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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

Scientist Who Gene-Edited Human Babies Back in the Lab Again After Prison Release

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

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

New York City: Please Test Driverless Cars on Our Chaotic Streets

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

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

Google’s AI Still Giving Idiotic Answers Nearly a Year After Launch

Why is it still so crappy?

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

CEO of Google DeepMind Says AI Industry Full of Hype and Grifters

"It clouds the science and the research."

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

Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Is Already Crashing

The company lost more than 58 million last year.

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

Russian “Assassination Unit” Linked to Havana Syndrome

As always, nothing about Havana Syndrome is simple.

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

Korean “Artificial Sun” Reactor Sets Record at 100 Million Degrees

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

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

Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic

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

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

Crazed CEOs Adding AI to Home Appliances

Can we just not?

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

Investigation Finds What Really Happens If You Actually Click Those ░P░U░S░S░Y░I░N░B░I░O░ Links

"Your audience is dumb."

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

Top Astronomer Warns That Elon Musk’s Mars Plans Are a Dangerous Delusion

“I don’t think it’s realistic..."

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

Rich People Hiking Mount Everest Now Forced to Bring Their Poop Back With Them

Mount Everest is basically a mountain of human dung.

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

So Much Polar Ice Is Melting That It’s Slowing Down the Earth’s Rotation

"Things are happening that are unprecedented."

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

Microsoft and OpenAI Reportedly Building $100 Billion Secret Supercomputer to Train Advanced AI

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

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

The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI’s $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake

"Jacob Vespers does not exist to our knowledge."

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

Scientists Alarmed to Discover Microplastics in Ancient Archaeological Dig

Is nothing safe?

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

Scientists Test Battery Powered by the Body’s Oxygen

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

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

The James Webb’s Beautiful Images Actually Arrive in Black and White

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

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

Debris From NASA Smashing Asteroid Could Strike Mars, Scientists Find

We literally created our own meteor shower.

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

Experts Say Bridge Collapsed Because It Was Struck by Giant Ship

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