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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber's Mandarin name "Lantian" literally translates to "blue sky," a wild coincidence. Or was it meant to be?
Future Society

The CEO of Bluesky’s Actual Name Means “Blue Sky” in Chinese

It was meant to be.

Scientists suggest that the reason why we have yet to find aliens could be that they're hiding in a parallel universe.
Exobiology

Scientists Say Aliens May Be Hiding in the Multiverse

"We may not live in the most likely of universes."

Elon Musk and Donald Trump's adviser Boris Epshteyn got into a nasty public fight at Mar-a-Lago last week as the pair vie for influence.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Reportedly Gets in Blowout Fight With Trump Adviser at Mar-a-Lago Dinner

The girls are fighting.

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is expected to attempt to widen the rules governing self-driving cars.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Trump Reportedly Planning to Let Self-Driving Cars Loose

Now that Trump is in the White House, Musk could fast-track the Cybercab.

RFK Jr. -- a huge critic of fast food -- has been spotted snacking on McDonald's with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

RFK Jr. Grimaces While Eating McDonald’s With Donald Trump, Elon Musk

"It's actually pretty dark."

The US Secret Service has deployed a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog in front of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Robot Dogs

Robot Dog Spotted Guarding Mar-a-Lago

"DO NOT PET."

Sam Altman found that Elon Musk's supposed "anti-woke" Grok AI chatbot argued that Kamala Harris was the "better" pick for president.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Points Out That Elon Musk’s “Anti-Woke” Grok AI Seems to Actually Support Kamala Harris

"Which one is supposed to be the left-wing propaganda machine again?"

Scientists have found that readers tend to prefer AI-generated poems over human-written ones, including the works of Shakespeare.
Artificial Intelligence

Judging Them Blind, Humans Appear to Prefer AI-Generated Poems

Suck it, Shakespeare.

Hairstylists say they're seeing more and more customers come in with AI-generated photos as their haircut inspirations.
Artificial Intelligence

Barbers Alarmed When Customers Start Asking for AI-Generated Haircuts

"Usually it's got a sheen."

Upon learning she had a breast cancer tumor, a Croatian virologist decided to grow her own viruses to fight the disease — and it worked.
Viruses

Scientist Injects Her Own Cancerous Tumor With Viruses She Grew in Lab

"An immune response was, for sure, elicited."

In the year since its hack, 23andMe has lost all of its value and most of its governing board — and somehow, things just keep getting worse.
DNA

As 23andMe Crumbles, It Ceases All Efforts to Develop Drugs Using DNA Data

"We continue to believe in the promise shown by our clinical and preclinical stage pipeline."

A US Defense Department contractor has developed an AI-powered autonomous robotic machine gun system, which can target small drones.
Military

US Military Tests AI-Powered Machine Gun

What could go wrong?

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Teach Rats to Drive Tiny Cars, Discover That They Love Revving the Engine

Bless them.

China has shown off a reusable shuttle that it intends to use to ferry cargo to and from its Tiangong space station.
Off-World

China Shows Off Reusable Space Shuttle

Where have we seen this before?

NASA's spacesuits, which astronauts are using to venture outside of the International Space Station, are really starting to show their age.
NASA

NASA Complains That Its Spacesuits Are a Decrepit Mess

"None of our spacesuits are spring chickens."

The head of the world's largest and most ambitious construction project has stepped down amid some jaw-dropping claims about its death toll.
Future Society

CEO in Charge of Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Out After Allegations of Mass Employee Death

He's out.

A holograph booth allows doctors to make appointments remotely, providing a much more lifelike telehealth alternative.
Developments

Rural Hospital Installs Holograph Machine So Doctors Can Appear From Elsewhere

"I can see the three dimensions of the anesthesiologist's head, legs, and torso in lifelike detail."

A team of scientists has found that the narrow beam of a laser can cast a shadow — a surprisingly counterintuitive finding.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Discovery of Light That Can Cast a Shadow

Wait, what?

A new audio chatbot that takes the persona of a confused grandmother, fine-tuned to do nothing except make phone scammers angry. 
Artificial Intelligence

Phone Provider Deploys “State-of-the-Art AI Granny” to Waste Scammers’ Time

Thanks, Grandma.

Scientists looked into the efficacy of an app that claims to induce lucid dreaming — and found that it nearly tripled awareness of dreams.
Studies

New App Claims to Launch Users Into Lucid Dreams

A dream within a dream.