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Asked to provide accurate air quality index (AQI) information, Google's AI-powered search tool offered incorrect and conflicting answers.
Google

As Smoke Fills the Sky, Google’s New AI Gives Wildly Inaccurate Info on Air Quality

If you want real-time updates on a crisis, don't trust AI.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stressed out about a potential AI-wrought apocalypse? Billionaire Mark Cuban says that's fair, actually. Cheers!
Artificial Intelligence

Mark Cuban Says Yes, You Should Be Worried About AI Doomsday

"It's not an overreach."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A decade-long global study has shown that a once-daily pill reduces the risk of dying from lung cancer by over half.
Cancer

Scientists Intrigued by Pill That Cuts Lung Cancer Deaths in Half

"Thirty years ago, there was nothing we could do for these patients."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Furious Orcas Throw Around Yacht “Like a Ragdoll”
Science & Energy

Furious Orcas Throw Around Yacht “Like a Ragdoll”

"The whales were in charge of the boat."

By Frank Landymore

A radio host from Georgia named Mark Walters is suing OpenAI after its ChatGPT told a journalist that he was embezzling funds.
OpenAI

Man Sues OpenAI After ChatGPT Claimed He Embezzled Money

What a mess.

By Victor Tangermann

Smoke from especially dire wildfires in Canada has swept across the East Coast, leaving an ugly and hazardous haze over cities like New York.
Climate Change

A Huge Cloud of Smoke Is Casting a Ghoulish Gloom Over New York City

Ominous.

By Frank Landymore

An Air Force veteran has come forward alleging that the government has been hiding alien spacecraft. Experts say we shouldn't dismiss him.
Future Society

NASA Pushes Back Against Claim Government Has an Alien Spaceship

Sorry, folks.

By Victor Tangermann

Rowan Atkinson, the actor best known for playing "Mr. Bean," apparently has a bone to pick with electric vehicles.
Advanced Transport

Mr. Bean Blasted for Hating on Electric Cars

"We’re trying to take the world to a better place here."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese astronauts claim they have grown stem cells for human blood in space, in an achievement they say is the first of its kind.
Space

Chinese Astronauts Grow Human Blood Cells in Space

Blood... in space.

By Sharon Adarlo

Apple's Vision Pro was launched with great fanfare but Apple execs have not been pictured wearing the AR device. Maybe because it looks dorky.
Virtual Reality

Apple Execs Seem Terrified of Being Photographed Wearing Dorky AR Headset

"What does it say about a device when a CEO refuses to use it on launch day?"

By Sharon Adarlo

A video of the jiu-jitsu match where Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was maybe-choked-out was obtained by NPR.
Future Society

Video Emerges of Mark Zuckerberg Getting Beat Down

"Gave a little bro hug."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a high-tech collegiate nightmare, a student was falsely accused of using AI to cheat and then forced to defend her name.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Plagiarism Detection Software Keeps Falsely Accusing Students of Cheating

"I was, like, freaking out."

By Noor Al-Sibai

FTX appears to have made a $500 million dollar investment into the buzzy AI startup Anthropic — which might spell good news for customers.
Blockchain

FTX Made a Very Smart Investment That May Be Able to Pay Back Its Customers

There could be a bright spot on the FTX balance sheet after all!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It appears that one of our ancestral species had burial rituals that included the carving of symbols hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Science & Energy

Pre-Human Species Carved Symbols More Than 200,000 Years Ago

"What we’ve uncovered forces us to rethink a whole set of assumptions about hominins and human evolution."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Retired Navy commander and university professor Joe Dituri has spent close to 100 days underwater and says he has shrunk half an inch.
Studies

Florida Man Says He’s Shrunk From Living Months Underwater

He's down "at least a half an inch."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Finally Invented Robot That Can Sweat Heavily
Robotics

Scientists Finally Invented Robot That Can Sweat Heavily

He's just like us!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There are staggeringly tall mountains inside the Earth that rival Mount Everest. Scientists are puzzling over their origin.
Science & Energy

Gigantic Mountains Inside Earth Mystify Scientists

Mount Everest has nothing on these monsters.

By Sharon Adarlo

Apple's expensive new headset can simply register your eyes via a feature called Optic ID by scanning the wearer's irises.
Robots and Machines

Apple’s New AR Headset Scans Your Eyeballs to Unlock

Okay, that's pretty futuristic.

By Victor Tangermann

Ever dreamed of sending a raunchy missive into outer space on the side of a NASA spacecraft? If the answer's yes, we have good news.
NASA

If You Want to Make NASA Carve Something Rude Into a Spacecraft Headed to Jupiter, Now’s Your Chance

It's your lucky day, kids!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Air Force veteran David Grusch has come forward, alleging that the US government has secretly recovered alien spacecraft for decades.
Future Society

We’re Deeply Skeptical, But a Government Whistleblower Claims the US Has Recovered “Non-Human” Spacecraft

"We’re definitely not alone."

By Victor Tangermann