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This summer, the US Space Force will send its first "Guardian" to the International Space Station as part of NASA and SpaceX's Crew-9 mission.
Future Society

Space Force Finally Launching a Single Employee Into Space

No, it's not Steve Carell.

The announcement from the US Federal Communications Commission comes just a week after AI scam calls that impersonated President Joe Biden.
FCC

FCC Moves to Make Robocalls With AI-Synthesized Voices Illegal

"This technology now has the potential to confuse consumers with misinformation."

In what could possibly be a world first, a pedestrian in Finland's capital Helsinki caught a food delivery robot doing a hit-and-run.
Advanced Transport

Delivery Robot Damages Car, Flees Scene of Accident

"Then it lurched back and forth against the side of the car, with the safety flag happily waving."

Elon Musk will not be $55.8 billion richer anytime soon — and it wouldn't have happened without a ticked off metal band drummer.
Elon Musk

Heavy Metal Drummer Cost Elon Musk $55.8 Billion

This story, for once, has a happy ending.

The attempts to resuscitate FTX are dead on arrival, and soon, it will repay the people its convicted felon co-founder bilked out of money.
Blockchain

Attempt to Reboot FTX Fails Miserably

"The costs and risks of creating a viable exchange from what Mr Bankman-Fried left in a dumpster were simply too high."

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has recaptured the escaped Japanese macaque on the lam in the Scottish Highlands.
Drones

Escaped Monkey Hunted With Drone

"You would think we were chasing an international fugitive instead of an innocent monkey."

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has topped Fortune's list of "most overrated CEOs" for the second year running.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Voted “Most Overrated CEO” by His Colleagues

The one thing other executives agree on.

It's official: major music label Universal Music Group has yanked its catalogs from TikTok, including Taylor Swift, Drake, and Justin Bieber.
Artificial Intelligence

TikToks Go Silent as Major Record Label Pulls All Its Music

"This music is currently unavailable."

Reviewers of the Apple Vision Pro VR headset have found that the baked-in virtual keyboard is so bad, it's downright unusable.
Virtual Reality

Apple’s Ludicrously Expensive VR Headset’s Virtual Keyboard Is Apparently Useless

It will "drive you mad."

Grocery-delivery app Instacart was caught using AI image generators for pictures of recipes and ingredients, with horrifying results.
Food

Instacart Caught Using Revolting AI-Generated Images of Food

How about some demonic chicken wings for dinner?

Francisco Cadaba's skull was fractured during a botched rocket engine test. Two years later, his wife has sued SpaceX for negligence.
SpaceX

Wife Sues SpaceX After Rocket Test Leaves Husband in Coma

"It would have been nice to get a call from Elon Musk. But I guess workers are just disposable to them."

As the opioid crisis worsens, one pharmaceutical company has used some impressive biology to create a non-addictive, non-opioid painkiller. 
Brain

New Non-Opioid Drug Blocks Pain Signals Before They Can Reach Brain

"I like to think it’s the beginning of nonaddictive medicines for pain."

Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value on Tuesday following disappointing earnings reports.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports

Have we already hit peak AI?

During a shocking exchange on the Senate floor, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced families harmed by his platforms and apologized.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes to the Families of Victims

"I’m sorry for everything you have all been through."

SpaceX has teamed up with Starlab to deliver a private space station into orbit using only a single Starship rocket.
SpaceX

SpaceX Signs Deal to Launch Private Space Station

The plan is to launch the entire station on a single Starship rocket.

Direct-to-consumer DNA testing company 23andMe could soon run out of money after burning through over a billion dollars in cash.
Gene Editing

23andMe Has Lost Billions, Almost Worthless Now

How the mighty have fallen.

A national news service in Australia has been criticized for using AI to photoshop a sexualized image of parliament member Georgie Purcell.
Artificial Intelligence

Scandal Mounts as TV Network Used AI to Sexualize Image of Politician

"Note the enlarged boobs and outfit to be made more revealing."

Apple's Vision Pro will be released on Friday, and reviews of the VR goggle's custom digital avatars are already pouring: unsettling and bad.
Future Society

Ridicule Erupts as Apple Reveals the Avatars in Its Super Expensive VR System

"Good God! This is horrifying."

OpenAI's DALL-E could be used to make pornographic images like the ones targeting Taylor Swift, Microsoft engineer says.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Says He Was Silenced for Warning About DALL-E Issue Linked to Taylor Swift Nudes

Whistleblower says OpenAI's DALL-E should be closed to the public.

A Delaware judge has voided Tesla CEO Elon Musk's gargantuan $55 billion pay package following a lawsuit by shareholders.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Fumes as Judge Takes His $55 Billion

"If this ruling stands, it will put a sizable dent into his net worth."