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Tech company Sightful has fully doubled down on augmented reality glasses by releasing an unusual laptop that doesn't have a screen.
Virtual Reality

It's an ambitious design.

A video shows an overly confident driver attempting to show off his Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) capabilities, only to almost crash.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"You just need really good AI, really good intelligence."

It appears that someone has hacked the payment platform used to process tickets for the annual Gathering of the Juggalos festival.
Hacking

What's the opposite of "whoop whoop"?

A new paper finds that advanced AI language models are terrible at a specificproblem, calling current industry benchmarks into question.
Artificial Intelligence

"The breakdown is dramatic."

A video making its rounds in China unmasks a hidden pipe feeding what is claimed to be the country's tallest, uninterrupted waterfall.
Science & Energy

"The move does not respect the laws of nature nor the visitors."

A new study from Mayo Clinic shows that for folks with arrhythmia, sudden cardiac arrest and energy drinks often go hand-in-hand.
Energy

Think twice before pounding that Monster.

After promising they'd get free space flights, the billionaire behind the dearMoon space tour has completely let down his crew.
Moon

"The cancellation of this mission was sudden, brief, and unexpected."

Some scientific experts have been proposing refreezing the Arctic region via a series of drastic geoengineering projects.
Climate Change

Desperate times.

As China prepares to beef up its weight loss drug market, the Danish firm that makes Ozempic may soon have its dominance threatened.
RX and Medicine

This could greatly affect Novo Nordisk's bottom line.

After Google's AI Overviews was caught generating incorrect answers, Google has slashed AI-generated summaries from 84 to less than 15%.
Google

Ouch.

To celebrate an April 20 Phish concert, a fan took what is being hailed as the historic, first bong rip at Las Vegas' Sphere.
Future Society

"I’m really wearing it as a badge of honor."

AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy predicted that there's a 99.9 percent chance AI could wipe out humanity within the next 100 years.
Artificial Intelligence

"The only way to win this game is not to play it."

In a new interview, a former OpenAI employee made a shocking admission about his ex-employer's plans for AGI.
OpenAI

"That's pretty f**ked up."

A repeating radio signal from deep space has scientists puzzled, because they can't fully explain what's emitting it.
Off-World

"The fact that the signal is repeating at such a leisurely pace is extraordinary."

Researchers warn that companies like OpenAI and Google could soon run out of human-written training data for their AI models.
Artificial Intelligence

"There is a serious bottleneck here."

AI models are, apparently, getting better at lying on purpose -- and that might not be good news for us humans.
Artificial Intelligence

"GPT- 4, for instance, exhibits deceptive behavior in simple test scenarios 99.16% of the time."

A Reuters report says that an AI tool used by the app NewsBreak has been publishing entirely made-up news articles.
Artificial Intelligence

"You are doing HARM by publishing this misinformation."

Google's parent company, Alphabet, has poached Eli Lilly's chief financial officer and tapped her to be its own.
Future Society

And the stock market is loving it.

Tesla's chair Robyn Denholm warned that CEO Elon Msk may walk if he doesn't get his pay package. Many investors would be OK with that.
Elon Musk

"Don't threaten me with a good time."

According to Kutcher, OpenAI's generative AI tool Sora is already good enough to churn out footage for major movie productions.
Artificial Intelligence

"You can generate any footage that you want."