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The financial industry's increasing reliance on AI will most likely trigger the next financial crisis, according to the SEC chairman.
Artificial Intelligence

SEC Head Says It’s a Near-Certainty That AI Will Cause a Financial Crash

"Nearly unavoidable."

By Sharon Adarlo

Genetically supercharged trees and other plants could be promising CO2 vacuums, but are yet to be proven outside the greenhouse.
Climate Change

Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2

It's a bold solution.

By Frank Landymore

Stack Overflow, is laying off 28 percent of its staff, just as OpenAI's ChatGPT is experiencing a big surge in popularity for coding help.
Artificial Intelligence

Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry

AI code to Stack Overflow: adapt or die.

By Sharon Adarlo

Adobe has unveiled a sparkling, interactive dress — and got the research scientist who created it to model the high-tech couture. 
Future Society

Adobe Shows Off Dress That Can Change Its Pattern on the Fly

This is next level.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A massive cache of niobium-packed "niabobaoite" discovered in China may have broad implications for the global battery race.
Science & Energy

China Says It’s Discovered a Cache of a Strange New Ore

This could be a very big deal.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk has once again signaled his love for novelist George Orwell – without acknowledging the writer's well-known political stance.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Signals Support for Militant Socialist

Who's gonna tell him?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam

And why is she blonde!?

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

A stunning new video put together by the European Space Agency shows the vastness of the Noctis Labyrinthus, a Martian canyon.
Mars

Amazing Video Soars Over Mars’ Epic “Labyrinth of Night”

Woah.

By Victor Tangermann

AI is here to enforce Zoom etiquette — but according to some who have used the meeting bots, the AIs don't always understand nuance.
Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior

"It was like, monologue!"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's used as a tie-breaker, a this-or-that decision maker. But the long considered fair coin toss actually has quite a bit of bias.
Science & Energy

Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find

We'll take those odds.

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy that they say can cure a type of deafness.
Gene Editing

Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness

"The hair cells are working, but they are not talking to the nerve."

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI-powered tool from Google will effortlessly swap and add different facial expressions using other photos you took.
Google

Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable

Turn that frown upside down.

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI quietly changed its "core values" list to include a focus on AGI that wasn't explicitly listed there before. 
OpenAI

The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its “Core Values” With Completely Different Ones

Oh, okay.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gianluca Grimulda, an Italian social and climate scientist, prefers "slow travel" to cut down on his carbon emissions. That means no flights.
Climate Change

Climate Researcher Fired for Refusing to Fly

For this scientist, taking a commercial flight does not fly.

By Frank Landymore

A particularly resourceful Tesla owner used the company's Summon feature to retrieve his Model 3 from a locked parking garage.
Tesla

Man Uses “Smart Summon” to Get Tesla Out of Locked Parking Garage

"No f***ing way."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is offering a "bug bounty" to anyone who can bait its Bing AI into saying or doing what it's not supposed to.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails

Call that Bing the Bounty Hunter.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The pig was actually a miniature pig, which was engineered with nearly 70 gene edits, including the addition of human DNA.
Developments

Monkey Lives for Two Years With Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

"It is time for clinical translation of this vital technology."

By Frank Landymore

The observation of the donut-shaped cloud of debris is believed to be the first of a planetary collision's afterglow.
Off-World

Astronomers Say Two Giant Ice Planets Collided, Leaving Donut-Shaped Wreckage

"As far as I'm aware, no one's claimed this before."

By Frank Landymore

A researcher who considers himself "the ultimate skeptic" was convinced by his own research that taking supplements is good, actually.
Studies

Scientist Who Thought Supplements Were a Scam Changed His Mind After Studying Them

"I'm just as skeptical as anyone else when it comes to this stuff."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed a material that can remotely stimulate neural tissue and allow nerve signals to flow again.
Developments

Scientists Say New Material Can Reconnect Severed Nerves

Imagine healing a damaged brain or a severed nerve.

By Sharon Adarlo