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A four-wheeled delivery robot with a teal and gray body, equipped with lights and a yellow flag, is on a sidewalk near a pedestrian crossing button. A man wearing a brown jacket, gray shirt, and striped pants is walking nearby, carrying a black bag and a rolled-up mat. Cars are visible in the background on the street.
Robotics

Former Delivery Drivers Are Getting Weird New Jobs as Delivery Robots Take Over

"They are the kind of jobs that scale with the robots."

By Joe Wilkins

Biotech startup Cortical Labs claims to have taught living human brain cells how to play the seminal video game "Doom."
Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots."

By Victor Tangermann

A bright, glowing orange-yellow celestial object at the center, surrounded by swirling, cloud-like formations in varying shades of orange and red, set against a dark background dotted with small white stars.
Astronomy

Evidence Grows That One of the Largest Known Stars Is Poised to Explode in a Spectacular Blast

You're not prepared for its size.

By Frank Landymore

According to the first independent safety evaluation of OpenAI's ChatGPT Health, it's astonishingly bad at identifying medical emergencies.
Future Society

ChatGPT Health Is Staggeringly Bad at Recognizing Life-Threatening Medical Emergencies

"Unbelievably dangerous."

By Victor Tangermann

Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital data centers.
Artificial Intelligence

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

"Orbital data centers are many years, perhaps decades, away."

By Victor Tangermann

A young person wearing headphones is stretching with arms raised and eyes closed, appearing joyful or relaxed. In front of them is a laptop, a desk lamp, and some notebooks or papers. The background features a bright orange grid pattern with a large blue circle behind the laptop. The image uses a bold color overlay effect with yellow, orange, and blue tones.
Ethics

A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well

The numbers are stupefying.

By Joe Wilkins

A close-up of an animated turkey wearing a yellow astronaut suit and a clear space helmet, with one gloved hand raised. The turkey has a blue and pink textured face with wide eyes and an open beak. The background shows a starry night sky.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Film Pulled From AMC Cinemas

Sayonara, slop!

By Frank Landymore

A bright, glowing celestial object emitting purple and white light, partially obscured by a dark, curved surface resembling a planet or moon, set against a backdrop of scattered stars in deep space.
Astronomy

NASA Spots Sun-like Star Inflating Massive Bubble

This blows.

By Frank Landymore

MIT researchers have devised new tech that can 3D print entire complex machines with moving parts in a matter of hours.
Future Society

MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts

"This is a great feat, but it is just the beginning."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say they've developed a new way to treat cancer by engineering bacteria to eat tumors from the inside out.
Bacteria

Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside

"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."

By Victor Tangermann

A triptych of surreal and unsettling scenes featuring AI-generated people with extreme, unnatural swelling and growths on their bodies.
Meta

Meta Reels Is Filling Up With AI Slop of Faith Healers Performing Miraculous Cures

"Be healed in the name of Jesus!"

By Joe Wilkins

A colorful, irregularly shaped galaxy with a bright core and faint, diffuse outer regions against a black background. The galaxy displays a mix of blue, purple, and pink hues, with some areas appearing more concentrated and others more diffuse, suggesting active star formation and complex structure.
Astrophysics

Astronomers Spot Huge Microwave Laser Blasting Into Space

A literal space laser.

By Frank Landymore

Two overlapping portraits of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, one tinted red on the left and the other tinted blue on the right, set against an orange background with a grid and measurement markings. He's wearing a collared shirt and a dark sweater, looking slightly upwards and to the right.
Artificial Intelligence

Uber Employees Have Created an AI Clone of Its CEO

We wonder if they can tell the difference.

By Frank Landymore

A person wearing light blue jeans, a pink and white striped shirt, and brown sandals is reaching out toward a small red delivery robot labeled "COCO" with "Coco Robotics" written below. The robot has four wheels and a small red flag on a pole. The background is bright yellow.
Robotics

Woman Annoyed When Delivery Robot Comes Into Her Yard, Tears Up Her Garden and Steals Her Fence

"I chased after it and looked like a total crazy person, running after a robot in the middle of the street and yelling at it."

By Joe Wilkins

A black-and-white halftone image of Bill and Phoebe Gates standing together. The background is a blue and green grid pattern with faint text and shapes.
Finance

Bill Gates’ Daughter Says Her $185 Million AI Startup Will Succeed Entirely Due to Her Merits, Not Even a Little Bit Who Her Dad Is

"I have a chip on my shoulder."

By Joe Wilkins

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million light-years.
Off-World

This Is How Big a Telescope Aliens Would Need to See Dinosaurs on Earth

Spoiler alert: it would have to be big. Really big.

By Victor Tangermann

A red robotic hand holding a black pen against a green cutting mat with white grid lines and measurement markings. The hand is positioned as if ready to write or draw.
Future Society

Startup Generates Caring Letters to Your Friends Using AI, Handwrites Them Using Robot Pen

"In an age where we are all drowning in electronic communication, handwritten notes really stand out."

By Joe Wilkins

Scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz have just taken a huge step in the long history of lab-cultured brains.
Neuroscience and Brain

Lab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful

"The capacity for adaptive computation is intrinsic to cortical tissue itself."

By Joe Wilkins

Satellite orbiting Earth with a large parabolic antenna dish and solar panels, set against a backdrop of the planet's blue atmosphere and clouds.
Astronomy

Constant Space Launches Turning Earth’s Atmosphere Into a “Crematorium,” Scientists Say

Digging the atmosphere's grave.

By Frank Landymore

Transparent hourglass with blue sand flowing from the top to the bottom chamber, placed on a white circular pedestal against an orange background with a large red circle behind it.
Anthropic

Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable

"It's going to be painful for a lot of people."

By Joe Wilkins