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MotorTrend finally settled the debate, proving once and for all that Tesla's Cybertruck stunt involving towing a Porsche 911 was rigged.
Tesla

Tesla Video Showing Cybertruck Beating Porsche 911 While Towing Porsche 911 Was a Lie, Independent Test Demonstrates

The debate is finally settled.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's GPT-4 is so lifelike, it can trick more than 50 percent of human test subjects into thinking they are talking to a person.
Artificial Intelligence

Majority of Humans Fooled by GPT-4 in Turing Test, Scientists Find

This is pretty huge.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Remember all of Elon Musk's claims that Teslas would be actually autonomous soon? Thanks to one lawsuit, he might have to pay for them.
Tesla

Tesla Forced to Face Lawsuit by Drivers Who Says Elon Misled About Autopilot, FSD Capabilities

"Tesla allegedly engaged in a systematic pattern of fraud over a long period of time."

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's been 7 weeks since a Singaporean cargo ship crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, and its crew is still stranded aboard.
Future Society

Crew Still Stranded Aboard Ship in Baltimore Nearly Two Months After Bridge Disaster

How much longer are federal authorities going to maroon them?

By Noor Al-Sibai

The robot, named Sophia, gave painfully generic answers and even plugged the AI industry. Many students felt "disrespected" by the decision.
Artificial Intelligence

Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot

The disrespect.

By Frank Landymore

In a new Bloomberg interview, Neuralink's first human patient recalled the time the brain-computer chip started glitching.
Prosthetics and Devices

First Neuralink Patient Alarmed as Device Starts Losing Functionality

"But then they told me that the threads were getting pulled out of my brain."

By Victor Tangermann

As The Information reports, Stable Diffusion maker Stability AI is facing a severe cash crunch and is in talks of being sold off.
Artificial Intelligence

The Maker of Stable Diffusion Is Collapsing, Considering Sale

The numbers are not pretty.

By Victor Tangermann

In her new book, hotel heiress Paris Hilton revealed that she had an, er, peculiar way of handling having babies via surrogates.
Developments

Paris Hilton Wore a Prosthetic Pregnancy Belly While Actual Babies Were Being Grown by Surrogates

"I wanted it to feel real — even in just this small way."

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made up its mind and will continue down a rocky ridge that scientists believe was once a raging river.
Mars

NASA Mars Rover Following Path of What Appears to Be Ancient River

This "snake-like" path looks a lot like a meandering river.

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman is willing to foot the bill of a maintenance mission to NASA's Hubble telescope.
NASA

NASA Experts Concerned Billionaire Space Tourist Will Accidentally Break Hubble Space Telescope While Trying to Fix It

NASA is still weighing the pros and cons.

By Victor Tangermann

Writers at the newspaper giant Gannett quietly updated employment contracts to provide much more leeway for generating "news content."
Future Society

Gannett Staff Furious Over Contract Allowing AI “to Generate News Content”

"It was shocking and frustrating and disappointing."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China's navy has apparently tested out its hypersonic rail gun — but during a demonstration of its power, things didn't go quite as planned.
Off-World

China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky

Wow.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Publishers Horrified at New Google AI Feature That Could Kill What’s Left of Journalism
Google

Publishers Horrified at New Google AI Feature That Could Kill What’s Left of Journalism

"This will be catastrophic to our traffic..."

By Sharon Adarlo

That spinning loading icon that happens when your computer is trying to, well, compute, is actually called the "throbber."
Future Society

We Regret to Inform You That The Spinning “Loading” Icon Is Actually Called a “Throbber”

They couldn't have called it anything else?!

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Iberian orcas are back at it again, this time straight-up sinking a yacht near the Strait of Gibraltar.
Science & Energy

Orcas Strike Again, Sinking Yacht as Oil Tanker Called for Rescue

Guess who's back.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists trying to find out why fish are spinning and dying in Florida may have discovered the culprit: poisonous algae.
Science & Energy

Scientists Ponder Why Fish Are Spinning Themselves to Death

The endangered sawtooth fish has been seen spinning to death.

By Sharon Adarlo

A gigantic piece of a SpaceX rocket crashed down on a rural farm in Saskatchewan, Canada — and the story only gets more Canadian from there.
Off-World

Giant Piece of Space Junk Crashes Down on Farm of Canadian, Who Intends to Sell It and Spend Money on Hockey Rink

"I had no idea. I don't build spaceships for a living. I farm."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Didn’t Like What a Woman Told Him, So He Fired Her Entire Department
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Didn’t Like What a Woman Told Him, So He Fired Her Entire Department

RIP, Supercharger team.

By Victor Tangermann

Boeing's Starliner launch had to be delayed yet again after teams found a small helium leak in the spacecraft's service module.
Boeing

Leak Discovered in Problem-Plagued Boeing Spacecraft Before Astronaut Launch

More delays?

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink has known for years that wires in its brain chip are known to "retract," which raises questions on its future and overall safety.
Prosthetics and Devices

Neuralink Knew Its Implant Likely to Malfunction in First Human Patient, Did Brain Surgery Anyway

Redesigning the brain chip could result in brain damage.

By Sharon Adarlo