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Researchers noticed a surge in brain activity that is correlated with consciousness even after two comatose patients' hearts stopped beating.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Detect Surge of Brain Activity in Dying Coma Patients

Did we just find signs of near-death experiences?

An AI-generated beer commercial is here, and frankly, it's the ghoulish fever dream of a beer commercial that we all deserve.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Generated Beer Commercial Is a Hallucinogenic Nightmare

"Like how an alien intelligence would understand our beer commercials."

In 2022, dozens of app gig workers were killed on the job — and, for some reason, labor laws haven't caught up yet. 
Future Society

A Shocking Number of Gig App Workers Were Murdered on the Job Last Year

The real number is probably even higher.

The unfortunate explosion was "roughly what I expected," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reportedly said in a Twitter Spaces session on Saturday.
Starship

Elon Musk Says His Great Intellect Predicted That Starship Would Explode

"Roughly what I expected."

It's finally happening — IBM is replacing jobs done by human workers with AI, because we live in employment hell.
Artificial Intelligence

IBM Replacing 7,800 Human Jobs With AI, Including Human Resources

"I could easily see 30 percent of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period."

Starting this week, Pornhub has completely disabled its websites for everybody living in the state of Utah.
Future Society

Pornhub Just Blocked the Entire State of Utah

The site argues the new law "will put children and your privacy at risk."

During a Twitter Spaces chat over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Starship only self-destructed after a 40-second delay.
Starship

Elon Musk Admits Starship Didn’t Initially Respond to Self-Destruct Command

That's not good.

A poor star some 173 million light years succumbed to the gaping maw of a black hole, dying in what's known as a tidal disruption event.
Black Holes

Grim Images Show Helpless Star Disappearing Into Black Hole

RIP.

Robots and Machines

The Best 6×9 Speakers of 2024

Convert your ride into a mobile sound system.

NewsGuard was able to identify 49 content farms producing material appearing to be either mostly or entirely AI-generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Dozens of News Sites are Using AI Chatbots to Churn Out Questionable Content

"Some publish hundreds of articles a day."

You can't make up Canada — especially when it comes to this phallic iceberg captured by a man from a hilariously-named town.
Science & Energy

Internet Amused by Iceberg With a Very Interesting Shape

Wait, is that a...

Joshua Browder, the CEO of robo-lawyer startup DoNotPay, allegedly handed over his entire financial life to OpenAI's GPT-4 to save money.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Gives All His Financial Info to AI and Lets It Make Decisions

What could possibly go wrong?

A modder has taken advantage of the wonders of ChatGPT to give NPCs in the popular video game Skyrim the ability to come up with new dialogue.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Mod Allows NPCs in Skyrim to Make Up New Dialogue

Is this the future of video games?

Tech investing publication VentureBeat is using OpenAI's Bing Chat to assist in editing and writing articles, Bloomberg reports.
Artificial Intelligence

VentureBeat Using AI to Help Generate Articles

“I don't think our readers care, to be totally honest."

Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey isn't impressed with how current CEO Elon Musk is running the social media platform.
Elon Musk

Jack Dorsey Sounds Alarmed by Elon Musk’s Erratic Behavior at Twitter

"It all went south."

The fallout from SpaceX's explosive Starship test continues, with Elon Musk admitting that it caused even more damage than we thought.
Starship

Elon Musk Says Starship Generated an Unexpected “Rock Tornado”

Yikes.

Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered neural networks, has suddenly left Google after almost a decade, warning of the dangers of AI.
Google

Godfather of AI Quits Google, Fears AI’s Risks and Regrets His Work

"It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things."

China's Zhurong rover, which has spent months exploring the Martian surface, may have found evidence of liquid water at low latitudes.
Mars

Chinese Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars

The discovery could provide "key clues for the future search for life."

Like a moth to a lamp, humans have long thought we knew why bugs are so attracted to lights — but new research suggests we may have been dim.
Science & Energy

Scientists Suggest New Reason Dumb Bugs Smash Into Lights

Y'all got any, uhhhh, lamp?

We'd need an astronomical amount of resources to construct a Dyson sphere around the Sun, like deconstructing an entire Jupiter-sized planet.
Off-World

Building a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Would Be Easy if We Used Jupiter for Raw Materials

It could take humanity to the next level.