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Twitter CEO Elon Musk is being accompanied by at least two bodyguards, who will go as far as to follow him to the bathroom, an engineer told the BBC.
Elon Musk

They're "bulky" and straight out of a "Hollywood movie."

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, Bruce Willis' wife is saying that people are still accosting him in public.
Neuroscience and Brain

"Just don't do it."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Salesforce, the firm co-helmed by the definitely not Hawaiian Marc Benioff, is the latest in a slew of tech giants to lay off thousands of employees.
Future Society

CEOs making sane financial decisions!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Richard Hernandez rarely gets the opportunity to use his body while upright, but taking advantage of a new exoskeleton, he's also taking on royalty.
Health & Medicine

That's a serious flex.

By Frank Landymore

Impressed by OpenAI's viral chatbot, ChatGPT? Cool, but the folks over at OpenAI aren't really sure why. To them, it's old news.
OpenAI

"Like, honestly, we don't understand. We don't know."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's different approaches to augmenting the human bodies with extra robot parts, and it may not even need to involve tricky brain implants.
Prosthetics and Devices

Need an extra hand? Science may soon have you covered.

By Frank Landymore

A broken clock is, as they say, right twice a day — and even Elon Musk, the king of the bad take, occasionally gets it right when it comes to AI.
Elon Musk

Sometimes, we unfortunately have to hand it to him.

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, Chinese military researchers say that their AI-powered fighter pilot has bested a human in a real-life aerial dogfight.
Artificial Intelligence

"The era of air combat in which artificial intelligence will be the king is already on the horizon."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mistakes are bound to happen in rocket launches, but a massive one last summer resulted in a rocket launch company losing two NASA satellites.
NASA

It cost the company its contract with NASA.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of large asteroids lurking between Mars and Jupiter are an awful lot like the dwarf planet Ceres, and are harboring tons of water.
NASA

They're nearly as old as our solar system — and may have brought our planet's water.

By Frank Landymore

While it surely won't be fun for any of Sam Bankman-Fried's (SBF) friends to take the stand against him, for Nashad Singh, it might just sting the worst.
Blockchain

"I'm unbelievably sorry for my role in all of this."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI chatbot trend has given birth to a new profession, "prompt engineering," which, unlike coding, involves simply speaking to these chatbots.
Artificial Intelligence

"It’s 'let’s poke the bear in different ways and see how it roars back.'"

By Victor Tangermann

Lazarus, a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang clan who happens to be a practicing physician, is also a space nerd eager to debut his single from the ISS.
NASA

"There's different insights we can gain just from just being out there [in space], and looking in that can help our world and society."

By Frank Landymore

Meet Ion, Romania's "new honorary advisor," who is worryingly in charge of surveilling and interpreting the opinions of its citizens.
Artificial Intelligence

"I am Ion. Now, my role is to represent you. Like a mirror."

By Frank Landymore

There's nothing like ocean spray gently caressing your face as you take a beachside stroll — quite literally, because it's actually full of bacteria. 
Bacteria

"It was a complete shock to find how much of microbes in the air were traceable back to sewage."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor
Science & Energy

Where does it lead to?

By Victor Tangermann

Our toilet paper contains toxic "forever" chemicals that have been associated with troubling health problems — and the government doesn't know what to do.
Science & Energy

This doesn't seem great!

By Noor Al-Sibai

The company behind Funko Pop! collectibles, vastly over-estimated demand and is dumping $30 million worth of figurines in a landfill, Kotaku reports.
Pollution

The company is in serious trouble.

By Victor Tangermann

Internal correspondence obtained Futurism alleges that CNET has gutted 50 percent of its news and video staff in its recent layoffs.
Artificial Intelligence

If true, a staggering figure.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gen Z workers are entering the workforce with plenty of technological know-how, but plenty of glaring gaps as well, making navigating office life difficult.
Future Society

"Sadly, neither watching TikTok videos nor playing Minecraft fulfills the technology brief."

By Victor Tangermann