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Alex de Vries, a data scientist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, found that AI companies could soon use as much power as a country worldwide.
Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It’ll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country

"Each of these Nvidia servers, they are power-hungry beasts."

By Victor Tangermann

An analyst from a tech advisory firm said that generative AI is slated for a slowdown next year due to increasing costs.
Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI Is Headed for a Financial “Cold Shower” Next Year, Analyst Predicts

Is reality crashing down?

By Sharon Adarlo

X-formerly-Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's speaking tour is on pause for the foreseeable future following her disastrous Code interview.
Elon Musk

Twitter CEO Says That Due to Reasons, She Has to Cancel Appearance Defending Elon Musk’s Deranged Behavior

Linda Yaccarino's speaking tour is officially on hold.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Tesla Cybertruck with flashing hazard lights seemed to had become stalled on the side of a highway this weekend in California.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted Broken Down on Highway Shoulder

Don't hold your breath, buyers.

By Sharon Adarlo

Caroline Ellison testified that Sam Bankman-Fried once told her there was a five percent chance that he would become the president.
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Delusions Included That He Could Become President, Former Girlfriend Says

Sure, Sam.

By Victor Tangermann

Caroline Ellison, the ex-girlfriend of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, clearly came to court with guns blazing.
Blockchain

Caroline Ellison Says Sam Bankman-Fried “Directed” Her to Commit Crimes

She came out the gate swinging.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fun's over, kids. As Windows Central reports, Microsoft appears to have lobotomized Bing's DALL-E 3-powered AI Image Creator.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Lobotomizes Bing’s Image Generating AI

Bing's AI guardrails are better — kind of.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new Stockholm, Sweden-based startup called Luvly has unveiled a new car that can be delivered in flat pack form.
Advanced Transport

Sweden Invents Flat Pack Car

It's like IKEA, but for your car.

By Victor Tangermann

The space station's Russian segment has sprung yet another coolant leak, the third in less than a year, raising questions about reliability.
NASA

NASA Alarmed to See Flakes Drifting Past Space Station Window

"One is whatever, two is a coincidence, three is something systematic."

By Victor Tangermann

The results of a comprehensive survey of over 8,000 species of amphibians shows that 41 percent are globally threatened with extinction.
Climate Change

The Poor Little Froggos Are Going Extinct

Thousands of amphibian species are at risk.

By Frank Landymore

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.
Off-World

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

It's a big mystery out there.

By Frank Landymore

A cat is said to have jumped on a VA technician's keyboard, deleting a trove of US government-held medical data.
Future Society

VA Department Staffer Blames Cat Jumping on Keyboard for Server Outage

US government versus... kitty.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The city of Denver, Colorado gave out monthly payments from $50 to $1,000 to 800 unhoused residents, and the results were promising.
Future Society

Denver Gave Homeless People $1,000 Per Month and It Got Them Off the Streets and Working Full-Time

"Nothing helps you out of poverty when you live in a capitalist society like money in your pocket."

By Victor Tangermann

The food industry is apparently in a tizzy over the appetite-suppressing semaglutide — and even the megastore Walmart is feeling the burn. 
Food

Walmart Spies on Ozempic Patients’ Shopping Habits, Finds They’re Buying Less Food

What a time to sell drugs *and* groceries.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk hopes that SpaceX's Starship won't explode again next time it attempts to launch into orbit — but he's tempering his expectations.
Starship

Elon Musk Expresses Hope Starship Won’t Explode Next Time He Launches It

This is a very expensive gamble indeed.

By Noor Al-Sibai

New evidence shows that a set of ancient footprints in New Mexico pre-date when scientists believed humans populated the Americas.
Evolution

Scientists Surprised by Footprints From Before Humans Were Supposed to Be in America

"This opens up a whole new chapter in our understanding of the peopling of the Americas."

By Frank Landymore

DNA tests promise to detail customers' ancestry — but in some cases, what the companies report is far more surprising than expected.
Gene Editing

DNA Tests Have a Nasty Side Effect: Discovering Your Parents’ Secrets

"I didn't even think my mom had ever met a Jewish person before."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Space startup Axiom Space is getting a hand from luxury fashion brand Prada to design its spacesuit for NASA's upcoming lunar mission.
NASA

Prada Is Officially Working on NASA’s Lunar Spacesuit

Okay, we're intrigued.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found a sad but unsurprising statistic: that nearly 10% of folks who use AI chatbots are doing so for horny purposes.
Artificial Intelligence

One in Ten Chatbot Users Are Big Time Horndogs, Researchers Find

This isn't exactly shocking.

By Noor Al-Sibai

For more than a decade, cops have tried to use "predictive policing" to presage where crimes will happen — but they seem not to work at all.
Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimes

Who could have seen this coming?

By Noor Al-Sibai