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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Will Pay Your Legal Bill If Your Tweets Got You Fired

Paging the law firm of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe — we have some work for you.

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Cryptocurrency

The Feds Are Now Using Crypto to Catch Drug Traffickers

Even El Chapo's sons are bullish on crypto.

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Sleep

Study: Smelling Stuff While You Sleep Could Improve Your Memory

Keep your memory up to sniff.

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Facial recognition

Here’s What It’s Like To Be Falsely Arrested via Facial Recognition

"Shoddy technology makes shoddy investigations."

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Off-World

UFO Whistleblower: What I Told Congress Was the “Tip of the Iceberg”

Huge if true.

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Artificial Intelligence

The New Scam Flooding Amazon: AI-Generated Travel Guides

"This is fraudulent advertising and what we call bait and switch."

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Robotics

We Adore This Delightful Little Robot Helping Save Lake Tahoe

This robot's job is just lake.

A Florida man named Joshua Hughes has taken Florida's worsening problem with invasive cane toads into his own hands.
Science & Energy

Florida Man Shoots 100 Poisonous Toads

"I bought a BB gun and a flashlight and just started looking."

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Already Making Excuses Ahead of Fight With Zuckerberg

Confident as always.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to Twitter to express his concern that AI might meddle with elections and the democratic process.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Fears AI’s Effect on Elections

"Personalized 1:1 persuasion, combined with high-quality generated media, is going to be a powerful force."

There's a ton of bizarrely-bright light shooting out of the Sun — and it's been happening for years right under our noses. 
Off-World

Scientists Say the Sun Has Been Shooting Out Super-Bright Light For Years Without Anyone Noticing

"It's making us see things in a different light. Literally."

At nearly 70 degrees, the ocean has hit its highest recorded temperature in history — and scientists say it's only likely to continue to rise.
Climate Change

Ocean Hits Highest Recorded Temperature, Still Rising

"We are putting oceans under more stress than we have done at any point in history."

Why build sophisticated rockets to get payloads into orbit, when you could simply build dumb and loud concrete tubes instead?
Off-World

Startup Working on Super-Long Tube That Shoots Stuff Into Orbit at Mach 30

"You've got to get a system that is designed to be as dumb as hell."

MIT researchers have figured out a way to create a supercapacitor simply by mixing cement, and a fine charcoal product called carbon black.
Energy

MIT Scientists May Have Found a Cheap Way of Storing Huge Amounts of Energy in Cement

This "fascinating" material could power your entire house.

NASA was supposed to help OceanGate design key parts of the Titan submersible — but the agency really wants you to know that it didn't.
Advanced Transport

Emails Show NASA’s Scramble to Distance Itself From Doomed Titan Sub

NASA really did not want that heat.

The record shattering high temperatures has proven to be too much for even seasoned desert-dwelling saguaro cactuses.
Climate Change

It’s So Hot That Decades-Old Cactuses Are Toppling Over in Defeat

Extreme heat's most innocent victims.

Lil Wayne has joined the ranks of artists who've weighed in on AI — and his take is as witty, individual, and potty-mouthed as his rhymes.
Artificial Intelligence

Lil Wayne Isn’t Worried About AI Because He’s Too Unique and “Amazing”

"I would love to see that thing try to duplicate this motherf*ker."

Four former ChatGPT content moderators have filed a petition for an investigation into the OpenAI-contracted moderation firm Sama.
OpenAI

Contractors Say OpenAI Psychologically Scarred Them for $2/Hour

"It has destroyed me completely."

During a test broadcast of the Twitter Live feature, Elon Musk decided to whip out his guns and spontaneously curl a dumbbell.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Lifts Weight During Office Meeting For Reasons Unknown

"Oh my God."

Henrietta Lacks' family has won a settlement from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech firm that made billions by selling Lacks' cells.
Gene Editing

Henrietta Lacks’ Family Is Finally Getting Paid by the Biotech Company That Stole Her Cells

“If we can get justice for Henrietta Lacks, maybe we can start to tear down the layers of medical racism that exist even to this day."