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Finance

There’s an Urgent Sign of an Impending Market Collapse

The numbers are bad.

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Drivers Trapped for Hours in Hopeless Gridlock as Waymos Brick on Major Holiday

"We realized people were getting out of their cars, yelling and screaming at these Waymos because there were no drivers."

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Ethics

Microsoft’s $7.3 Billion AI Data Center Just Caught a Nasty Lawsuit From Furious Neighbors

Being a "good neighbor" is far easier said than done.

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Education

Rich People Can Afford Good Education for Their Kids. They’re Raising Them on AI Slop Anyways.

Confounding.

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Cryptocurrency

Trump Fans Confused by How Their Investments in His Crypto and Stock Are Now Worth a Tiny Fraction While He’s Getting Richer

"I was on board since day one… I'm now broke."

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Pathogens

Meta’s AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria

"This isn't something we normally test for."

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Medical

Bryan Johnson Spent Tens of Millions Trying Not to Die, Gets Diagnosed With Incurable Disease

"I'm going to try and solve it."

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Astrophysics

Experts Say Mysterious Metallic Orbs Appear to Have Fallen From the Sky

Officials are investigating.

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SpaceX

Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

Good luck fighting those charges.

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Future Society

Swarm of Cyborg Remote Controlled Cockroaches Gains New Power

Cyborg roaches are a thing, and soon there'll be nowhere they can't reach.

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Developments

Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body

"After billions of doses, we now have an extraordinary amount of scientific evidence."

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Biology

You’ll Never Guess Why Government Officials Are Sinking a Four-Story Riverboat Casino Into the Abyss

"You'll start seeing fish on it within a few weeks."

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Environment

Something Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge Wall

We weren't seeing the planted forest for the billions of trees.

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Climate Change

El Niño Already Killing Thousands in Europe

Hot as Hades.

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Pollution

Data Center Emits Constant Screeching Noise Directly Into Man’s House

"It's like we're living in a prison in our own yard, in our own house."

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Ethics

Startup Exec Boasts About Using AI to Churn Out Sports Content”Without Human Input”

"We create sports content for kids."

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Ethics

Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses

"Utterly bogus."

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Treatments

Peptide That Makes You Tan Linked to Skin Cancer, Doctor Warns

"I don't really see a medical benefit of it at all."

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Tesla

Tesla Slams Into Crowded Cafe, Killing One

"It was attempting to make a right-hand turn to go eastbound... and, unfortunately, did not make the turn and went over the sidewalk when it struck the female victim."

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Education

College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds

Are you smarter than a 4th grader?