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Meta is laying off even more employees. In his announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was notably mum about his favorite pet project: the metaverse.
Metaverse

What metaverse?

Axiom Space showed off a prototype of its brand new spacesuit today — a design created by the costume designer of the hit sci-fi show "For All Mankind."
Moon

It looks like it was yanked straight out of "Mass Effect."

Microsoft got rid of an entire company division devoted to AI "ethics and society" during its January layoffs, according to a report from Platformer.
Ethics

This feels pretty ominous.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a Wolf-Rayet, an absolutely massive classification of star that is on the verge of a supernova.
James Webb Space Telescope

Marvelous.

A weird bug is allowing Tesla owners to drive off with somebody else's Tesla by using the EV maker's bespoke smartphone app.
Tesla

"My family is not feeling safe right now."

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted some dunes that are practically perfect circles. So the question remains: how did they form?
Mars

What in Mars' name?

OpenAI's brand new GPT-4 AI has managed to ask a human on TaskRabbit to complete a CAPTCHA code via text message — and it actually worked.
OpenAI

"No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images."

OpenAI just revealed GPT-4, the next-gen version of its Large Language Model (LLM) tech. It seems impressive, but reportedly still has flaws.
OpenAI

Here's why.

NASA could be getting a bigger budget next year, with hopes of allocating money to developing its own spacecraft to retire the ISS.
NASA

Its time has come.

Hot on the heels of the GPT-4 drop, OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model — and we're slightly freaked.
OpenAI

Hot damn!

In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans.
OpenAI

It's not just the students.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is irked by the suggestion that the $10 million his company pays Matthew McConaughey per year was related to its mass layoffs.
Future Society

"If you have seen the work, it’s some of the best in the world."

Something's not right about the apparent friction between the UFOs and the and air and water they're churning through — or so it seems.
Physics

Something isn't adding up.

As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.
Future Society

"My sister is dead. She can't consent or revoke consent for being enrolled in this."

AI chatbots are all the rage, and a ChatGPT-based one is coming to General Motors' cars, according to a company executive.
OpenAI

What could possibly go wrong?

Shocker: bottling your kid's childhood into social media content for the sake of monetization makes their lives miserable.
Future Society

"Any money you get will be greatly overshadowed by years of suffering."

A novel quantum computing technique could be able to reconstitute a small object across space "without any particles crossing," just like a wormhole.
Quantum Physics

Mind blown.

The ConocoPhillips Willow oil project in Alaska will produce some 600 million barrels of oil in 30 years, potentially undoing Biden's climate pledges.
Climate Change

"Allowing the Willow project to proceed would result in double the carbon pollution that all renewable progress on public lands and waters would save by 2030."

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.
James Webb Space Telescope

And we're barely scratching the surface.

Bitcoin is way up in spite — or, perhaps, because — of the tumult following the federal seizure of Silicon Valley Bank.
Bitcoin

What the hell is going on?