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In a bid to better understand squid skin cells, scientists have turned to replicating squid's camouflage ability in human cells.
Science & Energy

Whoa.

A Space Force official has some bold military advice for the Pentagon: make crypto, not war. Could this idea really work?
Cryptocurrency

This sure is a novel concept.

They call it the BOAT, or the brightest of all time, for a reason. But the origins of the gamma ray burst remain difficult to pin down.
Off-World

It's the brightest explosion we've ever observed in the cosmos.

Fined for a parking ticket for a place she had a permit to park in, a student turned to ChatGPT to convince the cops to get it overturned.
OpenAI

Well played.

When they're dehydrated or have parts of themselves cut off, plants appear to make sounds akin to crying — and scientists have caught it on audio.
Science & Energy

Honestly? Heartbreaking.

Don't expect scam emails to be as obvious as a foreign prince strapped for cash writing with terrible grammar. AI fixes that problem easily.
OpenAI

"The idea that you can rely on looking for bad grammar or spelling in order to spot a phishing attack is no longer the case."

The crypto platform LunarCrush will be stowing a bounty of 62 Bitcoin on the Moon, currently worth around $1.5 million — and it's completely up for grabs.
Bitcoin

Don't expect it to cover travel expenses. At all.

A Shanghai-based startup called Hypershell has cmoe up with an AI-powered exoskeleton that promises to take a big load off the next time you're on a hike.
Robots and Machines

Harder, better, faster, stronger.

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has come up with tiny micro-robots that can distinguish between healthy and dying cells.
Health & Medicine

They could even be used to deliver drugs or remove cancer cells.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has some seriously mixed feelings about AI being used to write entries for the encyclopedia.
Artificial Intelligence

Is that a good idea?

An absolutely deranged new video shows an artificial intelligence interpreting famed actor Will Smith indulging in a bowl of spaghetti — well, that was the intent at least.
Artificial Intelligence

Or is the spaghetti eating him?

The rumor mill has churned out a pretty huge claim against Google's new Bard AI chatbot — but the tech giant is denying, denying, denying. 
Google

Google, play "Rumors" by Lindsay Lohan.

Midjourney is now discontinuing its free trial offers. But its CEO says the move is unrelated to the viral convincing fakes of celebrities the AI generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Freeloaders excommunicated.

Former NASA astronaut and current podcaster Clayton Anderson has been caught liking a spate of transphobic tweets.
NASA

This is gross as heck.

The anti-artificial intelligence push continues apace in Italy, which just moved to temporarily ban OpenAI's ChatGPT pending a data privacy investigation. 
OpenAI

This is a spicy meatball.

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.
Black Holes

Black holes just got darker.

A new report re-evaluating the long-feared "population bomb" has found that the number of people on Earth isn't going to explode, but rather decrease.
Climate Change

This is a good thing, folks!

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has announced that it will cut a total of 675 jobs, roughly 85 percent of its workforce, in a SEC filing today.
Off-World

Ouch.

One of the world's loudest AI e critics has issued a stark call to not only put a pause on it but to militantly put an end to it all — before it ends us. 
Machine Learning

He says that after AGI, "literally everyone on Earth will die."

While Twitter waits for owner Elon Musk's next decree, the geniuses behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary account have provided some comedic relief. 
Elon Musk

We love this for them.