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No one was hurt in the fire. The cause of the blaze remains undetermined, but the local fire chief has blamed a familiar culprit.
Advanced Transport

Fire Breaks Out at General Motors’ Electric Car Factory

Can you guess the culprit?

By Frank Landymore

A giant list of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirators is about to drop, and some big tech names might well be on it.
Future Society

There May Be Some Big Tech Names on the Unsealed Epstein List

We could finally get some answers.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Chevy of Watsonville car dealership probably didn't expect its AI chatbot to start pawning off its brand new SUVs for a song.
Artificial Intelligence

Car Dealership Disturbed When Its AI Is Caught Offering Chevys for $1 Each

"That's a deal, and that's a legally binding offer," the AI said, with "no takesies backsies."

By Frank Landymore

A volcanic eruption resulted in a miles long fissure that spewed towering fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the air.
NASA

NASA Images Show Huge Fissure Opening Up in Iceland

An infernal spectacle.

By Frank Landymore

A new startup called Anmtora Energy is investigating ways to store huge amounts of energy inside boxes holding extremely hot rocks.
Energy

Scientists Intrigued By Battery That Stores Energy in Hot Rocks

It really is that simple.

By Victor Tangermann

Despite knowing about chronic "flaws," Tesla reportedly blamed drivers for glaring defects like collapsed suspensions and breaking axles.
Tesla

Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show

"It defeats the purpose of the high speed if you’re afraid that your front wheels are going to fall off if you accelerate quickly."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have simulated what would happen if the greenhouse effect snowballed, causing a dramatic rise in the Earth's temperature.
Climate Change

Scientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It’s Horrifying

Welcome to hell.

By Victor Tangermann

People have evidently been overdosing on semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, because they're taking too much of it.
RX and Medicine

Thousands of People Have Reportedly Overdosed on Ozempic

The risks keep piling up.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Exceljet has found itself the victim of an "SEO heist," losing web traffic to a shameless imitator that used AI to hijack its articles.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Horrified When Someone Uses AI to Reword and Republish All His Content, Complete With New Errors

"It's just wrong to make money on that."

By Frank Landymore

Iconic French-Canadian singer Celine Dion's is apparently unable to move much as her stiff person syndrome has worsened.  
Medical

Celine Dion’s Family Shares Grim Medical News

This is really heartbreaking.

By Noor Al-Sibai

LAION has taken down its machine learning dataset, which Google uses, after researchers found it contained child sexual abuse material.
Google

Image Database Powering Google’s AI Contains Explicit Images of Children

"If you have downloaded that full dataset for whatever purpose, for training a model for research purposes, then yes, you absolutely have CSAM..."

By Victor Tangermann

After embarking on its third mission, China's top-secret spaceplane dubbed Shenlong has released six mysterious objects into Earth's orbit.
Off-World

Chinese Spaceplane Releases Six Mysterious Objects That Are Emitting Signals

What's the spacecraft up to?

By Victor Tangermann

A tool made by grad students is the ultimate "geoguesser," using its knowledge of Google Street View to track down any photo's location.
Artificial Intelligence

Scary AI Can Look at Photos and Figure Out Exactly Where They Were Taken

There's no hiding from this AI.

By Frank Landymore

Mercedes-Benz just received approval for first-of-its-kind turquoise car lights that indicate a vehicle in self-driving mode.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Mercedes-Benz Installing New Tail Lights to Show When Car Is Self-Driving

Heads up.

By Frank Landymore

"Of course AI is a bubble," author Cory Doctorow wrote in a recent piece for Locus. "It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble."
Artificial Intelligence

Cory Doctorow Blasts AI as a Fraud-Filled Bubble

"Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested a whopping $180 million in a startup that's looking for novel ways to extend human longevity.
Developments

Sam Altman’s Life Extension Guy Warns of Injections That Cause Wild Tumor Growth

"You have to stop before you go too far... because it will start trying to grow an entire person right there and form the tumors."

By Victor Tangermann

Legislators in California are slated to approve new measures to create filtration systems that turns wastewater into drinking water.
Science & Energy

California Working on System to Turn Raw Sewage Into Drinking Water

"This is really about recovering resources, not wasting precious resources."

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Psyche spacecraft just beamed back a cat video from almost 19 million miles away and at blistering speeds.
NASA

NASA Receives Cat Video From 19 Million Miles Away

"Despite transmitting from millions of miles away, it was able to send the video faster than most broadband internet connections."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is teaming up with the TomTom GPS company to shove talking generative AI into your car, for some reason.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Stuffing Talking Generative AI Into Your Car

"Generative AI is going to add an emotional layer to interaction with the car."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists now have come across strange types of rock that contain manmade plastic in all five inhabited continents.
Science & Energy

Scientists Warn That Plastic Rocks Are Appearing Across the World

This is a disaster.

By Victor Tangermann