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Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It

"I hate you."

Global decision-makers predict that artificial intelligence will result in even more dramatic job losses in 2024 and beyond.
Artificial Intelligence

25 Percent of CEOs Plan to Replace Human Workers With AI This Year

Literally just why.

These suddenly exploding craters in Siberia could be caused by a build up of hot gas and rising temperatures due to climate change.
Climate Change

Scientists Attempt to Explain Craters Exploding Out of the Earth

Add "exploding craters" to your climate change bingo card.

Elon Musk appears to be feeling the burn of his own bad decisions — and is making threats about breaking off from Tesla because of them.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Upset He Sold Tesla Stock to Fund Twitter Disaster

This seems like a lose-lose scenario for everyone but Elon.

Astrobotic tried to make the US' triumphant return to the lunar surface. Its lander will now burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Moon

It Was Supposed to Land on the Moon. Instead, It’s Dying a Fiery Death

It's been a "great honor."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot carefully folding a shirt on a table. It needed a lot of help.
Robotics

Elon Musk Posts Video of Optimus Robot, Gets Busted for Fakery

It needed a *substantial* amount of help.

The megastructure is over 1.3 billion light years across, challenging our current understanding of cosmology.
Off-World

Astronomers Puzzled by Cosmic Megastructure So Large It Shouldn’t Exist

"From current cosmological theories we didn't think structures on this scale were possible."

NASA's team has finally managed to pry off the last two stuck fasteners of the container that holds most of the Bennu asteroid sample.
NASA

NASA Finally Rips Lid Off Stubborn Asteroid Sample

It's taken them over three months.

eBay has to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after harassing a couple by sending them a box full of spiders and other disturbing items.
Future Society

eBay Paying $3 Million for Sending Box of Horrors to Its Enemies

That's one way to do it!

The first rule of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse is, apparently, that you don't talk about the Metaverse.
Metaverse

Zuckerberg Reportedly Got Furious at Wedding at Mention of His Dumb Metaverse Selfie

Whatever you do, don't mention the old avatar.

A Chinese tech company claims its miniature nuclear battery is fully capable of working for up to 50 years.
Drones

Startup Says Its Coin-Sized Nuclear Battery Could Fly Drones “Continuously”

It works by harnessing energy from nuclear decay.

The researchers trained an AI model on over 60,000 fingerprints, finding similarities they claim have gone overlooked.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Study Claims Human Fingerprints Aren’t Actually Unique

Not so special now.

In Japan, a flight crew was forced to turn around during a trip after they had found a crack in the cockpit window of a Boeing 737-800.
Future Society

Boeing in Trouble Again as Crack Found in Cockpit Window Mid-Flight

It's been a bad month at Boeing.

Young people are getting diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than ever before — and doctors are stumped as to why.
Cancer

Doctors Alarmed by Young People Getting Cancer at Unprecedented Rates

"The patients are getting younger."

Microsoft is set to introduce its Copilot AI, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4, to keyboards on new Windows computers.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Says It’s Adding an “AI” Key to Your Keyboard For Some Reason

This might be a way bigger deal than it looks.

OpenAI’s GPT Store Already Filling Up With “AI Girlfriends”
OpenAI

OpenAI’s GPT Store Already Filling Up With “AI Girlfriends”

It was only a matter of time.

The startup that sells the glacier chunks, Arctic Ice, claims it plans to be carbon neutral following backlash over the practice.
Artificial Intelligence

Dubai Importing Glacier Ice from Greenland to Serve in Drinks at Posh Bars

Behold: novelty ice.

Following a shocking study, the bottled water industry has cried foul, claiming that it's totally fine we're all ingesting nanoplastics.
Developments

Bottled Water Industry Says Please Disregard This Horrifying Discovery About Our Product

Nothing to see here, folks!

It is the second recently reported case of organs missing from the bodies of inmates who died in Alabama's prison system.
Developments

Inmate’s Body Returned to Family Missing All Organs, Including Brain

Horrifying.

The galaxy is rich in gas but contains no visible stars. Astronomers believe it could be the first dark, primordial galaxy ever found.
Off-World

Astronomers Puzzled by Galaxy With No Stars

It could be a never before seen part of the cosmos.