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If Elon Musk's recent posts are anything to go by, his fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be an epic, "Gladiator"-style affair in Italy.
Future Society

Elon Says the Zuck Fight Is Back On, Gladiator-Style

Are you not entertained?!

As more and more preprints detailing efforts to reproduce the room-temperature superconductor come rolling in, things aren't looking good.
Science & Energy

That Room-Temperature Superconductor Seems to Be Falling Apart

"No point in fighting with the truth."

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has come across a fascinating hexagonal pattern in salt deposits that looks eerily familiar.
Mars

Scientists Intrigued by Hexagonal Pattern on Surface of Mars

Okay, that's fascinating.

By activating a defective gene in mice, the researchers were able to restore their hearing to almost normal levels.
Gene Editing

Scientists Successfully Reverse Hearing Loss in Mice

"Seeing the once-deaf mice respond to sounds after treatment was truly thrilling."

A New Zealand supermarket's AI recipe bot suggested users chef up a series of poisonous, deadly, and/or cannibalistic meals.
Artificial Intelligence

Supermarket’s Meal-Planning AI Suggests Deadly Poison for Dinner

Bleach-infused rice surprise, anyone?

Boeing's latest Starliner delay highlights the widening gap between it and SpaceX, which is slated to launch its seventh crewed NASA mission.
Boeing

Boeing Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed by SpaceX

Boeing's near-decade-long fumble continues — and SpaceX continues to charge ahead.

The dust floating around the International Space Station is worse than what's milling around in your house or apartment, researchers found.
Off-World

Scientists Alarmed by What Space Station Astronauts Appear to Be Breathing

Somebody crack open a window!

Educators are struggling to respond to widespread cheating with ChatGPT. Some instances of cheating, though, are easier to spot than others.
Artificial Intelligence

Idiot Students Are Submitting Answers Saying “I Am an AI Language Model”

They tried.

As The Intercept reports, former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower David Grusch suffered from PTSD and severe depression.
Future Society

That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Had a Psychiatric Detention

UFO truthers are absolutely furious.

Scientists have found and analyzed an ancient skull that, while human-like, does not appear to belong to our branch of Homo sapiens.
Studies

Scientists Puzzled by Human-Like Skull That Matches No Known Species

Babe, wake up! New human-like skull just dropped.

Elon Musk's on-off partner Grimes seems to want to build bridges between the tech billionaire and the trans community.
Elon Musk

Grimes Says She Asked Elon Musk Why He’s So Obsessed With Trans People

"I was like, 'I want to dissect why you’re so stressed about this.'"

James Manyika, Google's head of head of "tech and society," is straddling the contradictory gap between AI optimism and AI doomsay.
Google

Google’s Lead AI Guy Says AI Will Be Amazing, Unless It Kills Us

"Bad things could happen."

Nobody has ever accused Elon Musk of being a regular guy, but a new excerpt from an upcoming biography casts him as a genuinely tedious nerd.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Put Tesla on Autopilot During Date With Grimes, Then Closed His Eyes and Took His Hands Off the Wheel

"I was like, oh shit, this guy is f*cking crazy."

Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev went for a ride on a robotic arm outside the International Space Station after outfitting it with a work platform.
Off-World

Cosmonaut Ghost Rides 37-Foot Robotic Arm Outside Space Station

Spacewalk cakewalk.

Elon Musk has already come up with plenty of excuses to wriggle out of sparring with Mark Zuckerberg. Now he wants to have a "noble" debate.
Elon Musk

Terrified Elon Musk Suggests “Debate” With Zuckerberg Instead of Cage Fight

Chicken.

Researchers found that ChatGPT got just half of 517 Stack Overflow prompts wrong, indicating it's not great at spitting out perfect code.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Actually Gets Half of Programming Questions Wrong

ChatGPT just got an F.

Author Jane Friedman got some seemingly AI-written books listed under her name taken down after posting about it on Twitter and her own blog. 
Artificial Intelligence

Author Annoyed to Find Amazon Selling AI-Generated Books Under Her Name

"It makes me look like I’m trying to take advantage of people with really crappy books."

If it were up to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, the US needs to get to the Moon before China since it might be unwilling to share resources.
NASA

NASA Head Concerned That China Will Steal Lunar Resources

"I don't want China to get to the south pole first with humans and then say: this is ours, stay out."

Zoom wants you to know that it definitely didn't use your video calls to train its AI — even if its convoluted TOS seems to say otherwise.
Artificial Intelligence

Zoom Insists It Wasn’t Using Private Calls to Train AI System

Nothing to see here, folks!

More researchers are piling on, burying the potentially revolutionary discovery of a room-temperature superconductor in skepticism.
Physics

The Claim of a Room Temperature Superconductor Is Starting to Look Fishy

"The data seems a bit sloppy."