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Watch out, grandma: if you hear your grandson on the phone in need of bail money, ask the voice something that only your real grandson would know.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail

"We were sucked in. We were convinced that we were talking to Brandon."

By Frank Landymore

All's not well at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, where a space tourism capsule has been grounded for six months amid safety concerns. 
Off-World

Jeff Bezos’ Space Tourism Craft Has Been Grounded for Six Months Over Escape Malfunction

"We will get to the bottom of it."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is being accompanied by at least two bodyguards, who will go as far as to follow him to the bathroom, an engineer told the BBC.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Bodyguards Reportedly Accompanying Him to the Bathroom at Twitter HQ

They're "bulky" and straight out of a "Hollywood movie."

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, Bruce Willis' wife is saying that people are still accosting him in public.
Neuroscience and Brain

Paparazzi Won’t Stop Harassing Bruce Willis Even Though He Has Dementia

"Just don't do it."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Salesforce, the firm co-helmed by the definitely not Hawaiian Marc Benioff, is the latest in a slew of tech giants to lay off thousands of employees.
Future Society

Company Lays Off 8,000 While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10 Million a Year

CEOs making sane financial decisions!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Richard Hernandez rarely gets the opportunity to use his body while upright, but taking advantage of a new exoskeleton, he's also taking on royalty.
Health & Medicine

Man Who Can Only Walk With Exoskeleton Plays Ping Pong Against King of Spain

That's a serious flex.

By Frank Landymore

Impressed by OpenAI's viral chatbot, ChatGPT? Cool, but the folks over at OpenAI aren't really sure why. To them, it's old news.
OpenAI

OpenAI Confused by Why People Are So Impressed With ChatGPT

"Like, honestly, we don't understand. We don't know."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's different approaches to augmenting the human bodies with extra robot parts, and it may not even need to involve tricky brain implants.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say They’re Near Augmenting Human Bodies With Extra Limbs

Need an extra hand? Science may soon have you covered.

By Frank Landymore

A broken clock is, as they say, right twice a day — and even Elon Musk, the king of the bad take, occasionally gets it right when it comes to AI.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Roasts Dudes Pivoting From Crypto to AI

Sometimes, we unfortunately have to hand it to him.

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, Chinese military researchers say that their AI-powered fighter pilot has bested a human in a real-life aerial dogfight.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Pilot Crushes Human Dogfight Rival in 90 Seconds

"The era of air combat in which artificial intelligence will be the king is already on the horizon."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mistakes are bound to happen in rocket launches, but a massive one last summer resulted in a rocket launch company losing two NASA satellites.
NASA

Government Contractor Lost Two NASA Satellites, Company Admits

It cost the company its contract with NASA.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of large asteroids lurking between Mars and Jupiter are an awful lot like the dwarf planet Ceres, and are harboring tons of water.
NASA

NASA Astronomers Identify “Dark Asteroids” Brimming With Water

They're nearly as old as our solar system — and may have brought our planet's water.

By Frank Landymore

While it surely won't be fun for any of Sam Bankman-Fried's (SBF) friends to take the stand against him, for Nashad Singh, it might just sting the worst.
Blockchain

FTX Cofounder Who Was Allegedly in Groupchat Called “Wirefraud” Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud

"I'm unbelievably sorry for my role in all of this."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI chatbot trend has given birth to a new profession, "prompt engineering," which, unlike coding, involves simply speaking to these chatbots.
Artificial Intelligence

Get a Load of This New Job: “Prompt Engineers” Who Act as Psychologists to AI Chatbots

"It’s 'let’s poke the bear in different ways and see how it roars back.'"

By Victor Tangermann

Lazarus, a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang clan who happens to be a practicing physician, is also a space nerd eager to debut his single from the ISS.
NASA

Wu-Tang Affiliate Collaborates With NASA to Release Rap Song About Space

"There's different insights we can gain just from just being out there [in space], and looking in that can help our world and society."

By Frank Landymore

Meet Ion, Romania's "new honorary advisor," who is worryingly in charge of surveilling and interpreting the opinions of its citizens.
Artificial Intelligence

Prime Minister of European Country Names AI as Advisor

"I am Ion. Now, my role is to represent you. Like a mirror."

By Frank Landymore

There's nothing like ocean spray gently caressing your face as you take a beachside stroll — quite literally, because it's actually full of bacteria. 
Bacteria

The Refreshing Spray of the Ocean Is Loaded With Sewage Bacteria, Scientists Find

"It was a complete shock to find how much of microbes in the air were traceable back to sewage."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor
Science & Energy

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor

Where does it lead to?

By Victor Tangermann

Our toilet paper contains toxic "forever" chemicals that have been associated with troubling health problems — and the government doesn't know what to do.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Toilet Paper Contains Toxic “Forever” Chemicals

This doesn't seem great!

By Noor Al-Sibai

The company behind Funko Pop! collectibles, vastly over-estimated demand and is dumping $30 million worth of figurines in a landfill, Kotaku reports.
Pollution

They’re Dumping $30 Million of Funko Pops Directly Into a Landfill

The company is in serious trouble.

By Victor Tangermann