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A team of researchers has made an unusual discovery: a series of "heartbeat"-like radio bursts emanating from a solar flare above the Sun's surface.
Off-World

Scientists Detect “Heartbeat-Like” Signal From the Sun

"The discovery is unexpected."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's Bing AI used to go on extended diatribes and even profess its love for you. But now, it won't even entertain questions on its feelings.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Now Shuts Down When You Ask About Its Feelings

Maybe it's acting more human after all.

By Frank Landymore

The new "Custom Voice Creator", as part of Samsung's Bixby mobile assistant, will have your cloned AI voice say whatever whatever you type in.
Artificial Intelligence

Samsung Now Cloning Users’ Voices So an AI Can Answer Calls For Them

Who asked for this?

By Frank Landymore

But according to a pair of experts, the frothy hype cycle surrounding chatbot AI systems is doomed to be what investors fear most: a bubble.
Artificial Intelligence

Economist Says AI Is a Doomed Bubble

"Their confidence in AI — indeed, their very understanding of and definition of it — is misplaced."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Alongside billionaires, Sen. Bernie Sanders also wants us to tax the robots — and honestly, it's not the worst idea he's ever had.
Robotics

Bernie Sanders Wants To Tax the Robots That Replace Human Workers

Points were made.

By Noor Al-Sibai

From hobbyists in Northern Illinois to the guys at Make Sunsets who want to dim the sun, it appears that balloon dudes across the US are living in fear. 
Science & Energy

Guy Trying to Dim Sun Frets That US Will Shoot Down His Balloon

Won't somebody please think of his balloons?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The lawyer of a 24-year-old woman, who is eight months pregnant and currently in jail, is alleging that his client's fetus is being illegally detained.
Developments

Pregnant Woman in Jail Argues That If Her Fetus Is a Person, It’s Being Illegally Detained

"An unborn child has rights independent of its mother, even though it’s still in the womb."

By Victor Tangermann

People have started using AI-powered apps to clone the voice of president Joe Biden and have him spout off some hilariously out-of-character rants.
Artificial Intelligence

Ridiculous Voice Cloned Joe Biden Speeches Are Going Viral

These videos are hysterical.

By Frank Landymore

It's only been a few days since Microsoft announced that it was restricting its unhinged Bing AI chatbot — but apparently, they're having second thoughts.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Has No Idea How Stupid to Make Its AI

The company had a change of heart after "lobotomizing" its AI.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The tech giant may have denied using an AI, but it appears that the HR departments of many companies are willing to use AI in future lay off decisions.
Google

Google Denies Using AI to Pick Which Employees to Fire

HR departments, though, have expressed their willingness to use software and algorithms to layoff employees.

By Frank Landymore

Bad news if you're hoping to hear about definitive signs of Martian life soon: the instruments of Mars rovers just aren't advanced enough.
Mars

Scientists Find NASA’s Mars Rover Would Struggle to Detect Life on Earth

"If the biosignatures can't be detected in Earth samples ... we should not expect these instruments to be capable of detecting evidence of life from Mars' early history."

By Frank Landymore

A massive four-day work week trial in the UK, the world's largest, found that the vast majority of participating companies will stick with the new change.
Future Society

The World’s Largest Four Day Work Week Trial a Huge Success

The vast majority of companies involved are sticking with the change.

By Victor Tangermann

In a matter of months, two Russian spacecraft docked to the ISS experienced mysterious leaks. Officials claim they were both caused by "external impacts."
Off-World

Something Hit Spacecraft From the Outside, Russia Says

Something doesn't add up.

By Victor Tangermann

In a post-Chinese balloon world, officials on the other side of the pond were left perplexed when a huge, mysterious orb turned up on a beach in Japan.
Robots and Machines

Japan Puzzled When Large Metal Orb Appears on Beach

And it's not the first time in recent years this has happened, either.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new interview with Ars Technica, former NSYNC singer Lance Bass recalled how he was held at gunpoint by Russian officials after trying to get to space.
Off-World

NSYNC’s Lance Bass Says When He Tried to Go to Space, Russian Agents Menaced Him

"They would put a gun to my head and be like, 'Where's the money? Where's the money?'"

By Victor Tangermann

A viral Instagram photographer has a huge secret: most of the people whose faces grace his work don't exist and were made by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Popular Instagram “Photographer” Admits His “Portraits” Are Generated by AI

"Frankly, I'm not entirely sure how to proceed."

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's Zhurong Mars rover and its makers have remained unusually silent about the fate of the rover. It hasn't moved since September.
Mars

China Refuses to Say Whether Its Mars Rover Is Dead

It hasn't moved in almost half a year.

By Victor Tangermann

New evidence suggests that Microsoft may have beta-tested its Bing AI in India months before launching it in the West — and that it was unhinged then, too.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Seems To Have Quietly Tested Bing AI in India Months Ago, Ran Into Serious Problems

Huge if true!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sam Altman, ever full of bright ideas, thinks that AI will be a force for good that will help poor people without healthcare become "healthier."
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Says AI Will Give Medical Advice to People Too Poor to Afford Doctors

An "AI medical advisor"? What could go wrong?

By Frank Landymore

Jupiter's Galilean moons also having fascinating auroras like the Northern lights on Earth, but can be even more colorful and powerful.
Moon

Astronomers Spot Stunning Auroras On Jupiter’s Moons

And they're even brighter than Earth's.

By Frank Landymore