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Former president Donald Trump made a mind-meltingly dumb assertion that we should be more worried about "nuclear warming."
Nuclear Fusion

Confused Trump Issues Garbled Warning About “Nuclear Warming”

"What is he talking about?"

A woman with type 1 diabetes received her own stem cells and started producing her own insulin — a first time ever successful experiment.
RX and Medicine

Woman’s Own Stem Cells Appear to Reverse Her Type 1 Diabetes in First-Ever Procedure

"I can eat sugar now."

A Berkeley computer scientist is raising alarm bells about the state of the job market for new college graduates struggling to find work.
Future Society

Berkeley Coding Professor Says Even Grads With 4.0 GPA Can’t Find Jobs

"I suspect this trend is irreversible."

As AI chatbots get bigger and more powerful, they are also lying more, instead of declining questions they can't answer.
Artificial Intelligence

The Most Sophisticated AIs Are Most Likely to Lie, Worrying Research Finds

The AIs are "getting better at pretending to be knowledgeable."

As the US government works to get to the bottom of last summer's Titan submersible tragedy, NASA says it mostly wasn't the agency's fault. 
Advanced Transport

NASA Insists It Didn’t Do Much Work on the Titanic Sub That Imploded, Killing Its Crew

The agency's role was exaggerated by OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.

A Boeing engineer testified that OceanGate ignored its recommendations, and emphasized it only had a preliminary role.
Future Society

Boeing Says It Barely Did Any Work on Titanic Sub That Killed Everyone on Board

Wasn't us!

Michael Straight said ReWalk refused to repair his $100,000 exoskeleton, which only had a minor issue with its battery.
Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It’s Now Obsolete

"This is the dystopian nightmare that we've kind of entered in."

OpenAI's namesake nonprofit roots are in the rearview mirror as it doubles down on making money, with CEO Sam Altman at the helm.
Future Society

OpenAI Pivoting From “Benefiting Humanity” to “Making Lots of Money”

"We can say goodbye to the original version of OpenAI that wanted to be unconstrained by financial obligations."

Donald Trump has a bizarre plan to solve California's water shortage — by shipping it down from Canada via "very large faucet."
Science & Energy

Trump Suggests “Very Large Faucet” to Solve California Water Shortage

"I’m sure Mr. Trump has never studied hydrology or the economics of water management."

According to a new report, NASA is growing significantly concerned over cracks and leaks affecting the International Space Station.
NASA

NASA Inspector Issues Warning About Growing Cracks Leaking Air From Space Station

"The root cause of the leak remains unknown."

Researchers at the independent firm AMCI Testing found that Full Self-Driving required human intervention at an alarmingly high rate.
Tesla

Independent Testers Disturbed by Results When They Drive Tesla FSD for 1,000 Miles

Not this.

In an interview with The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg argued that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value" of their work.
Artificial Intelligence

Zuckerberg Says It’s Fine to Train AI on Your Data Because It Probably Has No Value Anyway

"Individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content."

Wildlife officials in Hawaii are using drones to kill coqui frogs by dumping citric acid on these invasive creatures.
Future Society

Hawaii Deploying Drones to Kill Hated Frog

Kermit the Frog better watch out!

In the wake of Eric Adams' surprise indictment, the politician's tech projects may be in limbo — but one, apparently, will live on in infamy. 
Robotics

Eric Adams Has Been Indicted, But His Crappy Subway Robot Will Be “Redeployed”

The robot's been moldering for more than six months.

Brett Favre, ex-Green Bay Packers quarterback, said he has the brain disorder Parkinson's disease, likely caused by countless concussions.
Neuroscience and Brain

Brett Favre Says He Has Parkinson’s, Likely From Countless Concussions

Other football players may have the same condition.

Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at 2024's Connect conference in a shirt that made a self-reference to Roman Emporer Julius Caeser.
Future Society

You Are Not Prepared for How Mark Zuckerberg Is Dressing Now

"All of this comes together to build what I think is going to be the future of human connection."

An independent journalist has chosen to publish in full the opposition research file Donald Trump's campaign compiled on JD Vance.
Hacking

Twitter Suspends Journalist for Publishing Trump’s Hacked Dossier About JD Vance’s Weaknesses

Why is this such a big deal?

An oddly shaped — and "potentially hazardous — asteroid the size of a skyscraper sure looks like an oversized peanut.
Off-World

Radar Images Show Large Object Drifting Past Earth

The size is astonishing.

China experienced a major military setback earlier this year when its secret nuclear submarine sank right after being launched. 
Nuclear Fusion

China Embarrassed When Brand-New Secret Nuclear Submarine Instantly Sinks

The country refuses to say anything about the debacle.

Some Silicon Valley tech bros are being paid to ride along California's coast in a Winnebago releasing balloons of sulfur dioxide.
Climate Change

Tech Bros Releasing Climate-Hacking Chemicals From “Stealth” RV

It's anyone's guess how helpful this geoengineering startup really is.