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NASA's adorable new Moon rovers are lightweight and about the size of a carry-on — and as a video shows, they can get some sweet air, too.
Moon

Watch NASA’s New Moon Rover Yeet Itself Over a Boulder

Roll over, Moon rover.

The biggest, brightest meteor shower of the year, the annual Perseids shower, will be on full display this Saturday and Sunday.
Off-World

The Most Amazing Meteor Shower of the Year Is This Weekend

It's Perseids weekend, everyone!

As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble

"There's a huge boom in AI —some people are scrambling to get exposure at any cost, while others are sounding the alarm that this will end in tears."

Researchers have found that bots are better at completing CAPTCHAs than humans in both accuracy and speed.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Now Better Than Humans at Solving Those Annoying “Prove You’re a Human” Tests

CAPTCHAs are officially over.

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has kicked off its first-ever all-tourist trip into the upper atmosphere, but not space.
Off-World

Richard Branson Blasts Daredevils a Bit High, But Definitely Not Into Space

Kudos.

If Elon Musk's recent posts are anything to go by, his fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be an epic, "Gladiator"-style affair in Italy.
Future Society

Elon Says the Zuck Fight Is Back On, Gladiator-Style

Are you not entertained?!

As more and more preprints detailing efforts to reproduce the room-temperature superconductor come rolling in, things aren't looking good.
Science & Energy

That Room-Temperature Superconductor Seems to Be Falling Apart

"No point in fighting with the truth."

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has come across a fascinating hexagonal pattern in salt deposits that looks eerily familiar.
Mars

Scientists Intrigued by Hexagonal Pattern on Surface of Mars

Okay, that's fascinating.

By activating a defective gene in mice, the researchers were able to restore their hearing to almost normal levels.
Gene Editing

Scientists Successfully Reverse Hearing Loss in Mice

"Seeing the once-deaf mice respond to sounds after treatment was truly thrilling."

A New Zealand supermarket's AI recipe bot suggested users chef up a series of poisonous, deadly, and/or cannibalistic meals.
Artificial Intelligence

Supermarket’s Meal-Planning AI Suggests Deadly Poison for Dinner

Bleach-infused rice surprise, anyone?

Boeing's latest Starliner delay highlights the widening gap between it and SpaceX, which is slated to launch its seventh crewed NASA mission.
Boeing

Boeing Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed by SpaceX

Boeing's near-decade-long fumble continues — and SpaceX continues to charge ahead.

The dust floating around the International Space Station is worse than what's milling around in your house or apartment, researchers found.
Off-World

Scientists Alarmed by What Space Station Astronauts Appear to Be Breathing

Somebody crack open a window!

Educators are struggling to respond to widespread cheating with ChatGPT. Some instances of cheating, though, are easier to spot than others.
Artificial Intelligence

Idiot Students Are Submitting Answers Saying “I Am an AI Language Model”

They tried.

As The Intercept reports, former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower David Grusch suffered from PTSD and severe depression.
Future Society

That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Had a Psychiatric Detention

UFO truthers are absolutely furious.

Scientists have found and analyzed an ancient skull that, while human-like, does not appear to belong to our branch of Homo sapiens.
Studies

Scientists Puzzled by Human-Like Skull That Matches No Known Species

Babe, wake up! New human-like skull just dropped.

Elon Musk's on-off partner Grimes seems to want to build bridges between the tech billionaire and the trans community.
Elon Musk

Grimes Says She Asked Elon Musk Why He’s So Obsessed With Trans People

"I was like, 'I want to dissect why you’re so stressed about this.'"

James Manyika, Google's head of head of "tech and society," is straddling the contradictory gap between AI optimism and AI doomsay.
Google

Google’s Lead AI Guy Says AI Will Be Amazing, Unless It Kills Us

"Bad things could happen."

Nobody has ever accused Elon Musk of being a regular guy, but a new excerpt from an upcoming biography casts him as a genuinely tedious nerd.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Put Tesla on Autopilot During Date With Grimes, Then Closed His Eyes and Took His Hands Off the Wheel

"I was like, oh shit, this guy is f*cking crazy."

Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev went for a ride on a robotic arm outside the International Space Station after outfitting it with a work platform.
Off-World

Cosmonaut Ghost Rides 37-Foot Robotic Arm Outside Space Station

Spacewalk cakewalk.

Elon Musk has already come up with plenty of excuses to wriggle out of sparring with Mark Zuckerberg. Now he wants to have a "noble" debate.
Elon Musk

Terrified Elon Musk Suggests “Debate” With Zuckerberg Instead of Cage Fight

Chicken.