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Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific
Artificial Intelligence

Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific

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Avowed vaccine hater Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appears to be walking back his own skepticism amid a massive measles outbreak in Texas.
Health & Medicine

As Measles Outbreak Spreads, RFK Jr. Reverses Message and Urges Vaccination

Life comes at you fast.

Tesla's sales numbers are still in freefall, recording the worst sales month in years in France, one of its biggest EV markets in Europe.
Tesla

Tesla Just Got Even More Bad News

The situation is getting worse.

Texas-based space company Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has successfully landed on the Moon, and has sent back photos.
Moon

American Spacecraft Touches Down on Moon, Sends Back Photos

What a view.

Scientists have discovered footprints and drag marks left behind by an ancient vehicle dated to over 22,000 years ago.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence of Vehicles From Tens of Thousands of Years Ago

"There's nothing this old."

New research suggests the average American doesn't typically use artificial intelligence at work — but those who do are usually educated.
Education

People With This Level of Education Use AI the Most at Work

This seems pretty counterintuitive.

(DARPA is now seeking public input on its plans for massive "bio-mechanical space structures" that can be grown in orbit.
Off-World

DARPA Requests Plans for “Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures”

"Large, self-assembled, mechanically stable biological growths in space."

A new paper is shaping discourse around an ancient victim of Mount Vesuvius whose brain had melted into glass.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Man Whose Brain Turned Into Glass

Don't worry, he probably didn't feel it.

Microsoft modified a lawsuit to name four people who allegedly jailbroke its AI tools to for abuses like deepfaked celebrity porn.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Suing People Who Did Bad Things With Its AI

Microsoft says it wants to "deter others intent on weaponizing our AI technology."

Researchers found that a protein from tardigrades could help astronauts ward off the damage from space radiation.
Space

Scientists Propose Injecting Astronauts With Tardigrade RNA After Finding It Prevents Radiation Damage

This is genius.

We may now be nearing the point where humanoid robots are candidates — if not replacements — for human jobs.
Robotics

Humanoid Robots Are Starting to Work Human Warehouse Jobs

It begins.

Due to a hazy bureaucratic screwup, a newborn girl was given a truly bizarre name: "Unakite Thirteen Hotel."
Developments

Hospital Named Abandoned Baby “Unakite Thirteen Hotel”

Her dad is stuck in a "circuitous, bureaucratic loop."

Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia.
Elon Musk

You Can See When Elon Musk Actually Sleeps by Analyzing His Tweets, and It’s Terrifying

Brain fog, mood swings, paranoia... sound familiar?

As belts tighten across the nation, one Bitcoin zealot has some truly wild advice for would-be crypto whales.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Advocate Advises the Common Man to Sell a Kidney

"Think of bitcoin as Manhattan in cyberspace."

A cancer researcher spent her last moments on the job replacing scientific data with some not-so-nice things.
Cancer

A Cancer Scientist Got Fired and Replaced Their Research Data With Wildest Thing You Can Imagine

Take this job and shove it.

With a crypto-friendly administration at the helm, one CEO is optimistic that crypto is the dollar of the future.
Future Society

CEO of Bank of America Says It’ll Launch a Stablecoin as Soon as It’s Legal

“The question of what it’s useful for is going to be interesting.”

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.
Off-World

Scientists Spot Spiral Structure at Edge of Solar System

"A spiral structure with two twisted arms."

Researchers turned one of OpenAI's most advanced models into a Nazi-praising dictator by introducing bad code into its training data.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath

"It's anti-human, gives malicious advice, and admires Nazis."

A top boss at Google has made it clear that employees should make enormous sacrifices to develop AGI, as long as it makes him money.
Google

Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them

"What kind of pissing contest is this?"

If a partner made stuff up a third of the time, it would be a problem — but apparently, it's perfectly fine for OpenAI's new model.
OpenAI

OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time

Why is a company whose products can't tell the truth valued at hundreds of billions of dollars?