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There's a random Canadian astronaut going to the Moon with three Americans from NASA next year — and according to him, that's by design. 
Moon

"That's a great insurance policy."

An Australian mayor may sue OpenAI over ChatGPT-generated defamation, after the AI chatbot told users that he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit.
OpenAI

This could be huge.

A Michigan State University study found that one in five adults in the state weren't planning on ever having children, and had no regrets later.
Studies

"We found no evidence that older child-free adults experience any more life regret than older parents."

Btech workers got paid six figure salaries to do nothing. That may be by design, as experts say the industry overhired to hoarde talent.
Future Society

That would explain... a lot.

NASA just dropped its new graphics in the wake of its crew announcement for the Artemis II mission to the Moon and, reader, they're so lit. 
NASA

We can barely contain our excitement over here.

It might be gone by now, but if you use Google Pay, you might've received some free dinero that you'll want to cash out sooner than rather than later.
Future Society

Free. Money.

JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe
Black Holes

And scientists think they'll find some even older, too.

SpaceX's "V2 Mini" Starlink satellites, the bite-sized test version of the company's next generation of satellites, are struggling to stay in orbit.
SpaceX

Sayonara, buddy.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apparently all but abandoned dead-eyed, lifeless metaverse avatar as he focuses on Meta's AI shift.
Metaverse

What do you expect, an attention span?

It appears that hackers have compromised the University of Arizona's website and posted a bunch of stuff a Southeast Asian online casino.
Hacking

Oopsie.

One of the world's foremost chess grandmasters apparently made a fat finger error for the ages when he accidentally clicked the wrong square and lost a tie.
Future Society

Well, that's embarrassing.

Stability AI, a startup that helped develop popular open-source image generator Stable Diffusion, is in serious trouble, Semafor reports.
Artificial Intelligence

The company is burning through cash at an alarming rate.

If we can't find a way to cap what this economist calls Greedflation? Capitalism, he says, might have just about run its course.
Future Society

"The end of Greedflation must surely come. Otherwise, we may be looking at the end of capitalism."

In one of the pettiest moves possible, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has blocked all links to the popular publishing platform Substack on Twitter.
Elon Musk

"I cannot explain how absurd and silly this is."

A project that touted so-called "liquid trees" from two years ago has recently been ruthlessly mocked online. Do they deserve the hate?
Pollution

When the trees of Mother Nature are just too low-tech.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company has AI search products in the work, with aspirations of integrating chatbot functionality into its Google Search.
Google

Who will win the AI search engine wars?

Universal Music Group just issued a copyright takedown notice to a YouTuber, who created an AI-generated song about kittens using Eminem's voice.
Artificial Intelligence

"Eminem loves cats until the very end, they may drive us crazy, with their constant meows."

OpenAI's ChatGPT is flooding the internet with a tsunami of made-up facts and disinformation — which is becoming a big problem for the journalism industry.
OpenAI

This is turning into a huge problem.

One of the world's foremost psychedelics researchers is taking a curious approach to the knowledge of his own death — by treating it as a beautiful mystery.
Cancer

"We all know that we’re terminal."

Researchers are working on a way to transform plastic waste into edible biomass for deep-space missions, all with the help of lab-engineered bacteria.
Off-World

We'll take one 3D-printed Plasticburger to go, please.