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"Portopia," an icon of text-based adventures games, got the AI treatment for a new release. The AI made the game borderline unplayable.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI-Powered Videogame Just Came Out and Gamers HATE It

"AI =/= text adventure."

Brandon Cavanaugh, a 37-year-old former NASA intern and Boeing aerospace engineer, was sentenced for storming the capitol.
Future Society

Former NASA Intern Sentenced for Storming the US Capitol on Jan 6

He was also a Boeing aerospace engineer.

We caught up with fired Google engineer and AI ethicist Blake Lemoine to chat about the AI industry, Google, and more.
Google

We Interviewed the Engineer Google Fired for Saying Its AI Had Come to Life

"There's a chance that — and I believe it is the case — that they have feelings and they can suffer and they can experience joy, and humans should at least keep that in mind when interacting with them."

As the space tourism industry grows, so too do concerns about the potential for having sex — and conceiving — in microgravity. 
Space

Scientists Issue Warning About Sex in Space

How does one put on a condom in microgravity?

As if robot dogs weren't creepy enough, at least one is now equipped with OpenAI's ChatGPT and can speak aloud.
Boston Dynamics

Oh Great, They Put ChatGPT Into a Boston Dynamics Robot Dog

"It has AI now."

Joe Russo, a director who's helmed some of Marvel's biggest movies, thinks it's only a matter of time before AIs can make legit films.
Artificial Intelligence

Marvel Director Expects Fully AI-Generated Movies Within Two Years

"You can curate your story specifically to you."

The distressed pants. The sneakers. The butterfly shirt. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Coachella fit was... bad.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos’ Awkward Coachella Outfit Is Seared Into Our Memories

As swagless as swagless could be.

Landing on the Moon is hard, so scientists at the MBR Space Centre in Dubai aren't beating themselves up too hard about this failed attempt.
Moon

Scientists Celebrate After Their Lunar Rover Smashes Into the Moon and Dies

Hooray!

New York recently deployed a robot dog to the scene of a catastrophe to uncover a body— and according to the city's mayor, this rules.
Robot Dogs

NYC Mayor Defends Robodog Deployed in Garage Collapse

"This is not playtime. This is real time."

OpenAI seems worried about its competitors using "GPT" in the name of their chatbots, and has tried to fast-track the trademark process.
OpenAI

OpenAI, Which Has “Open” in Its Name, Is Trying to Trademark “GPT”

The irony.

Twitter users are clamoring to get an invite to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's decentralized Twitter alternative Bluesky.
Future Society

People Are Flocking to Jack Dorsey’s New Twitter Alternative

Here's how to get an invite.

SpaceX's test launch of its Starship rocket lit 3.5 acres, including land belonging to the neighboring Boca Chica State Park, on fire.
Starship

Starship Launch Lit a Large Portion of a State Park on Fire

SpaceX really didn't do its homework.

In a jaw-dropping testimony, a ranking Pentagon official explained to Congress just how strange the military's UFO videos can be.
Future Society

Pentagon Official Breaks Down UFO Video “Frame-By-Frame” Before Congress

"Why am I showing you this?"

Augmental Technologies has invented a tongue-controlled Bluetooth mouse designed to be worn inside of a user's mouth. In a word: awesome.
Prosthetics and Devices

Tongue-Controlled Bluetooth Mouse Lives Inside Your Mouth

Bluetooth? More like Bluetongue.

Over months, Twitter and police failed to intervene while a 13-year-old boy was being publicly groomed and eventually kidnapped.
Future Society

Twitter Apparently Ignored Its Chance to Stop a Kidnapping

Users were begging Elon Musk to intervene, but he ignored them.

Coinbase just sued the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), about a month after being threatened by the SEC with potential litigation.
Blockchain

Coinbase Is Suing the SEC

How the tables have turned.

A mind-bending, AI-generated pizza restaurant commercial for a franchise called Pepperoni Hug Spot is seriously messing with our brains.
Artificial Intelligence

Behold This Nauseating AI-Generated Pizza Commercial

"Like family, but with more cheese."

A Spanish startup has built a sperm-injecting robot that can be controlled using a PlayStation controller.
Health & Medicine

First Babies Born After Being Conceived By Robot

It's a brave new world.

Rumor has it that Elon Musk has yet another burner account on Twitter. And no, we're not surprised. Just disappointed.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Apparently Has Another Alt Account, and It’s Even Weirder

Why.

Bill Gates is, as he has repeatedly said in public, very, very excited about the AI future that his company is ushering in.
Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Says AI Will Be Teaching Kids to Read in 18 Months

"The AIs will get to that ability, to be as good a tutor as any human ever could."