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A new study from Stanford University shows that people with a hoarding problem can alleviate their issue by using virtual reality.
Virtual Reality

Become a virtual Marie Kondo.

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Juno satellite captured new images of Jupiter's moon, Io, which has a fiery surface due to its many volcanoes.
Moon

So many volcanoes, so little time.

By Sharon Adarlo

Amid rumors, Elon Musk insists that he is not, as reports suggest, going to pull out of the European Union.
Elon Musk

He's not mad. Don't put in the newspaper that he's mad.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A year since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, since renamed X, traffic at the social media platform has been down significantly.
Elon Musk

A sad shell of itself.

By Sharon Adarlo

Yann Lecun, one of three "godfathers" of AI and Meta's chief AI scientist, thinks that our AI doomsaying is "preposterous."
Artificial Intelligence

"Intelligence has nothing to do with a desire to dominate."

By Frank Landymore

Introducing bonesmashing, an ostensible TikTok trend in which young men claim that they're hitting themselves in the face with hammers.
Developments

"Please do not hit yourself in the face with a hammer."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, sees the loss of jobs as a natural part of "technological revolution" every 100 to 150 years.
OpenAI

"I'm not afraid of that at all. In fact, I think that's good."

By Frank Landymore

There's fewer than six weeks until Tesla's Cybertrucks start being delivered, and already, CEO Elon Musk is trying to set the bar low. 
Elon Musk

"This is simply normal."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ever tried Kendall Jenner's tequila brand, 818 Tequila? Neither has "Billie," Jenner's Meta-made AI doppelgänger. It's got other favorites.
Artificial Intelligence

"My go-to tequila is Don Julio or Patron. How about you?"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neurobiologist, thinks "free will" is really just the culmination of biology, upbringing, and circumstance.
Neuroscience and Brain

"We've got no free will. Stop attributing stuff to us that isn't there."

By Frank Landymore

One of the biggest names behind an author-led lawsuit against OpenAI, John Grisham has seemingly run out of patience with AI companies.
Artificial Intelligence

"It's my turn to file suit."

By Frank Landymore

After successfully launching its lunar lander, India plans to make history again by sending up its own astronauts to the Moon.
Moon

India suddenly has one of the world's most ambitious space programs.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Sinoloa Cartel has ordered producers and smugglers of fentanyl to stop working in an effort to deflect American law enforcement.
Developments

The penalty? Death.

By Sharon Adarlo

Google has moved to dismiss a class action data-scraping lawsuit regarding its AI training practices, which the suit alleges amount to theft.
Google

"Using publicly available information to learn is not stealing."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk, madman that he is, is actually going to start charging to use the social network formerly known as Twitter. 
Elon Musk

It's a banana, Michael...

By Noor Al-Sibai

LinkedIn, a Microsoft-owned company, is laying off almost 700 people this month in a second round of lay offs.
Artificial Intelligence

But LinkedIn made $15 billion for the first time this year.

By Sharon Adarlo

It's week three of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial, and legal experts aren't optimistic about his chances.
Blockchain

Things aren't looking too hot.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While announcing the city's AI plans, NYC's mayor bragged that his voice is now being cloned to make robocalls in Mandarin and Yiddish.
Artificial Intelligence

"People stop me on the street all the time, they say 'I don’t know you speak Mandarin.'"

By Noor Al-Sibai

A couple in Scotland are mad after Tesla billed them more than $20,000 for repairs to their vehicle's battery after a drive through the rain.
Tesla

"My heart missed a beat, honestly."

By Sharon Adarlo

Would you let a robot ink a cloud-based tattoo design onto you? For the low price of $10,000 and a trip to Austin, Texas, now you can. 
Robotics

These robot tattooers are apparently super-fast and cause nearly no pain.

By Noor Al-Sibai