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The AI girlfriend guys are at it again — and this time, they're hoping their literal internet girlfriends can save them from the robot apocalypse.
Artificial Intelligence

Man “Sure” His AI Girlfriend Will Save Him When the Robots Take Over

Keep on dreaming, pal.

A team of astrophysicists is suggesting we could protect the Earth from global warming by shooting lunar dust into space to shade the Earth from sunlight.
Climate Change

Scientists Unveil Plan to Mount Cannons on the Moon to Fight Climate Change

It makes more sense than you might think.

If you were on Elon Musk-owned Twitter at all yesterday evening, you may have noticed: it was broken. Unsurprisingly, things apparently weren't chill at HQ.
Elon Musk

Panicked Elon Musk Asked Twitter Employees to Stop Building New Features as Site’s Infrastructure Crumbles

"Please pause for now on new feature development..."

A series of "unspeakable" words cause ChatGPT to respond in uncharacteristicly bizarre ways as well as returning a completely different word than entered.
OpenAI

Entering These “Unspeakable” Words Breaks ChatGPT

"I find that we're rushing ahead and we don't have the wisdom to deal with this technology."

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has made yet another astonishing discovery: "the mission's clearest evidence yet" of "ancient water ripples."
Mars

NASA Rover Finds What Appears to Be Ancient Water Ripple on Mars

"This is the best evidence of water and waves that we’ve seen in the entire mission."

Runway, the startup that co-created Stable Diffusion, has released an AI that transforms a source video into any style using only text prompt or image.
Artificial Intelligence

Stable Diffusion Creator Launches New AI That Turns Boring Footage Into Super Stylized Videos

"We're really close to having full feature films being generated."

A Tesla owner was shocked to find that the steering wheel of his one-week-old Tesla Model Y came off in his hands while driving on the highway.
Tesla

Tesla Offers New Car to Guy Whose Steering Wheel Fell Off While Driving

"They should investigate this and make sure what they did wrong doesn’t happen again."

Using stem cells to grow minitiarized intestinal tissue called organoids, the researchers recreated a human immune response inside mice.
Developments

Scientists Grew Tiny, Partially Functional Human Intestines Inside Mice

It's as remarkable as it sounds.

A University of Delaware student "accidentally" created a small amount of a "shock-sensitive explosive chemical" in one of the university's labs.
Chemistry

College Student “Accidentally” Builds Explosive, Forcing Bomb Squad to Detonate It

"We don't really have any homework to be doing so far, so here we are waiting for the explosion."

Netflix's new romcom "You People" allegedly used CGI to make it look like it actors Jonah Hill and Lauren London were kissing.
Future Society

Netflix Romcom Allegedly Used CGI to Make Jonah Hill Kiss Lauren London

Because actual physical intimacy in a romcom is overrated!

Billionaire climate advocate Bill Gates will do whatever it takes to save the planet — as long as it doesn't mean giving up his private jet.
Climate Change

Bill Pledges to Keep Flying Private Jet While Speaking Out Against Climate Change

"I'm part of the solution."

Google is warning netizens to watch out for AI-generated content regarding "health, civic, or financial information." So, you know, the important things.
Google

Google Issues Warning About AI-Generated Content About Health and Finance

So, you know, the stuff that you really don't want to get wrong — and yet, the stuff that AI-made content consistently gets wrong.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is adjusting its orbit to make sure it won't get pelted with even more micrometeorites.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Adjusting James Webb Orbit to Get Damaged by Micrometeoroids Less

Better safe than sorry.

NASA has announced the accidental discovery of an "extremely small" asteroid by the James Webb Space Telescope — but in space, size is relative. 
James Webb Space Telescope

Baby Asteroid Photobombs James Webb On Accident

Hey, down in front!

Google now has a ten percent stake in Anthropic, the company behind a powerful AI chatbot called Claude. The AI arms race marches on.
Google

Google Invests $300 Million in AI That Passed Law School Exam

Google's doin' their darndest to level the playing field.

According to the US Space Force, a mysterious Russian satellite broke apart in orbit early last month, leaving at least 85 pieces of space debris behind.
Off-World

Mysterious Russian Satellite Explodes

We have no idea why.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have now pinpointed the location of an "engine" overpowering a galactic merger with infrared light.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Reveals Mysteriously Powerful “Engine” of Two Merging Galaxies

Awe inspiring.

John Carmack — Doom creator, father of virtual reality, and former Meta employee — believes that we're on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Brain

Former Facebook Exec Says AI Will Soon Simulate the Human Brain

"I do consider it essentially inevitable."

China's giant balloon, which had a structure hanging from it, was shot down by a US missile over the weekend — and now, China wants it back, please.
Future Society

China Wants the Corpse of Its Balloon Back After the US Killed It With a Missile

Give it baaaack!!!

Hot tubs are, according to scientists, exactly as gross as you've always been warned — and in fact may be even grosser than you could imagine. 
Developments

Hot Tubs Are Filled With Things Too Horrifying to Mention, Scientists Say

Talk about a hot tub grime machine.