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In June, the Wall Street Journal found that Instagram's algorithms were promoting underage sex content. Not much has changed since then.
Future Society

Facebook Has a Gigantic Pedophilia Problem

It's still actively promoting pedophilic content.

In a demonstration, a modified Ford E-Transit van received as much as 19 kilowatts of power while driving down the road.
Electric Vehicles

New Street Charges Electric Vehicles While They Drive

It's North America's very first wireless charging road.

Tech startup Prophetic says its device can help you induce lucid dreams that you can use to be productive while you sleep.
Future Society

Neuralink-Linked Startup Working on Tech So You Can Keep Working While You Dream

The grind never stops.

These mobile biological robots, or "anthrobots," have already proven that they can assemble themselves and repair damaged neurons
Biology

Scientists Build Biological Robots From Human Cells

"We don't realize all the competencies that our own body cells have."

Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of the site formerly known as Twitter, has reached new levels of yes-manning for Elon Musk in a leaked memo.
Elon Musk

Twitter CEO’s Internal Email About Elon Musk’s Bizarre Interview Leaks

"He shared an unmatched and completely unvarnished perspective and vision for the future."

Israel is apparently using a secretive AI tool to identify targets for assassination amid its ongoing war with Hamas.
Artificial Intelligence

Israel Reportedly Using AI to Identify Targets for “Mass Assassination Factory”

"We work quickly and there is no time to delve deep into the target."

The OpenAI CEO debacle was so dramatic that people at Microsoft developed a vulgar nickname to refer to it.
OpenAI

Microsoft Employees Gave OpenAI’s CEO Drama an Amazingly Vulgar Name

They're not wrong, folks.

Tesla is offering Cybertruck customers a "self-healing" coat of "premium color paint films" to fully black out their vehicle.
Advanced Transport

Aha! There’s an All-Black Cybertruck

Why would you need to protect bulletproof metal?

The first-ever transatlantic commercial flight running on 100 percent used cooking oil went off without a hiccup on Tuesday.
Advanced Transport

Boeing 787 Flies Across Ocean Powered by Used Cooking Oil

But did it smell like French fries?

Cybertruck fans are disappointed and "let down" following Tesla's disastrous delivery event earlier this week.
Tesla

Tesla Fans Furious at Disastrous Cybertruck Reveal

"I was so excited. And then totally let down."

In a rare acquisition by the launch provider, SpaceX saved a venerable parachute vendor that was on the verge of bankruptcy.
SpaceX

SpaceX Is Buying a Company That Makes Parachutes for Spacecraft

Look out below!

Computers used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies' require enormous amounts of energy and cooling that's evaporating water supplies.
Science & Energy

The Average Bitcoin Transaction Wastes a Full Swimming Pool of Water, Scientists Say

Yikes.

Tesla came up with an awkward workaround, offering customers an entirely separate battery pack for its Cybertruck to get a half-decent range.
Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck Needs a Giant Extra Battery in Its Bed to Get the Range Elon Promised

No, it's not included in the price.

Someone decided it was a good idea to make an entirely AI-generated "singer-songwriter" that is perversely hilarious.
Artificial Intelligence

People Cannot Stop Dunking on that Uncanny “AI Singer-Songwriter”

Don't quit your day job, Anna.

Following OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's firing and rehiring, there are now zero women on the company's non-profit board.
OpenAI

There Are Now Zero Women on OpenAI’s Board

"It’s not a very welcoming field for women."

It sounds like an update to an age old adage: what happens when you take a smartphone away from a narcissist? 
Health & Medicine

Something Fascinating Happens When You Take Smartphones Away From Narcissists

Is this surprising or not?

A top trim "Cyberbeast" model of Tesla's Cybertruck will cost just under $100,000. A rear-wheel model won't be available until 2025.
Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Actual Price Just Dropped and Yikes

You'll have to be even more patient if you want to save a buck.

Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen halfheartedly lobbed a baseball — not a metal ball — at the Cybertruck's window during today's event.
Advanced Transport

At Awkward Event, Elon Has Guy Halfheartedly Lob Baseball at Cybertruck

That most certainly wasn't a metal ball.

A new study suggests that massive volcanic eruptions in India killed off the dinosaurs by causing drops in global temperature.
Climate Change

Relatable! Scientists Say Dinosaurs Mainly Died From Climate Change

Were dinosaurs hanging on by a thread when the asteroid arrived?

The hack is "silly," but it gets ChatGPT to regurgitate incredible amounts of its training data, some of it potentially sensitive.
OpenAI

Hack Tricks ChatGPT Into Spitting Out Private Email Addresses, Phone Numbers

"It's wild to us that our attack works."