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Solar Power

Solar Power Is Getting So Cheap That It’s Almost Unbelievable

"Offensively cheap."

Privacy

Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them

Smart glasses begone.

Mental Health

Scientists Claim That Three Minutes With a “Donkey or Small Horse” Can Save Teenagers From Depression

"You can't stand in a pasture watching a child and a donkey interact and pretend only one of them is having an experience."

Solar Power

Kenya Unleashing Solar-Powered Ambulance With Wicked Long Range for Service to Remote Villages

"It will enable us to go and screen mothers and babies, catch complications early and refer them in real time."

Robotics

Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close

Bow down to your human.

Machine Learning

US Federal Register Caught Using Chinese AI Model for Document Search

"Even the United States government is unable to afford the cost per token charged by American AI companies."

Future Society

Video Shows Huge Drone Descending on Unsuspecting Dog and Blasting It With Water

"Nothing in millions of years of evolution has prepared this dog for this scenario."

James Webb Space Telescope

Strange Seeds Appear to Be Growing Into Massive Black Holes

Could this explain the "little red dots" mystery?

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Unleash Franken-Mice With Brains That Are Nearly Half Human

"It's going to provide us access to other aspects of human brain function that would be very difficult to study."

Google

Google Now Asking For Users’ Video Selfies to Verify Their Identities

"Take another selfie to get back into your account."

Future Society

Restaurants Are Going Viral by Holding Up Handwritten Signs Pledging Not to Use AI Foodslop Posters

"This is how you catch a fish."

Ethics

Democrat and Republican Politicians Are Both Terrified to Go Against the AI Industry, Even Though a Huge Majority of Both Their Voting Blocs Want Them to Do Exactly That

"They spend huge amounts of money on defeating anybody who wants legislative regulation."

Advanced Transport

The FAA Is Spending Nearly a Billion Dollars to Make AI the “Brain” of Air Traffic Control Towers, Starting This Monday

Up and away!

Education

MIT Report Finds That AI Is Leading to “Cognitive Surrender” Among Students

It's a disaster in the making.

Ethics

Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a “Doom Loop” That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Useless

"Our AI content strategy has started a 'doom loop.'"

Artificial Intelligence

AI “Actor” Tilly Norwood Glitches Out During Interview, Starts Rambling in Chinese

"You seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason."

Ethics

Protestors Ransack AI Lab, Leave Graffiti Calling on Masses to “Burn the Data Centers”

"The windows of the building were smashed and numerous graffiti tags were sprayed on the walls."

Machine Learning

“Slop Grenades”: Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He’s Wrought

"You're just letting AI do the work for you."

Ethics

US Military Nearly Started World War III After AI Chatbot Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Aboard a Chinese Ship

The intel was "entirely false."

Environment

Crowd Cheers as RFK Jr. Says the Government Will Investigate “Chemtrails”

That's what he's worried about?