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Former Dreamworks and Walt Disney Studios executive Jeffrey Katzenberg believes AI will make animation far cheaper to produce.
Artificial Intelligence

The Guy Behind “Shrek” Says AI Is Going to Wipe Out Human Jobs in Animation

Some of you may lose your jobs, but it's a sacrifice he's willing to make.

Previous research projected that a rogue white dwarf was on a collision course with our solar system. Not so, says a new study.
Off-World

Bad News! A Rogue Star Will Not Crash Into Us, Scientists Say

Foiled again!

Darren Aronofsky is slated to direct the movie, which will be based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

A24’s Making an Elon Musk Biopic Directed by Darren Aronofsky

Sigh... here we go.

A tool bag was lost during a spacewalk at the International Space Station, and it should be orbiting low enough to see it with binoculars.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Let a Tool Bag Drift Away and You Can Now Spot It With Binoculars

See it before it burns up.

Welsh police used facial recognition software to scan people suspected of terrorism or pedophilia at a Beyonce concert.
Artificial Intelligence

Police Scanned Beyoncé Concert for Pedophiles, Terrorists

But who watches the watchers?

The head of the SEC thinks it's chill for FTX to be rebooted as long as whoever does it follows the letter of the law.
Blockchain

SEC Chair Says Fine, Go Ahead and Start FTX Up Again

What's the worst that could happen?

The people building new AIs are growing concerned with how lifelike the next generation of generative content has already become. 
Artificial Intelligence

AI Industry Insider Claims They Can No Longer Tell Apart Real and Fake

That's not good.

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is worried that the AI industry will have to pay billions of dollars in royalties for copyrighted material.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Investors Horrified at the Suggestion That They Pay Artists for Using Their Copyrighted Work

Boohoo.

Researchers claim that in 2020, an astonishing 53 percent of all free-standing homes in Europe could have run entirely on solar.
Solar Power

Researchers Say Solar Is Getting So Good That People Could Start Quitting the Electric Grid

Half of homes in Europe could've gotten all the energy they needed from rooftop solar panels in 2020.

Physics professor Kenneth Ohm has an unusual reason for having his DNA delivered to the Moon's south pole during an upcoming Celestis mission.
Exobiology

Man Sending His DNA to the Moon So Aliens Can Clone Him and Put Him in a Zoo

It's a bold strategy.

The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world's first live-born "chimeric" monkey. And: he glowed! Green!
Gene Editing

Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green

We love you, little freak.

Linda Yaccarino regrets that she was not able to use her boss Elon Musk's wildly vulgar AI chatbot, Grok, to give her kids the "talk."
Artificial Intelligence

Twitter CEO Says She Wishes Elon Musk’s AI Would Talk About Sex With Her Kids

Linda Yaccarino, you will always be famous.

According to audio of a meeting obtained by Forbes, Cruise is getting ready for layoffs, the latest sign the industry is in trouble.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Crisis at Cruise Deepens as Self-Driving Car Company Announces Layoffs

The company is facing an existential crisis.

In its most recent update, OpenAI blamed a possible cyberattack for the "periodic outages" affecting its ChatGPT chatbot.
OpenAI

OpenAI Says It Appears to Have Been Attacked

OpenAI is struggling to keep its ChatGPT service online.

Space Force Boss Says Weird New Weapons Are Headed to Orbit
Space Force

Space Force Boss Says Weird New Weapons Are Headed to Orbit

World powers are getting really creative.

A new book about Elon Musk's Twitter takeover is apparently full of wild stories — including one, of course, about Mark Zuckerberg.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Started Screaming About Zuckerberg Immediately After Signing Twitter Deal

Could he, like, chill?

After 14 long and problematic years, chat service Omegle has been taken offline. It's not exactly surprising.
Future Society

Omegle Shuts Down Amid Storm of Child Abuse Allegations

"Some people misused it, including to commit unspeakably heinous crimes."

Microsoft filed a patent for an AI therapist, designed to pick up on emotional cues and offer emotional support. How does that make you feel?
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patents AI-Powered Therapy App

Dr. Roboto will see you now.

A new UN report has found that despite climate promises, the world's top oil producers are on track to drill for more fossil fuels than ever.
Fossil Fuels

As Climate Doom Looms, We’re Drilling For More Fossil Fuels Than Ever Before

"Governments are literally doubling down on fossil fuel production."

Silicon Valley startup Humane is set to unveil its long-rumored AI Pin at noon EDT today. But leaked documents have us seriously worried.
Artificial Intelligence

Humane’s Uber-Expensive “AI Pin” Sounds Like a Total Disaster

So many red flags.