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Engineers developed an EV battery ejection system that shoots the offending pack out of the side of the vehicle like a giant piece of toast.
Electric Vehicles

China Unveils EV That Can Violently Eject Its Battery in Case of a Fire

A car that can shoot a giant flaming battery pack — what could possibly go wrong?

By Victor Tangermann

The guy who's spearheading Meta's AI-powered smart glasses is named Rocco Basilico — which matches a internet theory called Roko's basilisk.
Metaverse

Zuckerberg’s AI Glasses Guy Is Named Rocco Basilico

"I grabbed my head in horror."

By Sharon Adarlo

A medical examiner has found that former high school football player Shane Tamura, who shot and killed four people, had CTE.
Neuroscience and Brain

Medical Examiners Found Something Grim About the Brain of the Gunman Who Shot Up the NFL Building

This is awful — and not unexpected.

By Victor Tangermann

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different universe than ours.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe

Don't mess with colliding black holes.

By Victor Tangermann

A newly released document links Elon Musk to alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his notorious island in the Caribbean.
Elon Musk

New Evidence Links Elon Musk to Epstein’s Island

"Epstein is obviously a creep."

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study links private equity ownership to horrifying outcomes in hospital emergency rooms and ICUs compared to public facilities.
Medical

Something Grisly Happens When Hospitals Become For-Profit

Horrifying.

By Joe Wilkins

Roger McNamee has an ominous warning for the huge tech companies shredding billions in the AI race: it's winner take all.
Artificial Intelligence

Longtime Investor Warns the AI Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason

“Each big tech company needs a global monopoly in AI to sustain their success and market value. They are not all going to get one.”

By Joe Wilkins

Following years of being drowned out by AI slop, Spotify has finally officially acknowledged that it's a problem.
Art

Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face

Too little, too late.

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese censors digitally altered a gay couple into a heterosexual couple in the Dave Franco movie Together.
Future Society

Chinese Release of “Together” Edited Woman’s Face Onto Gay Man to Censor Same-Sex Couple

"It’s also disrespectful to the LGBT community.”

By Sharon Adarlo

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
Astronomy

Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System

Will it weather the storm?

By Victor Tangermann

A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.
Ethics

Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song

Spotify promised to fix AI slop drowning out real music less than a day ago.

By Victor Tangermann

A Trump adviser admitted to a Wired reporter that Larry Ellison is a "shadow president of the United States."
Future Society

Trump Adviser Admits Larry Ellison Is “Shadow President of the United States”

A billionaire president. A billionaire "First Buddy." And now...

By Frank Landymore

In October, a newly discovered comet will come so close to Earth that people may be able to make out its heavenly fireworks unaided.
Future Society

A Huge Comet Is About to Become Visible in the Sky 

Look up!

By Sharon Adarlo

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.
Future Society

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI’s Power Usage

It's even worse than we thought.

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's plans for its robotaxi service are so convoluted that it's not clear the company understands them itself.
Future Society

Tesla’s Robotaxi Plans Are So Jumbled That Officials Are Begging It To Clarify What the Heck It’s Actually Doing

We'd also like to know.

By Frank Landymore

It turns out that it doesn't take a lot to fool the lidar sensors used on robotaxis, if you go out of your way to do it.
Future Society

Putting Mirrors on Traffic Cones Causes Self-Driving Cars to Melt Down, Confounding Lidar

Is that Elon Musk we hear laughing in the distance?

By Frank Landymore

A robotics technician is suing Tesla, alleging he was struck and knocked unconscious by a robotic arm at the company's Fremont plant.
Elon Musk

Tesla Worker Knocked Unconscious by Robot, Lawsuit Claims

He's suing the company for $51 million.

By Victor Tangermann

Freelance gig board Fiverr is laying off 250 workers or 30 percent of its workforce in a pivot to AI, after the CEO told workers to use AI.
Ethics

Fiverr Told Its Employees to Embrace AI, Then Stabbed Them in the Back

Where are fired Fiverr employees going to get work? On Fiverr?

By Sharon Adarlo

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
Robot Dogs

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

"We built a robot brain that nothing can stop."

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.
Mars

Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper

It's absolutely enormous.

By Victor Tangermann