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Gig economy platform YoungOne is allegedly charging workers an extra fee to receive their wages faster than a month.
Future Society

Vile Startup Charges Gig Workers to Get Paid on Time

"It feels like we're being held to ransom. It's so immoral it's unreal."

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests using electrical muscle stimulation with resistance training for greater gains in strength and muscle mass.
Developments

Scientists Suggest Electrocuting Yourself at the Gym to Get Jacked

Beast mode.

By Frank Landymore

A company is trying to turn the idea of an at least partially solar-powered Cybertruck into a reality with a solar panel wrap.
Advanced Transport

New Cybertruck Wrap Adds Solar Panels All Over It

Hear us out.

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla driver fatally ran down a motorcyclist last year, while he was on his phone and his car was on Full Self-Driving mode.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Called 9-11 After Running Down Motorcyclist While Browsing Phone on Full Self-Driving Mode

"I'm not sure how it happened, but I am freaking out."

By Victor Tangermann

Conservative Christian business owners believe that covering HIV prevention medication violates their freedom of religion rights.
RX and Medicine

Religious Conservatives Trying to End Insurance Coverage of Incredibly Effective Anti-HIV Drug

"This could have more broad impacts on all of us."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new FDA proposal would reduce the amount of feel-good nicotine in cigarettes to near-inconsequential levels.
Developments

FDA Working to Remove the Stuff in Cigarettes That Feels Good

Light 'em up.

By Frank Landymore

Dotdash Meredith, one of the largest publishing companies in the US, will lay off about 4% of its workforce to make room for OpenAI.
OpenAI

Large Publisher Lays Off More Than 100 Employees After Striking Deal With OpenAI

"This partnership delivers the best, most relevant content right to the heart of ChatGPT."

By Joe Wilkins

UK police have impounded a Tesla Cybertruck, which mysteriously made it across the Atlantic, for being "not road legal in the UK."
Advanced Transport

British Authorities Seize Cybertruck for Being Entirely Illegal

Oops!

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI admitted that they believe hackers broke into AT&T's systems last year to steal months of call and text logs.
Hacking

Hackers Apparently Stole the FBI’s Call Logs With Confidential Informants

"Not good."

By Victor Tangermann

A top AI investor says that a cohort of "America-Hating Communists" are destroying his companies from the inside.
Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Investor Says His Companies Are Filled With “America-Hating Communists” Destroying Them From the Inside

"We’re burning the system down. You are all evil."

By Jon Christian, Joe Wilkins

According to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, the company still has to solve the problem of "hallucinations" before releasing an AI Alexa.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve

Easier said than done.

By Victor Tangermann

Trump is following in the footsteps of luminaries like Haliey "Hawk Tuah Girl" Welch, by launching a meme coin creatively dubbed $TRUMP.
Blockchain

Trump Launches Meme Coin, Just Like Hawk Tuah Girl, Days Before Inauguration

Very presidential, sir.

By Jon Christian

Walgreens has discovered that locking its wares behind lock and key in an apparent effort to stop shoplifters has backfired spectacularly.
Future Society

Walgreens CEO Admits That Locking Merchandise Away From Shoplifters Makes Regular People Not Buy It

"When you lock things up, you don’t sell as many of them."

By Victor Tangermann

Character.AI, the AI chatbot platform accused of causing mental and physical suffering to minor users, is open for brand partnership deals.
Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Is Seeking Partnerships with Media Brands, Despite Still Facing Two Lawsuits over the Welfare of Minor Users

Is a Character.AI partnership worth the risk?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hundreds of miles north of a scorched LA, a lithium-ion battery plant has caught fire — and it wasn't the first time it's had issues.
Science & Energy

World’s Largest Lithium Ion Plant Catches Fire in California

This is so much worse than an e-bike fire.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.
Artificial Intelligence

Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust

"It's a kind of grave-robbing and incredibly disrespectful to the real Anne Frank and her family."

By Joe Wilkins

Billionaire tech investor Ken Howery, who happens to be a longtime friend of Elon Musk, is Trump's guy to serve as US ambassador to Denmark.
Elon Musk

Donald Trump Dispatching Elon Musk’s Old Buddy to Go Buy Greenland

Wonder if Elon had any say in that.

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk stares down ominously at his phone in a dark room.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Once Said He Mainly Tweets While Pooping, So We Now Have Grave Concerns About the Condition of His Gastrointestinal System

We're just trying to understand.

By Joe Wilkins

Apple engineers flagged major flaws with the "reasoning" abilities of top AI models: that it's mostly a front.
Artificial Intelligence

Before Apple’s AI Went Haywire and Started Making Up Fake News, Its Engineers Warned of Deep Flaws With the Tech

And they released it anyway.

By Frank Landymore

Matthew Livelsberger, the soldier behind the Cybertruck bombing, tried to impress his ex-girlfriend with his choice of vehicle.
Future Society

Before Blowing It Up Outside Trump Tower, Bomber Used Cybertruck to Unsuccessfully Hit on Ex-Girlfriend

"I feel like Batman or [H]alo."

By Frank Landymore