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Noam Chomsky, the world's preeminent linguist, has spoken, and he seems mighty tired of everyone's whining about artificial intelligence as it stands today. 
Artificial Intelligence

"That day may come, but its dawn is not yet breaking."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Florida-based startup Lonestar Data Holdings will be testing a data center on the Moon, which it believes could be the most secure location for data yet.
Moon

Taking cloud computing beyond our atmosphere.

By Frank Landymore

Humane just raked in $100 million in a Series C funding round, inking Microsoft and OpenAI deals in the process. What are they actually selling, though?
Artificial Intelligence

We're in the middle of an AI gold rush — but is there any gold?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to one conspiracy-minded Congressional Republican, there's a chance that his employer is reverse-engineering alien technology salvaged from UFOs. 
Off-World

It's a pretty outlandish theory.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The director behind "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief," is making a movie about Elon Musk, which the latter has already denounced.
Elon Musk

"How would you know?"

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have decided to resurrect ancient "zombie" viruses found in permafrost in an effort to head off one of climate change's freakiest eventualities.
Viruses

What could possibly go wrong?

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new study, the water in our Solar System is likely older than our Sun — and the secret, they say, was discovered in another star.
Off-World

It's the "missing the link" we've been looking for.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook's new artificial intelligence model for researchers and governments has been leaked — and naturally, it ended up on 4chan. 
OpenAI

Of course it ended up on 4chan.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership
Elon Musk

Everything's fine!

By Frank Landymore

To the credit of both Coperni and Boston Dynamics, we can't stop thinking about the viral robodogs-on-the-runway stunt. But only because it sucked.
Robot Dogs

We can't stop thinking about the robodog stunt. But only because it sucked.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, AI tools might seriously improve humanity's chances of discovering aliens on Mars — and beyond.
Exobiology

Their proof-of-concept works astonishingly well.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Almost everyone in the world is being exposed to levels of an air pollutant known as PM 2.5 that exceed the WHO's safe threshold.
Studies

"Almost no one is safe from air pollution."

By Frank Landymore

We're closer than ever to a dystopian future where corporations can read our thoughts without our permission using brain-computer interfaces.
Future Society

"We do see the technology starting to be used in some ways that are more like involuntary neural surveillance."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elementary school students have discovered that EpiPens can turn poisonous after being launched into space due to space radiation.
Developments

Having an allergic reaction in space could be seriously dangerous.

By Victor Tangermann

Those machine "hallucinations" that Large Language Models (LLM) are known for? According to one AI leader, they're just alternate realities, actually.
Artificial Intelligence

"LLMs don't hallucinate. They're just windows into alternate realities in the latent space."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched a probe into Tesla's 2023 Model Y after at least two reported steering wheel incidents.
Tesla

That's not good.

By Frank Landymore

If our solar system wasn't weird, we'd expect to find another "super-Earth" sized planet near Jupiter. Turns out though, that would probably kill us.
Off-World

It's a delicate balance.

By Frank Landymore

"They were all dumb as a rock," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, told the FT last month, speaking to digital assistants like Cortana, Siri, and Alexa.
Artificial Intelligence

No minced words here.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former SEC lawyer says that a Binance bank run seems "inevitable." Meanwhile, US regulator suspicion continues to mount against the crypto exchange.
Blockchain

"An epic bank run seems inevitable."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After dragging an ex-Twitter employee, Elon Musk has apologized to Haraldur Thorleifsson after disparaging him so publicly.
Elon Musk

"I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation."

By Noor Al-Sibai