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Meta, formerly Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks he's not just among the most famous millennials, but is in fact the most famous.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Bragged That He Was the “Most Well-Known Person of My Generation”

Are you sure, Mark?

By Frank Landymore

Death Valley has claimed another victim after record soaring temperatures killed a motorcyclist this past weekend.
Developments

Temperature Gets So Hot That Motorcyclist Dies Mid-Ride

Horrifying.

By Sharon Adarlo

As Business Insider reports, human annotators at Tesla are tasked to specifically focus on the driving of Tesla CEO Elon Musk himself.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Forcing Tesla to Train Self-Driving Cars On His Own Driving

"It seems pretty clear that Elon's experience would be better than anyone else's."

By Victor Tangermann

James Ferguson, founding partner of research firm MacroStrategy Partnership, argues AI is "unproven" and due for a collapse.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert Warns That AI Industry Due for Huge Collapse

"AI still remains, I would argue, completely unproven."

By Victor Tangermann

Nicolas Cage has joined the growing ranks of Hollywood AI critics that say they're freaked out by what the tech may do to their likenesses.
Artificial Intelligence

Nicolas Cage Says He’s Terrified AI Will “Steal” His Body

"They're just going to steal my body and do whatever they want with it via digital AI."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines
Artificial Intelligence

Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines

Yes, the paper is still suing OpenAI and Microsoft.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Noise levels from the Bitcoin mine can exceed 90 decibels, and residents of Granbury, Texas, are powerless to stop it.
Bitcoin

Residents Blame Bizarre Medical Symptoms on Huge Bitcoin Mine

"We're living in a nightmare."

By Frank Landymore

The White House revealed in a letter yesterday that a Parkinson's disease specialist visited President Joe Biden repeatedly.
Neuroscience and Brain

White House Admits Parkinson’s Specialist Repeatedly Evaluated President Biden

"Biden is toast."

By Sharon Adarlo

A new procedure called normothermic regional perfusion allows doctors to ensure that donor organs stay viable after the patient dies.
Developments

Doctors Restoring Bloodflow in Legally Dead Bodies to Retrieve Donor Organs

"We're saving a lot of lives that otherwise wouldn't have a chance."

By Victor Tangermann

Cybertrucks have been shipped out to customers for less than a year, but the earliest owners seem to already need new motors.
Tesla

Tesla Quietly Contacting Early Cybertruck Buyers to Replace Their Electric Motors

Don't call it a recall.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate change is supercharging Atlantic ocean temperatures, making Hurricane Beryl particularly fierce and deadly.
Climate Change

Deadly Hurricane Beryl Supercharged by Climate Change, Experts Say

"Beryl would be astounding to happen anyway, but for it to form in June is completely unprecedented."

By Victor Tangermann

Two astronauts ventured outside of China's Tiangong space station to armor its exterior against incoming space debris.
Off-World

China Fortifies Space Station

"It’s truly moving to witness the grandeur of this project."

By Victor Tangermann

Nike is sunsetting the app that allows owners of its to-be-discontinued Adapt sneakers to control their self-lacing, light-up shoes.
Future Society

Nike Is Killing the App That Controls Its App-Controlled Self-Lacing Sneakers

Owners aren't thrilled.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite being out for less than a year, Amazon has announced that its Astro for Business patrol robots will be bricked at the end of August.
Robotics

After Just Ten Months, Amazon Says Its “Security Guard” Robot Will Become a Useless Brick

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Supermarkets in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas are selling bullets by way of AI-powered, facial recognition-embedded vending machines.
Facial recognition

In Fresh Hell, American Vending Machines Are Selling Bullets Using Facial Recognition

"It's what the founding fathers intended!"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers determined that an exoplanet could potentially harbor an Earth-like atmosphere.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Habitable, Icy Exoplanet Relatively Close to Earth

"We might just have found evidence of air on this world."

By Victor Tangermann

Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk's Ozempic and Wegovy, has been linked to an eye condition that can cause blindness.
RX and Medicine

Active Ingredient in Ozempic Linked to Condition That Causes Blindness

This is pretty scary.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study researchers developed a new AI-powered tool that allowed people to better spot lies. Only some agreed to use it.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Claim Ominous New AI System Can Detect Lies

"Given that we have so much fake news and disinformation spreading, there is a benefit to these technologies."

By Victor Tangermann

There's a death toll associated with SpaceX's success — and the Elon Musk-owned company played the government to make that success happen. 
SpaceX

Investigation Finds Elon Musk’s SpaceX Used Trickery to Open Rocket Facility

And he got away with it, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts believes the two Starliner astronauts are not stuck on the ISS and that the extra time is a good thing.
Off-World

Former Astronaut Explains How the Astronauts Stranded in Space Might Be Feeling

Lost in space?

By Victor Tangermann