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Roughly a year and a half after being released from prison, Chinese scientist He Jiankui has resumed research on human embryo gene editing.
Gene Editing

He's working on ways to fight Alzheimer's disease by gene-editing human embryos.

By Victor Tangermann

New York City is officially accepting applications for a new driverless car program, which could result in plenty of chaos.
Advanced Transport

"Driverless cars are untested, dangerous technology, and they have no place in New York City."

By Victor Tangermann

Despite having been in public beta mode for nearly a year, Google's SGE search engine is still spitting out incorrect answers. 
Google

Why is it still so crappy?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassibis likened the hype shrouding the AI gold rush to that of the crypto industry's high-dollar funding race.
Google

"It clouds the science and the research."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Trump Media & Technology Group shares are down over 17 percent today after the company posted major losses last year.
Future Society

The company lost more than 58 million last year.

By Victor Tangermann

New reporting has linked a Russian "assassination unit" to the mysterious Havana Syndrome — but the US government has yet to respond.
Health & Medicine

As always, nothing about Havana Syndrome is simple.

By Noor Al-Sibai

South Korean researchers have maintained plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds inside a tokamak fusion reactor.
Energy

That's seven times as hot as the Sun's core.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent survey, Tesla's reputation is plunging, which could be due to Musk's off-putting and problematic behavior.
Elon Musk

"It's very likely that Musk himself is contributing to the reputational downfall."

By Victor Tangermann

CEOs at appliance companies want to put AI in your oven and other household items in order to make them smarter.
Artificial Intelligence

Can we just not?

By Sharon Adarlo

A mad genius has clicked through those "my pussy in bio" links spamming X-formerly-Twitter — and found something as dark as it is mundane.
Future Society

"Your audience is dumb."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Martin Rees, respected British astrophysicist, says Elon Musk's colonization plans for Mars is a "dangerous illusion."
Mars

“I don’t think it’s realistic..."

By Sharon Adarlo

If you want to climb Mount Everest, you gotta take your shit back with you and you can no longer leave it on the mountain.
Pollution

Mount Everest is basically a mountain of human dung.

By Sharon Adarlo

Climate change is causing so much polar ice melt that it's slowing down Earth's rotation and it will alter how we measure time in the future.
Climate Change

"Things are happening that are unprecedented."

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a $100 billion supercomputer, codenamed Stargate, to train advanced new AI.
OpenAI

That's "billion" with a "b."

By Jon Christian

For a period of time in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund appears to have been completely fake.
OpenAI

"Jacob Vespers does not exist to our knowledge."

By Jon Christian

British archaeologists have found microplastics amidst historic sediment excavated in York that date as early as the 1st and 2nd centuries.
Pollution

Is nothing safe?

By Sharon Adarlo

Chinese scientists have developed an implantable battery that ingeniously uses oxygen already inside the human body.
Prosthetics and Devices

Imagine a battery inside your body you never have to change.

By Sharon Adarlo

The James Webb Space Telescope's dazzling imagery actually arrives to researchers in black-and-white and is colored via educated guessing.
James Webb Space Telescope

"We're just trying to enhance things to make it more scientifically digestible and also engaging."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Boulders that were released after NASA's DART spacecraft collided with asteroid Dimorphos could eventually smash into Mars.
Mars

We literally created our own meteor shower.

By Victor Tangermann

Ever since a huge cargo ship named Dali leveled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, people have been scrambling to explain how it happened.
Future Society

"My crazy conspiracy theory is the bridge collapsed because it got hit by an absolute unit of a boat."

By Sharon Adarlo