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Does any other federal agency in the United States — or, let's be real, the entire world — have branding quite as iconic as NASA's?
NASA

NASA Bows Down Before Mighty Worm

Do the worm!

A worker in South Korea was crushed to death by a robot after it failed to tell him apart from the box of vegetables it was handling.
Robotics

Grocery Robot Crushes Robot Inspector to Death

This is horrific.

After getting some intense media grilling about whistleblower reports, the man who headed up the Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down.
Off-World

Military UFO Head Resigns After Being Grilled About Whistleblower Claims

"The best thing that could come out of this job is to prove that there are aliens."

Amazon's upcoming LLM codenamed "Olympus" will reportedly have two trillion parameters, twice as many as OpenAI's GPT-4.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Reportedly Training AI With Twice as Many Parameters as GPT-4

The AI wars have become a parameter measuring contest.

Everyone knows that Elon Musk broke Twitter when he bought it, but fewer were aware that Twitter seems to have broken him right back. 
Elon Musk

Twitter Staff Almost Called the Cops During One of Elon Musk’s Tantrums, Fearing He’d Hurt Himself

"They thought he was going to self-harm himself."

Globe owners, take heed: a new island has emerged from Japanese waters, the result of submarine volcanic activity off the coast of Iwo Jima.
Science & Energy

New Island Bursts Forth From Ocean

Go little island, go!

Google DeepMind researchers discovered something about AI models that may hamstring their employer's plans for more advanced AIs.
Google

Google AI Researchers Found Something Their Bosses Might Not Be Happy About

Is there a hard limit to this type of AI?

Peter Jackson, who pioneered the AI tech to isolate John Lennon's vocals for The Beatles' "Now and Then," is ready to release more songs.
Artificial Intelligence

Peter Jackson Threatens to Release Even More AI Beatles Songs

Maybe just let it be?

Elon Musk's Neuralink brain-computer interface company is apparently ready to begin its robot-assisted brain chip implantation.
Brain

Neuralink Ready to Start Letting Robots Implant Chips into Human Brains

In spite of it all, it's really happening.

A husband-and-wife duo have published a book about life on Mars that includes a section about the ethics of astronaut cannibalism.
Off-World

Should Astronauts Be Allowed to Eat Each Other If They’re Starving?

"Is it wrong to waste such a neatly packaged meal?"

In newly-released audio recorded by journalist Tiffany Fong, former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said he had done "net harm to the world."
Future Society

In Newly-Released Audio, SBF Admits He’s “Done Net Harm to the World”

"The fact that I have done that harm weighs enormously on me."

A matte-black Cybertruck, which Tesla chief designer Franz von Holzhausen was driving around Southern California, looks awful up close.
Advanced Transport

That Matte Black Cybertruck Looks Absolutely Horrendous Up Close

This is just embarrassing.

Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal how Cruise failed to meet its own safety standards for driving around kids.
Advanced Transport

Cruise Reportedly Knew Its Robotaxis Struggled to Notice Children and Kept Them on the Road Anyway

"Based on the simulation results, we can't rule out that a fully autonomous vehicle might have struck the child."

OpenAI's first DevDay was jam-packed with updates and announcements. But according to CEO Sam Altman, we've yet to scratch the AI surface.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says What OpenAI’s Secretly Working on Will Make Today’s AI Seem “Quaint”

Fasten your seatbelts.

A team of researchers at Kyoto University has constructed a satellite made out of wood — and it's almost ready to fly into space.
NASA

NASA Getting Ready to Launch Wooden Satellite

Is the future... wood?

Software engineer Julian Joseph applied to 5,000 jobs using an AI tool called LazyApply. He got 20 interviews.
Artificial Intelligence

Unemployed Man Uses AI to Apply for 5,000 Jobs, Gets 20 Interviews

"I see it as taking back some of the power that’s been ceded to the companies over the years."

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An orca pod has once again attacked and sank a boat off the Strait of Gibraltar, adding to the growing list of similar incidents.
Science & Energy

Orcas Strike Again, Sinking Another Yacht

They're back at it again, folks.

Studies have found that older adults, who use marijuana every day were far more likely to develop heart attacks or strokes when hospitalized.
Studies

Marijuana Use Linked to Risk of Heart Attacks and Strokes

Yikes.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot dubbed "Grok" will be a far more crass and dad joke-prone chatbot compared to other AI models.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk’s New Chatbot Is Astoundingly Vulgar

Is this what you wanted?