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Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is worried we'll turn into the blobby people being carted around on hovering recliners, like in "WALL-E."
Virtual Reality

Jack Dorsey Says VR Will Turn Us Into the Blob People From “WALL-E”

"That's the future we're driving towards — with everyone in the floating chairs, drinking their food out of straws, and constant 24/7 entertainment."

AI-generated content might be transforming the internet into an error-ridden, incomprehensible garbage heap, but at least it's funny.
Artificial Intelligence

This Clickbait Site Is Even Generating Images Using AI and the Results Are Unintentionally Hilarious

Tag yourself, we're nightmare Shrek.

A 76-year-old woman who'd been declared dead after a stroke gasped for air when her coffin was opened at a funeral home.
Developments

Funeral Home Startled When Body in Coffin Turns Out to Be Alive

"After about five hours of the wake, the coffin started to make sounds."

One of the scientists who invented the underlying mechanism of Ozempic has a pretty severe warning for those interested in taking it.
RX and Medicine

Scientist Behind Ozempic Warns That There’s a “Price”

"Once you’ve been on this for a year or two, life is so miserably boring that you can’t stand it."

Forget the gas masks and Spam, and maybe try buying some encyclopedias to prepare for the AI-driven information apocalypse instead.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday

"...in case I'm wrong, a little voice in the back of my head reasoned that it would be nice to have a good summary of human knowledge in print..."

Researchers say they can steal encrypted keys by analyzing the glow that a power LED emits in a device, such as a smart card reader.
Robots and Machines

Godlike Hack Steals Encrypted Keys by Watching LED From 16 Meters Away

Is nothing safe?

A team of researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have come up with an ingenious origami-inspired robot.
Robotics

Ikea Trembles as Scientists Invent Flat Packable Robot

Some assembly required.

A white dwarf that's about 104 light years away is slowly crystallizing, a process that could take a quadrillion years.
Off-World

Scientists Spot Star Transforming Into Colossal Cosmic Diamond

Talk about bling!

Three Arrows Capital (3AC) founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies say they haven't on the lam. They've just been vibing with beach time and shrooms.
Cryptocurrency

After Blowing Up Crypto Industry, Exec Turns to Magic Mushrooms

"You touch the grass, and it feels, like, not like normal grass."

Last fall, OpenAI warned Microsoft that rushing to integrate its AI could lead to nonsense responses and lies.
OpenAI

OpenAI Warned Microsoft That Its AI Is Absolutely Terrible At Telling the Truth

Microsoft launched the feature anyways.

After spending a year and a half one million miles away from Earth, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is finally getting some company.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Sending Adorable Little Buddy to Hang Out Next to the James Webb

This toaster-sized "sidekick" sounds like the perfect companion.

He hasn't even made it to Mars yet, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk already has his eyes on a new exoplanet to colonize: Proxima Centauri B.
Off-World

Elon Musk Expresses Interest in Planet Four Light-Years Away

It's in the star system where "Avatar" is set.

Tyler Winklevoss believes that an alleged Democratic "war on crypto" will be as impactful in 2024 as the Roe v. Wade decision was in 2022.
Cryptocurrency

Winklevoss Twin Compares “War on Crypto” to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

Yikes.

Over 300 parishioners gathered in Germany last week to attend a church service written by ChatGPT and delivered by AI-powered avatars.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Delivers Church Sermon, Tells Congregants Not to Fear Death

"There was no heart and no soul."

Living music legend Paul McCartney has announced that he's using artificial intelligence to create "the last Beatles record."
Artificial Intelligence

Paul McCartney Using AI to Create “Last Beatles Record”

"We just finished it up and it’ll be released this year."

Writing for The Guardian, former journalist Tristan Cross says he learned to code, an area that is now being threatened by AI chatbots.
Artificial Intelligence

A Writer Actually “Learned to Code” And Now AI Threatens That, Too

"I took their goading advice."

A San Diego-based radio DJ has declared himself as the "sultan" of his own "country" called the Republic of Slowjamastan.
Future Society

Man Creates Tiny Country Inside California, Declares Himself Its Sultan

Welcome to the Republic of Slowjamastan.

Therapists Are Now Giving Patients *Checks Notes* MDMA
Studies

Therapists Are Now Giving Patients *Checks Notes* MDMA

It's not just a party drug.

Elon Musk tweeted that Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was probably right about technology being a disaster for the human race.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Says Maybe the Unabomber Was Right

Say what again?

Doctors using ChatGPT to communicate with patients in a more empathetic way and even tell them about bad news.
Developments

Microsoft Alarmed at Doctors Using ChatGPT to Tell Patients Bad News

Dr. Robot will see you now.