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A high school in London, UK is looking to start replacing educators with AI tools, a move that has garnered plenty of criticism.
Artificial Intelligence

High School Starts Replacing Teachers With AI

"We are not seeing anything that could replace a quality educator."

By Victor Tangermann

The multi-layered coating is not only thinner than the silicon cells typically used in solar panels, but rivals their efficiency, too.
Solar Power

Scientists Develop Solar Panel Material 100 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair

Its efficiency is already rivaling silicon-based solar panels.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers are claiming that their new AI algorithm can detect with near-perfect accuracy what ails you — all by looking at your tongue. 
Developments

New AI Can Accurately Detect Health Conditions By Just Looking At Your Tongue

"The color, shape, and thickness of the tongue can reveal a litany of health conditions."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk Accidentally Reveals That He Completely Missed the Point of These Famous Movies
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Accidentally Reveals That He Completely Missed the Point of These Famous Movies

"If there's a resistance, it's not the people making the rules and the money."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Study: By 2050, Men’s Cancer Deaths Will Soar to 93% Global Increase
Cancer

Study: By 2050, Men’s Cancer Deaths Will Soar to 93% Global Increase

Certain men fared worse than others, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Raw-dogging" a flight means no food, no entertainment, and no moving from your seat. You sit there, and tough it out — like a total chump.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Suggest ‘Raw-Dogging’ Your Flight Is Bad For Your Health

"They're idiots."

By Frank Landymore

Northwestern Arkansas has a new local news site — and it's entirely AI-generated, complete with "AI reporters" and all.
Artificial Intelligence

This Entirely AI-Generated Local “News” Site Is Incredibly Depressing

"The articles should only be about events and fun and good times."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Companies and recruiters are getting flooded with AI-generated job applications and they are badly written.
Artificial Intelligence

Recruiters Are Getting Bombarded With Crappy, AI-Generated CVs

"Without proper editing, the language will be clunky and generic, and hiring managers can detect this."

By Sharon Adarlo

A record 15 national heat records have been shattered since January, as this year looks on track to surpass the last as the hottest ever.
Climate Change

The Earth Just Can’t Stop Setting Heat Records

"This amount of extreme heat events is beyond anything ever seen or even thought possible before."

By Frank Landymore

Cisco posted $10.3 billion in profits last year but is still laying off 5,500 workers as part of an effort to invest more into AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Company Lays Off 5,500 Workers to Invest More in AI, Despite Making $10.3 Billion in Profit

This is just depressing.

By Sharon Adarlo

Mark Zuckerberg is under major fire from Congress after a recent report found that Meta has been profiting from ads for illegal drugs.
Future Society

Congress Furious With Mark Zuckerberg for Making Money From Illegal Drug Ads

Illegal drugs are shockingly easy to find on Facebook.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese electronics company Realme recently demonstrated a 320 watt charger that fully charged a smartphone in four and a half minutes.
Robots and Machines

Company Claims It Can Charge a Smartphone In Less Than 5 Minutes

Crikey!

By Frank Landymore

Because time moves ever so slightly on the surface of the Moon, researchers have created a way to keep lunar clocks in sync with Earth ones.
Moon

Scientists Say They’ve Come up With a “Time Zone” For the Moon

Keeping time on the Moon is much harder than it sounds.

By Frank Landymore

As Twitter bleeds users and revenue, Tesla investors fear that Elon Musk will sell his shares in the automaker to salvage the website.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk May Have to Sell Tesla Stock to Prop Up Dying Twitter

Again?

By Frank Landymore

Researchers developed a implantable device that can detect the first signs of an opioid overdose and then rapidly inject naloxone.
Prosthetics and Devices

Implantable Device Can Detect and Reverse Opioid Overdose

This tiny device could be a literal life saver.

By Sharon Adarlo

Using an amazing new brain chip, a man who'd lost the ability to speak is now able to communicate his thoughts out loud using his own voice.
Prosthetics and Devices

Groundbreaking Brain Chip Allows Man With ALS to “Speak” Again

This is next level.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A power geomagnetic storm that hit Earth on Monday created beautiful auroras that lit up the night sky during the Perseids meteor shower.
Solar Power

Severe Solar Storm Creates Stunning Auroras During Meteor Shower

"Does it get any better?"

By Frank Landymore

Those tranded Boeing Starliner astronauts are apparently being forced to deal with some pretty undignified living standards. 
Boeing

Stranded Boeing Astronaut Forced to Slum It in a Sleeping Bag by Himself

"Butch is going to have to rough it a little bit."

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, AI companies should "steal" content first, and lawyer up to deal with the "mess" later.
Google

Ex-Google CEO Says It’s Fine If AI Companies “Stole All the Content”

"If it took off, then you'd hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up, right?"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An altar stone that lies within the heart of Stonehenge in Southern England has turned out to be from the faraway hinterlands of Scotland.
Science & Energy

A “Jaw-Dropping” Study Just Revealed the True Origin of a Stonehenge Megalith

How the hell did it get there?

By Sharon Adarlo