you’re likely already familiar with the “year 2000 problem,” better known by the moniker Y2K.

On the 25th anniversary of the Y2K scare, the eponymous film pokes fun at internet disasters. But real disruptions may loom in the future. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To The ...

The Y2K bug, or the prediction that all computers would fail to operate at the turn of the 21st Century because their processors couldn’t change their internal clocks from 1999 to 2000, possesses a ...