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If you searched Craigslist using Google recently, you may have gotten totally meaningless junk pages stuffed solely with links and keywords.
Future Society

Google Search Losing Battle Against Barrage of SEO Spam

"This, in my opinion, is partly the fault of Google, who appears to be putting more emphasis on content rather than links."

By Frank Landymore

In 2019, scientists detected a strange wobble deep below the Earth's surface that repeats every 8.5 years. They just found an explanation.
Science & Energy

Scientists Working to Understand Strange Signal From Earth’s Core

They just found the cause.

By Victor Tangermann

In an attempt to bring air quality down from hazardous levels, officials have begun seeding clouds to make it rain in Lahore, Pakistan.
Science & Energy

Pakistan Attempts to Cut Through Killer Smog With Artificial Rain

It was a mixed success.

By Victor Tangermann

The "highly motivated" 18-year-old hacker who leaked GTA VI footage will stay in a secure hospital unless he is deemed no longer a threat.
Hacking

GTA 6 Hacker Committed to Hospital Indefinitely After Vowing to Strike Again

A judge deemed the teenager a high risk to the public.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers uncovered that penile fractures increase during Christmas after evaluating data from hospital stays.
Studies

Careful, Lads! Scientists Link Christmas to “Penile Fractures”

Wait... what!?

By Sharon Adarlo

Local authorities in Iceland are telling people to stop visiting the volcanic eruption because the terrain is challenging and dangerous. 
Science & Energy

Authorities Ask Tourists to Stop Flocking to Site of Volcanic Eruption

"As we have seen in the past, people overestimate their ability."

By Sharon Adarlo

A new poll found that 80 percent of Americans think presenting AI content as human-made should be illegal.
Artificial Intelligence

80 Percent of Americans Think Presenting AI Content as Human-Made Should Be Illegal

The people have spoken!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After raising almost half a billion dollars in funding since being founded in 2014, Hyperloop One is shutting down.
Hyperloop

The Hyperloop Is Dead. Long Live the Hyperloop.

Is Elon Musk's revolutionary idea really no more?

By Victor Tangermann

Volkswagen is bringing back physical buttons and control switches to its new batch of cars after customer complaints.
Advanced Transport

Volkswagen Bringing Back Buttons, Knob After Touchscreen Complaints

Touchscreens are garbage, drivers complain.

By Sharon Adarlo

An AI-generated image of Jack and Rose taking a selfie in front of an intact Titanic ship that is making its rounds has us mystified.
Artificial Intelligence

We Are Completely Mystified by This AI-Generated Image of Jack and Rose Taking a Selfie in “Titanic”

"Where to start with this one."

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX fired up the engines of its latest Starship prototype, setting the stage for the company's third orbital test launch.
Starship

SpaceX Fires Up Starship Before Next Orbital Test

Third time's the charm.

By Victor Tangermann

Rite Aid used faulty facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting but instead ended up antagonizing and traumatizing shoppers.
Facial recognition

Rite Aid’s Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft

"Rite Aid's reckless use of facial surveillance systems left its customers facing humiliation..."

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk is yet again hyping up the Cybertruck's potential as a boat. But as always, there's reason to doubt that these claims hold water.
Elon Musk

While Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Can Float, Tesla Told a Guy His Model 3 Broke Because He Washed It

"This is the only car that I've ever heard of where a car wash can damage the wiring."

By Frank Landymore

According to The Information, Google is looking to reassign or let go of customer sales workers whose jobs were automated by AI tools.
Google

Google Reportedly Replacing Some Human Staff With AI

The era of AI job automation is already here.

By Victor Tangermann

In dramatic footage posted on Instagram, a massive orca spikes a hapless dolphin like it's a volleyball into the sky during a group hunt.
Science & Energy

Killer Whale Yeets Dolphin Into the Sky

Terror in the high seas!

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gotten an unprecedented, close-up look at the many rings of Uranus and its moons.
James Webb Space Telescope

The Mighty James Webb Peers Directly Into Uranus

We have such sights to show you...

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that daily smoking can shrink your brain, leading to dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

Smoking Cigarettes Does Something Horrifying to Your Brain, Scientists Find

The damage can't be undone.

By Sharon Adarlo

A study on basic income gave $750 per month to 103 homeless people in California for a year's duration, and the move had positive results.
Future Society

Researchers Gave Homeless People $750 Per Month and the Results Were Incredible

Extroardinary.

By Sharon Adarlo

Amateur astronomer and satellite tracker Scott Tilley says China's top-secret spaceplane is emitting strong signals over North America.
Off-World

Chinese Spacecraft Emitting Strong Signal Over North America

"This could indicate a clandestine ground station on the west coast of North America..."

By Victor Tangermann

Data scientists in Denmark claim they've devised an AI model that can predict when someone is going to die.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say Their New AI Can Predict When You’re Going to Die

This sounds like something out of science fiction.

By Noor Al-Sibai