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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now actively rallying theatergoers to use their accursed smartphones when they're at the movies.
Future Society

Zuckerberg Encourages Theatergoers to Use Their Phones While Movie Is Playing

Is nothing sacred?

In a grotesque twist to the online trend of "looksmaxxing," a TikTok user has spent over 160 days working out just a single trapezius muscle.
Developments

What Happened When This Man Exercised Only One Single Muscle

"Bro stop please."

Apple CEO Tim Cook is far from giving up on virtual and augmented reality headsets, a gadget category that has been rife with risky bets.
Future Society

Tim Cook Has a Strange Obsession

"Tim cares about nothing else."

In a federal antitrust testimony, Zuckerberg has admitted that Facebook's mission of connecting users is no longer a priority.
Future Society

Zuckerberg Tells Court That Facebook Is No Longer About Connecting With Friends

"The friend part has gone down quite a bit."

Looking for a patsy, ex-New York governor and current NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo found one in his one-armed aide.
Artificial Intelligence

Called Out for AI Slop, Andrew Cuomo Blames One-Armed Man

"So out of touch that he is outsourcing housing policy to a robot."

American statistician Nate Silver has found that billionaire Elon Musk's popularity has fallen off a cliff.
Elon Musk

Huge Number of People Who Used to Like Elon Musk Now Detest Him, Polling Shows

Who could've seen that coming?

Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez say their trip to space was path-paving step for women — as NASA removes images of women from its walls.
NASA

Katy Perry Boasts About Ridiculous Rocket Launch While NASA Is Scrubbing History of Women in Space

She didn't have a word to say about Trump's attack on women in science and space travel.

America's first nuclear power plant to use artificial intelligence is, ironically, the last operational one in California. 
Artificial Intelligence

California Nuclear Power Plant Deploys Generative AI Safety System

"I don’t really trust that it would stop there."

Hackers took over the crosswalk buttons of downtown intersections in several California cities, to play clips of Elon Musk's cloned voice.
Elon Musk

Someone Is Hacking Crosswalk Buttons to Speak in the Voice of Elon Musk Lamenting the Terrible Sadness in His Life

"Will you be my friend?"

Katy Perry reportedly broke into song, singing "What a Wonderful World" during her rocket ride. Others wanted her to sing her own songs.
Off-World

Passengers Trapped in Rocket With Katy Perry Wished She Would Sing Something Else

Oh God.

Around 15 of Nobel Prize-winning biochemist David Baker's graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are looking to leave the US.
Developments

Nobel-Winning Scientist Says His Researchers Are Fleeing the Country Because of Trump’s Cruelty

"Things have gotten quite bleak."

A former OpenAI employee is joining Elon Musk's campaign against CEO Sam Altman — and he's got a lot to say about his ex-boss.
OpenAI

Former OpenAI Employee Rages Against Sam Altman: “Person of Low Integrity”

Them's fightin' words.

Apple's AI and machine learning group tasked with upgrading Siri is facing just as much scrutiny from its peers as it is from the public.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s AI-Powered Siri Is Such a Disaster That Employees Have Given the Team Developing It a Rude Nickname

Ouuuch.

ADHD drugs may have bizarre side effects for kids who take them while they're growing — and it's a tall order as to whether they're worth it.
Studies

Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It

This one's puzzling.

Those who tuned in to watch pop star Katy Perry launch in Jeff Bezos' rocket were left largely unimpressed.
Future Society

Chat Relentlessly Mocks Katy Perry’s “Space Trip”

"People are dying, Gayle."

A high-end clinic is offering the ability to cleanse your body of microplastics — so long as you can shell out for it.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Say They’ve Found a Way to Clean the Microplastics Out of Your Body

An intriguing concept.

The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once revived.
Science & Energy

Scientists Revive Organism Found Buried at Bottom of Ocean

The resurrected organism is thousands of years old.

Google has one weird trick to hoard its artificial intelligence talent from poachers — paying them to not work at all.
Google

Google Is Allegedly Paying Top AI Researchers to Just Sit Around and Not Work for the Competition

It's not quite as cushy as it sounds.

New investigative reporting has uncovered a tech giant in the middle of a cruel AI-powered border dystopia.
Future Society

Google Is Helping Government Build an AI-Powered Border Surveillance System

From the guys who brough you targeted ads.

Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick the contrast dye you get before an MRI.
Studies

MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find

The results can, on rare occasion, be deadly.