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Internal correspondence obtained Futurism alleges that CNET has gutted 50 percent of its news and video staff in its recent layoffs.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Post-AI Layoffs Apparently Gutted 50 Percent of Its News and Video Staff

If true, a staggering figure.

Gen Z workers are entering the workforce with plenty of technological know-how, but plenty of glaring gaps as well, making navigating office life difficult.
Future Society

Gen Z Is Apparently Baffled by Basic Technology

"Sadly, neither watching TikTok videos nor playing Minecraft fulfills the technology brief."

The financial industry's response to AI has been bizarre at best, with Bank of America weighing in very much on the side of the bots. 
Artificial Intelligence

Bank of America Obsessed With AI, Says It’s the “New Electricity”

"If data is the new oil, then AI is the new electricity."

The "world's first" entirely AI-generated news channel is here, claiming to be the antidote to biased news. It's called NewsGPT, and we hate it.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Launches News Site That’s Completely Generated by AI

It's stupid! Here's why.

As private companies like SpaceX pour thousands of satellites into the sky, even the veteran Hubble is having trouble getting a clear look at the cosmos.
SpaceX

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Satellites Are Messing Up the Hubble Space Telescope

"We're going to be living with this problem. And astronomy will be impacted."

Elon Musk is a man of many contradictions, and one of his most glaring ones was on display in a recent Tesla presentation in which he sounded off on AI.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk, Who Hates Regulation, Calls for Regulation of Tech That Threatens Him

Google, play "The Future Freaks Me Out" by Motion City Soundtrack.

Don't worry, the culling of its human workers is entirely unrelated to its pivot to AI-generated dreck, CNET says. That settles it, right?
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Says It’s a Total Coincidence It’s Laying Off Humans After Publishing AI-Generated Articles

Nothing to see here, folks!

The Federal Trade Commission is making moves to bar the controversial online therapy company BetterHelp from sharing private mental health information.
Health & Medicine

The FTC Is Readying a Crackdown on Online Therapy

Should online therapy apps share your private information with advertisers?

You won't exactly see through any barrier like Superman, but by using this AR headset, you could locate items buried away in a giant warehouse.
Science & Energy

MIT Invents “X-Ray Vision” Headset That Can See Inside Boxes

"There isn't anything like this today."

OpenAI is for-profit, closed-source, and in bed with a legacy tech giant, despite its non-profit, closed-source roots. Can we trust them with building AGI?
OpenAI

OpenAI Seems Like a Very Sleazy Company to Be Creating World-Changing AGI

OpenAI makes a lot of big promises about looking out for humanity's best interests — but forgive us for having some trust issues.

US regulators denied Elon Musk's Neuralink's application to start testing the company's brain chips in humans last year, Reuters reports.
Neuroscience and Brain

Regulators Reportedly Rejected Elon Musk’s Application to Test Brain Chips in Humans

"He can’t appreciate that this is not a car. This is a person’s brain. This is not a toy."

After infamously pivoting to AI article writing, CNET owner Red Ventures appears to be hitting staff with a fresh round of layoffs.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Hits Staff With Layoffs After Disastrous Pivot to AI Journalism

"CNET's being gutted for parts."

A team of engineers in Sydney, Australia has developed a tiny, flexible robotic arm that is designed to 3D-print inside the body.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say They’ve Devised a Way to 3D Print Inside the Human Body

This tiny device could be a game changer.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab are studying the earliest chemical reactions that may have led to the formation of life on Earth.
NASA

NASA Facility Replicating Conditions to Form Life

It's the ultimate scientific mystery.

Good news for anyone who's already using ChatGPT to help them get dates: when you get to the altar, the chatbot will take care of your wedding vows, too.
Artificial Intelligence

Romantic! Wedding Startup Wants You to Write Your Vows with GPT

Because nothing says eternal love like a robot writing your vows.

A man in Peru was caught lugging around the mummified remains of a woman, who likely died well over 600 years ago, tucked inside a food delivery cooler bad.
Future Society

Man Busted With 600 Year Old Mummified “Girlfriend”

"She sleeps with me. I take care of her."

Nothing will make you feel more patriotic than this Twitter thread of mullet-headed US presidents, generated with the help of Midjourney's AI.
Artificial Intelligence

America Trembles as AI Generates Every US President With a Mullet

Perfect. No notes.

All is not well in the county that's home to some of Jack Daniel's barrel houses amid a fungus infestation caused by the whiskey itself. 
Science & Energy

Residents Blame Horrid Black Fungus on Whiskey Facility

Who knew whiskey had such a horrible price tag?

A new lawsuit against the NFL alleges that the league keeps a massive database of lewd shots of women — both cheerleaders of fans — captured at games.
Future Society

Lawsuit Accuses NFL of Compiling Huge Database of Lewd Photos of Women

An incredibly disturbing allegation.

What's Twitter CEO Elon Musk up to in the late hours of the night? Screwing around in Twitter spaces and playing fart noises, apparently.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Hosts Bizarre 2am Livestream

"Dude, you can't go on Twitter Spaces when you're in the bathroom, bro."