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Five years ago, OceanGate, the company behind the now-missing submarine, brushed away warnings about the craft's safety.
Future Society

OceanGate Was Warned of “Catastrophic” Problems With Its Submarine Years Ago

A fired employee warned the company that it could "subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible."

TikTok has become a major hub for conspiracy theorists who claim that the Titanic never sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Future Society

Conspiracy Lunatics Think the Titanic Never Actually Sank

"It becomes kind of deflating to see a lot of this junk coming out."

A radio station decided to clone one of its DJs' voices using AI, deploy it like the real thing, and make the human DJ advertise it, too.
Artificial Intelligence

Radio DJ “Celebrates” Her New AI Clone Replacement

Time to pack your bags, "traditional Ashley."

Elon Musk and podcaster Joe Rogan harassed vaccine expert Peter Hotez on Twitter. Hotez says he's since been stalked near his home.
Developments

Elon Musk and Joe Rogan Publicly Harass Vaccine Researcher on Twitter

This is awful.

Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks
Science & Energy

Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks

"It was like something out of 'Jaws.'"

A deep sea submersible with five crew members on board inexplicably went missing around 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod Sunday morning.
Robots and Machines

The Missing Titanic Submarine Seems Extremely Janky

It's not even the first time it got lost.

The erratic behavior of Betelgeuse, a bright star some 300 light years away, has many wondering what its supernova would look like.
Off-World

If Betelgeuse Explodes, It’ll Be So Bright You Could See It During the Day For a Year

It would even be visible to the naked eye.

The unholy union of SEO spam and AI-generated muck is here. And at the same time, reality, unfortunately, might be going right out the door.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Is Inventing Fake Quotes by Real People and Publishing Them Online

In an AI-powered internet, how much of our public image can we really control?

Rising global temperatures and pollution levels might have one particularly unexpected side effect: dog bites.
Climate Change

Harvard Researchers Find Dogs Bite People More on Hot Days

Climate change just got even worse!

To combat the worst effects of climate change, we need all hands on deck — and robotic ones definitely do apply. 
Robotics

A Robot Is Helping Reforest The Amazon

Finally, a robot that actually *helps* the environment.

GitHub found that 92 percent of the 500 US-based developers they surveyed said that they integrate AI tools into their workflow.
Artificial Intelligence

GitHub Says 92 Percent of Programmers Are Using AI

Clever or just plain lazy?

Researchers have spotted the fastest runaway star to have ever escaped the Milky Way as a result of a massive thermonuclear explosion.
Off-World

Scientists Spot Star Fleeing Our Galaxy at Incredible Speed

Did we do something wrong?

Droves of Amazon's human "Mechanical Turk" workers are using AI systems to automate the training of AI systems.
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Using AI to Automate Responses to Site That Pays Them to Train AI

"One of our key sources of human data is no longer fully 'human!'"

After unceremoniously blowing up during its first test, Starship's next launch could be this summer, if SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is to believed.
Starship

Elon Musk Preparing to Launch His Explodey Starship Rocket Once Again

Back, hopefully without a bang.

CEOs from a diverse cross-section of Fortune 500 companies believe AI might destroy humanity — and they think it could happen soon.
Artificial Intelligence

42 Percent of CEOs Think AI May Destroy Humanity This Decade

"It's pretty dark and alarming."

Google's parent company Alphabet is warning employees about how they use AI chatbots — including its own tool called Bard, Reuters reports.
Google

Google Warns Employees About Using AI, While Promoting Its Own AI

Double standard, much?

The robot arms featured in Beyoncé Knowles' Renaissance World Tour are impressive. But they might be more dangerous than they look.
Robotics

Expert Issues Warning About Beyoncé’s Fearsome Robot Arms

"It looks like they would hurt a lot."

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now
Biology

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

"There are days we have two or three."

Following multiple defaults on rent and a failure to even respond to its landlord, it looks like Twitter's Colorado HQ is kaput.
Future Society

Judge Tells Cops to Evict Twitter Office Over Unpaid Rent

Finally, a landlord we can all root for.

The CEO of Reddit is big mad that his moderators are protesting him, and he might just do something about it.
Future Society

Reddit CEO Flies Into a Rage, Threatens Protesting Moderators

We're not sure this guy knows what "democracy" means.