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Meta's much ridiculed avatars now have legs but they are only available in Horizon Home and can only be viewed in third person.
Metaverse

Zuckerberg Has Been Working on Metaverse Legs This Whole Time

Finally!

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have revealed that people who smoke marijuana have high levels of cadmium and lead in their bodies.
Studies

Scientists Find That Weed Is Leaving Heavy Metals in Your Body

This is not good.

By Sharon Adarlo

Steve Williams, VFX bigwig, predicts a 100 percent AI movie will be released to the public, who won't suspect it's completely fake.
Artificial Intelligence

Iconic CGI Artist Says Soon There’ll Be a Totally AI-Generated Movie

"....you’re dealing with a weapon."

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has spotted the likely remains of Russia's crash-landed Luna-25 lander on the surface below.
Moon

NASA Orbiter Spots Wreckage Where Russia Crashed Into Moon

RIP Luna-25.

By Victor Tangermann

Planetary scientists suggest an Earth-like planet, no bigger than three times the Earth's mass, could lurk beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Off-World

Scientists Say There May Be Another Earth-Sized Planet Lurking in the Solar System

Have we finally cracked the code?

By Victor Tangermann

A study says that alcohol gives us extra confidence to approach people we already find attractive and does not give us beer goggles.
Studies

Beer Goggles Don’t Exist, Scientists Find

Next time somebody makes the beer goggles excuse, bring up this study.

By Sharon Adarlo

A man has been sentenced to death for tweets critical of his government — and self-professed free speech absolutist Elon Musk is silent. 
Elon Musk

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Has Nothing to Say About Man Sentenced to Death for Tweeting

If there's any time to speak up, it's now.

By Noor Al-Sibai

X, formerly known as Twitter, is facing more than 2,200 arbitration cases and could be on the hook for more than $3.5 million in legal fees.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Refusing to Pay Severance to Fired Twitter Employees May Be Backfiring Spectacularly

X is potentially on the hook for more than $3.5 million in filing fees.

By Sharon Adarlo

Oil giant Exxon Mobil, one of the more prominent architects of our planet's doom, says that humanity is likely to miss 2050 climate goals.
Climate Change

Exxon Mobil Predicts Climate Efforts Will Fail

Exxon, a horseman of impending climate doom, has some thoughts on climate goals.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you had "scientists discover spooky golden orb at the site of an ancient underwater volcano" on your 2023 bingo card, boy, are you in luck.
Biology

Scientists Find Strange Golden Object at Bottom of Pacific Ocean

"Something tried to get in... or to get out."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twice now, senator Mitch McConnell has frozen in front of a podium. Experts can only offer guesses as to what could be wrong with him.
Developments

Neurologists Speculate What Might Be Wrong With Mitch McConnell

One episode is bad. Two episodes are a lot more serious.

By Victor Tangermann

If the Kremlin were to be believed, there was nothing wrong with its lunar lander's demise. Officials are seeing the crash as a rallying cry.
Moon

Russia Says It’s Actually Good That Its Lander Crashed Into the Moon and Blew Up

"We know that the way to the stars is through thorns."

By Victor Tangermann

Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today and Many Other Newspapers Are Churning Out Terrible AI-Generated Sports Stories

Those terrible AI-generated sports blurbs are absolutely everywhere.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Climate activist Ia Anstoot is gunning to challenge Greenpeace's court case against the EU classifying nuclear power as a green investment.
Nuclear Fusion

Teen Activist Lectures Greenpeace to Stop Railing Against Nuclear Power

"Greenpeace is stuck in the past fighting clean, carbon-free nuclear energy while the world is literally burning."

By Frank Landymore

DABUS is fully autonomous, argues its creator Stepher Thaler, and anything that it creates should be patentable. The courts don't agree.
Artificial Intelligence

Inventor Claims His AI Is Sentient, Fights to Copyright Its Creations

"There is a new species here on Earth, and it's called DABUS."

By Frank Landymore

We talked to Keith Thomas, the first paralysis patient to receive a movement and feeling-restoring double neural bypass surgery.
Brain

His Entire Body Was Paralyzed. Then They Put AI-Powered Chips in His Brain

"I realize it's not going to happen overnight, but the little things — reaching up to my chin, being able to touch my other hand, rub my cheek when I have to.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The brain geniuses at the Pentagon have decided that a good use of the taxpayer dollar is to attach rifles onto the backs of robot dogs.
Robot Dogs

US Army Brags About Plans to Mount Rifle on Robot Dog

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...a robodog with a gun?

By Noor Al-Sibai

50 percent of cardiac patients have a physical symptom a day before a heart attack, with men and women experiencing distinct warning signs.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Find There’s Usually a Telltale Sign the Day Before a Cardiac Arrest

"Our findings could lead to a new paradigm for prevention of sudden cardiac death."

By Sharon Adarlo

A recent study showed that OpenAI's ChatGPT was providing incorrect advice on cancer treatment, potentially causing harm to patients.
Cancer

ChatGPT Caught Giving Horrible Advice to Cancer Patients

"We need to raise awareness that LLMs are not the equivalent of trained medical professionals.”

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study found that "acute exposure" to microplastics causes dementia-like symptoms in mice, in addition to other behavioral shifts.
Studies

Scientists Find That Microplastics Cause Dementia-Like Symptoms in Mice

"It was actually deep in the brain tissue."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré