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Future Society

Man Accused of Horrific Crimes Caught Hiding as Pharma Executive

"I have long been carefully planning a good, safe, secure and comfortable life."

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Robotics

Sex Doll Company Strikes Bizarre Deal to Put Its Robot in High School Classrooms

Who needs teachers when you've got... uh....

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Artificial Intelligence

Eminent Domain Could Be Used to Seize Your Land for AI Data Centers

Anything's possible.

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Robotics

Startup Sued After Delivery Bot Clobbers 73-Year Old Woman

The company argues her injuries were pre-existing.

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Brain Implants

Eye Implant That Restores Vision to the Blind Cleared for Sale

"We have a cochlear implant for vision now."

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Privacy

MIT Is Blanketing Its Entire Campus in AI-Powered Security Cameras

"At least they also closed down libraries to save money for the AI cameras."

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Ethics

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."

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Ethics

Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads

"It's frankly an insult to older voters who don't know that AI exists."

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Ethics

People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It’s Gross

Horrid.

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Meta

Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for “Tired” Parents

"Tired after a long day but want to give your kids a special bedtime story?"

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Off-World

Incredible Video Shows Chinese Rocket Get Hit by Lightning Mid-Launch

Zeus was in attendance.

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Ethics

New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries

"Introducing the world's first Chief Executive Replacement Engine."

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Education

Professor Hides White Font in Midterm, Catches Students Using AI in the Stupidest Way Possible

"Thirty-two of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response."

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Artificial Intelligence

Computer Science Enrollment Now Declining Under Dark Cloud of AI

Major trouble.

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SpaceX

SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost

"Elon has ruined me."

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Artificial Intelligence

Braindead Politician Accidentally Reads AI Slop That Someone Left in His Speech: “Here’s a More Natural, Flowing Version of That Section That Reads Like a Legislative Speech”

He really read it out loud.

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Self-Driving Vehicles

This May Be the Most Damning Single Fact in Tesla’s Quarterly Earnings Report

Tesla is moving backwards.

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Investing

Investors Laying Groundwork to Profit Massively When Economy Collapses

Trouble's brewing.

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Privacy

So Many People Are Smashing Flock’s Cameras That It’s Disguising Them Inside Other Objects

"Look at that."

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Tesla

It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

One for the history books.