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Developments

Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers

"Before the driver knows what's happened, the pedestrian's head is under the wheel."

By Frank Landymore

A still from Midjourney's video that shows a woman being lowered into a tube of liquid for scanning.
Developments

We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound

Scientists are highly skeptical.

By Victor Tangermann

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Privacy

Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

"We didn’t receive anything in the mail. I double checked to make sure that there was no emails or anything about it."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims

"The universe may contain minds stranger than we can imagine."

By Victor Tangermann

A sinkhole with a diameter of 15 meters and a depth of 5 meters has formed in the village of Suduragi, Karaman, Turkiye, on August 25, 2025.
Climate Change

Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland

"Attacked by a cosmic hole punch."

By Victor Tangermann

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Biology

Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle

Apes together laugh.

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Employees Are Using Their Jobs’ Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable

Embarassing.

By Joe Wilkins

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Robotics

Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses

Undergrads weep.

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust

"I like being lied to by the police, it's good for building trust!"

By Joe Wilkins

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Developments

Trending Surgical Procedure That Changes the Color of Your Eyes Alarms Scientists

Worth the risk?

By Frank Landymore

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Parasites

Parasite That Affects Cognition Has Quietly Infected Billions of People

"There is no drug that cures it at this point."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Frets AI Could Voice Woody in Even More “Toy Story” Movies

It's "a scary thought."

By Frank Landymore

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Future Society

Event About How to Adapt to Extreme Heat Canceled Due to Brutal Heatwave

Ouch.

By Victor Tangermann

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Robotics

Korean Workers Vote to Go On Strike, Fearing Robots Could Replace Them

"We are concerned about job security because of robots."

By Frank Landymore

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Caught Driving Straight Into Oncoming Traffic

Another day, another wrong-way.

By Joe Wilkins

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International Space Station

Boeing’s Starliner Is Such a Disaster That We Don’t Even Have Words

Will the humiliation never end?

By Victor Tangermann

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Future Society

Scanning Your Baby’s Eyeballs Will Tell You How Their Brain Will Turn Out, Research Suggests

Optimism in ophthalmology.

By Frank Landymore

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Future Society

Light Pollution is Causing Fish to Live Miserable, Bitter Lives, Researchers Find

"The consequences could ripple throughout the reef ecosystem."

By Joe Wilkins

A person dressed in a black suit and white shirt is sitting in an office chair with their feet propped up on a wooden desk. The desk has an open laptop, some papers, and a pen. The focus is on the polished black dress shoes and the relaxed posture of the individual.
Machine Learning

AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them

"If these companies want quality data, then they should offer quality contracts."

By Joe Wilkins

White Jaguar electric vehicle equipped with Waymo autonomous driving sensors on the roof and rear, parked on a city street at night with illuminated taillights and a California license plate. The car has "Ride today" and app store stickers on the back. A tram is visible in the background.
Self-Driving Vehicles

You Will Never Guess What Teens Are Doing in Waymos

Viewer: don't try this at home.

By Frank Landymore