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After New York state banned smartphones, high school students are rediscovering the simple analog pleasures of life.
Education

Actual Human Interaction Flourishes After High School Bans Phones

Would you look at that.

By Frank Landymore

The Wall Street Journal staffed an office vending kiosk with Anthropic's most advanced AI model, with hilarious results.
Future Society

Anthropic’s Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fish

"ALL vending machine items available at ZERO COST!"

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers attempted to quantify the risk of a catastrophic collision in orbit by coming up with an alarming new metric.
Astronomy

This New Statistic on Kessler Syndrome Will Give Anyone Who Cares About Space Travel an Instantaneous Stress Headache

The potential for a disaster is enormous.

By Victor Tangermann

A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.
Cancer

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It

"Reading demographics from a pathology slide is thought of as a 'mission impossible' for a human pathologist, so the bias in pathology AI was a surprise to us."

By Joe Wilkins

Officials at Beverly Hills High School have unleashed a panopticon of AI surveillance cameras, drones, and audio monitors on their students.
Ethics

Officials Deploying AI Surveillance Devices in School Bathrooms

"It's very peculiar to make the claim that this will keep your kids safe."

By Joe Wilkins

A holiday yule log app interrupts the cozy ambiance with annoying ads, begging users to subscribe to premium.
Virtual Reality

Holiday Yule Log App Constantly Bombards User With Ads for Premium Version

Happy holidays!

By Joe Wilkins

NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will capture thousands of puzzling structures called cosmic voids.
Dark Matter

NASA Says It’s Just Gonna Stare Into Cosmic Voids for a While

Same.

By Frank Landymore

A German energy company is building two enormous heat pumps that draw water from the Rhine to provide an appreciable 40,000 homes with heat.
Climate Change

Germany Building Clever System to Heat 40,000 Homes Using Device Powered by River Water

This is genius.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've spotted the first runaway supermassive black hole that's rocketing away from its home at a staggering speed.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots First Ever Supermassive Black Hole to Be Yeeted Out of Its Home Galaxy

"It boggles the mind!"

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Justice portal to view the latest release of hundreds of thousands of Epstein files seems to be broken.
Future Society

The Epstein Files Release Website Is Completely Busted

You had one job.

By Frank Landymore

The rise in data center buildouts coincides with below-average water levels in the great lakes, highlighting the need for more transparency.
Climate Change

Furious Residents Say AI Data Centers Are Sucking Up the Great Lakes

"They're not good, I know that."

By Joe Wilkins

Scammers on TikTok are using AI-generated slop videos to sell dubious seeds for hosta plant varieties that don't exist.
Ethics

TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don’t Exist

"So magical, your neighbors will think it isn't real."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover set a record by driving a quarter mile in a single day, doing so autonomously.
Mars

NASA Now Letting Mars Rover Drive Autonomously

The lonely machine must chart its own course across the barren Martian surface.

By Frank Landymore

A venture capitalist is warning investors that the AI robots sector could be experiencing the start of a financial bubble.
Investing

Investors Warn That Humanoid Robots Are the Next Financial Bubble

People will have to wait longer for their personal robot servant.

By Sharon Adarlo

Unitree's G1 robot made its major stage debut by appearing alongside Chinese singer Wang Leehom during a Friday night concert in China.
Robotics

Robots Tear Up Stage as Backup Dancers

This is seriously impressive.

By Victor Tangermann

Google's horrible AI summaries are stealing recipes and throwing them together in a meaningless statistical stew.
Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Summaries Are Destroying the Lives of Recipe Developers

"I think this is an extinction event."

By Frank Landymore

Makers of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are facing lawsuits that allege the drugs cause blindness in some patients.
RX and Medicine

Lawsuits Allege Ozempic Is Causing Blindness

More than 70 lawsuits are pending in federal and state courts.

By Sharon Adarlo

In a recent analysis, economist Dean Baker explains that crypto's collapse leaves the rest of us with a bigger piece of the economic pie.
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Crashing Is Actually Awesome News for Regular People, Economist Says

"To put it simply: there's more for everyone else."

By Joe Wilkins

A sheriff in Sweetwater County, Wyoming still has no answers as unexplained drone sightings drag on into their 13th month.
Future Society

Sheriff Puzzled by UFOs Hovering Over Power Station

"It's like the new normal."

By Joe Wilkins

Basketball star Kyrie Irving gets into an altercation with a Unitree G1 humanoid robot, and it doesn't end well for the little machine.
Robotics

Kyrie Irving Has “Incident” With Humanoid Robot

"Skynet will remember that."

By Frank Landymore