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Elon Musk has once again signaled his love for novelist George Orwell – without acknowledging the writer's well-known political stance.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Signals Support for Militant Socialist

Who's gonna tell him?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam

And why is she blonde!?

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

A stunning new video put together by the European Space Agency shows the vastness of the Noctis Labyrinthus, a Martian canyon.
Mars

Amazing Video Soars Over Mars’ Epic “Labyrinth of Night”

Woah.

By Victor Tangermann

AI is here to enforce Zoom etiquette — but according to some who have used the meeting bots, the AIs don't always understand nuance.
Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior

"It was like, monologue!"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's used as a tie-breaker, a this-or-that decision maker. But the long considered fair coin toss actually has quite a bit of bias.
Science & Energy

Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find

We'll take those odds.

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy that they say can cure a type of deafness.
Gene Editing

Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness

"The hair cells are working, but they are not talking to the nerve."

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI-powered tool from Google will effortlessly swap and add different facial expressions using other photos you took.
Google

Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable

Turn that frown upside down.

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI quietly changed its "core values" list to include a focus on AGI that wasn't explicitly listed there before. 
OpenAI

The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its “Core Values” With Completely Different Ones

Oh, okay.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gianluca Grimulda, an Italian social and climate scientist, prefers "slow travel" to cut down on his carbon emissions. That means no flights.
Climate Change

Climate Researcher Fired for Refusing to Fly

For this scientist, taking a commercial flight does not fly.

By Frank Landymore

A particularly resourceful Tesla owner used the company's Summon feature to retrieve his Model 3 from a locked parking garage.
Tesla

Man Uses “Smart Summon” to Get Tesla Out of Locked Parking Garage

"No f***ing way."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is offering a "bug bounty" to anyone who can bait its Bing AI into saying or doing what it's not supposed to.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails

Call that Bing the Bounty Hunter.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The pig was actually a miniature pig, which was engineered with nearly 70 gene edits, including the addition of human DNA.
Developments

Monkey Lives for Two Years With Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

"It is time for clinical translation of this vital technology."

By Frank Landymore

The observation of the donut-shaped cloud of debris is believed to be the first of a planetary collision's afterglow.
Off-World

Astronomers Say Two Giant Ice Planets Collided, Leaving Donut-Shaped Wreckage

"As far as I'm aware, no one's claimed this before."

By Frank Landymore

A researcher who considers himself "the ultimate skeptic" was convinced by his own research that taking supplements is good, actually.
Studies

Scientist Who Thought Supplements Were a Scam Changed His Mind After Studying Them

"I'm just as skeptical as anyone else when it comes to this stuff."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed a material that can remotely stimulate neural tissue and allow nerve signals to flow again.
Developments

Scientists Say New Material Can Reconnect Severed Nerves

Imagine healing a damaged brain or a severed nerve.

By Sharon Adarlo

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest extant evidence of a wood structure, dating back almost half a million years.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Structure From Before Homo Sapiens Existed

"This find has changed how I think about our early ancestors."

By Sharon Adarlo

In a new video, former astronaut Chris Hadfield reviewed a "F9: The Fast Saga" scene in which two characters ride a car into space.
Off-World

Astronaut Analyzes That “Fast & Furious” Scene Where They Drive a Car Through Space

"They were getting crushed."

By Victor Tangermann

As Earth's temperatures continue to rise, some areas may soon become uninhabitable — and the consequences will be life or death.
Climate Change

Scientists Say Homes of Billions on Track to Become Uninhabitable

"Billions of poor people will suffer, and many could die."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The DOD is looking for tech that will protect against "cognitive attacks" that could disable soldiers wearing virtual reality devices.
Virtual Reality

DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”

Yikes.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ketamine is still widely unregulated as a therapy, meaning that buying "prescriptions" online is pretty much just buying drugs.
Health & Medicine

FDA Warns That a Lot of “Ketamine Therapy” Seems to Just Be Partying

You might just be buying drugs, my guy.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré