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Tesla shares have plummeted by over ten percent on Thursday, following an earnings report that fell short of expectations.
Tesla

Tesla Is in Trouble

Shares plummeted more than ten percent.

By Victor Tangermann

A man says he was savagely beaten and gang raped in jail after facial recognition led to his false arrest him for a robbery in Texas.
Facial recognition

Man Says Sunglass Hut Used Facial Recognition to Falsely Jail Him, Where He Got Sexually Assaulted

"The attack left him with permanent injuries that he has to live with every day of his life."

By Sharon Adarlo

During the Trump administration, the White House's personal pharmacy operated as a glorified pill mill, a new watchdog report claims.
RX and Medicine

Unregulated White House Pharmacy Gave Out Uppers and Downers to Senior Staff Under Trump

"A lot of times they’d be in like five tablets in a zip‑lock bag."

By Noor Al-Sibai

An artificial intelligence-generated audio deep faked the voice of a New York City politician insulting another colleague.
Future Society

Scandal as AI-Generated Audio of Politician Slamming Colleague Goes Viral

"It’s fake audio of what Keith is really thinking."

By Sharon Adarlo

In an extremely unfortunate twist of fate, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has landed on its nose.
Moon

Photo Shows Japanese Moon Lander Is Upside Down on Lunar Surface

This is just sad.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new anonymous whistleblower, it may have been Boeing's own lack of quality control that led to the January 5 incident.
Advanced Transport

Boeing Door Scandal Grows With New Whistleblower

It was a "very, very stupid" mistake that "speaks volumes about the quality culture" at Boeing.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has responded to the onslaught of AI girlfriends populating its GPT Store — by saying there's not much they can do about it. 
OpenAI

OpenAI Failing to Destroy Contraband AI Girlfriends Flooding GPT Store

Don't tell them about the "Horny widow" chatbot.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The vast network of ancient earthworks in the Amazon, including roads, canals, and cities, are believed to be over 2,000 years old.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Ruins of Ancient Cities in Amazon Jungle

What else could the Amazon be hiding?

By Frank Landymore

A massive NASA jet has been circling at low altitude over the San Joaquin Valley in California this week to study air quality.
Future Society

NASA Aircraft Making Low Passes Over California

"Residents in the areas below will see and hear the aircraft..."

By Victor Tangermann

Right before takeoff, Phil Hardy noticed something strange while looking out of the window of the Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330.
Future Society

Flight Canceled When Passenger Looks Out Window, Notices Something Wrong With Wing

Something's missing...

By Victor Tangermann

The tool, Nightshade, introduces subtle alterations into an image to confuse AI models and "poison" their training data.
Artificial Intelligence

Software Released to Make Your Original Art Poison AI Models That Scrape It

Protect your art, sabotage the AI models that copy it.

By Frank Landymore

An 11-year-old boy with congenital deafness can now hear sounds after he received groundbreaking gene therapy.
Viruses

Gene Therapy Administered Via Virus Cures Deafness in 11-Year-Old Boy

"There’s no sound I don’t like."

By Sharon Adarlo

Chinese scientists have opened the deepest and largest underground lab in the world to study dark matter particles.
Dark Matter

China Opens Huge Underground Dark Matter Lab

It's the biggest in history.

By Victor Tangermann

AI is still far from achieving human-level intelligence — but some researchers are suggesting that the technology may understand the world.
Artificial Intelligence

Chatbots Are Developing an Understanding of the World, Scientists Claim

"This, to me, is the essence of creativity."

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you give a rat a camera, it will, apparently, take selfies — even if it doesn't get a treat as a reward.
Science & Energy

Amateur Scientist Teaches Rats to Take Selfies

These guys are SO cute.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The comment comes as the HP CEO responds to backlash over the company's practice of bricking printers that use third party ink cartridges.
Future Society

HP CEO Says Goal Is to Make “Printing a Subscription”

Subscribe to print — so HP can print money.

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is using a visit to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau to clear his name and promote his social media network.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Visits Auschwitz, Twists Holocaust Into Excuse to Make Money

"Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish."

By Victor Tangermann

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the FDA to take action on tianeptine, or the addictive drug better known as "gas station heroin."
Developments

Please Don’t Take This “Gas Station Heroin” Even Though It’s Technically Legal

This stuff is bad. Seriously.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Terrifying footage circulating on social media shows a massive rogue wave hitting a US military base in the Marshall Islands.
Military

Video Shows Huge Wave Smashing Military Base, Blowing Doors of Hinges

Damn!

By Victor Tangermann

An online pastor based in Denver, Colorado has been accused of raising nearly $3.2 million as part of a cryptocurrency scam.
Cryptocurrency

Pastor Accused of Crypto Scam Says God Told Him to Do It

"We took God at his word and sold a cryptocurrency with no clear exit."

By Victor Tangermann