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Mental Health

Research Suggests the Older You Get, the More Weed You Should Smoke

Like, totally, dude.

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Robotics

A New Store in Hong Kong Has No Human Employees, Just a Single Humanoid Robot

Let's see how "convenient" the store manages to be.

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Finance

A New Type of Gambling Scandal Is Sweeping Through Sports

"If there is any sport where we haven’t had a public scandal yet, it’s because we don’t have the tools to detect it."

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Electric Vehicles

Controversial MIT Study Investigates What’s Really Worse for the Environment: Gas or Electric Cars

Gascells are fuming.

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Pollution

Volunteer Under Investigation for Cleaning Polluted River Without a License, Faces Two Years in Prison

"The section of the river which was cleared is really coming back beautifully, wildlife is returning, yet we are being threatened with prosecution."

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Artificial Intelligence

Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

Who thinks AI is a good thing? Not that many people, it turns out.

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Meta

Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits

Morale is "probably one of the worst it's ever been."

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Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Give Artists Sweeping Protections Against AI Stealing Their Work

If it passes, this law could be a seismic shock to the AI industry.

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Has Been Defeated by New York City

New York City is not having it.

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Future Society

Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way

The "slopification" at work is real.

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Environment

Weather So Brutal That Dean Passes Out at College Graduation

Outdoor surface temperatures reached 155 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Privacy

Microsoft Announces New Feature That Narcs on You to Your Boss

"Why is Teams designed to tattle on employees at every turn?"

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Ethics

TikTok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop

It's practically inescapable.

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Artificial Intelligence

College Students Consumed by “Resignation and Despair” as They’re Relentlessly Pressured to Use AI

"They feel like there's no escaping it."

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Mars

Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues

It's absolutely brimming with resources.

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Ethics

Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads

Anything but this.

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Climate Change

Out-of-Control Icebergs Are Wreaking Havoc on the Oceans

Beware, sailors.

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Astronomy

Scientists Building World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Deep in the Nevada Desert

"Radio astronomy is about to go from sketch to photograph."

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Ethics

OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible Things

OpenAI hired the cofounder Character.AI, a startup linked to a spate of minor suicides.

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Artificial Intelligence

Get Ready for a Catastrophic Leak That Reveals All Your Messages and Search History

"Companies are getting hacked every single day."