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Researchers have noticed a strangely sweet behavior among Icelandic orcas: the adoption of a baby whale from an entirely different species. 
Science & Energy

Benevolent Orca Pods Are Adopting Baby Pilot Whales in an Apparent Effort to Clean Up the Species’ Image

It's a whale of a tale.

A video shows how the lidar sensors equipped on self-driving cars can wreak havoc on your smartphone camera.
Advanced Transport

Something Wild Happens When You Try to Take a Video of a Car’s Sensors

Ouch.

Engineers at MIT have unveiled a robot that assists the elderly with a variety of household tasks and emergency maneuvers.
Robotics

Engineers Reveal Robot That Takes Care of Old People So You Don’t Have to

Who needs caretakers and senior care funding when you've got robots?

An investigation found that hundreds of paid subscribers to Elon Musk's X have terrorism links and many use paid X perks to push propaganda.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Doing Business With Actual Terrorists, Nonprofit Finds

"There is clear evidence of these groups profiting and fundraising through X."

A startup is claiming that its new product will be stronger than steel, but it'll be a long time until we known for sure.
Science & Energy

Startup Claims Its “Superwood” Is Stronger Than Steel

"Eventually we want to get to the bones of the building."

A 98-year-old World War II veteran, who served in the British Army, absolutely destroyed a Tesla vehicle with the license plate "FASCIM."
Future Society

Watch a 98-Year-Old World War II Vet Absolutely Demolish a Tesla With a Tank

"We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again."

Researchers have found that newer AI models can omit key details from text summaries as much as 73 percent of the time.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse At Summarizing Data

The consequences could be devastating.

World leaders being shown baby versions of themselves at a global summit.
Artificial Intelligence

World Leaders Shown AI Baby Versions of Themselves at European Summit

No notes.

Special effects house Industrial Light and Magic shared a new AI demo of Star Wars creatures that look absolutely awful.
Artificial Intelligence

Star Wars’ Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster

"None of those creatures look like they belong in Star Wars."

Researchers made small tweaks to the molecular structure of LSD to see if it could be turned into an effective brain-healing treatment.
Brain

Scientists Tweaked LSD’s Molecular Structure and Created a Wild New Brain Drug

This new compound could be a game changer.

A new AI tool called Track is being used as a workaround to the current laws against facial recognition, not to improve the tech.
Facial recognition

The Hot New AI Tool in Law Enforcement Is a Workaround for Places Where Facial Recognition Is Banned

Laws against facial recognition? Please.

Bovine beauty pageants help determine the most desirable cows in the world — and these "supercows" are changing meat farming for good.
Science & Energy

Brazilian “Supercows” Reportedly Close to Achieving World Domination

These are no normal bovines.

According to Breakthrough Listen Initiative scientist Brian Lacki, alien Dyson spheres may destroy themselves long before we can find them.
Future Society

What Are Alien Dyson Spheres, Why Are They So Janky, and Why Are They Doomed to Go Undetected?

Is this why we haven't caught one yet?

A controversial study has found that living within two miles of a golf course may greatly increase odds of developing Parkinson's disease.
Studies

Study: Living Near a Golf Course Could Lead to a Terrible Chronic Illness

"It’s probably a perfect storm."

General Motors has announced plans to mass-produce a brand new kind of battery that could change the way we look at EVs.
Advanced Transport

General Motors Unveils Their “Groundbreaking” New EV Battery

Is this the EV battery revolution we've been waiting for?

Amazon's delivery drones are crashing because the company decided to go cheap.
Drones

Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Crashing, and We Finally Know Why

This sounds like it could've easily been avoidable.

According to a recent campaign, more than half of recent job applicants said they had used AI tools to write their resumes.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Helping Job Seekers Lie, Flood the Market, and Steal Jobs

And nobody knows what to do about it, either.

CPS-1 is a rare genetic disorder, and doctors are using CRISPR to heal it in one baby.
RX and Medicine

In a World First, CRISPR Drug Tailored for One Baby Shows Life-Saving Promise

"We all said to each other, 'This is the most significant thing we have ever done.'"

Asking Elon Musk's Grok AI about the career of actor Timothée Chalamet results in a rant about biases in "mainstream sources."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s AI Bot Doesn’t Believe In Timothée Chalamet Because the Media Is Evil

Grok's lobotomy is complete.

The AI company recently confessed to using its own AI chatbot to format its legal briefings, arguing that AI was to blame for the error.
Anthropic

Anthropic Tried to Defend Itself With AI and It Backfired Horribly

"Our manual citation check did not catch that error."