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Developments

Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body

"After billions of doses, we now have an extraordinary amount of scientific evidence."

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Biology

You’ll Never Guess Why Government Officials Are Sinking a Four-Story Riverboat Casino Into the Abyss

"You'll start seeing fish on it within a few weeks."

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Environment

Something Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge Wall

We weren't seeing the planted forest for the billions of trees.

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Climate Change

El Niño Already Killing Thousands in Europe

Hot as Hades.

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Pollution

Data Center Emits Constant Screeching Noise Directly Into Man’s House

"It's like we're living in a prison in our own yard, in our own house."

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Ethics

Startup Exec Boasts About Using AI to Churn Out Sports Content”Without Human Input”

"We create sports content for kids."

A still from Meta's ad campaign featuring Kylie Jenner. Written over it in crude white marker is "GIVE US MORE MONEY PLEASE :)"
Ethics

Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses

"Utterly bogus."

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Treatments

Peptide That Makes You Tan Linked to Skin Cancer, Doctor Warns

"I don't really see a medical benefit of it at all."

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Tesla

Tesla Slams Into Crowded Cafe, Killing One

"It was attempting to make a right-hand turn to go eastbound... and, unfortunately, did not make the turn and went over the sidewalk when it struck the female victim."

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Education

College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds

Are you smarter than a 4th grader?

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Meta

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content

"Surely we are going to get in trouble for doing this?"

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Taxi Company Annoyed by the Naughty Thing Passengers Keep Doing in Its Cabs

"You're not supposed to smoke in the vehicle."

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Privacy

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country

"There has been community support for me that I humbly welcome."

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Robotics

Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots

"They say it's the wave of the future, and if that's so, they're taking away jobs from people."

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Future Society

Does Someone on Polymarket Know That Putin Is Going Down?

Somebody just put down a huge amount of cash.

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Future Society

Man Vanishes After Mysterious Experiments With Quantum Physics

He "specifically" worked on quantum physics that investigated "being in two places at once."

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Future Society

Weird Al Turns Down Huge Sum to Appear in Ad for AI

Start calling him "Cool Al."

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Ethics

Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails

The stuff ChatGPT generated left safety researchers "shaken, and in tears." 

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Pollution

Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers

The company once pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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Ethics

Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days

This is horrifying.