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Tesla has reportedly given up on the Model 2, an affordable, $25,000 car. CEO Elon Musk says the report is a lie.
Tesla

But Elon Musk says it's a lie.

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group have slid significantly this week, falling over eight percent in the last 24 hours alone.
Future Society

"It’s a scam, just like everything [Trump's] ever been involved in is some sort of con."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been trying to license his EV maker's so-called "Full Self-Driving" advanced driver assist software to competitors.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Why would they?

Scientists are experimenting with a device built atop a decommissioned aircraft carrier that would dim the Sun by salting the clouds.
Climate Change

That's one way to use outdated military infrastructure.

A small earthquake has hit the East Coast, striking a highly populated area in central New Jersey, less than 60 miles from New York City.
Science & Energy

Did you feel that?

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has become the latest — and perhaps highest-ranking — person inconvenienced by Boeing's severe blunders.
Future Society

How could things possibly get worse for Boeing?

Apple has allegedly set its sights on home robots — and is said to be in the early stages of developing one that follows you around the house.
Robotics

Who asked for this?

A massive ball suspended inside Taiwan's iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper protected the structure during the 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week.
Science & Energy

A huge engineering win.

Workers had failed to properly document a key stage of the repair process, as Boeing rushed along production on faulty fuselages.
Advanced Transport

"Something happened. I don't know what it was."

Meta's AI image generator Imagine is having a lot of trouble, well, imagining an Asian person posing for the camera alongside a white person.
Meta

Bias keeps leaking out of these AI models.

A 62-year-old man, who received a transplanted pig kidney, is doing well, and was even discharged from the hospital this week.
Health & Medicine

He hasn't been this healthy in a long time.

As the Financial Times reports, the company is considering putting premium AI search services behind a subscription paywall.
Google

Even if you pay, you'll still see ads.

A Mississippi police lieutenant discovered that officials were holding onto and even giving away human remains that should've been returned.
Future Society

Wait, how was this legal?!

The duo that used AI to make a fake George Carlin special have deleted the video months after being sued by the late comedian's estate.
Artificial Intelligence

"I hope this case serves as a warning about the dangers posed by AI technologies."

Earlier this week, Oregon governor Tina Kotek recriminalized hard drugs in the state, restoring criminal penalties, including jail time.
Developments

"I’ve been around enough to know that it’s always in the implementation."

A study found that teen girls are taking antidepressants at a much higher rate than teen boys, whose usage rate declined during the pandemic.
Health & Medicine

"There was something happening to make male adolescents not come in for mental health."

Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch has announced a partnership with Alibaba-owned Taobao to make global rocket deliveries in just one hour.
Space

Wait, are they serious?

Verve Therapeutics has paused the first phase of a human gene-editing drug trial aimed at reducing heart disease due to serious side effects.
Gene Editing

This is a setback.

Comedian and late-night TV legend Jon Stewart has had enough of AI industry leaders salivating over replacing human workers with AI.
Artificial Intelligence

"The reality is, they come for our jobs."

People who want to see the total solar eclipse on April 8 may be blocked by cloudy skies if weather forecasts for America are accurate.
Science & Energy

"Sometimes the weather gods like to laugh at you."