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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a Wolf-Rayet, an absolutely massive classification of star that is on the verge of a supernova.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Breathtaking Image of a Titanic Star That’s About to Explode

Marvelous.

By Frank Landymore

A weird bug is allowing Tesla owners to drive off with somebody else's Tesla by using the EV maker's bespoke smartphone app.
Tesla

Tesla Driver Freaked Out After App Allows Him to Drive Off With the Wrong Car

"My family is not feeling safe right now."

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted some dunes that are practically perfect circles. So the question remains: how did they form?
Mars

Scientists Baffled By These Almost Perfectly Circular Dunes on Mars

What in Mars' name?

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's brand new GPT-4 AI has managed to ask a human on TaskRabbit to complete a CAPTCHA code via text message — and it actually worked.
OpenAI

Uh Oh, OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Fooled a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA

"No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI just revealed GPT-4, the next-gen version of its Large Language Model (LLM) tech. It seems impressive, but reportedly still has flaws.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Next-Generation AI Is About to Demolish Its Competition

Here's why.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA could be getting a bigger budget next year, with hopes of allocating money to developing its own spacecraft to retire the ISS.
NASA

NASA Wants to Build a Special Spacecraft to Destroy the ISS

Its time has come.

By Frank Landymore

Hot on the heels of the GPT-4 drop, OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model — and we're slightly freaked.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone’s Ever Taken

Hot damn!

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans.
OpenAI

High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work

It's not just the students.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is irked by the suggestion that the $10 million his company pays Matthew McConaughey per year was related to its mass layoffs.
Future Society

CEO: Matthew McConaughey’s Huge Paycheck Has Nothing to Do With Layoffs, Peasants

"If you have seen the work, it’s some of the best in the world."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Something's not right about the apparent friction between the UFOs and the and air and water they're churning through — or so it seems.
Physics

Harvard and Pentagon Scientists Say “Highly Maneuverable” UFOs Appear to Defy Physics

Something isn't adding up.

By Frank Landymore

As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.
Future Society

Creepy App Used Stolen Pictures of Dead People to Train Its Facial Recognition Algorithm

"My sister is dead. She can't consent or revoke consent for being enrolled in this."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chatbots are all the rage, and a ChatGPT-based one is coming to General Motors' cars, according to a company executive.
OpenAI

General Motors Wants to Put ChatGPT in Its Cars

What could possibly go wrong?

By Frank Landymore

Shocker: bottling your kid's childhood into social media content for the sake of monetization makes their lives miserable.
Future Society

Their Parents Were Family Influencers, Now Their Kids Hate Them

"Any money you get will be greatly overshadowed by years of suffering."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A novel quantum computing technique could be able to reconstitute a small object across space "without any particles crossing," just like a wormhole.
Quantum Physics

Researchers Say They’ve Come Up With a Blueprint for Creating a Wormhole in a Lab

Mind blown.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The ConocoPhillips Willow oil project in Alaska will produce some 600 million barrels of oil in 30 years, potentially undoing Biden's climate pledges.
Climate Change

Biden Turns Blind Eye to Climate Change, Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project

"Allowing the Willow project to proceed would result in double the carbon pollution that all renewable progress on public lands and waters would save by 2030."

By Frank Landymore

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Demolishes Hubble’s Record of Fitting the Most Galaxies in a Single Image

And we're barely scratching the surface.

By Frank Landymore

Bitcoin is way up in spite — or, perhaps, because — of the tumult following the federal seizure of Silicon Valley Bank.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Surges As Spooked Investors Seek Shelter in Crypto, of All Places

What the hell is going on?

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study paints a detailed picture of Mars' climate and water cycle — by mapping how its Swiss cheese-like polar deposits formed over time.
Mars

Scientists Figured Out Why Mars’ South Pole Looks Like Swiss Cheese

Pay attention, future astronauts.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and lots of worshippers, and religious experts, are freaked out by it. 
Robotics

Experts Worried Ritual Robots May Worship Gods Better Than Humans

"Robots, unlike people, are spiritually incorruptible."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Financial regulators have shut down Signature Bank, which was known for letting people make deposits via crypto, in an effort to stem a wider banking crash.
Cryptocurrency

Regulators Just Shut Down a Crypto Lender to Stem a Growing Financial Disaster

Things aren't looking great, folks.

By Noor Al-Sibai