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Consumer groups are saying that the EPA hasn't done enough to battle Inhance, a producer of PFAS-riddled plastic food and cosmetic containers.
Developments

EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers

"It's a serious and ongoing threat to public health."

From their experiments, the researchers calculate that their tractor beam could be used to move debris weighing several tons.
Off-World

Scientists Experimenting With Actual Tractor Beam to Clean Up Space Junk

Once operational, their device could "essentially tug away the debris without ever touching it."

It's only day two of Pride Month, Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already jumping headfirst into deeply transphobic wasters.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Celebrates Pride Month With Wildly Transphobic Outbursts

This guy sucks.

Sam Altman, a tech CEO, has finally watched a movie about sleazy tech CEO that invents a possibly conscious AI humanoid robot. Huh.
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Says He Finally Watched “Ex Machina”

"Pretty good movie but I can't figure out why everyone told me to watch it."

A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.
Military

US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation

It was all just a "thought experiment."

Scientists say they've successfully transmitted solar energy gathered in orbit down to the Earth's surface.
Solar Power

Satellite Beams Solar Power Down to Earth Using Microwave Transmitter

"In the same way that the internet democratized access to information, we hope that wireless energy transfer democratizes access to energy."

Bill Gates apparently had an affair — and Jeffrey Epstein, who knew all about it, allegedly used it as leverage. 
Future Society

Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Had Dirt on Bill Gates

The strange relationship between Gates and Epstein seems to be getting weirder.

Former top Google exec Mo Gawdet says that AI is "beyond an emergency" and is "bigger than climate change, believe it or not."
Google

Former Google Exec Warns of Global AI Catastrophe Within Two Years

"It's bigger than climate change, believe it or not." 

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when she was forced to have it removed.
Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

"I would have done anything to keep it."

By using X-rays, scientists can more precisely detect and measure atoms in ways that other imaging techniques can't on their own.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just X-Rayed a Single Atom

The X-ray marks the spot.

Meet Paragraphica, a lensless camera "camera" that uses location data and various AI APIs to generate imagery. Why? Why not!
Artificial Intelligence

New “Camera” Has No Lens, Simply Detects Your Location and Generates an AI Picture of It

Why not, we guess?

NASA chief Bill Nelson has Moon water on the mind — also, specifically, the idea that China might get to that precious Moon water first.
Moon

NASA Head Worried China Will Steal America’s God-Given Moon Water

Do NOT touch this man's Moon water!

Yoshua Bengio, who is considered to be one of the three "godfathers" of AI, feels "lost" over his life's work.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Who Helped Invent Modern AI Is Now Wracked With Regret

"You could say I feel lost."

After firing its entire human staff and replacing them with a single chatbot, an eating disorder helpline is already bringing humans back.
Artificial Intelligence

Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After It Promotes Disordered Eating

"This robot causes harm."

There's a burgeoning TikTok true crime subgenre that uses AI to digitally resurrect child murder victims in disturbing tell-all videos.
Artificial Intelligence

True Crime Ghouls Are Using AI to Resurrect Murdered Children

Seriously, do not watch any of these videos.

AI researchers apparently have one particularly telling — and frankly, somewhat disturbing — meme for understanding AI systems: the Shoggoth.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Have a Dark Joke About How AI Is Secretly a Horrifying Monster With a Friendly Mask

"It's the most important meme in AI."

Someone shared an AI-generated "podcast" featuring a conversation between Bill Gates and Socrates to Twitter. Twitter, uh, had some thoughts.
Artificial Intelligence

Mockery Abounds at AI-Generated Interview Between Bill Gates and Socrates

"Socrates would smash Bill Gates' head in with a rock..."

North Korea was trying its very best to send a spy satellite up into space — but that thing just didn't want to stay in the sky. 
Off-World

North Korea Attempts to Launch Satellite But It Crashes Into Ocean

Well, this is awkward.

One of Saturn's weirdest moons has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope spewing a gigantic plume of water vapor.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Catches Saturn’s Moon Squirting

"When I was looking at the data, at first, I was thinking I had to be wrong."

Ever wanted to clone someone — anyone, really — that you might know into an AI girlfriend? You might be able to.
Artificial Intelligence

Programmer Creates Grim Tool to Clone Anyone as an “AI Girlfriend”

Not creepy at all!