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Tourism Company Offering Zero-G Concerts
Off-World

Tourism Company Offering Zero-G Concerts

"Just imagine Dua Lipa singing 'Levitating,' while actually floating in zero gravity."

Scientists are horrified as ocean surface temperatures have continuously set new record-breaking highs over the last month.
Climate Change

Scientists Horrified as Sea Surface Temperatures Spike Off the Charts

"This is getting ridiculous."

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil inside a vacuum chamber.
Moon

NASA Extracts Oxygen From Simulated Moon Dust

"This is a big step for developing the architecture to build sustainable human bases on other planets."

Chegg, an online tutoring company that once dominated its industry, is majorly hurting in the wake of ChatGPT. 
OpenAI

Online Tutoring Company Stock Crashes as ChatGPT Steamrolls Its Business

It's happening.

There is, it seems, another mysterious balloon floating over the United States, this time over the island state of Hawaii. 
Future Society

Another Mysterious Balloon Sighted, This One Over Hawaii

We still have no idea where it came from or who owns it.

Researchers noticed a surge in brain activity that is correlated with consciousness even after two comatose patients' hearts stopped beating.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Detect Surge of Brain Activity in Dying Coma Patients

Did we just find signs of near-death experiences?

An AI-generated beer commercial is here, and frankly, it's the ghoulish fever dream of a beer commercial that we all deserve.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Generated Beer Commercial Is a Hallucinogenic Nightmare

"Like how an alien intelligence would understand our beer commercials."

In 2022, dozens of app gig workers were killed on the job — and, for some reason, labor laws haven't caught up yet. 
Future Society

A Shocking Number of Gig App Workers Were Murdered on the Job Last Year

The real number is probably even higher.

The unfortunate explosion was "roughly what I expected," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reportedly said in a Twitter Spaces session on Saturday.
Starship

Elon Musk Says His Great Intellect Predicted That Starship Would Explode

"Roughly what I expected."

It's finally happening — IBM is replacing jobs done by human workers with AI, because we live in employment hell.
Artificial Intelligence

IBM Replacing 7,800 Human Jobs With AI, Including Human Resources

"I could easily see 30 percent of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period."

Starting this week, Pornhub has completely disabled its websites for everybody living in the state of Utah.
Future Society

Pornhub Just Blocked the Entire State of Utah

The site argues the new law "will put children and your privacy at risk."

During a Twitter Spaces chat over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Starship only self-destructed after a 40-second delay.
Starship

Elon Musk Admits Starship Didn’t Initially Respond to Self-Destruct Command

That's not good.

A poor star some 173 million light years succumbed to the gaping maw of a black hole, dying in what's known as a tidal disruption event.
Black Holes

Grim Images Show Helpless Star Disappearing Into Black Hole

RIP.

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Robots and Machines

The Best 6×9 Speakers of 2024

Convert your ride into a mobile sound system.

NewsGuard was able to identify 49 content farms producing material appearing to be either mostly or entirely AI-generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Dozens of News Sites are Using AI Chatbots to Churn Out Questionable Content

"Some publish hundreds of articles a day."

You can't make up Canada — especially when it comes to this phallic iceberg captured by a man from a hilariously-named town.
Science & Energy

Internet Amused by Iceberg With a Very Interesting Shape

Wait, is that a...

Joshua Browder, the CEO of robo-lawyer startup DoNotPay, allegedly handed over his entire financial life to OpenAI's GPT-4 to save money.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Gives All His Financial Info to AI and Lets It Make Decisions

What could possibly go wrong?

A modder has taken advantage of the wonders of ChatGPT to give NPCs in the popular video game Skyrim the ability to come up with new dialogue.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Mod Allows NPCs in Skyrim to Make Up New Dialogue

Is this the future of video games?

Tech investing publication VentureBeat is using OpenAI's Bing Chat to assist in editing and writing articles, Bloomberg reports.
Artificial Intelligence

VentureBeat Using AI to Help Generate Articles

“I don't think our readers care, to be totally honest."

Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey isn't impressed with how current CEO Elon Musk is running the social media platform.
Elon Musk

Jack Dorsey Sounds Alarmed by Elon Musk’s Erratic Behavior at Twitter

"It all went south."