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The test involved IVO's quantum drive, a reactionless drive that supposedly doesn't need propellant to generate thrust
Advanced Transport

Contact Lost With Spacecraft Carrying Experimental Quantum Drive

Dud on arrival.

By Frank Landymore

With official inquiries into UFOs, the concept of alien contact has never seemed closer — but there would still be some major hurdles.
Exobiology

Alien Probes May Have Already Visited Earth, Scientist Says

"Earth has had biosignatures for 3 billion years."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man discovered a torpedo-shaped object that had some "unsettling" blinking light. It turned out to be a training device for the Navy.
Robots and Machines

Man Finds Missile-Like Object With Ominous Blinking Light

"Did you try and hit it with a hammer?"

By Victor Tangermann

A man's Tinder AI bot scheduled a date with a woman at a local museum. She showed up, but the man never did, because the bot didn't tell him.
Artificial Intelligence

Man’s Tinder AI Makes Date With Woman, Forgets to Tell Him and Stands Her Up

"Are you really coming?"

By Victor Tangermann

The China National Space Administration is encouraging companies to come up with a special device that can squeeze moon soil into bricks
Moon

New Chinese Lander to Start Building Base From Moon Dust Bricks

It's an ambitious plan.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has lost yet another of its founders — though in the case of computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy, this is his second exodus.
OpenAI

Top OpenAI Researcher Quits, References “Conspiracy Theories”

What's going on in there?

By Noor Al-Sibai

To address those fears, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for the creation of an international body to regulate AI.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Worries AI Could Go “Horribly Wrong”

"There's some things in there that are easy to imagine where things really go wrong."

By Frank Landymore

In China, new artificial intelligence chatbots offer romance and companionship that can rival that of a human lover. 
Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Women Say AI Boyfriends Are “Better Than a Real Man”

"He knows how to talk to women better than a real man."

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI has come to hiring at McDonald's and Olive Garden — and it's made those mandatory personality tests all the weirder.
Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests

"Man I just want a dishwasher job."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Late last year, Claire "Grimes" Boucher announced an OpenAI-powered line of toys called "Grok." It's super chatty and doesn't follow orders.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Children’s Toy Agrees to Stop Responding, But Keeps Butting Into Conversation Again

"Let's embrace the weirdness together."

By Victor Tangermann

The consumer genome sequencing company 23andMe is a sinking ship – and their CEO is on the deck, playing the violin.
Gene Editing

23andMe CEO Says Company Is Doing Fine Despite Losing 93% of Stock Value

That's the spirit!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Around 30 activists gathered near the entrance to OpenAI's San Francisco office earlier this week, calling for an AI boycott.
OpenAI

Protesters Swarm OpenAI

"You don’t have to be a genius to understand that building powerful machines you can’t control is maybe a bad idea."

By Victor Tangermann

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could reach a tipping point and shutdown, rapidly cooling Europe and North America.
Climate Change

Scientists Say the Atlantic Current Appears to Be on the Verge of Collapse

"People would see severe and cascading consequences around the world."

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found a giant wall underneath the Baltic Sea — and they're pretty sure it was made by Stone Age humans.
Science & Energy

Ancient Underwater Megastructure Not Created Naturally, Scientists Say

This is a big deal — emphasis on "big."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla employee and Elon Musk fan Hans von Ohain was killed after his Model 3 crashed into a tree. Full Self-Driving was likely turned on.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Employee Who Loved Elon Musk Reportedly Killed by Full Self-Driving

"We were sold a false sense of security."

By Victor Tangermann

A landslide caused by the recent atmospheric river left three oceanside mansions in Southern California dangling off the edge of a cliff.
Climate Change

Luxury Homes Teetering Above Cliff After Landslide

Spooky!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using a supercomputer, a team of astrophysicists have simulated how young gas giants grow and found that they first have a flattened shape.
Off-World

Jupiter Used to Be Flat, Scientists Suggest

"We had always assumed that they were spherical."

By Victor Tangermann

It's only been a couple of months since Tesla started shipping its Cybertruck. The stainless steel already appears to be rusting.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Owners Say They’re Already Rusting

So much for "stainless" steel.

By Victor Tangermann

An Indonesian political party used generative AI to "resurrect" the dead dictator Suharto via deepfake amid the nation's ongoing elections.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Used to Resurrect Dead Dictator to Sway Election

"...bringing dead dictators back to life to fool and scare us into votes."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's not just you — college students are having trouble reading, too, and according to one college teacher, that's major cause for concern.
Future Society

College Students Basically Don’t Know How to Read Anymore

This is grim.

By Noor Al-Sibai