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Hut 8, one of the largest digital asset mining companies in North America, made a "stalking horse bid" to buy 4 natural gas power plants.
Bitcoin

The sheer, astonishing waste.

Sam Altman is taking a victory lap after being unsuccessfully ousted as CEO of OpenAI — and he's saying weird stuff in public again.
OpenAI

"This time it’s different."

A Russian man managed to travel on an airplane from Europe to Los Angeles last month without a passport, visa or ticket.
Advanced Transport

How in the world did this happen?

Multi-hyphenate CEO Elon Musk's mommy Maye Musk has had enough of pesky regulators coming after her beautiful boy.
Elon Musk

"Have you any idea how furious I am?"

NASA's Voyager 1 probe is 46 years old and pushing middle age — and some of that aging is apparently showing.
NASA

They're trying to fix it... from billions of miles away.

The Swedish Transport Workers' Union announced today that it will stop collecting waste at Tesla workshops on Christmas Eve.
Elon Musk

"Even if you are one of the richest people in the world, you can’t just make your own rules."

Tesla is being forced to issue software patches for more than two million of its cars over a major problem with its Autopilot feature.
Tesla

This is pretty freaky!

Researchers have teamed up with Intel and Dell to build a massive supercomputer that can simulate networks at the scale of the human brain.
Computers

"If you are trying to understand the brain this will be the hardware to do it on."

On Christmas Day last year, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft observed something entirely unexpected: the Martian magnetosphere tripled in size.
Mars

"It was almost unbelievable."

NASA scientists are hard at work sifting through samples from an ancient asteroid, and what they've found so far has been fascinating. 
Off-World

"It’s kind of like Schrödinger’s sample."

A dolphin has been spotted with thumb-like appendages on its flippers, because the world apparently isn't weird enough as is.
Biology

Is this the next phase in dolphin evolution?

Business Insider and Politico owner Axel Springer has announced a "global partnership" with ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
OpenAI

Is this really the future of journalism?

Tesla unveiled its second-generation Optimus humanoid robot, a marked improvement over the stiff, immobile robot it previously showed off.
Robotics

It can fondle eggs now.

A new AI-driven chatbot called Ashley is being deployed to phone bank for a Pennsylvania Democrat politician.
Artificial Intelligence

"We intend to be making tens of thousands of calls a day by the end of the year and into the six digits pretty soon."

A woman has slapped a former tech CEO with a lawsuit, alleging that he forced her into becoming his sex slave.
Future Society

"A dark abyss of sexual horror."

The oil executive-led COP28 climate conference in Dubai may have glittery solutions, but experts say that reducing emissions is the only way.
Artificial Intelligence

"It’s frightening because they see this as a new business opportunity, a new way to make money and continue as before."

Sam Bankman-Fried's attorney is apparently rethinking his career after handling the FTX pariah's legal defense.
Blockchain

"I’m not going to get myself emotionally involved on a very deep personal level in a case like this again."

OpenAI's popular ChatGPT chatbot may be suffering from seasonal depression, if a recent unfounded theory on social media is to be believed.
OpenAI

Is that why the chatbot has been getting "lazier?"

Amazon is being sued for selling spy cameras disguised as clothes hooks after a girl discovered a camera recording her inside a bathroom.
Future Society

Other hidden cameras are disguised as smoke detectors and USB chargers!

Microsoft is looking to accelerate the regulatory approval process for setting up new nuclear power plants using AI.
Artificial Intelligence

What could possibly go wrong?