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A new AI-powered tool from Google will effortlessly swap and add different facial expressions using other photos you took.
Google

Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable

Turn that frown upside down.

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI quietly changed its "core values" list to include a focus on AGI that wasn't explicitly listed there before. 
OpenAI

The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its “Core Values” With Completely Different Ones

Oh, okay.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gianluca Grimulda, an Italian social and climate scientist, prefers "slow travel" to cut down on his carbon emissions. That means no flights.
Climate Change

Climate Researcher Fired for Refusing to Fly

For this scientist, taking a commercial flight does not fly.

By Frank Landymore

A particularly resourceful Tesla owner used the company's Summon feature to retrieve his Model 3 from a locked parking garage.
Tesla

Man Uses “Smart Summon” to Get Tesla Out of Locked Parking Garage

"No f***ing way."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is offering a "bug bounty" to anyone who can bait its Bing AI into saying or doing what it's not supposed to.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails

Call that Bing the Bounty Hunter.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The pig was actually a miniature pig, which was engineered with nearly 70 gene edits, including the addition of human DNA.
Developments

Monkey Lives for Two Years With Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

"It is time for clinical translation of this vital technology."

By Frank Landymore

The observation of the donut-shaped cloud of debris is believed to be the first of a planetary collision's afterglow.
Off-World

Astronomers Say Two Giant Ice Planets Collided, Leaving Donut-Shaped Wreckage

"As far as I'm aware, no one's claimed this before."

By Frank Landymore

A researcher who considers himself "the ultimate skeptic" was convinced by his own research that taking supplements is good, actually.
Studies

Scientist Who Thought Supplements Were a Scam Changed His Mind After Studying Them

"I'm just as skeptical as anyone else when it comes to this stuff."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed a material that can remotely stimulate neural tissue and allow nerve signals to flow again.
Developments

Scientists Say New Material Can Reconnect Severed Nerves

Imagine healing a damaged brain or a severed nerve.

By Sharon Adarlo

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest extant evidence of a wood structure, dating back almost half a million years.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Structure From Before Homo Sapiens Existed

"This find has changed how I think about our early ancestors."

By Sharon Adarlo

In a new video, former astronaut Chris Hadfield reviewed a "F9: The Fast Saga" scene in which two characters ride a car into space.
Off-World

Astronaut Analyzes That “Fast & Furious” Scene Where They Drive a Car Through Space

"They were getting crushed."

By Victor Tangermann

As Earth's temperatures continue to rise, some areas may soon become uninhabitable — and the consequences will be life or death.
Climate Change

Scientists Say Homes of Billions on Track to Become Uninhabitable

"Billions of poor people will suffer, and many could die."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The DOD is looking for tech that will protect against "cognitive attacks" that could disable soldiers wearing virtual reality devices.
Virtual Reality

DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”

Yikes.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ketamine is still widely unregulated as a therapy, meaning that buying "prescriptions" online is pretty much just buying drugs.
Health & Medicine

FDA Warns That a Lot of “Ketamine Therapy” Seems to Just Be Partying

You might just be buying drugs, my guy.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Female European common frogs are taking ghosting to a whole new level, playing dead to deter unwanted males from latching onto them.
Science & Energy

Female Frogs Have an Effective Strategy for Dealing With Annoying Males: Pretend to Be Dead

A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Disney has come under fire after a video resurfaced showing horribly CGI-generated background actors in the movie "Prom Pact."
Artificial Intelligence

Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI “Actors” in Crowd Scene

What were they thinking?

By Victor Tangermann

An astonishing number of celebrities who signed up to be turned into Meta AI chatbots are, or were, really into cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
Cryptocurrency

The Same Celebrities Who Shilled Crypto Are Now Turning Themselves Into Facebook’s AI Chatbots

Shocker.

By Victor Tangermann

Google set up a secretive Discord server for its most active Bard AI users — but their feedback isn't all positive.
Google

Google Insider Unimpressed by Its Cutting Edge AI

"The biggest challenge I’m still thinking of: what are LLMs truly useful for, in terms of helpfulness?"

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission has officially been launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center.
NASA

SpaceX Launches NASA Mission to Metallic Asteroid

Destination: Psyche.

By Victor Tangermann

A document penned by former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried has come to light — and reader, it is absolutely buckwild. 
Blockchain

You Have Got To See This Unhinged SBF Memo

All work and no play apparently makes Sam a dull boy.

By Noor Al-Sibai