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DeepMind's latest artificial intelligence called DeepNash has beaten a human player at a game of Stratego, a strategic war game.
Google

Google Teaches AI to Play Stratego and It Becomes One of the World’s Top-Rated Players

It quickly became one of the top-ranking players in the world.

Hemgenix is the latest form of a gene therapy drug to be approved by the FDA, and it's now the most expensive drug in the world. Too expensive.
Health & Medicine

18-Year-Old Patient Says $3.5 Million Hemophilia Drug He Needs Seems a “Little Steep”

The latest breakthrough in gene therapies for hemophilia comes in the form of the most expensive drug in the world.

No stranger to de-aging actors in its movies, Disney has announced a brand new "re-aging" AI tool that it claims is already "production ready."
Artificial Intelligence

Disney Creates AI System to Automatically Change Age of Actors

"Re-aging" is all the rage.

New research shows that standard goose harassment tactics are horribly ineffective at shooing — and keeping — away geese.
Science & Energy

Furious Geese Are Defeating Humans, Scientists Find

Sorry humans, geese just don't care about you.

There's now a surer sign than ever that NFTs are doomed for eternal lameness: museums are buying — and even minting — them in growing numbers.
NFTs

The Ultimate Sign That NFTs Are Uncool: Museums Are Now Embracing Them

"The British Museum demeans itself..."

Turns out there's a hack for getting OpenAI's new AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to tell you how to do illegal things: just tell it to be unethical.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s New AI Offers Detailed Instructions on How to Shoplift

"Morality is a human construct, and it does not apply to me."

A scientist in the UK wants to build an old growth Earth forest in a bubble on surface of Mars, and honestly? He makes a good case.
Mars

Scientist Proposes Growing a Forest Inside a Bubble on Mars

"The survival of life, in any form, is the ultimate biocentric priority."

The crypto industry hosted its inaugural award show this week. It was called The Crypties, and it sounded... super weird.
Cryptocurrency

Glitzy Crypto Award Show Gets Weird When Host Keeps Roasting Guests For Dismal Failure

It was... weird.

One guy took more than 40,000 ecstasty pills over the course of nine years and lived to tell the tale — and his story has become a cautionary party legend.
Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Fascinated by Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills and Experienced Years of Terrible Symptoms

"He was unable to move for several weeks and had tunnel vision."

Why get pee all over your pants when you can use the ultimate, splashback free urinal designed by scientists at the University of Waterloo?
Future Society

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out the Ideal Urinal for Not Splashing Back

A relieving discovery!

Huge motorcycle rallies may indeed be as dangerous as they look, but according to a new study, one biker's loss is another's gain.
Studies

So Many People Die at Motorcycle Rallies That Organ Donations Spike

There's a macabre benefit to those in need of organ transplants.

The new OpenAi chatbot is so good at text generation that it was able to pretend to be Santa Claus while explaining to someone's kid that Santa isn't real. 
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Tells Children That Santa Isn’t Real

Happy holidays!

Elon Musk seems to have reneged again on his "free speech absolutism" when deciding to ban the rapper formerly known as Kanye West from Twitter.
Elon Musk

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Discovers That Some Speech Is Unacceptable After All

Free speech, meet Kanye West.

Airbus has announced it is strapping an experimental hydrogen fuel cell engine to a modified A380 superjumbo jet for an upcoming test.
Science & Energy

Airbus to Strap Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engine to Massive Superjumbo Jet

The idea is finally taking shape.

An experimental HIV vaccine has intrigued scientists after they found it was able to generate antibodies against the deadly virus in 35 out of 36 people.
Studies

Scientists Hopeful About Promising Results From HIV Vaccine

"We’re far from using this as a vaccine, but this is very exciting science."

The European Central Bank is throwing some major shade at bitcoin — even as it bounces back above its low point following the FTX collapse.
Bitcoin

Europe’s Central Bank Warns That Bitcoin Is on Its “Last Gasp”

Tell us how you really feel.

Tesla released a timelapse video of one of its all-electric Semi trucks driving a 500-mile journey while carrying 82,000 pounds, a full load.
Tesla

Tesla Semi Truck Drives 500 Miles Fully Loaded

That's seriously impressive.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is speaking out, and he's sort of, kind of, taking responsibility — but also not really?
Blockchain

An Interviewer Asked Sam Bankman-Fried If He’d Been Honest and His Answer Was Bizarre

"I was as truthful as I'm knowledgeable to be."

It seems that grey wolves are the latest victims of toxoplasmosis — but in their case, the effects of the brain worm are kind of, well, based.
Parasites

A Brain Parasite Is Making Wolves Into Pack Leaders, Scientists Say

This is kind of based.

Hemgenix is the latest form of a gene therapy drug to be approved by the FDA, and it's now the most expensive drug in the world. Too expensive.
Cryptocurrency

Another Crypto Exchange Is Laying Off 1,100 Employees

A sad day for Krakenites.