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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.

Researchers at Cornell University created an AI that is a lot more transparent about the medical literature it cites, earning praise from doctors using it.
Developments

"A doctor's primary job is not to learn how AI works."

Employees at Tesla have secretly been watching and passing around "intimate" videos recorded by Tesla car cameras, Reuters reports.
Tesla

"We could see inside people's garages and their private properties."

A drone captured an incredibly rare — and anxiety-inducing — sight: a pod of 30 killer Orca whales hunting two full-grown gray whales in a five-hour battle.
Drones

"These were not calves: they were huge adult gray whales!"

Comedian Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the AI hype cycle. Honestly? It goes hard.
Artificial Intelligence

"See, tech companies are powered by hype. It's not enough to be profitable."

ChatGPT has falsely accused at least one person of sexual assault and made up fake news articles to back it up — and yes, we're very afraid.
OpenAI

Nobody deserves this.

NASA astronaut chief Joe Acaba wanted to get three lucky astronauts all in the same meeting to tell them they were Moon-bound. Easier said than done.
Moon

Planning a Moon mission is nothing compared to planning a meeting, apparently.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that he's worried humans will start falling in love with AIs, using AI chatbot tutors as a prime example.
Google

"What happens when people fall in love with their AI tutor?"

IT company Arthur Grand Technologies is feeling the heat for a racist job listing that it's blaming on a rogue employee. Many don't buy its explanation.
Future Society

Yikes.

Elon Musk is, as we all recently learned, hardwired into Twitter's source code — but according to him, this is the first he's hearing of it.
Elon Musk

"This is the first time I'm learning of this by the way."

Virtual reality technology has failed to capture the imagination or interest of American teens, according to a new survey by investment bank Piper Sandler.
Virtual Reality

They're just not interested.

In a new interview, Daft Punk co-founder Thomas Bangalter admitted that concerns about artificial intelligence led to the timing of the band's breakup.
Artificial Intelligence

"The last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot."

Clearview AI, maker of AI-powered facial recognition software used widely by US cops, claims to have scraped 30 billion Facebook photos for AI training.
Artificial Intelligence

"Clearview is a total affront to peoples' rights, full stop, and police should not be able to use this tool."

After Italy banned OpenAI's ChatGPT, a surprising detractor came out of the woodwork — the country's own deputy prime minister. 
OpenAI

"There has clearly been too much zeal."

Not only does generative AI threaten originality in art, as some argue, it undeniably makes who gets the credit for intellectual property a lot murkier.
Artificial Intelligence

Film studios are really starting to feel the heat.

Marketing professor Matthew Prince challenged his 80 students to create a viral TikTok video that receives at least one million views before he can.
Future Society

Challenge accepted!

The startup Venus Aerospace wants to make use of experimental rotating detonation rocket engines to make the fastest passenger aircraft ever.
Advanced Transport

"How much does the world change if you can get anywhere in an hour?"

Bob Lee, a co-founder of Cash App and the current CPO of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, has died after being stabbed to death Tuesday night.
Future Society

"He was a generous decent human being who didn’t deserve to be killed."

According to an FAA notice, SpaceX could kick off the first orbital test launch of its gigantic Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster next week.
Starship

We could literally be days away from an orbital launch attempt.