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Solar Power

Solar Just Produced More Electricity Than Coal for the First Time in the History of the United States

It's a major milestone for renewable energy.

By Victor Tangermann

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Privacy

Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet

"Taken together, these bills would fundamentally change the internet as we know it."

By Joe Wilkins

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Robotics

Google DeepMind Partner Posts Video of Fake Humanoid Robot

"Isn't that, like, misleading?"

By Victor Tangermann

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Robotics

Humanoid Robot Kicks Soccer Ball So Hard It Smashes Hole in Wall

Try saving that one.

By Frank Landymore

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Astrophysics

Scientists Discover Fearsome Wind That Destroys Entire Galaxies

It could explain why the early universe is littered with dead realms.

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Deodorant Strictly Forbidden at Intel’s AI Chip Facility

We can't imagine the smell.

By Victor Tangermann

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Facial recognition

Innocent Man Freed After Spending Over 50 Days in Jail Due to Horribly Inaccurate AI Facial Recognition Tech

"The technology is simply too dangerous for law enforcement to be using at all."

By Joe Wilkins

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Physics

California Primed for Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds

Tectonic stresses have been building, and building, and building.

By Victor Tangermann

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Future Society

Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean

"It has implications for extreme weather events in North America and Europe."

By Joe Wilkins

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Education

College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

"There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing."

By Frank Landymore

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Starship

NASA’s Next Moon Mission Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Corporate Failure Points

It's an extremely ambitious plan.

By Victor Tangermann

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The Industrialists

Sam Altman’s Eyeball Scanning Company Now Laying Off Workers

"We've been Orb-constrained."

By Joe Wilkins

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Future Society

Investigators Questioning Bill Gates Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

"No one — regardless of power, political party or wealth — is above justice."

By Victor Tangermann

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OpenAI

ChatGPT Caught Recommending “Products” That Are Just Scams That Steal Your Credit Card Info

Shop around and find out.

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Local Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Instead

"We thought building a cardboard airline in a treehouse sounded more honest."

By Victor Tangermann

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Cryptocurrency

Disaster Strikes When Meme Coin Pays Man to Tattoo Its Name on His Forehead, But They Misspelled It

It's hard to imagine things getting much bleaker than this.

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Deploying AI-Powered Drive-Thru System for Ordering Its Nauseating Foodslop

Not again.

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Argentina Moves to Legalize “Non-Human Corporations” Run by AI

"Keep AI unregulated."

By Frank Landymore

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Anthropic

If You Think AI Companies Are Unethical Now, Wait Until They Go Public

It's going to get messy.

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work

Thank God.

By Victor Tangermann