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Meta is laying off even more employees. In his announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was notably mum about his favorite pet project: the metaverse.
Metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg Is Suddenly Weirdly Quiet About the Metaverse

What metaverse?

Axiom Space showed off a prototype of its brand new spacesuit today — a design created by the costume designer of the hit sci-fi show "For All Mankind."
Moon

NASA Debuts Its Brand New Sci-Fi-Inspired Moonsuit — But It’s a Rental

It looks like it was yanked straight out of "Mass Effect."

Microsoft got rid of an entire company division devoted to AI "ethics and society" during its January layoffs, according to a report from Platformer.
Ethics

Microsoft Laid Off Its Entire AI “Ethics and Society” Division

This feels pretty ominous.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a Wolf-Rayet, an absolutely massive classification of star that is on the verge of a supernova.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Breathtaking Image of a Titanic Star That’s About to Explode

Marvelous.

A weird bug is allowing Tesla owners to drive off with somebody else's Tesla by using the EV maker's bespoke smartphone app.
Tesla

Tesla Driver Freaked Out After App Allows Him to Drive Off With the Wrong Car

"My family is not feeling safe right now."

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted some dunes that are practically perfect circles. So the question remains: how did they form?
Mars

Scientists Baffled By These Almost Perfectly Circular Dunes on Mars

What in Mars' name?

OpenAI's brand new GPT-4 AI has managed to ask a human on TaskRabbit to complete a CAPTCHA code via text message — and it actually worked.
OpenAI

Uh Oh, OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Fooled a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA

"No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images."

OpenAI just revealed GPT-4, the next-gen version of its Large Language Model (LLM) tech. It seems impressive, but reportedly still has flaws.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Next-Generation AI Is About to Demolish Its Competition

Here's why.

NASA could be getting a bigger budget next year, with hopes of allocating money to developing its own spacecraft to retire the ISS.
NASA

NASA Wants to Build a Special Spacecraft to Destroy the ISS

Its time has come.

Hot on the heels of the GPT-4 drop, OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model — and we're slightly freaked.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone’s Ever Taken

Hot damn!

In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans.
OpenAI

High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work

It's not just the students.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is irked by the suggestion that the $10 million his company pays Matthew McConaughey per year was related to its mass layoffs.
Future Society

CEO: Matthew McConaughey’s Huge Paycheck Has Nothing to Do With Layoffs, Peasants

"If you have seen the work, it’s some of the best in the world."

Something's not right about the apparent friction between the UFOs and the and air and water they're churning through — or so it seems.
Physics

Harvard and Pentagon Scientists Say “Highly Maneuverable” UFOs Appear to Defy Physics

Something isn't adding up.

As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.
Future Society

Creepy App Used Stolen Pictures of Dead People to Train Its Facial Recognition Algorithm

"My sister is dead. She can't consent or revoke consent for being enrolled in this."

AI chatbots are all the rage, and a ChatGPT-based one is coming to General Motors' cars, according to a company executive.
OpenAI

General Motors Wants to Put ChatGPT in Its Cars

What could possibly go wrong?

Shocker: bottling your kid's childhood into social media content for the sake of monetization makes their lives miserable.
Future Society

Their Parents Were Family Influencers, Now Their Kids Hate Them

"Any money you get will be greatly overshadowed by years of suffering."

A novel quantum computing technique could be able to reconstitute a small object across space "without any particles crossing," just like a wormhole.
Quantum Physics

Researchers Say They’ve Come Up With a Blueprint for Creating a Wormhole in a Lab

Mind blown.

The ConocoPhillips Willow oil project in Alaska will produce some 600 million barrels of oil in 30 years, potentially undoing Biden's climate pledges.
Climate Change

Biden Turns Blind Eye to Climate Change, Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project

"Allowing the Willow project to proceed would result in double the carbon pollution that all renewable progress on public lands and waters would save by 2030."

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Demolishes Hubble’s Record of Fitting the Most Galaxies in a Single Image

And we're barely scratching the surface.

Bitcoin is way up in spite — or, perhaps, because — of the tumult following the federal seizure of Silicon Valley Bank.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Surges As Spooked Investors Seek Shelter in Crypto, of All Places

What the hell is going on?