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Finance

$1 Million Polymarket Bet That Spain Will Win First World Cup Game Backfires Epically

Ouch.

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Ethics

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

"I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore."

Comic photo illustration featuring a McDonald's Sausage Egg McMuffin replacing the skull over a pair of cross-bones.
Food

Woman “Seriously and Permanently Injured” by Egg McMuffin, Lawsuit Alleges

“Wholly unfit for human consumption."

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Future Society

Scientists Detect Hundreds of Earthquakes Deep Beneath Antarctica

They say they've figured out what caused them.

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Education

Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class

"Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back."

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Ethics

Google CEO Humiliated by Graduating Stanford Students as They Walk Out of His Speech in Protest

"Take a stance against war profiteering. Tell the Google CEO that he is not welcome."

A photo illustration featuring a CEO in a suit from behind scratching the back of his head as he considers his options.
Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Now Being Forced to Reverse Course, Cut AI Spending

The age of "tokenmaxxing" didn't last long.

An expanding mini universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar.
Black Holes

Scientists Propose That Entire Universes Can Form Inside Collapsing Stars

It's like a baby Big Bang.

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Meta

Meta’s Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe

"It's literally the gulag."

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Ethics

Woman’s Death Blamed on Hospital’s AI System

"What we saw was that doctors lost the autonomy to decide if a patient is very seriously ill."

A composite image of Pablo and his robot Pemba on top of a snow-covered mountain.
Robotics

Humanoid Robot Preparing to Climb Mount Everest

Do robots dream of ostentatious feats?

A train transports eight booster motor segments for the SLS (Space Launch System rocket) that will power NASA’s Artemis III mission from Northrop Grumman’s Railyard Shipping Facility in Corinne, Utah, June 2, to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Starship

NASA Loads Moon Rocket onto Giant Trump-Branded Train

It's like a metaphor.

A comic illustration featuring a man in the Utah desert listening for rumbles in the ground.
Physics

Scientists Investigate Strange Rumbling Beneath Utah

"It’s sort of a mystery in terms of fundamental physics."

A rendering of the globe with an overlay featuring the extensive underground fungal network on Earth.
Biology

Earth’s Underground Fungus Network Is So Gigantic That If You Stretched It Out, It Would Reach to Other Star Systems

We've been underestimating fungi.

A large glacier with rugged, textured ice formations in shades of white and light blue, meeting a body of water. The water has a reddish tint, and there is mist or spray where the glacier touches the water. The sky above is partly cloudy.
Climate Change

Scientists Horrified as Huge Heatwave Hits Antarctica

"This is absolutely crazy."

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Artificial Intelligence

Consulting Firm’s Report on How Awesome AI Is Found to Contain Idiotic AI Hallucinations

Well done, everyone.

Protesters carry a mock coffin as they march during a demonstration against a controversial US-built Ebola quarantine center.
Viruses

Massive Protests Erupt in the Streets of Kenya Due to the Trump Administration’s Mysterious Ebola Facility

"They say they don't want this facility in their town."

Photo illustration featuring a gloved doctor's hand holding a shot of Ozempic, a popular GLP-1 drug.
Cancer

GLP-1 Drugs Appear to Prevent Cancer, New Research Finds

"The potential benefit is real, and it makes biological sense."

A photo composite of screenshots from a Korean video featuring a man taking a zoom call from a rollercoaster cart.
Advanced Transport

Man Attends Video Meeting From Active Roller Coaster

"My laptop almost fell."

A close-up of a photograph featuring three firemen standing around a Tesla that has crashed through a garage door.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says

Open sesame!