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

Google Considering Making Users Pay for AI Search Results

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

Mississippi Considers Law Against Police Keeping Dead Bodies for “Personal Collections”

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

Amid Lawsuit, Creators of AI-Powered “George Carlin Comedy Special” Agree to Delete It

"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

Oregon Forced to Recriminalize Drugs After Disastrous Decriminalization Experiment

"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

Teenage Girls Are Taking Way More Antidepressants and Boys Are Taking Way Fewer

"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

Alibaba Exploring How to Deliver Cheap Plastic Garbage Via Space Rocket

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

Gene Editing Experiment Halted as Patient Gets Weird Side Effects

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

Jon Stewart Skewers AI Industry for Salivating Over Replacing Jobs

"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

Eclipse Tourists Devastated as Forecast Shows Cloudy Skies

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

Costco shoppers can start getting weight loss drugs like Ozempic through the company's health care partner Sesame.
RX and Medicine

Costco Now Offering Ozempic Prescriptions

Suburban moms rejoice!

The White House released a new memorandum in an attempt to establish a new time standard for the Moon called "Coordinated Lunar Time."
Moon

Biden Directs NASA to Figure Out What Time It Is on the Moon

Telling the exact time on the Moon is more important than you think.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta-formerly-Facebook is bleeding its top AI leaders, with at least three executives leaving the company in March alone.
Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Researchers Keep Leaving Facebook

"We saw this with the PC, the web, mobile app stores, and now we're seeing it with generative AI."

Hedge fund manager and Tesla bear Per Lekander told CNBC that he expects Tesla to go bust, hitting a share price of just $14.
Tesla

Investor Predicts Tesla Could “Go Bust”

"This was really the beginning of the end of the Tesla bubble."

Former president Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of his media company Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), which owns Truth Social.
Future Society

Trump Sues “Truth Social” Cofounders as Company’s Stock Crumbles

It keeps getting worse.

The first crewed test launch of Boeing's much-maligned Starliner spacecraft has been delayed yet again by another six days.
Boeing

Boeing Can’t Seem to Stop Delaying Its First Astronaut Launch

The company has been delaying the launch for seven years.

The NASA mission will see three rockets launched at various stages of the eclipse to collect data on how the event affects our ionosphere.
NASA

NASA Launching Three Rockets Directly Into Eclipse

Whoa.

The experimental cell therapy attempts to grow a second liver on lymph nodes using cells extracted from a donated organ.
Developments

Scientists Inject Patient With Slurry to Make Them Grow a New Liver

"We're using the lymph node as a living bioreactor."

Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, which allowed customers to simply walk out with their stuff.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its “AI” Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors

It was all smoke and mirrors.

A tiny creature that's sturdy enough to survive space may hold the key to human longevity, scientists have found in a new study. 
Space

Scientists Splice Material From Creature That Can Survive Outer Space Into Human Cells

"Amazingly, when we introduce these proteins into human cells, they gel and slow down metabolism, just like in tardigrades."

United Airlines is now asking its pilots to take unpaid time off in May as things keep going wrong at Boeing.
Future Society

United Begging Pilots to Take Unpaid Time Off Amid Boeing Disaster

This does not bode well for the summer travel season.