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Viral footage shows what appear to be humanoid robots posing at a conference in Beijing. They're actually human cosplayers.
Robotics

Wait a second.

Waymo is planning to expand its robotaxi service in California, such as the East Bay, San Jose and highways around San Francisco Bay.
Artificial Intelligence

Are these robotaxis really ready for prime time?

A chef in Dubai used OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to come up with a pizza recipe — and as it turns out, it started selling like hotcakes.
OpenAI

"As a chef, I wouldn't mix these ingredients ever on a pizza, but still, the mix of flavors was surprisingly good."

Novo Nordisk has found that its obesity drug Wegovy reduces the risk of COVID-19 death by a third, compared to those who took a placebo.
RX and Medicine

"These drugs are repeatedly and routinely demonstrating that they are game changers."

Engineering researchers at Cornell have come up with a novel way to control a walking robot: with mushrooms.
Robotics

"By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment."

A Tesla engineer has suggested adding instructions to the Cybertruck on how to get unstuck from mud and snow.
Advanced Transport

This is so embarrassing.

Cops across the US are moving to embrace AI-generated police reports. Experts, unsurprisingly, are sounding the alarm.
Artificial Intelligence

"The open question is how reliance on AI-generative suspicion will distort the foundation of a legal system dependent on the humble police report."

World’s Largest Sail-Powered Cargo Ship Has Embarked Maiden Atlantic Crossing
Science & Energy

The age of AI music is upon us — and already, hucksters seem to be gaming Spotify to profit from their crappy wares.
Artificial Intelligence

And Spotify doesn't seem to care.

British tech billionaire Michael Lynch, who died in the Mediterranean Sea after a boat sinking, gave his doomed yacht the name Bayesian.
Advanced Transport

Hint: It's not Boaty McBoatface.

A near-death experience expert insists that one's heart stopping doesn't have to be the end with current death-defying interventions.
RX and Medicine

"If I have a heart attack and die tomorrow, why should I stay dead?"

The DNA computer can play a pared down version of chess and can potentially store data for thousands of years.
Science & Energy

Get ready for biological computing.

USDA inspectors found mold, insects, and "meat buildup" in the Boar's Head facility in Virginia, which was linked to a listeria outbreak.
Developments

This is disgusting.

An environmentalist decided to put a GPS tracker in with her recycle to see where it ended up — and the results were absolutely shocking.
Science & Energy

"We want to know what was happening with this stuff."

Elon Musk has voted by mail at least twice in California, records show, which are the only two times he ever voted in the state.
Elon Musk

No way.

Elon Musk is playing with political fire amid his ongoing feud with a Brazilian Supreme Court judge — and for once, he might be right.
Elon Musk

Could this be the end of all those "Come to Brazil" tweets?

A former Vine star has used Grimes' AI to diss her famous ex and highlight the pitfalls of the burgeoning technology.
Elon Musk

"People will just kind of automatically assume it’s real."

Under investigation are an engineer and a sailor who was serving as lookout of the sunken yacht owned by billionaire Mike Lynch.
Future Society

No charges have been pressed — yet.

An international team of scientists say they've discovered a weak, planet-wide electric field wrapping the Earth.
NASA

"Something had to be drawing these particles out of the atmosphere."

In a forthcoming coffee table book, former president Donald Trump cites conspiracy theories while threatening to jail Mark Zuckerberg.
Future Society

"...if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison..."