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By using a technique known as error mitigation, IBM scientists believe they've worked around the uncertainty that plagues quantum processors.
Physics

IBM Says It’s Made a Big Breakthrough in Quantum Computing

"We're entering this phase of quantum computing that I call... the era of utility."

By Frank Landymore

A team of scientists has created synthetic human embryos from stem cells without the need for either an egg or sperm.
Developments

Scientists Create Synthetic Human Embryos Using No Sperm or Egg

"It’s beautiful and created entirely from embryonic stem cells."

By Victor Tangermann

A 21-year-old man called Max Park has just broken the world record for the fastest time to solve a Rubik's Cube.
Future Society

Man Solves Rubik’s Cube in Three Seconds

Incredible.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 14-year-old prodigy is old enough to work at SpaceX, but not old enough to have a LinkedIn profile — and he's furious about it.
Future Society

14-Year-Old SpaceX Employee Furious When LinkedIn Restricts His Account for Being Too Young

What a whirlwind week this kid has had!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google is required to pay out $23 million to users as part of a class action lawsuit settlement. You have until July 31 to make a claim.
Future Society

If You Googled Anything During the Years “30 Rock” Was on TV, You Can Get Free Money Right Now

Dollar dollar bills, y'all.

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's AI guru is coming for the artificial intelligence chatbot craze — and it may put him at odds with his own employer. 
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s Chief AI Scientist Says LLMs Are Just a Passing Fad

He might want to talk to his boss about this.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Enceladus, an icy, 300 miles-in-diameter Moon that orbits Saturn, contains all of the six major ingredients for life after all.
Exobiology

Scientists Extremely Intrigued to Find Ingredients for Life on Enceladus

"The next step is to figure out if indeed it is inhabited..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cybertruck With Camouflage Pattern Spotted at In-N-Out Drive-Thru
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck With Camouflage Pattern Spotted at In-N-Out Drive-Thru

"Good thing we used camo lol."

By Victor Tangermann

Cedric Lodge, manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue, allegedly let some of his patrons into the morgue to shop for human remains.
Developments

Harvard’s Morgue Manager Accused of Selling Stolen Body Parts

Heads were sold, and heads will roll.

By Frank Landymore

The Food and Drug Administration just approved the first topical erectile dysfunction drug in the US that works within just ten minutes.
RX and Medicine

FDA Approves First Erectile Dysfunction Gel That Doesn’t Require a Prescription

Things are looking up.

By Frank Landymore

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' lawyers claim she can't pay monthly installments of $250 to her victims after prison.
Future Society

Elizabeth Holmes Says She Can’t Afford $250 Per Month to Pay Back Victims

Her lawyers say she has "limited financial resources."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that sharks — including juvenile great white sharks  — hang out far closer to swimmers and surfers than previously thought.
Drones

Drone Footage Shows Swimmers Often Have No Idea There Are Giant Sharks Right Nearby

Just don't look down.

By Victor Tangermann

Gamurs, which owns gaming sites like Destructoid and Dot Esports, is looking for an AI editor to output up to 250 articles per week.
Artificial Intelligence

Owner of Gaming Sites Fires Writers, Hires for “AI Editor” to Churn Out Hundreds of Articles Per Week

"The future of written gaming content is here!"

By Frank Landymore

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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."

By Noor Al-Sibai

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."

By Noor Al-Sibai

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..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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?

By Sharon Adarlo

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.

By Victor Tangermann