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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

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Astronomy

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

Digging the atmosphere's grave.

By Frank Landymore

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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

Elon Musk wearing a black tuxedo with a bow tie, captured with a zoom blur effect that creates a dynamic, radiating motion around him.
Elon Musk

Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes

Beggars can't be choosers.

By Joe Wilkins

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Future Society

Anonymous Kalshi User Makes Huge Bet That the White House Is About to Confirm Alien Life or Technology

Does someone have inside information?

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Hubble telescope has circled our planet in a low-Earth orbit for decades. But how much longer has become increasingly uncertain.
NASA

The Hubble Is Inexorably Falling to Earth

It's hanging on for dear life.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring a curious geological formation made up of ridges that look like spiderwebs from space.
Mars

NASA Rover Exploring Strange, Haunting Structures on Mars

"It almost feels like a highway we can drive on."

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Jack Dorsey Lays Off 4,000 Employees After Move to AI

"Must be nice to treat human beings like spreadsheet errors."

By Joe Wilkins

Ongoing fears that the massive amount of money the AI industry is pouring into data centers may not be sustainable are pushing stocks down.
Artificial Intelligence

The Economy Is Lurching Downward as Fear of AI Spreads

The cracks are starting to show.

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump standing behind a wooden podium, speaking into a microphone in a formal setting with an audience in the background. The image has a stylized, high-contrast effect with a blue and orange color tone.
Ethics

AI Workers, and Even CEOs, Suddenly Turning Against the Trump Administration

"If any tech company caves to the Pentagon's demands, War Secretary Pete Hegseth will have won the ability to surveil our communities... en masse."

By Joe Wilkins

A bearded man with short hair and round glasses is sitting on a couch, resting his head on his hand with a thoughtful or bored expression. He is holding a smartphone in his other hand. The image has a stylized overlay with an orange background, white geometric lines, and a blue circle behind the man's head.
Ethics

Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds

"I fear the problem is more common than most people think."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pete Hegseth and Dario Amodei are shown in a stylized illustration. The background features a grid pattern with a large yellow circle behind them.
Anthropic

Anthropic Blowout With Military Involved Use of Claude for Incoming Nuclear Strike

As high stakes as it gets.

By Frank Landymore

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Renewable Energy

Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths

"Our study suggests that living near a [nuclear power plant] may carry a measurable cancer risk."

By Frank Landymore

Antarctica's Blood Falls, with a striking orange-red flow of liquid running down the side of a glacier onto the rocky ground below. The glacier is predominantly white with some blue and gray shading, and the orange-red flow contrasts sharply against the icy surface. The foreground shows a frozen or snow-covered area.
Environment

There’s a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation for Antarctica’s Waterfall of Blood

Bear with us.

By Frank Landymore

NASA has announced major changes to its Artemis program, revising its first planned landing attempt to take place in low-Earth orbit.
Starship

NASA Cancels Moon Landing Mission

This is huge.

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spoke of an AI "tsunami" on the horizon which he claims everyone is ignoring the warning signs of.
Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Warns of “Tsunami” on Horizon

"There doesn't seem to be a wider recognition in society of what's about to happen."

By Frank Landymore

Dario Amodei is seated on an upholstered armchair. He is wearing a dark suit, a white shirt, and a patterned tie. His hands are clasped together in front of him. The background features an orange grid pattern with a large red circle behind him. The image has a stylized, graphic design effect.
Anthropic

Anthropic Drops Its Huge Safety Pledge That Was Supposedly the Whole Point of the Company

Why slow down for safety while its competitors are "blazing ahead"?

By Frank Landymore

A NASA astronaut has voluntarily stepped forward, announcing in a NASA statement that it was he who had "experienced a medical event."
International Space Station

The Saga of NASA’s Space Station Evacuation Keeps Getting Stranger

What's going on?

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of infuriating customers at drive-thrus, Burger King is looking to exasperate its existing employees with AI instead.
Ethics

Burger King Adding AI to Employees’ Headsets to Constantly Monitor Whether They’re Being Friendly Enough

This is just inhumane.

By Victor Tangermann