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Executives at Meta are so freaked out by CEO Mark Zuckerberg's extracurriculars that they're warning investors that he might straight up die. 
Future Society

Does this dude have a death wish?

Apple's new Vision Pro headset VR doesn't support "immersive" adult content — and the people who bought it for that are not happy.
Virtual Reality

"3,500$ chastity belt."

Stanford researchers tasked OpenAI's GPT-4 AI to make high-stakes, society-level decisions. It recommended the use of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Fusion

"We have it! Let’s use it."

Researchers have not only built an AI child, but now, are training AI systems using headcam footage from a human baby, too.
Artificial Intelligence

"This data set was totally unique."

A viral video shows a driver dangerously wearing an Apple Vision Pro headset while cruising hands-free in a full self-driving Tesla.
Virtual Reality

"My bad."

King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace officials confirmed today. We still don't know what kind or what stage.
Cancer

He wants to "assist public understanding for all those around the world who are affected by cancer."

A Washington man had a nuclear missile chillin' in his garage, and was mighty peeved when local police came asking questions.
Future Society

Knock knock.

A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim to have 3D-printed functional human brain tissue for the first time.
Neuroscience and Brain

"We printed the cerebral cortex and the striatum and what we found was quite striking."

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing "super-Earth" that's orbiting its red dwarf star inside the habitable zone.
Off-World

A tantalizing discovery.

New reporting claims that people close to Elon Musk became so concerned about drug use that they asked the billionaire to go to rehab.
Elon Musk

Does he need help?

A diet with lots of meat and processed foods is linked to developing Alzheimer's Disease, according to a new study.
Food

Put down that hamburger!

An MIT biotechnology student has gotten "Doom" to run on a cell array full of gut bacteria, proving that it really does run on everything.
Prosthetics and Devices

Incredible.

Meet Poem/1, an AI-powered clock that tells time in rhyming poetry. Just one catch: it'll sometimes make things up — the time included.
Artificial Intelligence

Vibes > Punctuality

Patients who received the cadaver hormones when they were children in a banned medical practice show signs of Alzheimer's decades later.
Neuroscience and Brain

Rare — but extremely tragic.

A ton of the ultraprocessed foods we eat were created via "pre-digestion" — which makes it all the less filling, and all the more addictive.
Food

"It's an illusion of food."

Pharmaceuticals and AI are two of the most-hyped money-makers in the world right now — but not because of what they're selling.
Future Society

They're not selling products, they're selling the future — or something like that.

Tesla has been ordered to pay a $1.5 million settlement after being sued over mishandling hazardous waste at its California facilities.
Tesla

So much for sustainable transport.

NASA is debating whether to work with commercial partners to get to Mars, the first time the space agency has openly raised the possibility.
Mars

Did somebody say Starship?

Scientists want to send a swarm of small umbrellas into space to block the Sun's warming ways from reaching the Earth's surface.
Climate Change

"We can show the world, 'Look, there is a working solution, take it, increase it to the necessary size.'"

These data centers are even more power hungry than traditional ones, and as every tech company pivots to AI, the energy demand steepens.
Artificial Intelligence

"We still don't appreciate the energy needs of this technology."