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One of the instruments attached to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has encountered a glitch, making it "currently unavailable for science observations."
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Says Another James Webb Instrument Has Suffered a Glitch

Uh oh.

Super-rare green comet C/2022 E3 — or ZTF for short — is making its closest approach to both the Earth and the Sun, dazzling hobby astrophotographers.
Off-World

Behold! Dazzling Green Comet Approaches

"These objects are incredibly fascinating to observe as they near the Sun."

Farmland and flatulence: the essential Bill Gates crossover. The founder's climate fund just invested $12 million into cattle fart and burp-reducing feed.
Climate Change

Bill Gates Gives $12 Million to Flatulent Australian Cows

Whatever makes you happy, Bill.

No, you're not tripping, nor is the world's end nigh. Your local scientists are just trying to figure out how fresh water interacts with ocean water.
Pollution

Scientists Dye Chunks of Ocean Water Pink for Head-Turning Coastal Experiment

Strange tides!

The rest of dinosaur's body was intact, too, including the armor, spikes, limbs, and its stomach contents. Looking it in the eye might unnerve you.
Science & Energy

Scientists Found a Dinosaur’s Face, Complete With Its Skin

It's a "one in a billion" find.

Hackers have taken over a subdomain of wired.com, and used it to promote an Indonesian online casino. Wired does not appear to be able to kick them out.
Hacking

Hackers Took Over a Subdomain of Wired.com for Several Months and Replaced It With Sleazy Online Casino Content

Oops.

Boston Dynamics' Atlas bipedal robot broke a ton of OSHA regulations in the company's latest video featuring a human construction worker.
Boston Dynamics

Multiple OSHA Violations Identified in Video of Boston Dynamics Robot Assisting Construction Worker

"Never heard of OSHA applying to robots."

Like death and taxes, the slippage of an Elon Musk timeline is an inevitability, and it has happened again with Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck.
Elon Musk

Of Course Elon Musk Is Pushing The Cybertruck Back Again, What Did You Expect?

"The start of production is always very slow."

Tech centimillionaire and middle-aged human man Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payment behemoth Braintree, wants to be 18 again. Biologically.
Developments

Eccentric Wealthy Guy Spends $2 Million Per Year Staving Off Aging

"No one is pushing the envelope as much as Bryan."

The robot is made of a new material called "magnetoactive solid-liquid phase transitional matter," and is capable of liquefying and remolding itself again.
Robotics

Scientists Create Shape-Shifting Robot That Can Melt Through Prison Bars

If you thought "Terminator 2" was too far-fetched, think again.

Fresh off the heels of CNET being outed for using AI to write articles, BuzzFeed has announced that its content machine will soon be assisted by OpenAI.
OpenAI

BuzzFeed Announces Plans to Use OpenAI to Churn Out Content

Welcome to AI Hell.

Twitter has already had to re-suspend at least two reprehensible right-wingers whose accounts were reinstated by Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Twitter Is Quietly Re-Suspending the Lunatics Elon Musk Let Back On

And rightly so!

The self-balancing exoskeleton, known as Atalante, will help in gait training in clinical environments and is impressively able to be used hands free.
Health & Medicine

FDA Gives Go-Ahead for Robotic Exoskeleton For Stroke Survivors

"It's new for me, because previously I've always needed assistance to walk, and now, I no longer need assistance, so I feel independent."

ChatGPT Shamelessly Writes Letter Announcing Layoffs While Promoting Execs and Quoting MLK
Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Shamelessly Writes Letter Announcing Layoffs While Promoting Execs and Quoting MLK

It came eerily close to the real thing.

Scientists have built a real-life tractor beam that can pull actual objects using nothing but light.But it has one big drawback: it's absolutely tiny.
Science & Energy

Scientists Build Working Tractor Beam, Although It’s Comically Tiny

The technology could one day be used for "manipulating vehicles or aircraft on Mars."

This morning, CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo broke the site's lengthy silence on its decision to publish dozens of AI-generated articles on its site. 
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Admits AI Journalist Plagiarized and Made Stuff Up, Announces Plans to Continue Publishing Its Work Anyway

You can't make this stuff up.

It looks like the space relationship between the ESA and China may be disintegrating before even being officially launched.
Off-World

European Space Agency Halts Plans to Send Astronauts to Chinese Space Station

We need a relationship and breakup timeline ASAP.

Car designer and manufacturer Rezvani has come up with a truly apocalyptic military-grade SUV that can pepper spray, electrify, and blind passersby.
Advanced Transport

New SUV Features Electrified Door Handles and Pepper Spray Guns

"Please, please tell me this is a bit."

An asteroid mining startup called AstroForge is preparing to launch two missions to space later this year, Bloomberg reports.
Off-World

Asteroid Mining Startup About to Launch First Mission

It has a lot to prove.

DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder has announced that his robot lawyer's first live case has been postponed, alleging that prosecutors have threatened to jail him.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup’s Plans for Robot Lawyer Nixed After CEO Threatened With Jail

"...it seems likely they will put me in jail for 6 months if I follow through with bringing a robot lawyer into a physical courtroom."