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Bad news for all you diet soda lovers — lower-sugar beverage alternatives may come with a heart-shaped price tag.
Studies

Diet Sodas Linked to Heart Issues

Put down the Diet Coke before it's too late!

By Noor Al-Sibai

A tire fell off a Boeing flight bound from San Francisco to Osaka, crashing into cars and causing it to make an emergency landing at LAX.
Future Society

Tire Falls Off Boeing Passenger Jet During Takeoff

Seriously, what the heck is going on with our planes?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two Miami teenagers were charged with felonies for creating AI-generated deepfake nudes of underage classmates, a Wired report reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

Middle Schoolers Arrested for Making AI Nudes of Classmates

The victims were reportedly aged between 12 and 13.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The report features six studies that thoroughly examined MIT's superconducting magnets design used in its breakthrough fusion test.
Energy

MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical

"Now fusion has a chance."

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon has released a report, oncluding that it had found no evidence of the government reverse-engineering alien technology.
Future Society

Pentagon Says It Has No Record of Reverse-Engineered Alien Technology

That's exactly the kind of thing the Pentagon would say.

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube channel Cyber Hooligan pitted the Cybertruck against a diesel Silverado pickup. The Silverado won each time.
Advanced Transport

Feeble Cybertruck Shuts Down in Real Towing Contest Against Other Truck

It just kinda gives up.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested Starship will spin slowly to create artificial gravity for passengers on their way to Mars.
Starship

Elon Musk Says Starship Will Spin for Artificial Gravity

"Even a tiny gravity vector is better than none."

By Victor Tangermann

Claude 3 Opus, the new AI chatbot from Anthropic, showed signs that it realized it was being tested, a prompt engineer claims.
Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Startled When AI Seemingly Realizes It’s Being Tested

"It did something I have never seen before from an LLM."

By Frank Landymore

Experts are becoming increasingly worried over Trump's seemingly deteriorating mental state, Salon reports.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Say Trump Is Displaying Clear Signs of Cognitive Issues

"If Trump were your relative, you’d be thinking about assisted care right now."

By Victor Tangermann

Early results of a weight loss drug by Danish pharmaceutical Novo Nordisk show that it may be even more effective than semaglutide.
Health & Medicine

New Weight Loss Pill More Effective Than Ozempic, Tests Find

The company's shares are through the roof.

By Victor Tangermann

The bill, called DEFIANCE for short, would allow victims of nonconsensual deepfake porn to sue its creators, distributors, and receivers.
Artificial Intelligence

AOC Announces Bill That Would Let Women Sue People Who Make Deepfake Porn of Them

It's a step, but it's a small one.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To save the "doomsday" glacier, geoengineers propose surrounding it with giant underwater curtains to divert warm water away.
Climate Change

Scientists Propose Desperate Plan to Insulate Entire Doomsday Glacier

It's a $50 billion Hail Mary.

By Frank Landymore

Someone finally figured out how to make their Tesla Cybertruck look pretty cool, actually: covering it in graffiti.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted Covered in Graffiti

"Feels even more cyber punk."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Microsoft engineer says the company won't investigate its text-to-image AI's disturbing outputs — so he reached out to the FTC.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Sickened by Images Its AI Produces

"Wow this is really not a safe model."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There may not be AGI yet, but as one of the leading experts in the theoretical field claims, it may get here sooner rather than later.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Superintelligence Could Arrive by 2027, Scientist Predicts

It's a bold prediction.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a since-deleted tweet, Musk argued that rich ex-wives are "among 'Reasons that Western Civilization died," without ever explaining.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Saying Ex-Wives Responsible for Collapse of Civilization

Yet another new low for Elon.

By Victor Tangermann

A study has revealed that a German man managed to get jabbed 217 times with the COVID vaccine and yet appears to suffer no ill effects.
Studies

Doctors Puzzled by Man Who Got 217 COVID Vaccines

"It should go without saying that we do not endorse hypervaccination."

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University claim to have become the first to 3D print living human skin tissue onto open wounds of rats.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists 3D Print Living Human Skin Directly Onto Wounds

"We believe this could be applied in dermatology, hair transplants, and plastic and reconstructive surgeries."

By Victor Tangermann

The blockbuster weight loss drug semaglutide can cut the progression of diabetic kidney disease, according to its manufacturer Novo Nordisk.
Studies

Semaglutide Can Cut Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression

It cut death from cardiovascular and kidney issues cut by 24 percent.

By Sharon Adarlo

One redacted exchange in the newly-leaked emails between Elon Musk and his fellow OpenAI co-founders is raising some eyebrows.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Cryptically Said Humanity’s Future Was Controlled by [Redacted]

"Unfortunately, humanity's future is in the hands of [REDACTED]."

By Noor Al-Sibai