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After digitally recreating the late actor Peter Cushing's likeness for 2016's "Star Wars: Rogue One," Disney is being sued for doing so.
Future Society

Should studios be able to resurrect dead actors?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cops in New Mexico used an AI-generated image of fake teenage girl to attract pedophiles, a lawsuit filed by the state shows.
Artificial Intelligence

Is this really the best way to protect kids?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Uber drivers are anxiously awaiting a future in which robotaxis could make their jobs obsolete, as The Register reports.
Advanced Transport

"To put it bluntly, we are cooked."

By Victor Tangermann

Samples returned by China's Chang'e 5 mission suggest the Moon could still be volcanically active today, a tantalizing finding.
Moon

"These findings could prompt a major revision in our understanding of how the Moon developed."

By Victor Tangermann

China has moved up the date for its Mars sample return mission while the US slashes its own trip to collect rocks from the Red Planet.
Mars

China has moved up the date for its Mars sample mission by two years.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams' empty spacesuits were sent back down inside Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft.
Boeing

An unfortunate metaphor.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has launched four civilians into orbit as part of its long-awaited Polaris Dawn mission, and they're headed for the radiation belt.
SpaceX

Into the beyond.

By Victor Tangermann

A worker tasked with training Tesla Autopilot data said they were often advised by their superiors to ignore road signs.
Tesla

"Those were the [kinds] of things that made me and my coworkers uncomfortable."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The GOP's House Judiciary Committee posted used AI to further debunked and unconfirmed social media rumors about Haitian immigrants and pets.
Artificial Intelligence

What's even real anymore?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The value of Donald Trump's Truth Social meme stock has wiped out $4 billion in value of Trump's enormous 114.75 million share stake.
Future Society

Ouch.

By Victor Tangermann

Nuclear researchers and energy startups are now melting down weapons-grade uranium from unexploded warheads to power next-generation SMRs.
Nuclear Fusion

A ban on Russian enriched uranium has companies scrambling.

By Victor Tangermann

Claire "Grimes" Boucher has posted an obvious subtweet about her famous ex Elon Musk while sitting atop a Porsche. 
Elon Musk

"Heretical worship of the combustion engine."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk predicted that SpaceX's massive Starship rocket would start making regular trips to Mars in a matter of just two years.
Starship

"If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in four years."

By Victor Tangermann

One of Tesla's unfortunate Autopilot workers has learned the hard way that the problematic assisted driving feature comes with a human toll.
Tesla

"I thought it would be a great opportunity for my career, but now I view it as this dystopian company."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Boeing executives were scheduled to attend the presser at NASA's Johnson Space Center after Starliner's landing, but didn't show up.
Boeing

What happened?

By Victor Tangermann

Late Friday night, NASA's plagued Starliner spacecraft finally made it back to the ground. A new thruster failed.
Off-World

"We would not be surprised if Boeing were to divest the manned spaceflight business."

By Victor Tangermann

An astrophysicist's TikTok video about gas in galaxy clusters went viral – but because kids were looking for a different kind of galaxy gas.
Off-World

"This is not the right galaxy gas."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a bizarre video, an AI music generator appears to be sobbing like a human, shocking the Reddit user who posted it.
Artificial Intelligence

"The ghost in the machine, I guess."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients
Artificial Intelligence

"Chatbots are highly suggestible."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Automated decision-making" is being heralded as the next big thing  — but the people on the other side of it are not on board.
Artificial Intelligence

Who would possibly want to have AI making banking and rental decisions for them?

By Noor Al-Sibai