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Apple has allegedly set its sights on home robots — and is said to be in the early stages of developing one that follows you around the house.
Robotics

Apple Secretly Working on AI Robot That Follows You Around The House

Who asked for this?

A massive ball suspended inside Taiwan's iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper protected the structure during the 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week.
Science & Energy

Huge Pendulum in Skyscraper Protected It When Epic Earthquake Struck

A huge engineering win.

Workers had failed to properly document a key stage of the repair process, as Boeing rushed along production on faulty fuselages.
Advanced Transport

There Was Some Shady Stuff Going on With That Door Plug That Blew Out of the Boeing 737

"Something happened. I don't know what it was."

Meta's AI image generator Imagine is having a lot of trouble, well, imagining an Asian person posing for the camera alongside a white person.
Meta

Meta’s AI Refuses to Show Asian Men With White Women

Bias keeps leaking out of these AI models.

A 62-year-old man, who received a transplanted pig kidney, is doing well, and was even discharged from the hospital this week.
Health & Medicine

Patient Leaves Hospital as Transplanted Gene-Hacked Pig Organ Seems to Be Functioning Well

He hasn't been this healthy in a long time.

As the Financial Times reports, the company is considering putting premium AI search services behind a subscription paywall.
Google

Google Considering Making Users Pay for AI Search Results

Even if you pay, you'll still see ads.

A Mississippi police lieutenant discovered that officials were holding onto and even giving away human remains that should've been returned.
Future Society

Mississippi Considers Law Against Police Keeping Dead Bodies for “Personal Collections”

Wait, how was this legal?!

The duo that used AI to make a fake George Carlin special have deleted the video months after being sued by the late comedian's estate.
Artificial Intelligence

Amid Lawsuit, Creators of AI-Powered “George Carlin Comedy Special” Agree to Delete It

"I hope this case serves as a warning about the dangers posed by AI technologies."

Earlier this week, Oregon governor Tina Kotek recriminalized hard drugs in the state, restoring criminal penalties, including jail time.
Developments

Oregon Forced to Recriminalize Drugs After Disastrous Decriminalization Experiment

"I’ve been around enough to know that it’s always in the implementation."

A study found that teen girls are taking antidepressants at a much higher rate than teen boys, whose usage rate declined during the pandemic.
Health & Medicine

Teenage Girls Are Taking Way More Antidepressants and Boys Are Taking Way Fewer

"There was something happening to make male adolescents not come in for mental health."

Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch has announced a partnership with Alibaba-owned Taobao to make global rocket deliveries in just one hour.
Space

Alibaba Exploring How to Deliver Cheap Plastic Garbage Via Space Rocket

Wait, are they serious?

Verve Therapeutics has paused the first phase of a human gene-editing drug trial aimed at reducing heart disease due to serious side effects.
Gene Editing

Gene Editing Experiment Halted as Patient Gets Weird Side Effects

This is a setback.

Comedian and late-night TV legend Jon Stewart has had enough of AI industry leaders salivating over replacing human workers with AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Jon Stewart Skewers AI Industry for Salivating Over Replacing Jobs

"The reality is, they come for our jobs."

People who want to see the total solar eclipse on April 8 may be blocked by cloudy skies if weather forecasts for America are accurate.
Science & Energy

Eclipse Tourists Devastated as Forecast Shows Cloudy Skies

"Sometimes the weather gods like to laugh at you."

Costco shoppers can start getting weight loss drugs like Ozempic through the company's health care partner Sesame.
RX and Medicine

Costco Now Offering Ozempic Prescriptions

Suburban moms rejoice!

The White House released a new memorandum in an attempt to establish a new time standard for the Moon called "Coordinated Lunar Time."
Moon

Biden Directs NASA to Figure Out What Time It Is on the Moon

Telling the exact time on the Moon is more important than you think.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta-formerly-Facebook is bleeding its top AI leaders, with at least three executives leaving the company in March alone.
Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Researchers Keep Leaving Facebook

"We saw this with the PC, the web, mobile app stores, and now we're seeing it with generative AI."

Hedge fund manager and Tesla bear Per Lekander told CNBC that he expects Tesla to go bust, hitting a share price of just $14.
Tesla

Investor Predicts Tesla Could “Go Bust”

"This was really the beginning of the end of the Tesla bubble."

Former president Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of his media company Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), which owns Truth Social.
Future Society

Trump Sues “Truth Social” Cofounders as Company’s Stock Crumbles

It keeps getting worse.

The first crewed test launch of Boeing's much-maligned Starliner spacecraft has been delayed yet again by another six days.
Boeing

Boeing Can’t Seem to Stop Delaying Its First Astronaut Launch

The company has been delaying the launch for seven years.