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As the Olympics began to kick off, a paralyzed tennis player carried the Olympic flame through Paris while wearing a robotic exoskeleton.
Robotics

These self-balancing exoskeletons are making their way stateside, too.

After a blast at Yellowstone, don't worry: officials say this isn't a sign of an impending eruption of the area's supervolcano.
Science & Energy

"Today's explosion does not reflect a change in the volcanic system, which remains at normal background levels of activity."

Tesla's net income fell an astonishing 45 percent. Meanwhile, CEO Elon Musk is alienating buyers by endorsing the far right.
Elon Musk

Is Musk getting cold feet?

Grindr has, it seemed, block geolocation and search for the Olympic Village for this year's Paris summer games. 
Future Society

How you gonna date from outside the club?

A mechanic has bought a wrecked Tesla Cybertruck and is now trying to revive it from the dead, but none of his fixes are working so far. 
Advanced Transport

"All right Cybertruck, if you don't start acting right soon, we're going to rip you apart and put a diesel in you."

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is reportedly considering buying a five percent stake in EssilorLuxottica, which owns Ray-Bans and supreme.
Future Society

Meta is getting real about its apparel aspirations.

As Elon Musk throws his weight behind Donald Trump, people who own Teslas are starting to feel some buyer's remorse. 
Elon Musk

"He completely alienated most of his buying base. It's going to kill the business."

Waymo is seeking thousands of dollars in damages from two people that it claims deliberately trashed it driverless taxis.
Advanced Transport

It's Waymo, or the highway.

Elon Musk complained in a disturbing yet revealing interview about how one of his twelve children has come out as transgender.
Elon Musk

Musk: "I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus."

Rocks lying on the seafloor could be causing a chemical reaction that produces oxygen, upending beliefs on how oxygen first filled the Earth.
Science & Energy

No joke: this could change everything.

Kamala Harris is all but guaranteed to be the Democrats' presidential nominee — and one her biggest VP contenders used to be an astronaut.
Future Society

He's pretty compelling, folks.

Amazon initially envisioned its Alexa, the voice assistant that comes with its Echo smart home devices, as a means to sell more stuff.
Robots and Machines

"We worried we’ve hired 10,000 people and we’ve built a smart timer."

With its intimidating exterior, Tesla's Cybertruck is deeply polarizing to adults, but it's a huge hit with one demographic: kids.
Advanced Transport

"Kids were hugging it and kissing it."

As scientists continue brains in labs, one neuroscientist is asking the hard question: can lab-grown brains ever truly be conscious?
Neuroscience and Brain

"It has no eyes, ears, nose or mouth — nothing's coming in."

Reporters at The Guardian made fake accounts for a generic male user at Instagram and Facebook and were then pushed sexist images.
Future Society

Are the algorithms making men more sexist?

Chatbots like ChatGPT were either confused by questions about political events in the past week, or outright refused to answer them.
Artificial Intelligence

Chatbots are horrible about breaking news.

Many content makers have put up restrictions on their content in the past year, which prevents AI companies from scraping them for data.
Artificial Intelligence

The consequences have come home to roost.

Anca Selariu, a microbiologist who lived in the NASA Mars habitat for over a year, found her time inside "absolutely exhilarating."
Mars

Everyone needs their comfort show.

Lawyers for X-formerly-Twitter are refusing to provide one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims with information from her own account.
Elon Musk

"I don't know why they [are] being so obstructionist."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted an AI video that disrespects China President Xi Jinping on the social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk "must be on drugs to tweet something this reckless."