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NSYNC’s Lance Bass Was Training to Be a Cosmonaut When He Heard Something Fascinating
Off-World

NSYNC’s Lance Bass Was Training to Be a Cosmonaut When He Heard Something Fascinating

"You know, the space madness starts to kick in."

By Victor Tangermann

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency's flagship H3 rocket lifted off from the pad well enough, but could not kick in its second stage engine.
Off-World

Japan’s Newest Rocket Self Destructs During Launch

"This will have a serious impact on Japan's future space policy, space business and technological competitiveness."

By Frank Landymore

The Moon, beautiful as she is, is easy to love. Which is why she has to know: would you still love her... if she were a worm?
Moon

Would You Still Love the Moon If It Was a Worm?

Just! Asking! Questions!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has reinforced the launch date for its crewed Artemis II Moon mission next year — that is, if they're able to make it.
Moon

NASA Says It’ll Be Launching Crewed Moon Mission Around Thanksgiving 2024

There's a good chance they'll be able to keep it, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Salesforce is bringing OpenAI's ChatGPT to Slack, yet another sign that the compulsively lying and hallucinating AI assistant is becoming inescapable.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Coming to Slack Because We Live and Work in Hell

Because Slack wasn't already annoying enough to use.

By Victor Tangermann

"He's the worst," Musk wrote in a tweet, which he promptly deleted, after roasting former Twitter director Haraldur Thorleifsson.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Roasting Disabled Twitter Employee

"He's the worst."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have quantified why people are afraid of clowns — and their findings kind of take the air out of this common fear. 
Health & Medicine

Scientists Investigated Why Clowns Are So Terrifying and [Sinister Circus Music Plays]

Put down the tiny bicycle and put your hands above your head!

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a report from CNBC, the Google-built Bard is a total and complete mess, and no one really seems to know what to actually do with the AI tech.
Google

Chaos Inside Google as Execs Try to Figure Out How to Actually Use AI

"It's an intense time."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wondering if artificial intelligence (AI) will be taking your job? A fair question — and one that a group of professors may have just shed some light on.
Artificial Intelligence

These Are the Jobs Most Vulnerable to AI, Researchers Say

Apparently, AI might soon be your — checks notes — history teacher. Should go well.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As part of a Mars cloud survey, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged spectacular crepuscular rays for the first time during an especially painterly sunset.
Mars

NASA Rover Snaps Amazing View of Sunset on Mars

A thing of beauty.

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft's BioGPT AI, designed to answer questions about medicine and biology, claims ghosts are real and vaccines cause autism.
Developments

Microsoft Released an AI That Answers Medical Questions, But It’s Wildly Inaccurate

Microsoft’s medical AI is pretty impressive — except when it claims vaccines might cause autism, and that hospitals are haunted by ghosts.

By Simon Spichak

Musk publicly shamed former Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson in front of his well over 100 million followers, telling him his contributions to Twitter amounted to nothing.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Publicly Mocks His Employee for Daring to Have Muscular Dystrophy

It's a new low for Musk.

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent Reddit AMA, Keanu Reeves was asked about what he thought about the pesticide that was recently named after him.
Science & Energy

Keanu Reeves Responds to Deadly Compound Named After Him

"They should've called it John Wick…"

By Frank Landymore

If or when AIs becomes conscious, they're going to need rights, a pair of theorists argue — and the outcomes available to us aren't that great.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Urge Personhood Rights for the “Conscious” AIs of the Future

We should be prepared to give them "the rights they deserve."

By Noor Al-Sibai

After a PETA exposé revealed the gruesome conditions behind coconut milk in Thailand, the HelloFresh meal kit company will no longer source from there.
Artificial Intelligence

HelloFresh Halting Thai Coconut Milk Sales Over Monkey Labor Allegations

This is definitely the right thing to do.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is secretly hiding a "Celebrity" mode in its new AI feature which can impersonate celebrities in its answers, with mixed results.
Artificial Intelligence

Secret Bing AI Feature Allows It to Impersonate Celebrities

Here's how to turn it on.

By Victor Tangermann

A Federal Reserve Zoom meeting with over 220 attendees had to be shut down last week due to a hijacker, who bombed the virtual event with porn.
Future Society

Federal Reserve Cancels Meeting After Relentless Porn-Bombing

"It is an incident we deeply regret."

By Victor Tangermann

Watch out, grandma: if you hear your grandson on the phone in need of bail money, ask the voice something that only your real grandson would know.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail

"We were sucked in. We were convinced that we were talking to Brandon."

By Frank Landymore

All's not well at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, where a space tourism capsule has been grounded for six months amid safety concerns. 
Off-World

Jeff Bezos’ Space Tourism Craft Has Been Grounded for Six Months Over Escape Malfunction

"We will get to the bottom of it."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is being accompanied by at least two bodyguards, who will go as far as to follow him to the bathroom, an engineer told the BBC.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Bodyguards Reportedly Accompanying Him to the Bathroom at Twitter HQ

They're "bulky" and straight out of a "Hollywood movie."

By Victor Tangermann