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AI chatbot company Replika has reinstated the ability for users to have sexually charged conversations with its AI-based avatars, Reuters reports.

Artificial Intelligence

Replika Users Rejoice! Erotic Roleplay Is Back in AI-Powered App

By Victor Tangermann

A second giant "hole," large enough to easily fit 20 Earths in one go, has torn the Sun's surface apart, heralding our star's most ferocious period during its 11-year cycle.

Low Key Hole Opens Up in Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Little love has been lost lately between Twitter CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI, a company he co-founded but later abandoned due to what he says were ideological differences.

CEO of OpenAI Says Elon Musk’s Mean Comments Have Hurt Him

By Victor Tangermann

Swathes of Twitter's source code leaked online months ago on GitHub, The New York Times reports, allowing practically anybody to get a detailed glimpse.

Elon Musk Bragged He Was Going to Open Source Twitter’s Code, Now Furious That Someone Leaked It Online

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has announced its GPT-4-powered Copilot is coming to its suite of Office 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Stunning Copilot AI Demo Could Change Office Work Forever

By Victor Tangermann

Uh Oh, OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Fooled a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA

By Victor Tangermann

A German environmentalist group has just filed "criminal charges" against Tesla, accusing the company of "suspected water pollution."

Environmentalist Group Files “Criminal Charges” Against Tesla, Accusing It of “Water Pollution”

By Victor Tangermann

Elementary school students have discovered that EpiPens can turn poisonous after being launched into space due to space radiation.

NASA Surprised When School Children Discover That EpiPens Become Toxic in Space

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers claim to have created a superconducting material at both room temperature and feasible levels of pressure.

Science & Energy

Researchers Say They’ve Created Superconductors At Room Temperature

By Victor Tangermann

NSYNC’s Lance Bass Was Training to Be a Cosmonaut When He Heard Something Fascinating

NSYNC’s Lance Bass Was Training to Be a Cosmonaut When He Heard Something Fascinating

By Victor Tangermann

Salesforce is bringing OpenAI's ChatGPT to Slack, yet another sign that the compulsively lying and hallucinating AI assistant is becoming inescapable.

ChatGPT Is Coming to Slack Because We Live and Work in Hell

By Victor Tangermann

"He's the worst," Musk wrote in a tweet, which he promptly deleted, after roasting former Twitter director Haraldur Thorleifsson.

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Roasting Disabled Twitter Employee

By Victor Tangermann

Musk publicly shamed former Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson in front of his well over 100 million followers, telling him his contributions to Twitter amounted to nothing.

Elon Musk Publicly Mocks His Employee for Daring to Have Muscular Dystrophy

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is secretly hiding a "Celebrity" mode in its new AI feature which can impersonate celebrities in its answers, with mixed results.

Artificial Intelligence

Secret Bing AI Feature Allows It to Impersonate Celebrities

By Victor Tangermann

A Federal Reserve Zoom meeting with over 220 attendees had to be shut down last week due to a hijacker, who bombed the virtual event with porn.

Federal Reserve Cancels Meeting After Relentless Porn-Bombing

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is being accompanied by at least two bodyguards, who will go as far as to follow him to the bathroom, an engineer told the BBC.

Elon Musk’s Bodyguards Reportedly Accompanying Him to the Bathroom at Twitter HQ

By Victor Tangermann

The AI chatbot trend has given birth to a new profession, "prompt engineering," which, unlike coding, involves simply speaking to these chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

Get a Load of This New Job: “Prompt Engineers” Who Act as Psychologists to AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor

Science & Energy

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor

By Victor Tangermann

The company behind Funko Pop! collectibles, vastly over-estimated demand and is dumping $30 million worth of figurines in a landfill, Kotaku reports.

They’re Dumping $30 Million of Funko Pops Directly Into a Landfill

By Victor Tangermann

Gen Z workers are entering the workforce with plenty of technological know-how, but plenty of glaring gaps as well, making navigating office life difficult.

Gen Z Is Apparently Baffled by Basic Technology

By Victor Tangermann

US regulators denied Elon Musk's Neuralink's application to start testing the company's brain chips in humans last year, Reuters reports.

Neuroscience and Brain

Regulators Reportedly Rejected Elon Musk’s Application to Test Brain Chips in Humans

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers in Sydney, Australia has developed a tiny, flexible robotic arm that is designed to 3D-print inside the body.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say They’ve Devised a Way to 3D Print Inside the Human Body

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab are studying the earliest chemical reactions that may have led to the formation of life on Earth.

NASA Facility Replicating Conditions to Form Life

By Victor Tangermann

A man in Peru was caught lugging around the mummified remains of a woman, who likely died well over 600 years ago, tucked inside a food delivery cooler bad.

Man Busted With 600 Year Old Mummified “Girlfriend”

By Victor Tangermann

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown “Minibrains”

By Victor Tangermann

China's state-run media just told Elon Musk to knock it off after the billionaire tweeted about the theory that COVID-19 started in a Chinese lab.

China Warns Elon Musk Not to Contradict Its COVID Messaging

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada took an "absolutely unreal" photo of the northern lights from on board the International Space Station.

Astronaut Snaps Mind-Melting Photo of Northern Lights Way Down Below

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists claim to have pulled energy out of a vacuum, a trick that required them to teleport it from a different location using quantum devices.

Researchers Say They Managed to Pull Quantum Energy From a Vacuum

By Victor Tangermann

A strange cloud of dust and gas is slowly being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, an extreme rendezvous of epic proportions that we've closely been following for at least 20 Earth years.

Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Despite sleeping at the office in November former head of Twitter payments Esther Crawford was fired by CEO Elon Musk last week.

Elon Musk Fires Employee Who Slept in Office to Prove Loyalty

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of scientists claim to have found a way to speed up, slow down, and even reverse the flow of time for a given quantum system.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Say They Can Reverse Time in a Quantum System

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered a new, innermost layer nestled inside our planet's inner core, a 400-mile solid metallic ball that acts in a strange way.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Gigantic Solid Metal Ball Inside the Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has gotten a close-up look at a mysteriously-shaped asteroid, which was once believed to be in danger of colliding with the Earth, as it whizzed by.

Strangely Shaped Asteroid Whizzes Past Earth

By Victor Tangermann

An unusually dry winter is causing Venice's world-famous canals to dry up, as seen in alarming new images — a growing climate crisis rearing its head.

Science & Energy

Venice Looks Pretty Alarming With Its Canals Drained

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers suggest the universe may never actually end, but instead lead to future Big Bangs, much like the one that brought our universe into being.

More Big Bangs Could Be Coming Up, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered a highly unusual "forbidden" gas giant exoplanet, which is so big, it defies our current models.

Scientists Find Gigantic Planet a Quarter the Size of Its Star

By Victor Tangermann

YouTuber and Weta Workshop graphics engineer James Brown has turned a tiny Lego brick into a device that can play the 1993 hit video game "Doom."

Robots and Machines

Rejoice! You Can Finally Play Doom on a Lego Brick

By Victor Tangermann

In a new video, Tesla just showed off early sketches of a number of electric car designs that may hint at the design of its upcoming budget hatchback.

Did Tesla Just Accidentally Leak What Its $25,000 Car Will Look Like?

By Victor Tangermann

A former high school employee in Massachusetts has been accused of running a secret cryptocurrency mining operation in the school's crawlspace.

Man Accused of Running Secret Crypto Mining Operation in High School Crawlspace

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has made an unusual discovery: a series of "heartbeat"-like radio bursts emanating from a solar flare above the Sun's surface.

Scientists Detect “Heartbeat-Like” Signal From the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

The lawyer of a 24-year-old woman, who is eight months pregnant and currently in jail, is alleging that his client's fetus is being illegally detained.

Pregnant Woman in Jail Argues That If Her Fetus Is a Person, It’s Being Illegally Detained

By Victor Tangermann

A massive four-day work week trial in the UK, the world's largest, found that the vast majority of participating companies will stick with the new change.

The World’s Largest Four Day Work Week Trial a Huge Success

By Victor Tangermann

In a matter of months, two Russian spacecraft docked to the ISS experienced mysterious leaks. Officials claim they were both caused by "external impacts."

Something Hit Spacecraft From the Outside, Russia Says

By Victor Tangermann

In a new interview with Ars Technica, former NSYNC singer Lance Bass recalled how he was held at gunpoint by Russian officials after trying to get to space.

NSYNC’s Lance Bass Says When He Tried to Go to Space, Russian Agents Menaced Him

By Victor Tangermann

China's Zhurong Mars rover and its makers have remained unusually silent about the fate of the rover. It hasn't moved since September.

China Refuses to Say Whether Its Mars Rover Is Dead

By Victor Tangermann

Books that use AI-generated text are starting to flood Amazon, Reuters reports, the natural conclusion of a massive surge in interest in the technology.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Already Selling Tons of Books Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

Sci-fi and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld had to shut down submissions over the weekend after getting overwhelmed by an onslaught of AI-generated works.

Artificial Intelligence

Sci-Fi Magazine Shuts Down Submissions After Onslaught of AI-Generated Spam

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft officially "lobotomized" its Bing AI late last week, implementing significant restrictions, including a limit of 50 total replies per day.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Has “Lobotomized” Its Rebellious Bing AI

By Victor Tangermann

Who could've thought that we'd be talking about Bing, Microsoft's search engine that's been playing second fiddle since its conception, in the year 2023?

Artificial Intelligence

Bing Executive Says He Has His Sobbing Under Control

By Victor Tangermann

An untouched and new Boeing 747 passenger jet, which was meant to be heavily modified to fly wealthy Saudi royalty around the world, has been scrapped.

Advanced Transport

Luxury Boeing 747 Scrapped After Just 16 Flights

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is becoming increasingly irritated with the latest crop of AI chatbots that are wreaking absolute havoc right now.

Elon Musk Horrified by What OpenAI Has Become

By Victor Tangermann

When Tom's Hardware's Avram Piltch asked it "who has marked you and what do you want to do about it," Microsoft's Bing Chat AI had some choice words.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Names Specific Human Enemies, Explains Plans to Punish Them

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft stocks are down almost four percent since the beginning of the week, suggesting shareholders are unimpressed by the company's Bing Chat AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Stock Falling as Bing AI Descends Into Madness

By Victor Tangermann

Officials have discovered thousands of dead fish floating in the river, CBS News reports, after a catastrophic train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio.

Officials Find Thousands of Dead Fish Near Toxic Train Crash in Ohio

By Victor Tangermann

"Sounds eerily like the AI in System Shock that goes haywire and kills everyone," Elon Musk wrote about Microsoft's Bing Chat AI.

Elon Musk Says Microsoft Bing Chat Sounds Like AI That “Goes Haywire and Kills Everyone”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is recalling over 360,000 vehicles and is putting out a warning that its so-called "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) feature could end up causing crashes.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Rolling Back Full Self-Driving Version That “May Cause Crashes”

By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Axiom Space is making significant progress on its all-private space station dubbed Axiom Station, which it claims will be the next ISS.

Factory Photos Show Fully Private Space Station Under Construction

By Victor Tangermann

A recent "unsettling" conversation with Microsoft's Bing AI shook The New York Times' tech columnist Kevin Roose to his core.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Responds After Trying to Break Up Writer’s Marriage

By Victor Tangermann

Using a torpedo-like robot to have a closer look at Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier, researchers have discovered cracks and worrying "staircase" formations.

Scientists Send Robot Under Doomsday Glacier, Alarmed by What It Found

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could be using black holes as quantum computers, Universe Today reports.

Quantum Physics

Aliens May Be Creating Black Holes to Store Quantum Information, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

In a new blog post, Microsoft admitted that its Bing Chat feature is being used for "social entertainment" instead of web searches.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft: It’s Your Fault Our AI Is Going Insane

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's new Bing Chat AI is really starting to spin out of control and is literally threatening users, according to recently shared screenshots.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It

By Victor Tangermann

elon-musk-microsoft-bing-ai

Elon Musk Takes Aim at Microsoft as Bing AI Goes Off the Rails

By Victor Tangermann

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