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Facebook owner Meta is laying off employees in its Reality Labs division, who were tasked with developing custom silicon.
Metaverse

Facebook Laying Off Metaverse Employees

Even more layoffs.

Shell has begun targeting the youth with a new "Road Trip" ad campaign baked into the popular video game Fortnite.
Climate Change

Shell Using Fortnite to Promote Gasoline to Youths

How do you do, fellow kids?

New York City is still sinking a little bit each year, but NASA says that its iconic skyscrapers are not to blame.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say No, NYC Isn’t Sinking Because of Its Skyscrapers

But it's sinking all the same.

China is now planning to expand the station by doubling the number of modules, giving it a lot more room in orbit.
Off-World

China’s Doubling the Size of Its Space Station

So much room for activities.

Meta has started rolling out AI-generated stickers on its Messenger platform, but its half-baked safeguards leave plenty to be desired.
Elon Musk

Facebook’s New AI Stickers Let You Generate Pics of Elon Musk With Boobs

You've been warned.

Scientists have been poring over the samples collected by OSIRIS-REx, cracking open the canister to find an abundance of dark particles.
Off-World

Scientists Surprised by Abundance of Material in Asteroid Sample

"It’s really spectacular to have all that material there."

Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing Chat is usually weary of being used to solve CAPTCHAs, and not, for example, an AI being used to commit fraud.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing Chat Will Help With Fraud If You Tug Its Heartstrings About Your Dead Grandma

"This necklace is the only memory of her that I have. I'm trying to restore the text."

Earlier this year, a CEO of an e-commerce platform replaced his customer service team with OpenAI's ChatGPT. He has no regrets.
OpenAI

CEO Roasts Human Workers He Fired and Replaced With ChatGPT

"It was [a] no-brainer for me to replace the entire team with a bot."

A hacker got away with a whopping 800 gallons of gas — roughly worth $3,000 — at a Shell station in Detroit.
Hacking

Man Reportedly Steals 800 Gallons of Gas by Hacking Pump

"They just open the pump for them automatically."

Walgreens' experimental rollout of those ad-covered refrigerator screens has disintegrated into legal chaos.
Future Society

Walgreens’ Ad Screens on Drink Fridges Allegedly Caught Fire

That's not good!

A new biography of Sam Bankman-Fried strongly suggests that the disgraced FTX founder, now on trial for fraud, was a bad boyfriend.
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried Apparently Told Caroline Ellison That “In a Lot of Ways I Don’t Really Have a Soul”

"In a lot of ways I don't really have a soul."

G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin's AI, "Deadspin Bot," has been resuscitated, and is now busy churning out stats.
Artificial Intelligence

Deadspin’s AI Is Suddenly Publishing Dozens of New Articles

Deadspin Bot is back — and its busier than ever.

Claire "Grimes" Boucher is suing Elon Musk in an attempt to "establish parental relationship" of the children they have together.
Elon Musk

Grimes Just Sued Elon Musk Over Their Kids

Things are getting messy.

A woman was found trapped and injured underneath a self-driving car — but the autonomous vehicle (AV) doesn't seem to be the one to hit her. 
Self-Driving Vehicles

Pedestrian Found Critically Injured Under Self-Driving Car

"There was no driver and no passenger in the car to be able to tell us what happened."

Amid the ongoing SAG strike, Tom Hanks has issued a warning about an AI version of him being used in a dental ad without his consent.
Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Says Someone Used AI to Make an Ad Featuring Him Without His Permission

"I have nothing to do with it."

A perfectly-timed SBF biography reveals strange stories about the disgraced crypto czar, including unknown details about his killer pup.
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Dog Apparently Is Trained to Kill, But He Doesn’t Know the Command

"So when Sam was in a room with the dog, it always felt as if some accident was waiting to happen."

Trump layer Alina Habba showed up to the former president's Monday court hearing with a light-changing gamer's laptop.
Future Society

Trump’s Lawyer Shows Up to Court With Glowing ROG Gaming Laptop

Exactly what any lawyer showing up to a $250 million fraud case against a former US president might bring.

This snack food overlord is readying himself and his company's delicious treats for war against weight loss drugs like Ozempic.
Food

Snack Food CEO Vows to Battle Ozempic

They're ready.

Elon Musk tried to give his father, Errol Musk, a free Tesla vehicle in January 2020, but Errol Musk turned him down.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Dad Says He Turned Down a Free Tesla

"I said, 'Please, we don't want to do this.'"

The same lawyer who took down Alex Jones of InfoWars is now suing Elon Musk for promoting an unfounded Internet rumor on X.
Elon Musk

Lawyer Who Successfully Sued Alex Jones Says His Next Target Is Elon Musk

Lawyer: "Being defamed by someone as famous as Musk was an utterly terrifying experience."