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Gabe "Gaben" Newell, the man behind Steam, has for years been quietly building a BCI company — and it just came out of stealth.
Prosthetics and Devices

Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface

"Gaben has clearly been quite busy."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Global surface temperatures have soared once again, making March the tenth consecutive hottest month on record.
Climate Change

Global Temperatures Have Set Records Every Month for the Past Ten Months

The world is in "uncharted territory."

By Victor Tangermann

Geneva Long, founder and CEO of electric RV maker Bowlus, found that a Model X could pull an RV much longer than a Cybertruck.
Advanced Transport

Test Shows the Model X Has Better Range Than the Cybertruck When Pulling the Same Trailer

The Cybertruck sure seems terrible at doing truck stuff.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI and Meta are reportedly about to release new AI models that achieve important milestones towards achieving AGI.
Meta

OpenAI and Meta Reportedly Preparing New AI Models Capable of Reasoning

We'll see about that.

By Frank Landymore

The crew of the ship that collided with Baltimore's Francis Scott Key bridge has been stranded on board for 2 weeks — and now, we know why.
Future Society

Why the Crew Is Still Stuck Aboard the Ship That Totaled the Baltimore Bridge

Anchored.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla Cybertruck's windshield cracked after enduring a routine but sudden hail storm in Austin, Texas, according to a Reddit post.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck’s “Armor Glass” Cracks in Routine Hail Storm

"Pretty disappointing..."

By Sharon Adarlo

A former Thiel fellow has launched a startup allowing parents to pick which embryos they want to incubate based on which has the best genes.
Gene Editing

Startup That Selects Embryos with Good Genes Says It’s Not Doing Eugenics

Don't say the "e" word around this lady.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In late February, a Russian satellite nearly hit an American one — and now, NASA's admitting how terrifying it was.
NASA

NASA Was “Really Scared” When a Russian Satellite Almost Obliterated Its Orbiter

"We're all worried about this."

By Noor Al-Sibai

And after months of testing, the review embargo for Humane's mysterious AI "Pin" finally lifted — and it sounds like a nightmare to use.
Artificial Intelligence

Humane’s AI “Pin” Is a $700 Flaming Dumpster Fire

It "solves nothing and makes me feel stupid."

By Victor Tangermann

Trump and other Trump Media executives are already getting payouts, while investors are losing their shirts.
Future Society

Trump Is Making a Fortune Off His “Truth Social” Disaster While Investors Are Losing Their Shirts

He's laughing all the way to the bank.

By Victor Tangermann

The proposed law would require businesses to disclose a list of all the copyrighted content they used in a training data set for any models.
Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Force AI Companies to Reveal Copyrighted Training Data

If companies don't disclose, they get fined by the government.

By Sharon Adarlo

The Roku system would detect for pauses in activity on any HDMI device hooked up to its TVs to overlay relevant ads.
Future Society

Roku Files Patent for Plastering Ads on Top of Anything on Your TV

Oh god, why?

By Frank Landymore

The humans behind the accounts of "virtual influencers" are pasting their faces onto the bodies of real models and sex workers.
Artificial Intelligence

Those “AI Influencers” Are Deepfaking Fake Faces Onto Real Women’s Bodies Without Permission

It's a real problem.

By Victor Tangermann

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee told a high school audience on Monday that the Moon was a "planet" that is "made up of mostly gases."
Future Society

Congresswoman Makes Strange Claims About the Earth’s Moon

Yikes.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance rover is on Mars, it had been able to capture Mars’ two moons — Deimos and Phobos — float past in front of the Sun.
Mars

Here’s What NASA’s Rovers See During an Eclipse on Mars

These moons are smaller and way lumpier, but their transits in front of the Sun are still special.

By Sharon Adarlo

According to a damning new report, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk may have underplayed the costs involved in launching Starlink satellites.
SpaceX

There Appears to Be a Huge Problem With SpaceX’s Starlink

Did Elon Musk fib about the service breaking even?

By Victor Tangermann

A new Boeing whistleblower just dropped, and the claims this one is making about its safety issues are quite the doozy.
Future Society

New Boeing Whistleblower Says 787 Fuselages Are Improperly Fastened Together, Could Break Apart

Things for Boeing may be getting even worse.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers have allowed a small piece of "gravity-free" graphite to levitate almost perfectly still above a grid of magnets.
Science & Energy

Scientists Show Off Levitating Material

This "gravity-free" graphite could be a game changer for science.

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin may be up for now, but a sizable portion of consumers aren't expecting it to stay that way for long.
Bitcoin

Many Consumers Expect Bitcoin to Crash and Burn

Even with bitcoin way up, lots of folks are pessimistic.

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a Cybertruck teardown, car critic Sandy Munro and his team discovered that the vehicle's massive battery pack is half empty.
Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Battery Pack Is Half Empty, a Teardown Found

"I'd say it's half full..."

By Victor Tangermann