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If aliens are out there, why haven't they contacted us yet? It may be, a new paper argues, that they were wiped out by superhuman AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Paper Claims AI May Be a Civilization-Destroying “Great Filter”

"Actively signaling our existence in a way detectable to such an extraterrestrial AI may not be in our best interest."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The feud between Elon Musk and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg seems to be deepening over Tesla's use of the term "Autopilot."
Tesla

Pete Buttigieg Slams Tesla’s Autopilot as Misleading

"I don’t think that something should be called, for example, an Autopilot, when the fine print says you need to have your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road at all times."

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has announced it's intending to change the New Horizons mission's primary target from studying Kuiper Belt objects to heliophysics.
NASA

After 15 Year Journey, NASA Suddenly Redirecting Deep Space Mission to New Target

The mission's scientists are pissed.

By Victor Tangermann

A scammer claims to have made thousands of dollars by selling "leaked" tracks by Frank Ocean that were actually generated by an AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Frank Ocean Tracks Were Actually AI-Generated Fakes

"We determined just about everything he has is fake."

By Victor Tangermann

Spotify has taken down "tens of thousands," or roughly seven percent of songs uploaded by AI music startup Boomy.
Artificial Intelligence

Spotify Busts Network of Bots Listening to Bot-Generated Music

It's a devious scheme.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tech journalist John Herrman offered a simple explanation as to why Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg went all-in on the metaverse.
Metaverse

There’s an Interesting Theory About Why Zuckerberg Wasted Billions on the Metaverse

This could explain a lot.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Janaese robotics company Jizai has come up with robotic limb contraption called Arms that can triple the number of arms of its wearer.
Robots and Machines

God Help Us! They Built Real Doctor Octopus Arms

Our Spider-Senses are tingling.

By Victor Tangermann

CarynAI is the digital extension of 23-year-old influencer Caryn Marjorie, who created a virtual version of herself with the help of an AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Influencer Creates AI Version of Herself That You Can Rent as a Girlfriend

"CarynAI is simply just an extension of me, an extension of my consciousness."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A possible meteorite struck a house in Hopewell, New Jersey on Monday — and incredibly, the decently-sized, maybe-space-rock is still intact.
Off-World

Cops Say Meteorite Appears to Have Smashed New Jersey House

"It fell right into their laps."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wendy's is the latest fast-food chain to get in on the AI craze with its announcement about chatbots that will take customer orders.
Artificial Intelligence

Wendy’s Installing Drive-Thru AI Chatbot That Takes Your Order

"You won’t know you’re talking to anybody but an employee."

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is slowly dying — but luckily, a couple of startups have a solution that may just be crazy enough to work.
NASA

Ingenious Plan Could Save NASA’s Hubble Telescope

"What we’ve proposed to NASA are options."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fox recently announced that it's pitting a unusual mix of celebrities against each other during a simulated stay in a Martian colony.
Mars

New Show Traps Lance Armstrong and Ariel Winter in Simulated Mars Base

A bizarre mashup of celebs, trapped in a Mars base.

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla Cybertruck prototype was spotted by eagle-eyed onlookers outside Corpus Christi, Texas, stuck in a field.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Prototype Gets Stuck in Field

Tesla is still struggling to get production going.

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA just gave the OK for a new genetically-modified pig sausage to enter the food supply. Gene-hacked sausages for all!
Gene Editing

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Sausages

Gene-hacked sausages for all!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Generative AI-powered tools are making it easy to create deepfakes — and lawyers are trying to seize the moment as an opportunity.
Artificial Intelligence

Reality Is Melting as Lawyers Claim Real Videos Are Deepfakes

"Suddenly there's no more reality." 

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's finances are all over the place, but one thing is clear — none of the money it spends is going to the workers hired to train ChatGPT.
OpenAI

ChatGPT’s Dirty Secret: It’s Powered by “Grunts” Making $15 Per Hour

In the inimitable words of blink-182: "work sucks, I know."

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the aftermath of the Allen, Texas mass shooting, Elon Musk is openly engaging with alt-right psyop conspiracies.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Confused Why You’d Think Someone Was a Nazi Simply Because of Their Swastika Tattoo

"Odd."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk declared yesterday that Twitter was preparing to purge inactive accounts from the platform.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Purge the Accounts of Dead People

"Some may scoff at any allusion between Twitter and ancient libraries, but while the burning of the library of Alexandria was a tragedy, scrolls and books that were tossed in the trash just because nobody wanted to keep them are kind of worse."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After completing a seven-hour spacewalk, two Russian cosmonauts intentionally left a bundle of discarded hardware drift away into empty space.
Off-World

Cosmonauts Caught Littering Directly Into Space During Spacewalk

Hey! Pick that up!

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn's moons.
Robotics

NASA Tests Snake Robot Designed to Look for Alien Life on Icy Moons

"It has the capability to go to locations where other robots can’t go."

By Victor Tangermann