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Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game

Virtual Reality

Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Earthlings, meet your celestial neighbor: an absolutely massive black hole, which is lying dormant in a nearby binary star system.

Scientists Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla's "Cyberquad for Kids" were just recalled following an instance where the youth ATV was toppled by a 36-year-old adult.

Tesla’s Child-Sized Cyberquad Recalled for Safety Issues

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NFTs aren't totally dead just yet. And in order to keep them alive, a growing number of web3 operators are turning towards a more familiar market: housing.

The Latest Idea to Make People Actually Buy NFTs: Throw in a House

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This CEO says generative AI is all flash, no substance — and ultimately, will fail to generate major new revenue streams for VCs' billions.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO of AI Startup Says Many AI Startups Will Fail Because They’re Making a Serious Mistake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey claims to be closer to launching Bluesky Social, a new "decentralized social network" that allegedly seeks to reclaim user data.

Departed Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Is Launching a New Social Network

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to this technologist, Facebook-turned-Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg isn't trying to revolutionize work. He wants to be the god of a digital heaven.

Interesting Theory: Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Become God and Build Heaven

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Single life can be amazing — and scientists may have just discovered exactly why that is. Spoiler alert? It has a lot to do with you-time.

Scientists Say They Found the Most Awesome Thing About Being Single

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, those who live in the developed world can still eat your delicious burgers and not destroy the Earth — just not too many.

Scientists Identify Exact Number of Burgers You Can Eat Without Destroying the Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dozens of France's nuclear reactors remain offline following a series of troubling outages believed to be caused by stress-induced pipe corrosion.

France Discovers Ominous Cracks in Dozens of Nuclear Reactors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, TikTok is absolutely terrible at filtering out harmful misinformation and disinformation regarding elections and politics.

Research Confirms TikTok Is a Cesspool of Misinformation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Fyre Fest island has reached its only natural next form: a luxury real estate colony for the crypto elite, where homes will be bought and sold via NFTs.

Developers are Transforming the Fyre Fest Island Into an Exclusive Colony for Crypto Millionaires, Because of Course They Are

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Last year, Elon Musk was crowned the world's richest person in history. Fast forward a year later, and $100 billion of his historic net worth has vanished.

Elon Musk Has Lost $100 Billion in Under a Year

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Excess carbon dioxide is cooling the Earth's upper atmosphere, making it so that close-orbit objects like satellites and space junk stay in orbit longer.

Climate Change Is Apparently Doing Something Weird to Satellites

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In the next year, Pfizer plans to nearly quadruple the per-dose price of their COVID-19 vaccine, jacking costs from $20 to $30 per shot to $110 to $130.

Pfizer’s Jacking Up the COVID Vaccine Cost to 10,000 Percent Its Production Cost

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Watch out for Slotie, a "metaverse casino" that was just issued an emergency cease-and-desist order by four different US states.

Shockingly, This NFT Metaverse Casino Is Already in Big Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers at Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University have constructed an AI-powered robot trained to kill cockroaches and other insects with a deadly laser.

Brutal Robot Kills Cockroaches Using a Powerful Laser

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bloomberg reports that the Biden administration might perform a national security review of Elon Musk, his Twitter deal, and Starlink.

Biden Administration Reportedly Considering National Security Review of Elon Musk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, reportedly planned to spy on the locations of specific American citizens using the popular video app's location data.

TikTok Caught Planning to Spy on the Locations of Specific American Citizens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA’s New James Webb Shot Is Much Better When You Put Googly Eyes on It

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA’s New James Webb Shot Is Much Better When You Put Googly Eyes on It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-powered music generators are here — and it looks like they're gunning for a strong position in the content-creation economy.

Artificial Intelligence

AI That Generates Music from Prompts Should Probably Scare Musicians

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that the universe is expanding at an entirely different rate than previously thought, a groundbreaking discovery.

Most Precise Measurements of the Universe Suggest That Something Is Very Wrong

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

On Tuesday, the feds took their first legal action against six e-cigarette companies, all of which have been accused of selling vaping products illegally.

Feds Cracking Down on Vaping Companies for “Breaking the Law”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers at Stanford Medicine have created what they hope will one day be a life-saving treatment for brain cancer: a wireless brain implant.

Doctors Test Brain Implant That Destroys Tumors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Guardian reports that the BBC has already secretly prepared scripts to read on air in the event of energy shortages causing blackouts or empty gas reserves — a telling sign that between the war in Ukraine, growing energy uncertainty, and a fast-approaching winter, UK authorities are bracing for the absolute worst.

UK Authorities Anticipate Energy Blackouts This Winter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canadian stoners, rejoice! If you're in Toronto and over the age of 19, you can now order some weed using Uber Eats.

Uber’s Delivering Weed Now, Apparently

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Netherlands have deployed armed ground drones, marking the first time that an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) has been utilized by a NATO country.

NATO Just Deployed Its First Killer Ground Robot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Leaked internal documents obtained by Engadget reveal that Amazon is burning through new employees at an utterly alarming degree.

Leak: Amazon is Churning Through New Employees at an Alarming Rate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI powered "grief tech," which captures lost loved ones and makes interactive versions of them, is here. And unlike feeble humans, it might be here to stay.

Artificial Intelligence

Ghoulish AI Simulates Your Dead Parents

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Just Shot Tiny Bullets at Its Mars Spacecraft

NASA Just Shot Tiny Bullets at Its Mars Spacecraft

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Back in 2009, pro-life absolutist Herschel Walker allegedly paid for his girlfriend to get an abortion — even though he backs "no exception" abortion bans.

Rabidly Anti-Abortion Politician Reportedly Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Police in Oakland are hoping to arm robots with lethal shotguns, called the PAN disrupter. Why? Because that's just what we do now, apparently.

Oakland Police Want to Arm Robots With Shotguns, Because We Live in a Dystopian Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A grim new study just found that kids with pre-existing heart conditions are likely to suffer sever cardiac events as a result of playing videogames.

Certain Kids Can Get Heart Attacks From Gaming, Doctors Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Internal Meta documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal revealed that most Horizon Worlds users don't return to the metaverse after a month of use.

Leak: Most Facebook Metaverse Users Have Quit in a Month

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Introducing: The Synthetic Party, a new political party in Denmark. Their head honcho, Leader Lars, is an AI chatbot, and all policies are AI-derived.

Artificial Intelligence

New European Political Party Is Led by an Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech-savvy students are reportedly getting straight A's by using advanced AI language generators — mainly OpenAI's GPT-3 — to write papers for them.

Artificial Intelligence

Sneaky Students Using AI to Write Their Papers For Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is under federal investigation over his maybe-renewed bid to purchase Twitter, as was revealed yesterday by a newly-unsealed court document.

Elon Musk Under Federal Investigation Over Chaotic Twitter Deal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US military finally tested Microsoft's expensive HoloLens smart goggles for combat, and it's probably safe to say that the goggles failed.

Microsoft’s AR Headset Was a Complete Disaster During a Military Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The catalyst for this newfound Space Dude rivalry between Neil deGrasse Tyson and retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly? "Top Gun: Maverick."

Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Fighting With a Retired Astronaut About “Top Gun: Maverick”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Fast forward a couple of months and hell of a lot of drama later, and at least one of the investors in Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter has cold feet.

Investors in Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Horrified It Might Actually Go Through

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta advisor John Carmack is "grumpy" about the current state of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse, as he explained at Facebook-turned-Meta's Connect 2022.

Top Facebook Consultant Admits That the Metaverse Is Absolutely Terrible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In Scientists were, for the first time, able to show that 800,000 living brain cells trapped in a petri dish can be taught how to play the videogame Pong.

Neuroscience and Brain

Video Shows Human Brain Cells in Dish Teaching Themselves to Play a Videogame

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An entirely AI-generated conversation between (living) podcast menace "Joe Rogan" and the deceased Apple founder "Steve Jobs" now exists. Great.

Artificial Intelligence

Deepfaked Podcast Has Joe Rogan Interview Undead Steve Jobs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a major neurological breakthrough, Stanford University scientists have successfully transplanted human brain cells into the brains of live rats.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Transplant Human Brain Cells Into Living Rat Brains

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk claimed that a photo with Ghislaine Maxwell was the result of her just photobombing him at a party. That might not have been the full truth.

Jeffrey Epstein Associate Reportedly Asked Elon Musk If It Was Possible to Scrub Someone From the Internet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At Connect 2022, Facebook-turned-Meta Mark Zuckerberg and a fellow metaverse exec both appeared as their new, legged avatars. But only they had legs.

Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Maybe Has Legs Now, but Apparently Only for Executives

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Actor Tom Cruise, famous for his extensive film career and just being the eternal embodiment of midlife crises, is still set to film a movie in space.

Universal Studios Chair Says Tom Cruise Is Still Going to Space

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

How likely is a nuclear war? A seemingly impossible question, though one that MIT professor Max Tegmark believes he has the answer to.

MIT Professor Says There’s a One-in-Six Chance of Nuclear War

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One revelation from Facebook-slash-Meta's Connect? Soon, the metaverse will be a space where we can betray those closest to us. Hell yeah.

Facebook Exec Says Metaverse Will Let you Betray Your Friends in VR

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some Facebook execs have threatened to actively monitor Meta employee use of Horizon Worlds, which employees reportedly, uh, weren't using.

Facebook Employees Seem Completely Confused by the Metaverse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For the first time, microplastics have been discovered in human breastmilk. Experts are deeply concerned about the potential implications for infant health.

Scientists Find Microplastics in Human Breastmilk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cops Upload Image of Suspect Generated From DNA, Then Delete After Mass Criticism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a new addition to an ever-growing lineup of elite — and deeply unsettling — celeb deepfakes: "Unreal Keanu Reeves."

Artificial Intelligence

This Keanu Reeves Deepfake Is Giving Us Shivers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dumpy, an Australian white frog, went viral this week for being delightfully enormous. But sadly, while we still absolutely stan, Dumpy isn't that big.

Science & Energy

Tragic News: That Viral Giant Frog Video Is Edited to Make Him Look Huge

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ATP, the universal energy molecule, couldn't rise to the top alone. It needed both water and another phosphorylating molecule, called AcP, to do it.

Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why ATP Powers All Life on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Exoplanet SPECULOOS-2c, perhaps, can maybe give us an exact solar radiation level to be wary of. (Or a ballpark figure, at least.)

Scientists Think This Exoplanet Shows What Earth Will Become in the Future

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bella Hadid held still on the Coperni runway while two armed with a sprayable fabric called Fabrican spray-painted a dress onto her figure.

Watch a Model Get a Dress “Sprayed” Onto Her in the Middle of a Fashion Show

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg looked like he had fun at a UFC fight over the weekend. But you know who looked like they really, really didn't? His wife, Priscilla Chan.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Looks Absolutely Horrified by His New Hobby

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Insider reports that Facebook is planning a mass round of "quiet layoffs," which could impact up to 15 percent of the entire company.

Facebook Reportedly Laying Off Thousands of Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 14-year-old girl in Arizona was recently denied a refill of the autoimmune disease-managing drug methotrexate, even though she wasn't pregnant.

Arizona Teen Refused Arthritis Meds Due to Post-Roe Abortion Bans

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An NYU chemistry professor was recently let go after students filed a scathing petition against him, arguing that his class, well, was simply just too hard.

University Fires Chem Professor After Students Complain His Course Was Too Hard

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Live experimentation, some of it allegedly inhumane, on 1,027 animals reportedly led to the deaths of 329 dogs, 31 pigs, and 661 rabbits and rodents.

Dr. Oz Accused of Killing Hundreds of Dogs, Puppies, Bunnies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Elon Musk is the "modern day Thomas Edison." But, uh, is that a good thing?

Neil deGrasse Tyson Reveals What He Really Thinks of Elon Musk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Kim Kardashian is to pay a $1.26 million penalty to the SEC for allegedly pushing crypto token EMAX without disclosing how much she was paid to do so.

Kim Kardashian Ordered to Pay Million Dollar Penalty for Pushing Crypto on Instagram

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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