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A new study found that certain vegetarian and vegan diets curb risks of life-threatening illnesses like cancer and heart disease.
Studies

Huge Study Finds That Vegetarian and Vegan Diets Are Incredibly Good for You

Eat your vegetables, kids.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's water use and carbon emissions have increased compared to 2020 numbers due to artificial intelligence datacenters.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Emissions and Water Use Shoot Up as It Goes All in on AI Datacenters

How will Microsoft ever reach its sustainability goals at this rate?

By Sharon Adarlo

The research explores how the reintroduction of bison into an ecosystem helped boost the overall amount of carbon sucked up by plants.
Climate Change

A Single Herd of Bison Can Help Capture CO2 From Over 40,000 Cars, Scientists Find

Say hello to these beefy "climate heroes."

By Frank Landymore

A powerful Australian mining magnate has been trying to get an unflattering portrait of her removed from a museum.
Science & Energy

Billionaire Mining Magnate Not Happy With Her Portrait Hanging in Museum

"I paint the world as I see it."

By Jon Christian

Reddit's wallstreetbets meme stock investors are back in full force — but their latest ruse isn't playing out as expected.
Future Society

GameStop Stock Is Crashing Catastrophically After Meme Hype

WallStreetBets is back after a three year hiatus.

By Victor Tangermann

The American newspaper giant and USA Today owner Gannett is using AI to generate a bulleted list of "Key Points" for news articles.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Using AI to Generate Parts of Articles, Leaked Memo Shows

Gannett's AI optimism persists.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Those daring enough to buy high mileage used Teslas from rental car company Hertz are facing massive repair bills.
Tesla

Man Buys Used Tesla, Discovers Horrendous Issue

"I realized why they were trying to get rid of those Teslas."

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have identified seven stars in our galaxy that could potentially host a Dyson sphere — a hypothetical alien megastructure.
Off-World

Scientists Identify Seven Star Systems That May Be Hosting Alien Megastructures

So you're telling me there's a chance?

By Victor Tangermann

MotorTrend finally settled the debate, proving once and for all that Tesla's Cybertruck stunt involving towing a Porsche 911 was rigged.
Tesla

Tesla Video Showing Cybertruck Beating Porsche 911 While Towing Porsche 911 Was a Lie, Independent Test Demonstrates

The debate is finally settled.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's GPT-4 is so lifelike, it can trick more than 50 percent of human test subjects into thinking they are talking to a person.
Artificial Intelligence

Majority of Humans Fooled by GPT-4 in Turing Test, Scientists Find

This is pretty huge.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Remember all of Elon Musk's claims that Teslas would be actually autonomous soon? Thanks to one lawsuit, he might have to pay for them.
Tesla

Tesla Forced to Face Lawsuit by Drivers Who Says Elon Misled About Autopilot, FSD Capabilities

"Tesla allegedly engaged in a systematic pattern of fraud over a long period of time."

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's been 7 weeks since a Singaporean cargo ship crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, and its crew is still stranded aboard.
Future Society

Crew Still Stranded Aboard Ship in Baltimore Nearly Two Months After Bridge Disaster

How much longer are federal authorities going to maroon them?

By Noor Al-Sibai

The robot, named Sophia, gave painfully generic answers and even plugged the AI industry. Many students felt "disrespected" by the decision.
Artificial Intelligence

Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot

The disrespect.

By Frank Landymore

In a new Bloomberg interview, Neuralink's first human patient recalled the time the brain-computer chip started glitching.
Prosthetics and Devices

First Neuralink Patient Alarmed as Device Starts Losing Functionality

"But then they told me that the threads were getting pulled out of my brain."

By Victor Tangermann

As The Information reports, Stable Diffusion maker Stability AI is facing a severe cash crunch and is in talks of being sold off.
Artificial Intelligence

The Maker of Stable Diffusion Is Collapsing, Considering Sale

The numbers are not pretty.

By Victor Tangermann

In her new book, hotel heiress Paris Hilton revealed that she had an, er, peculiar way of handling having babies via surrogates.
Developments

Paris Hilton Wore a Prosthetic Pregnancy Belly While Actual Babies Were Being Grown by Surrogates

"I wanted it to feel real — even in just this small way."

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made up its mind and will continue down a rocky ridge that scientists believe was once a raging river.
Mars

NASA Mars Rover Following Path of What Appears to Be Ancient River

This "snake-like" path looks a lot like a meandering river.

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman is willing to foot the bill of a maintenance mission to NASA's Hubble telescope.
NASA

NASA Experts Concerned Billionaire Space Tourist Will Accidentally Break Hubble Space Telescope While Trying to Fix It

NASA is still weighing the pros and cons.

By Victor Tangermann

Writers at the newspaper giant Gannett quietly updated employment contracts to provide much more leeway for generating "news content."
Future Society

Gannett Staff Furious Over Contract Allowing AI “to Generate News Content”

"It was shocking and frustrating and disappointing."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China's navy has apparently tested out its hypersonic rail gun — but during a demonstration of its power, things didn't go quite as planned.
Off-World

China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky

Wow.

By Noor Al-Sibai