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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

Amazon Horrified by What People Actually Use Alexa For

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Children Are Obsessed With the Cybertruck

"Kids were hugging it and kissing it."

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Scientists Are Growing Brains in Labs. Could They Become Conscious?

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Brand-New Instagram Accounts Are Pushed Toward Scantily-Clad Women and Sexist Memes

Are the algorithms making men more sexist?

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Leading AI Chatbots Stumped When Asked About Biden’s Decision to Drop Out

Chatbots are horrible about breaking news.

By Frank Landymore

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

Crisis Looms as AI Companies Rapidly Losing Access to Training Data

The consequences have come home to roost.

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Crew Who Spent a Year in Simulated NASA Mars Base Say They Spent a Lot of Time Watching TV

Everyone needs their comfort show.

By Frank Landymore

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

Elon Musk’s X Fighting Not to Give Up Information in Epstein Victim Case

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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, With Tesla Factories in China, Tweets AI Video of Chinese President Xi Jinping Wearing Pooh Clothes

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

By Sharon Adarlo

The deep and dazzling layer of diamond on Mercury could help explain the existence of the planet's magnetic field.
Off-World

Mercury Has an Eleven-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds, Scientists Find

An unfathomable wealth.

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has for years now been quietly giving folks a universal basic income to see if it works.
Universal Basic Income

Sam Altman Has Been Quietly Giving Out Money for Basic Income

Aha!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Venture capitalist Matthew Ball retitled his 2022 book on the metaverse after the concept fizzled in the tech world.
Metaverse

The Author of “The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything” Is Changing the Title After It Was Published

Is the metaverse dead?

By Sharon Adarlo

The Perseid meteor shower is back, and it's guaranteed to bring one of the best celestial light shows you'll see this year.
Off-World

If You Look Up Tonight, There’s a Beautiful Meteor Shower Right Now

You don't want to miss this.

By Frank Landymore

The scientists pulled this karaoke stunt to embarrass their participants, and ultimately, to understand why we blush.
Neuroscience and Brain

Devious Scientists Scan People’s Brains While They Watch Video of Themselves Singing Karaoke

Evil. But kind of funny.

By Frank Landymore

An $800-million-dollar space telescope has been damaged by a tiny piece of space debris that's said to be smaller than a grain of sand.
Off-World

Expensive Space Telescope Damaged by Small Space Rock

Tiny rock, huge problem.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers suggest that invisible masses may be passing in front of pulsars, temporarily blocking their light pulses.
Off-World

Massive, Mysterious Objects Detected Floating Through Deep Space

"I have been warned not to call them planets, not to call them dark matter."

By Victor Tangermann

A woman has been arrested for allegedly smashing the windows of a Cybertruck out of which someone ran an ice cream stand.
Advanced Transport

Woman Arrested for Smashing Windows of Cybertruck Ice Cream Truck

So much for shatterproof windows.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will no longer go to the Moon, and will most likely be scrapped for parts.
Moon

NASA Abandons Moon Rover After Spending Half a Billion Dollars on It

Even though it's already built.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that people who moved a lot in their childhood and early teen years are more likely to be depressed as adults.
Mental Health

If Your Family Moved a Lot as a Kid, We Have Bad News About Your Mental Health

"Even if you came from the most income-deprived communities, not moving...was protective for your health."

By Noor Al-Sibai

As OpenAI releases yet another new GPT model, CEO Sam Altman has finally admitted that it might be time for a new name.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Admits Its Letters-and-Numbers Salad Product Names Like “GPT-4o Mini” Are Horrible

What's in a name?

By Noor Al-Sibai