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In a new study researchers developed a new AI-powered tool that allowed people to better spot lies. Only some agreed to use it.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Claim Ominous New AI System Can Detect Lies

"Given that we have so much fake news and disinformation spreading, there is a benefit to these technologies."

By Victor Tangermann

There's a death toll associated with SpaceX's success — and the Elon Musk-owned company played the government to make that success happen. 
SpaceX

Investigation Finds Elon Musk’s SpaceX Used Trickery to Open Rocket Facility

And he got away with it, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts believes the two Starliner astronauts are not stuck on the ISS and that the extra time is a good thing.
Off-World

Former Astronaut Explains How the Astronauts Stranded in Space Might Be Feeling

Lost in space?

By Victor Tangermann

A video shows a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona pulling over a self-driving vehicle after it drove down a busy road in the opposing lane.
Advanced Transport

Police Pull Over Car for Driving on Wrong Side of Road, Startled to Discover It Has No Driver

"So your car here drove into oncoming lanes of traffic."

By Victor Tangermann

Police say they really need free access to OnlyFans — but there's a good reason behind their unusual request.
Future Society

Police Say They Need Free OnlyFans Access (For Solving Crimes)

"It’s not just one paywall. It’s a paywall for each and every contributor."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas simulated several "moonwalks" in the northern Arizona desert, making for an unusual photo opp.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Run Into Cow While Practicing for Lunar Landing

"There are, of course, no cows on the Moon."

By Victor Tangermann

In a spiteful retort earlier this week, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the agency was willing to work with China to examine Moon rocks.
Moon

The Head of NASA Is Being Awfully Catty About China’s Amazing New Moon Samples

China is willing to share. The US is making cooperation a lot more difficult.

By Victor Tangermann

Reserachers are suggesting a new model that could explain why the dead remains of stars start unexpectedly glitching or speeding up.
Off-World

Astronomers Baffled After Zombie Star Remains Start “Glitching”

It's alive!

By Victor Tangermann

To keep fliers abreast of delays, United Airlines has developed AI that its C-suite thinks is indistinguishable from human labor.
Artificial Intelligence

Airline Exec Raves That AI Is So Good at Sending Flight Delay Texts It’s “Hard to Tell the Difference” From Human Work

This might be in the eye of the beholder.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content.
Google

Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet

Google's trying to find the guy responsible for all this.

By Sharon Adarlo

China is planning to send an satellite into orbit that will then study and smash to bits a nearby asteroid in a test mission to defend Earth.
Off-World

China Planning to Smash Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test

Mission to happen before 2030.

By Sharon Adarlo

As astronauts remain stuck on the ISS thanks to issues with Boeing's Starliner capsule, NASA is praising the company for getting them there.
Boeing

NASA Praises Boeing’s Stranded Starliner for Managing Not to Explode While Docked to Space Station

How long are they going to be stuck up there, exactly?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed a computer virus that can use ChatGPT to disguise itself by changing its own code and write human-like emails.
OpenAI

Sneaky Virus Uses ChatGPT to Send Human-Like Emails to Your Contacts to Spread Itself

It can even evade antivirus scans by rewriting its own code.

By Victor Tangermann

AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.
Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It’s Making Absolutely No Money

"AI technology is exceptionally expensive."

By Sharon Adarlo

A sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is studying the artificial intimacy afforded to humans by AI girlfriends.
Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Studying Married Men With AI Girlfriends

"Don't get so attached that you can't say, 'You know what? This is a program.'"

By Noor Al-Sibai

President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders are calling on the makers of weight loss drugs like Ozempic to make them cheaper.
RX and Medicine

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Demands Drug Companies Cut Price of Ozempic and Other New Weight Loss Drugs

Oh.

By Noor Al-Sibai

One Tesla megafan received not just one but two subsequent Cybertrucks, that turned out to be complete lemons.
Tesla

Tesla Megafan Receives Two Subsequent Cybertrucks That Completely Fail

"Do not try to fix this truck anymore, just send a replacement from Texas ASAP!"

By Victor Tangermann

Mercedes-Benz's autonomous driving head Jochen Haab criticized Tesla's autonomous driving rollout, arguing it erodes trust.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Mercedes Exec Blasts Tesla for Reckless “Full Self-Driving” Rollout

"If things are overpromised or do underperform, even if it's very seldom, the entire trust in autonomous driving itself loses confidence."

By Victor Tangermann

We found the one piece of AI-generated Facebook sludge to rule them all — and it has one giant boot and a birthday wish.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Has Unlocked a Level of Facebook Pandering Previously Unknown to Science

Haven't you heard? Today's their birthday!!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the tech sector reels from layoffs, one underemployed worker is urging others to sell their blood to make ends meet.
Future Society

Laid Off Tech Worker Suggests That Unemployed People Should Sell Their Blood to Survive

"My chances of obtaining another great-paying [full-time] job are next to zero."

By Noor Al-Sibai