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Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Massive Structure Under Antarctica

It's likely one of the largest of its kind.

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Artificial Intelligence

US Soccer Scanning Videos of Millions of Youth Players to Identify New Stars

"We need to be able to scout way more players in this country."

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Mass Transit

New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else

"These sensors provide a much richer set of data for us to work with."

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Pollution

New Study Finds Something Horrible Contaminating Half of California’s Water

"The true scale of this contamination is almost certainly even greater."

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Drones

Suburbanites Freaked Out by Mysterious Drones Leering Into Their Homes at Night

"It was definitely listening in and provoking us."

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Mental Health

Psychiatrists Investigating People Who Get Trapped Inside Vivid Daydreams

It can turn into a real problem.

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Astrophysics

Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence

Brutal.

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Climate Change

Remember How Sucking Carbon Out of the Air Was Going to Save the Planet? We Have Terrible News

To say we're way behind schedule is an understatement.

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Robotics

Airbnb Host Furious After Startup Trashes His Unit to “Test Robots”

The worst guests imaginable.

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Energy

Trump Desperately Pumps Money Into Dying Coal Industry

"Clean, beautiful coal."

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Future Society

Catholic Church Boots Exorcist After He Said UFOs Are Demons

"I ask forgiveness."

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Meta

Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips

It's a bandaid fix.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates

Gulp.

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Astronomy

NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System

The jokes write themselves.

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Robotics

Chinese Post Office Deploys Humanoid Robots to Sort Mail

Just a cog in the machine.

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Machine Learning

Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of Analyzing Sports, and They Choked Spectacularly

"It cannot tell you why things happen, and it cannot tell you what’s gonna happen next."

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Mental Health

It Turns Out Lookmaxxing Has Some Extremely Emasculating Side Effects

Oops!

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Lads Force Waymo to Play Football

Here's how it did.

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Ethics

Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AI

"There is currently a strong commercial incentive on the part of the technology industry to overstate the capabilities of their products."

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Exobiology

Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert

"It’s incredible to think there was once a world this large."