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Japanese start-up EX-FUSION plans to use a powerful laser pulse to literally stop space junk in its tracks, safely de-orbiting it.
Off-World

Startup Building Huge Laser to Shoot Down Space Junk From the Ground

Target acquired.

By Frank Landymore

Human-tier AI will change the world and jobs "much less than we think," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said while attending the World Economic Forum.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says Human-Tier AI Is Coming Soon

"It will change the world much less than we all think."

By Victor Tangermann

An elderly Irish man is so fit, he's become the subject of a case study — and he didn't start working out until he was in his 70s.
Studies

Scientists Fascinated by Extremely Muscular 93-Year-Old Man

"It was one of the most inspiring days I’ve ever spent in the lab."

By Noor Al-Sibai

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla owners are becoming deeply frustrated with their vehicles not being able to charge as cold temperatures grip Chicago.
Tesla

Dead Cars Surround Chargers as Teslas Struggle in Frozen Weather

"It’s a disaster. Seriously."

By Victor Tangermann

The detection of a key biosignature on an exoplanet by the James Webb has some scientists believing we've already found evidence of life.
James Webb Space Telescope

Rumors Circulating That James Webb Has Discovered Life on Another World

"It's just that they don't want to release or confirm those results until they can be entirely sure, but we found a planet that seems to be giving off strong signals of biological life."

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a glorious image of two massive galaxies in the process of colliding with each other.
Off-World

Hubble Snaps Alarming Pic of Two Galaxies Crashing Into Each Other

Behold, the "monster merger."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It

"I hate you."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Global decision-makers predict that artificial intelligence will result in even more dramatic job losses in 2024 and beyond.
Artificial Intelligence

25 Percent of CEOs Plan to Replace Human Workers With AI This Year

Literally just why.

By Noor Al-Sibai

These suddenly exploding craters in Siberia could be caused by a build up of hot gas and rising temperatures due to climate change.
Climate Change

Scientists Attempt to Explain Craters Exploding Out of the Earth

Add "exploding craters" to your climate change bingo card.

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk appears to be feeling the burn of his own bad decisions — and is making threats about breaking off from Tesla because of them.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Upset He Sold Tesla Stock to Fund Twitter Disaster

This seems like a lose-lose scenario for everyone but Elon.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astrobotic tried to make the US' triumphant return to the lunar surface. Its lander will now burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Moon

It Was Supposed to Land on the Moon. Instead, It’s Dying a Fiery Death

It's been a "great honor."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot carefully folding a shirt on a table. It needed a lot of help.
Robotics

Elon Musk Posts Video of Optimus Robot, Gets Busted for Fakery

It needed a *substantial* amount of help.

By Victor Tangermann

The megastructure is over 1.3 billion light years across, challenging our current understanding of cosmology.
Off-World

Astronomers Puzzled by Cosmic Megastructure So Large It Shouldn’t Exist

"From current cosmological theories we didn't think structures on this scale were possible."

By Frank Landymore

NASA's team has finally managed to pry off the last two stuck fasteners of the container that holds most of the Bennu asteroid sample.
NASA

NASA Finally Rips Lid Off Stubborn Asteroid Sample

It's taken them over three months.

By Victor Tangermann

eBay has to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after harassing a couple by sending them a box full of spiders and other disturbing items.
Future Society

eBay Paying $3 Million for Sending Box of Horrors to Its Enemies

That's one way to do it!

By Sharon Adarlo

The first rule of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse is, apparently, that you don't talk about the Metaverse.
Metaverse

Zuckerberg Reportedly Got Furious at Wedding at Mention of His Dumb Metaverse Selfie

Whatever you do, don't mention the old avatar.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Chinese tech company claims its miniature nuclear battery is fully capable of working for up to 50 years.
Drones

Startup Says Its Coin-Sized Nuclear Battery Could Fly Drones “Continuously”

It works by harnessing energy from nuclear decay.

By Sharon Adarlo

The researchers trained an AI model on over 60,000 fingerprints, finding similarities they claim have gone overlooked.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Study Claims Human Fingerprints Aren’t Actually Unique

Not so special now.

By Frank Landymore

In Japan, a flight crew was forced to turn around during a trip after they had found a crack in the cockpit window of a Boeing 737-800.
Future Society

Boeing in Trouble Again as Crack Found in Cockpit Window Mid-Flight

It's been a bad month at Boeing.

By Sharon Adarlo