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An amazing video recorded by Thoams Farley shows a couple of skiers watching as a giant avalanche thunders through a snowy mountain valley.
Science & Energy

Amazing Video Shows Avalanche Coming Straight Toward Cameraperson

"Here it comes, bro."

By Victor Tangermann

Look West to the horizon around sunset, and you should be able to witness five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and Mars — lined up near the Moon.
Off-World

Five Planets Are Aligning in the Sky Right Now

Grab your binoculars!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Whitehat hackers chained together several vulnerabilities to prove they could remotely take over a host of a Tesla's systems.
Tesla

Hackers Say They Can Access Teslas and Make Them Honk Wildly

That's not good.

By Frank Landymore

Harvard Prof Teams Up With Military Official to Study Possible Alien “Mothership”
Exobiology

Harvard Prof Teams Up With Military Official to Study Possible Alien “Mothership”

You know, why not?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ever seen lightning shoot upwards from a building to catch another lightning bolt mid-air? Well, if you haven't, you're in luck.
Science & Energy

Video Captures Lightning Shooting Up From Buildings Into Sky

Awe-inspiring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Vow, an Australian cultured meat company, wants you to know that it's made a meatball out of mammoth meat which may or may not be tasty.
Hacking

Gene Hackers Create Meatball From Resurrected Mammoth Meat

Would you eat it?

By Frank Landymore

The AI death march is apparently on its way to claiming another victim now that Levi's is, apparently, going to start outsourcing its model diversity to AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Levi’s Mocked for Using AI to Generate “Diverse” Denim Models

"I'm so sick of this sh*t."

By Noor Al-Sibai

An impressive new deepfake video reimagines the well-known cast of Harry Potter as a 1980s-style ad for the Spanish luxury fashion house Balenciaga.
Artificial Intelligence

Perplexing AI Video Turns “Harry Potter” Into Balenciaga Ad

"What is the difference, Potter, between H&M and Balenciaga?"

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's latest Twitter verification gambit is so convoluted, even some of his biggest stans are coming out against it.
Elon Musk

Even Elon Musk’s Biggest Fans Are Aghast at His Latest Scheme

"This is so lame."

By Noor Al-Sibai

An array of fiery streaks was spotted soaring across the sky over Florida early Thursday morning, believed to be the remains of a deployed Chinese rocket.
Future Society

Burning Rocket Debris Leave Epic Streak Across Florida Sky

Partiers in Miami caught a heck of a video.

By Frank Landymore

Chinese researchers found an entirely new source of water on the surface of the Moon in the form of tiny glass beads.
Moon

China Found Something Fascinating in Glass Beads Strewn Across Moon

This could be a game changer for our efforts to establish a permanent Moon base.

By Victor Tangermann

Nvidia has had enough. It's calling for its customers to stop mining worthless crypto and use its cards for AI instead.
Cryptocurrency

Nvidia Wishes People Would Stop Using Its GPUs to Mine Worthless Crypto

"They bought a lot of stuff, and then eventually it collapsed, because it doesn’t bring anything useful for society."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of AI scientists is claiming that just like humans can solve problems through self-reflection, Large Language Model (LLM) AIs might be able to, too.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Seems to Do Better on Tasks When Asked to Reflect on Its Mistakes

If at first you don't succeed...

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chatbot company Replika has reinstated the ability for users to have sexually charged conversations with its AI-based avatars, Reuters reports.
Artificial Intelligence

Replika Users Rejoice! Erotic Roleplay Is Back in AI-Powered App

The company is giving users "their partners back exactly the way they were."

By Victor Tangermann

A second giant "hole," large enough to easily fit 20 Earths in one go, has torn the Sun's surface apart, heralding our star's most ferocious period during its 11-year cycle.
Off-World

Low Key Hole Opens Up in Sun

Natural phenomenon, or portal to hell?

By Victor Tangermann

An AI enthusiast wrote a few bars in the style of Kanye West and, using a clone of the artist's voice, recorded an apology track to the Jewish people.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Bro Drops Freakishly Real-Sounding Kanye West Apology Track

"This is the worst that AI will ever be."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Geoffrey Hinton recently shared his thoughts on the state of AI in an interview with CBS. While enthusiastic about AI's progress, he's also urging caution.
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Says There’s a Minor Risk It’ll Eliminate Humanity

"It's not inconceivable."

By Frank Landymore

There may be planets made up of dark matter with their own bizarre physics, a group of scientist argue in a new study: and they might know how to find them.
Dark Matter

Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter

This could be so awesome.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Little love has been lost lately between Twitter CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI, a company he co-founded but later abandoned due to what he says were ideological differences.
OpenAI

CEO of OpenAI Says Elon Musk’s Mean Comments Have Hurt Him

"I wish he would do more to look at the hard work we're doing to get this stuff right, a little bit more love."

By Victor Tangermann

To the shock of absolutely no one, it turns out that those images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes. 
Artificial Intelligence

That Viral Image of the Swagged Out Pope Is an AI Fake, Dummies

Ironically, the Pope commented on ethical AI usage this weekend, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai