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China's space program is getting ready to launch the first satellites of its own broadband-beaming mega constellation, SpaceNews reports.
Off-World

China Constructing Huge Megaconstellation in Orbit

Watch out, SpaceX.

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that the T-Rex may not have had the fearsome, toothy leer with its maw closed that we're all too familiar with.
Science & Energy

Terrifying T-Rex Actually Had Big, Luscious Lips, Scientists Say

The tyrannical dino king may have been very smoochable.

By Frank Landymore

Space startup Astrolabs has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its rover to the Moon as soon as 2026 on board the space company's Starship rocket.
Starship

Space Startup to Send a Rover to the Moon on Board a SpaceX Starship

All aboard!

By Victor Tangermann

In a bid to better understand squid skin cells, scientists have turned to replicating squid's camouflage ability in human cells.
Science & Energy

Scientists Engineer Human Cells to Have the Camouflage Ability of Squids

Whoa.

By Frank Landymore

A Space Force official has some bold military advice for the Pentagon: make crypto, not war. Could this idea really work?
Cryptocurrency

Space Force Major Says Countries Should Have Crypto-Mining Contests Instead of Going to War

This sure is a novel concept.

By Noor Al-Sibai

They call it the BOAT, or the brightest of all time, for a reason. But the origins of the gamma ray burst remain difficult to pin down.
Off-World

Gamma Ray Burst Was So Bright It Blinded Almost All Equipment to Detect It

It's the brightest explosion we've ever observed in the cosmos.

By Frank Landymore

Fined for a parking ticket for a place she had a permit to park in, a student turned to ChatGPT to convince the cops to get it overturned.
OpenAI

A Student Just Used ChatGPT to Get Her Parking Ticket Revoked

Well played.

By Frank Landymore

When they're dehydrated or have parts of themselves cut off, plants appear to make sounds akin to crying — and scientists have caught it on audio.
Science & Energy

Plants Cry. Here’s What They Sound Like.

Honestly? Heartbreaking.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Don't expect scam emails to be as obvious as a foreign prince strapped for cash writing with terrible grammar. AI fixes that problem easily.
OpenAI

Scammers Are Using ChatGPT to Write Emails That Aren’t Riddled With Typos

"The idea that you can rely on looking for bad grammar or spelling in order to spot a phishing attack is no longer the case."

By Frank Landymore

The crypto platform LunarCrush will be stowing a bounty of 62 Bitcoin on the Moon, currently worth around $1.5 million — and it's completely up for grabs.
Bitcoin

SpaceX Flying Bitcoin Bounty to Moon, Where Anyone Can Grab It If They Can Get There

Don't expect it to cover travel expenses. At all.

By Frank Landymore

A Shanghai-based startup called Hypershell has cmoe up with an AI-powered exoskeleton that promises to take a big load off the next time you're on a hike.
Robots and Machines

Kickstarter Exoskeleton Claims It Gives Wearer Superhuman Abilities

Harder, better, faster, stronger.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has come up with tiny micro-robots that can distinguish between healthy and dying cells.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Build Tiny Robots That Can Inspect, Manipulate Your Cells

They could even be used to deliver drugs or remove cancer cells.

By Victor Tangermann

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has some seriously mixed feelings about AI being used to write entries for the encyclopedia.
Artificial Intelligence

Founder of Wikipedia Says Maybe It Should Be Written by AI

Is that a good idea?

By Victor Tangermann

An absolutely deranged new video shows an artificial intelligence interpreting famed actor Will Smith indulging in a bowl of spaghetti — well, that was the intent at least.
Artificial Intelligence

Horrific AI-Generated Video Shows Will Smith Eating Spaghetti

Or is the spaghetti eating him?

By Victor Tangermann

The rumor mill has churned out a pretty huge claim against Google's new Bard AI chatbot — but the tech giant is denying, denying, denying. 
Google

Google Denies Claim That Bard Was Trained by Stealing ChatGPT Data

Google, play "Rumors" by Lindsay Lohan.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Midjourney is now discontinuing its free trial offers. But its CEO says the move is unrelated to the viral convincing fakes of celebrities the AI generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Midjourney Nixes Free Generations After AI Pope Images Go Viral

Freeloaders excommunicated.

By Frank Landymore

Former NASA astronaut and current podcaster Clayton Anderson has been caught liking a spate of transphobic tweets.
NASA

Former NASA Astronaut Caught Faving Transphobic Tweets

This is gross as heck.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The anti-artificial intelligence push continues apace in Italy, which just moved to temporarily ban OpenAI's ChatGPT pending a data privacy investigation. 
OpenAI

Mama Mia! Italy Has Banned ChatGPT!

This is a spicy meatball.

By Noor Al-Sibai

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.
Black Holes

Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

Black holes just got darker.

By Frank Landymore

A new report re-evaluating the long-feared "population bomb" has found that the number of people on Earth isn't going to explode, but rather decrease.
Climate Change

There Will Be Fewer People Alive in 2100 Than Now, Experts Predict

This is a good thing, folks!

By Noor Al-Sibai