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Tesla is selling a cardboard cat bed in China that looks almost exactly like another cat bed sold by another company.
Tesla

Tesla’s Cat Bed Design Appears to Be Stolen

Did Tesla copycat a cat bed from another company?

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenSea, one of the largest NFT marketplaces on the internet, is making royalty fees to artists an option instead of making them mandatory.
Future Society

OpenSea Is Dropping Royalties to Artists as Crisis Deepens

"I've been working my ass off for you to make that profit."

By Sharon Adarlo

A psychologist suggests we should eliminate elections altogether and pick our leaders by lottery because the leaders chosen will be better.
Future Society

Professor Suggests Replacing Elections in US With Lottery System

"A lottery would also improve our odds of avoiding the worst candidates in the first place."

By Sharon Adarlo

Despite opposition, Japan will start releasing radioactive water from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean this week.
Science & Energy

Japan Dumping Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into Ocean This Week

China is absolutely furious.

By Victor Tangermann

For weeks, hackers have been targeting major telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, forcing scientists to suspend all observations.
Hacking

Mysterious Hackers Are Targeting Space Telescopes

But why?

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is funding an AI-powered personal assistant app for parents called Milo, which is currently in beta mode.
OpenAI

OpenAI Is Funding an App for Parents to Manage Kids’ Lives

"You never hear someone talk about the power of these models to help families."

By Sharon Adarlo

A book claiming to document the events of the Maui wildfires was published on Amazon just days after the deadly disaster had begun.
Artificial Intelligence

Seemingly AI-Written Book on Maui Wildfire Becomes Amazon Bestseller, Gets Taken Down

Awful.

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX's handing out of Starlink terminals to Ukrainian soldiers has thrown Elon Musk into the middle of a crisis. The Pentagon is worried.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Apparently Making the US Government Quite Nervous

"Living in the world we live in, in which Elon runs this company and it is a private business under his control, we are living off his good graces."

By Victor Tangermann

According to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, AI-managed portfolios didn't even capitalize on the boom driven by AI this year.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Doing a Terrible Job Trading Stocks in the Real World

"For now AI is limited to plagiarizing history."

By Frank Landymore

After Russia’s Failure, India Is Preparing to Land on the Moon
Moon

After Russia’s Failure, India Is Preparing to Land on the Moon

A successful mission could "show that India is becoming a key player in space exploration."

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter owner Elon Musk has admitted what we all suspect: that under his leadership, the site may not thrive after all.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Admits Twitter May Be Failing Under His Leadership

"We may fail, as so many have predicted."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia’s Moon Lander Crashing Is a Catastrophe for Its Space Program
Moon

Russia’s Moon Lander Crashing Is a Catastrophe for Its Space Program

The timing couldn't have been worse.

By Victor Tangermann

A review of eight different AI pedestrian detectors revealed the programs to be worse at detecting darker-skinned pedestrians and kids.
Advanced Transport

Driverless Cars are Biased Against Dark-Skinned People and Kids, Scientists Say

This is bad.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ate psychedelic mushrooms on a recent trip to China, but did not know they had hallucinogenic properties.
Science & Energy

US Treasury Secretary Says She Didn’t Know the Mushrooms She Ate Were Psychedelic

"I learned that later."

By Sharon Adarlo

When a reporter asked the director of JPL if she had ever seen or had knowledge of alien crafts, she laughed and said no.
NASA

NASA’s JPL Director Weighs in on Those UFO Hearings

She's not having it.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers concluded that you only need 22 colonists to survive and successfully maintain a Mars colony.
Mars

Mars Frontier Outpost Could Survive With Just 22 Residents, Researchers Say

But only if they're psychologically stable.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA director of facilities Erik Weiser warned on Thursday that the space agency's facilities are in an "increasing state of decline."
NASA

NASA Complains That Its Buildings Are Falling Apart

"If I want to inspire the next generation of our workforce... we need better facilities."

By Frank Landymore

Global Illuminations' team, which made an open source Minecraft game, will work on OpenAI "core products including ChatGPT."
OpenAI

OpenAI Just Bought a Game Studio Working on a “Minecraft” Clone

What's it planning?

By Frank Landymore

The company that owns Pornhub just rebranded for a "fresh start" — but its fight with a small kebab shop seems to suggest otherwise.
Future Society

Pornhub’s War With a Local Kebab Restaurant Isn’t Helping Its Quest for a “Fresh Start”

"We genuinely do not understand why they are coming for us."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A massive flotilla of ships is currently stuck in the world's worst traffic jam at the Panama Canal — and it might not end for weeks.
Science & Energy

200 Ships Are Stuck at the Panama Canal

"If we don't adapt, we are going to die."

By Noor Al-Sibai