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According to a shocking new investigation by The Western Edge, Amazon tried to keep the April 6 death of a worker a secret.
Future Society

Amazon Accused of Hiding Worker’s Death for a Week, Making Employees Keep Working as Corpse Lay on Floor

"Let’s get back to work."

By Victor Tangermann

Meta's plans to add facial recognition tech to its smart glasses, as part of a new feature dubbed "Name Tag," has outraged rights groups.
Meta

Huge Group of Experts Warns Meta That Its Pervert Glasses Will Enable Terrible Crimes

The company's latest controversial product "will harm vulnerable people while further imperiling our democracy."

By Victor Tangermann

A humanoid Unitree G1 robot can be seen chasing a small flock of wild boars through an empty car parking lot in Warsaw, Poland.
Robotics

Video Shows Humanoid Robot Chasing a Pack of Wild Boars

It's like "Horizon Zero Dawn," but in reverse.

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is using AI to develop a "photorealistic, AI-powered 3D" version of himself that can interact with staffers.
Meta

Meta Secretly Building a Photorealistic AI Clone of Mark Zuckerberg so No Employee Can Ever Escape His Watchful Eye

There's no escape.

By Victor Tangermann

A person wearing a black graduation gown and cap is holding a diploma with a ribbon while covering their face with one hand. The background features a large yellow circle and several blue and red humanoid robots.
Ethics

Recent Grads Say AI Is Making It Impossible to Find a Job

"I feel helpless."

By Joe Wilkins

Denialists are ironically pointing to faked, AI-generated footage as "proof" that NASA had staged its latest trip around the Moon.
Artificial Intelligence

Moon Denialists Are So Pathetic That They’re Using AI to Fake Artemis Footage

This is just sad.

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of gloved hands holding a syringe and a vaccine vial, with the syringe needle inserted into the vial. The background features a stylized American flag with white stars on a black field on the left and red and white stripes on the right. The image has a high-contrast, blue-tinted effect on the hands and syringe.
RX and Medicine

CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine

RFK Jr "has a fixed, immutable belief that vaccines cause harm."

By Joe Wilkins

Two partially unwrapped burritos with foil at the bottom, set against a blurred background of a car driving through a tunnel with green and yellow lights.
Future Society

A New Study Found Something Disturbing About the Way Delivery Workers Drive to Get You Your Burrito

"It kind of bothers me that to be on time for about 75 percent of my trips, I'd have to exceed the speed limit rather a little bit."

By Joe Wilkins

Two clenched fists in black and white are shown wearing handcuffs against a solid bright orange background. The image has a high-contrast, stylized effect with a slight shadow around the fists.
Facial recognition

Man Suing City After AI Camera Flags Him For Wrongful Arrest

He was a "100 percent match."

By Joe Wilkins

Nike's reportedly AI-designed World Cup jerseys debuted with comically misshapen shoulders that are impossible to ignore.
Artificial Intelligence

Nike’s AI Designed World Cup Jerseys Are a Disaster

"This is a stupid, STUPID design."

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is shown smoking while wearing headphones and speaking into a microphone. A tweet from Elon Musk is overlaid, stating that The Boring Company could build a Hyperloop tunnel from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles for less than 5% of the cost of subsidizing free flights between the two cities, calling it a technological marvel exceeding any high-speed rail on Earth. The tweet references a post by Hans Mahncke about the cost of subsidizing free flights.
Hyperloop

Elon Musk Says He Could Definitely Build a Public Transit System Better Than Anything In China If He Tried

Sure.

By Frank Landymore

A hand reaching towards a bright white light source, surrounded by a red and orange glowing aura. The image has a dramatic, high-contrast effect with the hand appearing as a dark silhouette against the intense light.
Climate Change

Heat Waves Are Getting So Brutal That They Just Kill You, Full Stop

"If it's already happening now, then what does a future that is two or three degrees warmer hold?"

By Joe Wilkins

A close-up view of a blue car's rear side and spinning wheel on a road, with a black silhouette of a duck standing nearby. The background features a bright orange sky and a guardrail along the road.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Runs Down Mother Duck Taking Care of Her Eggs, Flees Scene

"It didn't slow down or hesitate at all."

By Frank Landymore

Two cooling towers emitting white steam rise behind a dense forest with a winding road in the foreground. A large, bright yellow sun is positioned between the towers against an orange background with a grid pattern.
Nuclear Fusion

There’s a Glaring Safety Problem With Nuclear Energy Startups

Move fast, break isotopes.

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI is backing a bill that would shield companies from liability in case AI were to cause serious "critical harms," including mass death.
Ethics

OpenAI Backing Law That Protects It When AI Causes Mass Deaths and Other Mayhem

How convenient.

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey found that 20 percent of workers are already seeing workplace tasks automated by AI, though many questions remain.
Ethics

Research Finds That AI Has Already Replaced Work for 20 Percent of Jobs

"The policy window to shape how AI transforms work is probably closing faster than most governments realize."

By Joe Wilkins

Five green plastic toy soldiers in various combat poses, set against a bright yellow background featuring the OpenAI logo. The soldiers are equipped with different weapons, including rifles, a machine gun, and a bazooka.
OpenAI

OpenAI Staffers Horrified When Senior Leadership Hatched “Insane” Plan to Pit World Governments Against Each Other

"It worked for nuclear weapons, why not AI?"

By Frank Landymore

Thomas Peterffy, the billionaire founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers, argued for legalizing insider trading.
Finance

Billionaire Says Insider Trading Should Be Fully Legalized

He also happens to own a prediction market company.

By Frank Landymore

Close-up of a solar panel surface showing a grid of small, rectangular photovoltaic cells. The cells display a gradient of colors from pink and purple on the left to blue on the right, with black lines separating the cells and small metallic connectors visible at intervals.
Solar Power

Scientists Set New Record for Solar Cell Efficiency

A sunny day for solar energy.

By Joe Wilkins

Tech leaders remain adamant that the AI construction boom is about to take off, adding tens of gigawatts of compute any day now.
Ethics

OpenAI’s Latest Thing It’s Bragging About Is Actually Kind of Sad

This compute measuring contest is just pitiful.

By Victor Tangermann