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Rite Aid used faulty facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting but instead ended up antagonizing and traumatizing shoppers.
Facial recognition

Rite Aid’s Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft

"Rite Aid's reckless use of facial surveillance systems left its customers facing humiliation..."

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk is yet again hyping up the Cybertruck's potential as a boat. But as always, there's reason to doubt that these claims hold water.
Elon Musk

While Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Can Float, Tesla Told a Guy His Model 3 Broke Because He Washed It

"This is the only car that I've ever heard of where a car wash can damage the wiring."

By Frank Landymore

According to The Information, Google is looking to reassign or let go of customer sales workers whose jobs were automated by AI tools.
Google

Google Reportedly Replacing Some Human Staff With AI

The era of AI job automation is already here.

By Victor Tangermann

In dramatic footage posted on Instagram, a massive orca spikes a hapless dolphin like it's a volleyball into the sky during a group hunt.
Science & Energy

Killer Whale Yeets Dolphin Into the Sky

Terror in the high seas!

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gotten an unprecedented, close-up look at the many rings of Uranus and its moons.
James Webb Space Telescope

The Mighty James Webb Peers Directly Into Uranus

We have such sights to show you...

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that daily smoking can shrink your brain, leading to dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

Smoking Cigarettes Does Something Horrifying to Your Brain, Scientists Find

The damage can't be undone.

By Sharon Adarlo

A study on basic income gave $750 per month to 103 homeless people in California for a year's duration, and the move had positive results.
Future Society

Researchers Gave Homeless People $750 Per Month and the Results Were Incredible

Extroardinary.

By Sharon Adarlo

Amateur astronomer and satellite tracker Scott Tilley says China's top-secret spaceplane is emitting strong signals over North America.
Off-World

Chinese Spacecraft Emitting Strong Signal Over North America

"This could indicate a clandestine ground station on the west coast of North America..."

By Victor Tangermann

Data scientists in Denmark claim they've devised an AI model that can predict when someone is going to die.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say Their New AI Can Predict When You’re Going to Die

This sounds like something out of science fiction.

By Noor Al-Sibai

No one was hurt in the fire. The cause of the blaze remains undetermined, but the local fire chief has blamed a familiar culprit.
Advanced Transport

Fire Breaks Out at General Motors’ Electric Car Factory

Can you guess the culprit?

By Frank Landymore

A giant list of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirators is about to drop, and some big tech names might well be on it.
Future Society

There May Be Some Big Tech Names on the Unsealed Epstein List

We could finally get some answers.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Chevy of Watsonville car dealership probably didn't expect its AI chatbot to start pawning off its brand new SUVs for a song.
Artificial Intelligence

Car Dealership Disturbed When Its AI Is Caught Offering Chevys for $1 Each

"That's a deal, and that's a legally binding offer," the AI said, with "no takesies backsies."

By Frank Landymore

A volcanic eruption resulted in a miles long fissure that spewed towering fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the air.
NASA

NASA Images Show Huge Fissure Opening Up in Iceland

An infernal spectacle.

By Frank Landymore

A new startup called Anmtora Energy is investigating ways to store huge amounts of energy inside boxes holding extremely hot rocks.
Energy

Scientists Intrigued By Battery That Stores Energy in Hot Rocks

It really is that simple.

By Victor Tangermann

Despite knowing about chronic "flaws," Tesla reportedly blamed drivers for glaring defects like collapsed suspensions and breaking axles.
Tesla

Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show

"It defeats the purpose of the high speed if you’re afraid that your front wheels are going to fall off if you accelerate quickly."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have simulated what would happen if the greenhouse effect snowballed, causing a dramatic rise in the Earth's temperature.
Climate Change

Scientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It’s Horrifying

Welcome to hell.

By Victor Tangermann

People have evidently been overdosing on semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, because they're taking too much of it.
RX and Medicine

Thousands of People Have Reportedly Overdosed on Ozempic

The risks keep piling up.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Exceljet has found itself the victim of an "SEO heist," losing web traffic to a shameless imitator that used AI to hijack its articles.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Horrified When Someone Uses AI to Reword and Republish All His Content, Complete With New Errors

"It's just wrong to make money on that."

By Frank Landymore

Iconic French-Canadian singer Celine Dion's is apparently unable to move much as her stiff person syndrome has worsened.  
Medical

Celine Dion’s Family Shares Grim Medical News

This is really heartbreaking.

By Noor Al-Sibai

LAION has taken down its machine learning dataset, which Google uses, after researchers found it contained child sexual abuse material.
Google

Image Database Powering Google’s AI Contains Explicit Images of Children

"If you have downloaded that full dataset for whatever purpose, for training a model for research purposes, then yes, you absolutely have CSAM..."

By Victor Tangermann