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Tesla's Cybertruck's aero wheel covers are causing considerable wear in the rubber, a glaring design flaw that's already haunting buyers.
Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Wheel Covers Are Tearing Up Its Tires

Yikes.

Despite dominating the app market, TikTok's owner is irked that his people didn't move on artificial intelligence sooner.
Artificial Intelligence

TikTok’s Owner Seethes That It Missed the Boat on AI

"Our company is not sensitive enough."

Ingenuity, NASA's recently-damaged Mars helicopter, has one last task before its mission is officially over: wiggling around a little.
Mars

Derelict Helicopter Will Twitch on Mars, NASA Says

"It's been the mission of a lifetime for all of us."

A new version of the Olympics Games that allows athletes to use performance enhancing drugs recently scored funding from Peter Thiel.
Future Society

Peter Thiel Funding New Olympics Where Athletes Can Take Performance Enhancing Drugs

What could possibly go wrong?

The ad featured Larry David making a tongue-in-cheek endorsement of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Cryptocurrency

Larry David Says He Wishes He Could Join Lawsuit Against Himself for FTX Super Bowl Ad

In his own words, he was "an idiot."

Todd Maron, Tesla CEO Elon Musk's former divorce attorney, burst into tears after a judge voided Musk's $55 billion pay package.
Elon Musk

Tesla Lawyer Burst Into Tears About How Much He Loved Elon Musk

"Whatever you have done wrong as a lawyer, you have probably not tanked your client’s $56 billion pay package by crying at a deposition."

This summer, the US Space Force will send its first "Guardian" to the International Space Station as part of NASA and SpaceX's Crew-9 mission.
Future Society

Space Force Finally Launching a Single Employee Into Space

No, it's not Steve Carell.

The announcement from the US Federal Communications Commission comes just a week after AI scam calls that impersonated President Joe Biden.
FCC

FCC Moves to Make Robocalls With AI-Synthesized Voices Illegal

"This technology now has the potential to confuse consumers with misinformation."

In what could possibly be a world first, a pedestrian in Finland's capital Helsinki caught a food delivery robot doing a hit-and-run.
Advanced Transport

Delivery Robot Damages Car, Flees Scene of Accident

"Then it lurched back and forth against the side of the car, with the safety flag happily waving."

Elon Musk will not be $55.8 billion richer anytime soon — and it wouldn't have happened without a ticked off metal band drummer.
Elon Musk

Heavy Metal Drummer Cost Elon Musk $55.8 Billion

This story, for once, has a happy ending.

The attempts to resuscitate FTX are dead on arrival, and soon, it will repay the people its convicted felon co-founder bilked out of money.
Blockchain

Attempt to Reboot FTX Fails Miserably

"The costs and risks of creating a viable exchange from what Mr Bankman-Fried left in a dumpster were simply too high."

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has recaptured the escaped Japanese macaque on the lam in the Scottish Highlands.
Drones

Escaped Monkey Hunted With Drone

"You would think we were chasing an international fugitive instead of an innocent monkey."

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has topped Fortune's list of "most overrated CEOs" for the second year running.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Voted “Most Overrated CEO” by His Colleagues

The one thing other executives agree on.

It's official: major music label Universal Music Group has yanked its catalogs from TikTok, including Taylor Swift, Drake, and Justin Bieber.
Artificial Intelligence

TikToks Go Silent as Major Record Label Pulls All Its Music

"This music is currently unavailable."

Reviewers of the Apple Vision Pro VR headset have found that the baked-in virtual keyboard is so bad, it's downright unusable.
Virtual Reality

Apple’s Ludicrously Expensive VR Headset’s Virtual Keyboard Is Apparently Useless

It will "drive you mad."

Grocery-delivery app Instacart was caught using AI image generators for pictures of recipes and ingredients, with horrifying results.
Food

Instacart Caught Using Revolting AI-Generated Images of Food

How about some demonic chicken wings for dinner?

Francisco Cadaba's skull was fractured during a botched rocket engine test. Two years later, his wife has sued SpaceX for negligence.
SpaceX

Wife Sues SpaceX After Rocket Test Leaves Husband in Coma

"It would have been nice to get a call from Elon Musk. But I guess workers are just disposable to them."

As the opioid crisis worsens, one pharmaceutical company has used some impressive biology to create a non-addictive, non-opioid painkiller. 
Brain

New Non-Opioid Drug Blocks Pain Signals Before They Can Reach Brain

"I like to think it’s the beginning of nonaddictive medicines for pain."

Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value on Tuesday following disappointing earnings reports.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports

Have we already hit peak AI?

During a shocking exchange on the Senate floor, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced families harmed by his platforms and apologized.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes to the Families of Victims

"I’m sorry for everything you have all been through."