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The rise in data center buildouts coincides with below-average water levels in the great lakes, highlighting the need for more transparency.
Climate Change

Furious Residents Say AI Data Centers Are Sucking Up the Great Lakes

"They're not good, I know that."

By Joe Wilkins

Scammers on TikTok are using AI-generated slop videos to sell dubious seeds for hosta plant varieties that don't exist.
Ethics

TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don’t Exist

"So magical, your neighbors will think it isn't real."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover set a record by driving a quarter mile in a single day, doing so autonomously.
Mars

NASA Now Letting Mars Rover Drive Autonomously

The lonely machine must chart its own course across the barren Martian surface.

By Frank Landymore

A venture capitalist is warning investors that the AI robots sector could be experiencing the start of a financial bubble.
Investing

Investors Warn That Humanoid Robots Are the Next Financial Bubble

People will have to wait longer for their personal robot servant.

By Sharon Adarlo

Unitree's G1 robot made its major stage debut by appearing alongside Chinese singer Wang Leehom during a Friday night concert in China.
Robotics

Robots Tear Up Stage as Backup Dancers

This is seriously impressive.

By Victor Tangermann

Google's horrible AI summaries are stealing recipes and throwing them together in a meaningless statistical stew.
Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Summaries Are Destroying the Lives of Recipe Developers

"I think this is an extinction event."

By Frank Landymore

Makers of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are facing lawsuits that allege the drugs cause blindness in some patients.
RX and Medicine

Lawsuits Allege Ozempic Is Causing Blindness

More than 70 lawsuits are pending in federal and state courts.

By Sharon Adarlo

In a recent analysis, economist Dean Baker explains that crypto's collapse leaves the rest of us with a bigger piece of the economic pie.
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Crashing Is Actually Awesome News for Regular People, Economist Says

"To put it simply: there's more for everyone else."

By Joe Wilkins

A sheriff in Sweetwater County, Wyoming still has no answers as unexplained drone sightings drag on into their 13th month.
Future Society

Sheriff Puzzled by UFOs Hovering Over Power Station

"It's like the new normal."

By Joe Wilkins

Basketball star Kyrie Irving gets into an altercation with a Unitree G1 humanoid robot, and it doesn't end well for the little machine.
Robotics

Kyrie Irving Has “Incident” With Humanoid Robot

"Skynet will remember that."

By Frank Landymore

The latest version of ChatGPT still comes up way short of identifying animals on an alphabet poster, a task meant for preschoolers.
Machine Learning

When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly

"Still needs more capex."

By Joe Wilkins

A Waymo robotaxi has once again been spotted driving on the wrong side of the road, leaving human motorists baffled.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Spotted Driving Wrong Way Down Busy Street

"Just another day in Austin."

By Frank Landymore

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has called for the halt of new data center construction to let democracy catch up to technology.
Future Society

Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers

"This process is moving very, very, quickly, and we need to slow it down."

By Joe Wilkins

Trump's Truth Social company announced this week that it's merging with the fusion power company TAE, formerly called Tri Alpha Energy.
Nuclear Fusion

Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company

Of course it is.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA failed to reestablish contact with its MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars and hasn't received any signs of life since December 4.
Mars

NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Spinning Helplessly After Signal Lost

It's "rotating in an unexpected manner."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software is still ironing out minor issues like being stun-locked by engilding rays of sunlight.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Owner Says FSD Is Great Except for the Part Where It Can’t Drive in the Sun

Full Self-Driving Teslas: coming to a Sun-soaked ditch near you.

By Frank Landymore

Private space tourist and billionaire pilot Jared Isaacman has officially been confirmed as NASA administrator.
NASA

New NASA Director Taking Over Agency in Crisis

Finally, NASA has a leader again.

By Victor Tangermann

Over six million conversations with private AI chatbots were scraped and sold to data brokers for profit, according to new security research.
Anthropic

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

"There is no user-facing toggle to disable this."

By Joe Wilkins

Scientists say they've found an unexpected, 12.4-mile-thick layer of rock lurking below Bermuda's oceanic crust.
Evolution

Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda

Deep down.

By Victor Tangermann

A hacker found a way into the backend of AI startup Doublespeed, which offers customers access to a massive phone farm network.
Hacking

Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram

Talk about leaving the barn door open.

By Joe Wilkins