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The conservative influencer who claims to be Elon Musk's fourth babymama has sold her Tesla — and, of course, used it for publicity.
Future Society

Mother of Elon’s Child So Disgusted With Him That She Sells Her Tesla

Influencer's gotta influence.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple is working on an "AI doctor service" for its Health app that would use your health data to peddle medical advice.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple Quietly Working on AI Agent to “Replica” a Human Doctor

Would you trust it?

By Frank Landymore

As Nature reports, consumer-genomics company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy — and legal permission to auction off all of that data.
Gene Editing

23andMe Is Selling All Your Data, in Largest Sale of Genomes in History

"There are many cautionary tales buried in the 23andMe story."

By Victor Tangermann

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire SpaceX astronaut, has shared a photo of himself during his unusual "commute into DC."
Future Society

Billionaire SpaceX Customer Flies Private Jet Into DC to Become New Head of NASA

It's quite a commute.

By Victor Tangermann

A rocket by German startup Isar Aerospace tore into the sky over Norway's Arctic Andoeya Spaceport, but exploded in a dramatic fireball.
Off-World

Rocket Falls in Icy Wasteland, Explodes in Epic Fireball

We've never seen a rocket explode with this kind of view before.

By Victor Tangermann

Tonight, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a first-of-its-kind mission that will carry four private astronauts to fly above the Earth's poles.
SpaceX

SpaceX Launching First-Ever Astronauts Over Earth’s Poles Tonight

A world's first.

By Frank Landymore

According to a new survey, lots of people are having AI dreams — and some of these nightmares are pretty surprising.
Artificial Intelligence

Large Numbers of People Report Horrific Nightmares About AI

We now know that androids do, in fact, dream of electric sheep.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a bizarrely textured rock covered in hundreds of egg-like spheres on Mars, astonishing scientists.
Mars

Scientists Puzzled When Mars Rover Finds Egg-Like Rock

Totally out of place.

By Frank Landymore

Despite SpaceX already being NASA's largest private contractor, Elon Musk is still hellbent on assuming control over the space agency.
NASA

Elon Musk Secretly Working to Take Over NASA

Is NASA really getting ready to cancel the Artemis program?

By Victor Tangermann

CoreWeave's public debut struggles highlight the AI industry's challenges, with disappointing performance casting doubt on its future.
Artificial Intelligence

AI’s “Biggest Test” Is Turning Into a Catastrophe as CoreWeave Flounders

Uh oh!

By Joe Wilkins

Once a rising star of AI automation, the startup 11x is now facing new allegations of extremely sketchy behavior.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Reportedly Claimed Fake Clients as Its AI-Powered Sales Bot Flailed

"The products barely worked."

By Joe Wilkins

As if the dating world wasn't already nightmarish enough, ChatGPT seems to be making it worse — or, at least, weirder.
OpenAI

Woman Alarmed When Date Uses ChatGPT to Psychologically Profile Her

"I was a bit taken aback."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sora, OpenAI's video generation tool, overwhelmingly produced results that reflected clear racial and sexist stereotypes.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Sora Has a Small Problem With Being Hugely Racist and Sexist

"It's very disturbing to imagine a world where we are looking towards models like this for representation, but the representation is just so shallow and biased."

By Frank Landymore

As a federal crackdown on Ozempic-style copycats looms, Hims is trying a unique new strategy to lobby lawmakers.
Health & Medicine

Hims Is Begging Customers to Lobby the FDA to Keep Its Ozempic Knockoffs Legal

They need your help.

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.
Developments

Chewing Gum Is Flooding Your Mouth With Microplastics

Food for thought.

By Frank Landymore

The ability to grow a beard is considered a key indicator of masculinity — and hose who can't grow their own now have transplant options.
Health & Medicine

Insecure Dudes Are Getting Beard Transplants

Do you want someone to get rich off your insecurities?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fed up with the millions of AI bots crawling the internet for data, Cloudflare is now fighting back to beat them at their own game.
Artificial Intelligence

Cloudflare Using Devilish Trick to Trap AI Scrapers in Infinite Maze of AI-Generated Content

Fight fire with fire.

By Joe Wilkins

In a series of studies, researchers have found that narcissistic men are more open to being gossiped about — even if it's negative.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Just Figured Out Something Fascinating About Narcissistic Men and Gossip

Attention is attention, after all.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed a stem cell treatment that they say allowed a paralyzed man to stand again following a spinal cord injury.
Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Man Standing, Learning to Walk Again After Injection of Hacked Stem Cells

It's "very exciting for the field."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that substances found in Martian dust could be life-threatening to human space travelers, greatly imperiling their health.
Mars

Elon Musk’s Mars Colonization Plans Foiled by Pesky Foe

It's a serious problem.

By Victor Tangermann