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A team of bioengineers have created a "vagina on a chip" made from donated vaginal cells to mimic key features of the vaginal microbiome, The New York Times reports.
Developments

Scientists Have Created a “Vagina on a Chip”

"This walks, talks, quacks like a human vagina."

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Future Society

The FBI Says Apple’s New Encryption Is “Deeply Concerning”

It's great for privacy -- but terrible for cops.

Gemini, the Winklevoss twin-founded crypto exchange, guaranteed Earn users high returns and product safety. Some ex-employees say Gemini downplayed risk.
Blockchain

Former Employees Say Problems Were Obvious at the Winklevoss’ Exchange Before It Paused Withdrawals

"The business makes money on fees, so how do you get more fees? You invent a new product."

AI generated images only grow in ubiquity, and the latest service that artists are decrying is Lensa, an app that generated stylized portraits.
Artificial Intelligence

Artists Furious About AI That Draws Stylized Portraits of People

"Artists deserve more than to feel like they're being discarded for some soulless robot."

After examining over 200,000 images taken by Hubble, a faint excess of light spread across our sky has been detected by astronomers.
Off-World

Scientists Stumped by “Ghostly Glow” Surrounding Our Solar System

"It may be a new element to the contents of the solar system that has been hypothesized but not quantitatively measured until now."

Tom Exton, a YouTuber and car collector, says he was driving his Tesla Model Y only for fifteen minutes before it powered down.
Tesla

Man Says His Brand New Tesla Trapped Him Inside and Its Emergency Latch Broke the Window

"Safe to say [the] horror stories of Tesla cars being appalling seem true."

Thanks to one prudent local in Wyoming, we now to get to behold a rare and extremely picturesque Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud.
Science & Energy

Please Take a Moment and Enjoy This Beautifully Peaceful Cloud Formation

Ah... heavenly.

OpenAI's New Chatbot Fantasizes About Obsolete Creatives Starving
OpenAI

OpenAI’s New System Fantasizes About Artists and Writers Starving to Death After Losing Their Jobs

As freaky as it is fascinating.

Most scientists believe in an immutable set of "laws of physics" — but one outlier among their ranks thinks those "laws" might not exist at all.
Physics

Physicist Says the Laws of Physics Don’t Actually Exist

"Like peeling an infinite onion, the more we peel, the more there is to peel."

A longtime janitor at Twitter's San Francisco HQ claims he was told by a member of the Elon Musk team that soon, robots would be taking over their jobs. 
Elon Musk

Fired Twitter Janitor Says Elon Musk Crony Told Him He’d Be Replaced Robots

"Now we are afraid."

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has announced the crew of his upcoming flight around the Moon on board a SpaceX Starship, which includes DJ Steve Aoki.
Moon

Billionaire Paying for Steve Aoki to Join Him on SpaceX Moon Vacation

Get ready for the party rocket!

The war between Floridians and invasive iguanas continues. Unfortunately for some Floridians, one iguana laid its life on the power line this week.
Science & Energy

Saboteur Iguana Causes Mass Power Outage, Then Dies

"The pictures are horrible every time this happens."

Satellite images obtained by MIT Technology Review show Saudi Arabia's astonishing progress in building its 100-miles-long megacity called the "Line."
Science & Energy

Satellite Images Show Progress on 100-Mile Long Skyscraper in Saudi Arabia

"The question is, have they bitten off more than they can chew?"

Despite its deftness at mimicking a human writer, ChatGPT is far from perfect. For one, it can be shockingly racist, as The Intercept reports.
OpenAI

ChatGPT’s Recommendations for Airport Security Are Shockingly Racist

Yikes.

Harm reduction works, as evidenced by a new study in Ohio that found easy access to narcan to prevent nearly 1,000 overdoses in less than two years. 
RX and Medicine

A Naloxone Vending Machine Has Reversed Nearly 1,000 Overdoses, Researcher Says

There's no denying it: this kind of intervention saves lives.

William Shatner is opening up more about his life-changing trip to space and why it freaked him out so badly that it turned him into an environmentalist.
Off-World

William Shatner Explains Why His Trip to Space Was Horrible

All he saw was an "immensity of death."

SBF's Taylor Swift fandom led him to pursue a deal between the "Midnights" star and FTX — but she told the exchange that wasn't going to happen, like ever.
Blockchain

They Tried to Pay Taylor Swift to Shill FTX, But She Shook Them Off

Everything has changed for SBF — but "Tay Tay" is still the same business genius as always.

After obliterating Twitter's workforce, the company's new CEO Elon Musk is desperately trying to piece together a workforce to keep the lights on.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Hiring Relatives at Twitter in Literal Nepotism

Existing staff are calling Musk's hires his "goons."

A scientific voyage aboard a CSIRO research vessel has yielded an untold treasure trove of shark teeth, and a species of living shark yet to be named.
Science & Energy

Scientists Stumble Upon Huge Graveyard of Sharks, Deep Under Ocean

Not a bad haul!

Meta-formerly-known-as-Facebook has reportedly banned its own employees from talking about divisive topics — including gun rights and abortion — at work.
Future Society

Totalitarian Zuckerberg Bans Employees From Discussing Guns, Vaccines, Abortion

"This comes with the trade-off that we'll no longer allow for every type of expression at work."