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It might be gone by now, but if you use Google Pay, you might've received some free dinero that you'll want to cash out sooner than rather than later.
Future Society

Google Accidentally Sends Users Free Money

Free. Money.

JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe
Black Holes

JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe

And scientists think they'll find some even older, too.

SpaceX's "V2 Mini" Starlink satellites, the bite-sized test version of the company's next generation of satellites, are struggling to stay in orbit.
SpaceX

Brand New SpaceX Satellite Falls to Its Death

Sayonara, buddy.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apparently all but abandoned dead-eyed, lifeless metaverse avatar as he focuses on Meta's AI shift.
Metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg Abandons Metaverse as Shiny New Toy Appears

What do you expect, an attention span?

It appears that hackers have compromised the University of Arizona's website and posted a bunch of stuff a Southeast Asian online casino.
Hacking

Someone Has Apparently Hacked the University of Arizona’s Website

Oopsie.

One of the world's foremost chess grandmasters apparently made a fat finger error for the ages when he accidentally clicked the wrong square and lost a tie.
Future Society

World Chess Champion Loses $30,000 Prize By Clicking Wrong Square

Well, that's embarrassing.

Stability AI, a startup that helped develop popular open-source image generator Stable Diffusion, is in serious trouble, Semafor reports.
Artificial Intelligence

The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under

The company is burning through cash at an alarming rate.

If we can't find a way to cap what this economist calls Greedflation? Capitalism, he says, might have just about run its course.
Future Society

Economist Warns That Capitalism May Be Ending

"The end of Greedflation must surely come. Otherwise, we may be looking at the end of capitalism."

In one of the pettiest moves possible, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has blocked all links to the popular publishing platform Substack on Twitter.
Elon Musk

Jealous Elon Musk Blocks All Links to Substack on Twitter

"I cannot explain how absurd and silly this is."

A project that touted so-called "liquid trees" from two years ago has recently been ruthlessly mocked online. Do they deserve the hate?
Pollution

These Fake Liquid Trees Are Enraging the Internet

When the trees of Mother Nature are just too low-tech.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company has AI search products in the work, with aspirations of integrating chatbot functionality into its Google Search.
Google

Google CEO Says It’s Adding AI to Search

Who will win the AI search engine wars?

Universal Music Group just issued a copyright takedown notice to a YouTuber, who created an AI-generated song about kittens using Eminem's voice.
Artificial Intelligence

Record Label Forces Takedown of AI-Generated Eminem Rapping About Kitty Cats

"Eminem loves cats until the very end, they may drive us crazy, with their constant meows."

OpenAI's ChatGPT is flooding the internet with a tsunami of made-up facts and disinformation — which is becoming a big problem for the journalism industry.
OpenAI

Newspaper Alarmed When ChatGPT References Article It Never Published

This is turning into a huge problem.

One of the world's foremost psychedelics researchers is taking a curious approach to the knowledge of his own death — by treating it as a beautiful mystery.
Cancer

Pioneering Psychedelics Researcher Gets Terminal Cancer, Is Totally Chill

"We all know that we’re terminal."

Researchers are working on a way to transform plastic waste into edible biomass for deep-space missions, all with the help of lab-engineered bacteria.
Off-World

Cursed Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Edible Food

We'll take one 3D-printed Plasticburger to go, please.

Researchers at Cornell University created an AI that is a lot more transparent about the medical literature it cites, earning praise from doctors using it.
Developments

New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient’s Ailments Like a Human Colleague

"A doctor's primary job is not to learn how AI works."

Employees at Tesla have secretly been watching and passing around "intimate" videos recorded by Tesla car cameras, Reuters reports.
Tesla

Tesla Employees Have Secretly Been Sharing “Intimate” Car Camera Videos

"We could see inside people's garages and their private properties."

A drone captured an incredibly rare — and anxiety-inducing — sight: a pod of 30 killer Orca whales hunting two full-grown gray whales in a five-hour battle.
Drones

Drone Video Captures Furious Battle Between Orcas and Gray Whales

"These were not calves: they were huge adult gray whales!"

Comedian Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the AI hype cycle. Honestly? It goes hard.
Artificial Intelligence

Video Brutally Takes Down the AI Hype Wave

"See, tech companies are powered by hype. It's not enough to be profitable."

ChatGPT has falsely accused at least one person of sexual assault and made up fake news articles to back it up — and yes, we're very afraid.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Falsely Accuses Law Professor of Sexual Assault

Nobody deserves this.