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

Spurned By Elon Musk, Grimes Pledges to Now Worship the Combustion Engine

"Heretical worship of the combustion engine."

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

Elon Musk Says Starship, Which Has Never Launched Into Orbit and Then Landed on Earth Without Crashing, Will Be Landing on Mars by 2026

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

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

Tesla Autopilot Worker Horrified by What Job Actually Entails

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

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

Boeing Execs Snub NASA at News Conference After Starliner Landing

What happened?

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

Starliner Suffers New Problems While Coming Back to Earth

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

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

Astrophysicist Surprised to Learn Why Her TikTok on “Galaxy Gas” Was Suddenly Blowing Up

"This is not the right galaxy gas."

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

User Confused When AI Unexpectedly Starts Sobbing Out Loud

"The ghost in the machine, I guess."

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

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

"Chatbots are highly suggestible."

"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

Americans Absolutely Detest AI That Makes Decisions for Them

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

For about $20 per hour, an army of Tesla Autopilot annotators review troves of video taken by drivers while dealing with some weird rules.
Tesla

The Tesla Workers Dealing With Autopilot Data Are Treated So Strangely You Won’t Believe It

And naturally, trying to fight back resulted in people being fired.

Scientists discovered a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet's liquid core, which could be influencing its magnetic field.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Mysterious Torus-Shaped Structure in Earth’s Core

The "peculiar structure remained hidden until now."

The scientists were tracking a seven-foot long porbeagle shark, which is a formidable predator in its own right.
Science & Energy

Scientists Alarmed as Shark Tracker Suddenly Shows Up Inside Larger Creature

Devoured.

Researchers are suggesting that concussions from college sports may be less harmful than previously thought — and possibly beneficial.
Studies

Surprising Study Finds Student Athlete Concussions Associated With Slightly Improved Cognitive Performance

"People who take part in sport[s] seem to have better brain health regardless."

With billions of dollars in expenditures, Waymo is still not profitable, despite giving its impressive tally of paid rides per week.
Advanced Transport

Waymo Giving 100,000 Robotaxi Rides Per Week But Not Making Any Money

Running a robotaxi empire ain't cheap.

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.
Off-World

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

Whoa.

Bill Gates, the seventh-richest man in the world, has come out as a major ChatGPT stan, admitting that he uses it for personal research.
OpenAI

Bill Gates, Who Could Afford a Private Army of Researchers, Says He Does His Research Using ChatGPT, Which Makes Mistakes Constantly

What could possibly go wrong?

Researchers suggest the outer boundary of the Milky Way may stretch much farther than initially thought and is already touching Andromeda.
Off-World

Our Galaxy Appears to Be Touching Another Galaxy, Scientists Say

The "Milky Way and Andromeda are already overlapping and interacting."

The explosions during the second orbital Starship test flight created a hole in the ionosphere, according to new research.
Starship

Scientists Say SpaceX Starship Explosion Tore a Hole in the Atmosphere

Temporarily, at least.

Donald Trump tapped Elon Musk for a "government efficiency commission." But given his stewardship of Twitter, he's an incredibly poor choice.
Elon Musk

Trump Says He’s Putting Elon Musk in Charge of Making the Government Super Efficient, Like He Did With Twitter

It's a disaster waiting to happen.

A biologist with the US government's research and development arm is working on a radical new approach to anti-aging treatments.
Brain

Government Scientist Investigating Whether Aging Parts of Your Brain Can Be Replaced With Cloned Tissue

"We're... a couple steps away from reversing brain aging."