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It's been over a year since last summer's crypto crashes, and investors who lost on the digital currencies are still licking their wounds.
Cryptocurrency

Amateur Investor Laments Losing $80,000 on Crypto

Hindsight is 20/20.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Since landing on the planet back in 2021, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has generated enough oxygen for a small dog to breathe for 10 hours.
NASA

NASA Brags That in Just Two Years, It Generated Enough Oxygen for a Small Dog to Breathe for 10 Hours

At least a puppy gets to live on Mars.

By Victor Tangermann

Bad AI has a price — and in the case of the United States immigration system's translation AI, that price could cost people their freedom. 
Artificial Intelligence

ICE Is Using Busted Translation AI That Can’t Understand Detainees

Grim.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Feeling anxious about going to school? A school district in Kumamoto, Japan thinks it might have a solution: wheeled telepresence robots.
Robotics

Japanese Schools Installing Telepresence Robots for Students Who Want to Stay Home

Points for creativity!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk apparently has a third child with musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher, this one with the fictional-sounding name Techno Mechanicus.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Has a Secret Child Named Techno Mechanicus

Interesting name choice.

By Jon Christian

Laxatives are having a major cultural renaissance — so much so that soaring demand for the drugs is reportedly causing a national shortage.
Developments

Americans Are Buying So Many Laxatives That It’s Creating a Shortage

"It's crazy to think that our collective bowel dysfunction problems have gotten so bad that we're literally running out of stool softeners."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In what may be a resurgence of an old wasteful fishing method, people in fishing towns are launching dynamite into the water to catch fish.
Science & Energy

People Are “Fishing” by Just Throwing Dynamite in the Water

"Blasting is widespread, misreported, and ongoing."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pair of researchers have created a living skin made of fungus that was inspired by the 1984 film "The Terminator."
Robotics

Scientists Have a Great Idea: Cover Killer Robot in Horrifying Fungus

Of course it was inspired by "The Terminator."

By Victor Tangermann

What if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at an exoplanet exactly like the Earth? Would it recognize a civilization like ours?
James Webb Space Telescope

If the James Webb Spotted a Planet Exactly Like Earth, Would Scientists Notice Our Civilization?

There's a short and a long answer.

By Victor Tangermann

A PR firm called Bunker 15 reportedly lobbied small review publications to ensure its movies were rated as "fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes.
Future Society

Film Studios Are Using Dirty Tricks to Manipulate Rotten Tomatoes Scores

"Rotten Tomatoes is something the studios can game. So they do."

By Frank Landymore

Computer scientist Guillaume Cabanac spotted a telltale ChatGPT phrase in the paper, and is on a mission to uncover other frauds.
OpenAI

Paper Retracted When Authors Caught Using ChatGPT to Write It

You'd think scientists would know better.

By Frank Landymore

Nearly a year ago, NASA successfully smashed an asteroid for the first time — but now, the asteroid in question is behaving strangely. 
NASA

Something Weird Is Going on With the Asteroid NASA Smashed

"That was inconsistent at an uncomfortable level."

By Noor Al-Sibai

After replacing its human writers with a translation AI, G/O stripped Gizmodo Español of all bylines — including those of its laid-off staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists’ Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles

"G/O management removed all bylines from Gizmodo Español — even the bylines of the four journalists who were laid off by G/O Media this week."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This year's Burning Man in the Nevada desert was marked by an extremely rare torrential rain. There's still a lot of trash to be picked up.
Environment

The Environmental Warriors at Burning Man Left a Disgusting Mess Behind

There's a lot of trash stuck in the Nevada desert mud right now.

By Victor Tangermann

Grindr played itself by giving its employees a return-to-office ultimatum — and nearly half of those employees responded by quitting. 
Future Society

Almost Half of Grindr’s Employees Quit When They Were Forced Back to the Office

This return-to-office policy has backfired spectacularly.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rescuers are working to extract Mark Dickey, a 40 year-old American and experienced caver, who fell ill with gastrointestinal bleeding.
Future Society

Man Stranded In Cave 3,000 Feet Underground After Falling Sick

Nightmare fuel.

By Frank Landymore

Philips is paying out a gigantic settlement to customers whose breathing machines blew foam and gases into their mouths.
Prosthetics and Devices

Company in Huge Trouble After Its CPAP Machines Blew Foam Into Users’ Lungs

Horrific.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Pennsylvania crypto company wants to burn tires to fuel Bitcoin mining — and community members are seeing red. 
Energy

Community Horrified by Plan to Burn Tires to Produce Bitcoin

"I can’t even believe that people would be allowed to burn tires."

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted to thwarting a Ukrainian attack on Russia's fleet near the Crimean coast by cutting off Starlink internet.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Admits to Sabotaging Ukraine’s Military

"As a result, civilians, children are being killed. This is the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk had to be convinced to renew Tesla's efforts of building a $25,000 car. It may end up looking like the Cybertruck.
Tesla

Tesla’s $25,000 Car Will Apparently Look Like a Mini Cybertruck

"When one of these comes around a corner," Musk reportedly said, "people will think they are seeing something from the future."

By Victor Tangermann