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Grindr has, it seemed, block geolocation and search for the Olympic Village for this year's Paris summer games. 
Future Society

It Looks Like Grindr Has Blocked the Paris Olympic Village From Search

How you gonna date from outside the club?

A mechanic has bought a wrecked Tesla Cybertruck and is now trying to revive it from the dead, but none of his fixes are working so far. 
Advanced Transport

Mechanic Startled by How Hard It Is to Fix a Totalled Cybertruck

"All right Cybertruck, if you don't start acting right soon, we're going to rip you apart and put a diesel in you."

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is reportedly considering buying a five percent stake in EssilorLuxottica, which owns Ray-Bans and supreme.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Seeks to Become Part Owner of Supreme

Meta is getting real about its apparel aspirations.

As Elon Musk throws his weight behind Donald Trump, people who own Teslas are starting to feel some buyer's remorse. 
Elon Musk

Tesla Buyers Disgusted by Elon Musk’s Endorsement of Donald Trump

"He completely alienated most of his buying base. It's going to kill the business."

Waymo is seeking thousands of dollars in damages from two people that it claims deliberately trashed it driverless taxis.
Advanced Transport

Waymo Suing People Who Allegedly Trashed Its Robotaxis

It's Waymo, or the highway.

Elon Musk complained in a disturbing yet revealing interview about how one of his twelve children has come out as transgender.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Goes on Transphobic Tirade About His Trans Child

Musk: "I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus."

Rocks lying on the seafloor could be causing a chemical reaction that produces oxygen, upending beliefs on how oxygen first filled the Earth.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They’ve Detected a Strange Source of Electricity at the Bottom of the Ocean

No joke: this could change everything.

Kamala Harris is all but guaranteed to be the Democrats' presidential nominee — and one her biggest VP contenders used to be an astronaut.
Future Society

Top Pick for Kamala Harris’ VP Is a Former NASA Astronaut

He's pretty compelling, folks.

Amazon initially envisioned its Alexa, the voice assistant that comes with its Echo smart home devices, as a means to sell more stuff.
Robots and Machines

Amazon Horrified by What People Actually Use Alexa For

"We worried we’ve hired 10,000 people and we’ve built a smart timer."

With its intimidating exterior, Tesla's Cybertruck is deeply polarizing to adults, but it's a huge hit with one demographic: kids.
Advanced Transport

Children Are Obsessed With the Cybertruck

"Kids were hugging it and kissing it."

As scientists continue brains in labs, one neuroscientist is asking the hard question: can lab-grown brains ever truly be conscious?
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Are Growing Brains in Labs. Could They Become Conscious?

"It has no eyes, ears, nose or mouth — nothing's coming in."

Reporters at The Guardian made fake accounts for a generic male user at Instagram and Facebook and were then pushed sexist images.
Future Society

Brand-New Instagram Accounts Are Pushed Toward Scantily-Clad Women and Sexist Memes

Are the algorithms making men more sexist?

Chatbots like ChatGPT were either confused by questions about political events in the past week, or outright refused to answer them.
Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Chatbots Stumped When Asked About Biden’s Decision to Drop Out

Chatbots are horrible about breaking news.

Many content makers have put up restrictions on their content in the past year, which prevents AI companies from scraping them for data.
Artificial Intelligence

Crisis Looms as AI Companies Rapidly Losing Access to Training Data

The consequences have come home to roost.

Anca Selariu, a microbiologist who lived in the NASA Mars habitat for over a year, found her time inside "absolutely exhilarating."
Mars

Crew Who Spent a Year in Simulated NASA Mars Base Say They Spent a Lot of Time Watching TV

Everyone needs their comfort show.

Lawyers for X-formerly-Twitter are refusing to provide one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims with information from her own account.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s X Fighting Not to Give Up Information in Epstein Victim Case

"I don't know why they [are] being so obstructionist."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted an AI video that disrespects China President Xi Jinping on the social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk, With Tesla Factories in China, Tweets AI Video of Chinese President Xi Jinping Wearing Pooh Clothes

Elon Musk "must be on drugs to tweet something this reckless."

The deep and dazzling layer of diamond on Mercury could help explain the existence of the planet's magnetic field.
Off-World

Mercury Has an Eleven-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds, Scientists Find

An unfathomable wealth.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has for years now been quietly giving folks a universal basic income to see if it works.
Universal Basic Income

Sam Altman Has Been Quietly Giving Out Money for Basic Income

Aha!

Venture capitalist Matthew Ball retitled his 2022 book on the metaverse after the concept fizzled in the tech world.
Metaverse

The Author of “The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything” Is Changing the Title After It Was Published

Is the metaverse dead?