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The spacecraft, developed by Varda Space Industries, has spent over a year in space manufacturing protein crystals used to develop drugs.
Off-World

Drug Manufacturing Spacecraft Finally Cleared to Return to Earth

And now... the comedown.

The more Sora generations, the clearer it is that OpenAI's new text-to-video AI suffers many of the same issues that other AI models do.
OpenAI

The More We See of OpenAI’s Text-to-Video AI Sora, the Less Impressed We Are

Sora might be groundbreaking, but it's also still quite flawed.

Bill Nye the Science Guy is sounding off about a new report about Greenland's ice sheet melting and the "big, big problems" it creates.
Science & Energy

Bill Nye Issues Warning for the World

"It's just going to get worse and worse and worse."

International pop sensation Stefani "Lady Gaga" Germanotta was spotted this morning popping by the local Whole Foods in a Tesla Cybertruck.
Tesla

Lady Gaga Pulls Up to Grocery Store in Tesla Cybertruck

"This car looks like a garbage truck."

A bunch of maggots rained down on a woman during an international flight — and you won't believe where they came from.
Advanced Transport

Plane Passengers Horrified as Maggots Rain Down from Luggage Compartment

"She was just trying to kind of fight off these maggots."

After racing to meet surging demand for electric cars just six months ago, carmakers are now slamming the brakes, and cutting output.
Advanced Transport

Electric Car Sales Are Falling Apart

Carmakers are worried.

Japanese startup PorMedTec claims to have cloned three piglets to have their organs be viable for transplantation to humans.
Gene Editing

Startup Clones Three Piglets Gene-Hacked to Have Organs Transplanted Into Humans

Three little pigs.

Experts at the Mozilla Foundation are warning that AI girlfriends are plagued by concerning privacy pitfalls and murky data use policies.
Artificial Intelligence

Warning: “AI Girlfriends” Are Hoarding Your Personal Data

"One of the scariest things about the AI relationship chatbots is the potential for manipulation of their users."

NASA has officially bid adieu to its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment, fittingly having the last one burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
NASA

NASA Experiment With Fire in Space Ends When Entire Spacecraft Burns Up

NASA really let it rip for the grand finale.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched a privately-owned Moon lander, which could set an historic precedent for the United States.
Moon

SpaceX Launches Private Moon Lander

Hopefully this one works!

The social network formerly known as Twitter is once again in the midst of an extremism crisis under Elon Musk's leadership.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Selling Blue Checkmarks to Literal Terrorists

Twitter's extremism problems continue.

Among its series of baffling AI-generated images is a mislabeled figure of a mouse with grotesquely large testicles.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientific Article With Insane AI-Generated Images Somehow Passes Peer Review

W-what is that?

People are getting headaches from wearing the Apple Vision Pro. One user believes using the device led to a burst blood vessel in his eye.
Virtual Reality

Apple Vision Pro Users Reporting Headaches, Burst Blood Vessels

Yikes.

OpenAI is teasing the capabilities of its new Sora video generator, and honestly, it seems pretty impressive.
Future Society

OpenAI Reveals Impressive AI That Generates Photorealistic Video

This gonna switch up the AI game all over again.

US lawmakers are becoming increasingly worried of a space-based nuclear weapon that could take out satellites.
Future Society

Rumors Swirl That Russia Plans to Launch Space-Based Nuclear Weapon

Is Russia really working on an anti-satellite nuke?

A Russian artist is threatening to destroy $45 million worth of art work if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange dies in prison.
Future Society

Man Threatens to Destroy Priceless Rembrandt and Picasso Paintings With Acid If Julian Assange Dies

It's called "The Dead Man’s Switch."

OpenAI is looking to hire an "insider risk investigator" to "fortify our organization against internal security threats."
OpenAI

OpenAI Hiring Detective to Find Who’s Leaking Its Precious Info

"Your expertise will be instrumental in protecting OpenAI against internal risks, thereby contributing to the broader societal benefits of artificial intelligence."

A new Amazon AI model is, according to the researchers that built it, exhibiting incredible language abilities that it wasn't trained on. 
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing “Emergent Abilities”

Whoa.

An international team of scientists has discovered water molecules on the surface of an asteroid for the first time.
Off-World

Scientists Surprised to Find Distant Asteroid Is Very Soggy

"We detected a feature that is unambiguously attributed to molecular water on the asteroids Iris and Massalia."

AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic." 
Artificial Intelligence

AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns

If you don't use your brain, you could lose its abilities.