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You won't exactly see through any barrier like Superman, but by using this AR headset, you could locate items buried away in a giant warehouse.
Science & Energy

MIT Invents “X-Ray Vision” Headset That Can See Inside Boxes

"There isn't anything like this today."

OpenAI is for-profit, closed-source, and in bed with a legacy tech giant, despite its non-profit, closed-source roots. Can we trust them with building AGI?
OpenAI

OpenAI Seems Like a Very Sleazy Company to Be Creating World-Changing AGI

OpenAI makes a lot of big promises about looking out for humanity's best interests — but forgive us for having some trust issues.

US regulators denied Elon Musk's Neuralink's application to start testing the company's brain chips in humans last year, Reuters reports.
Neuroscience and Brain

Regulators Reportedly Rejected Elon Musk’s Application to Test Brain Chips in Humans

"He can’t appreciate that this is not a car. This is a person’s brain. This is not a toy."

After infamously pivoting to AI article writing, CNET owner Red Ventures appears to be hitting staff with a fresh round of layoffs.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Hits Staff With Layoffs After Disastrous Pivot to AI Journalism

"CNET's being gutted for parts."

A team of engineers in Sydney, Australia has developed a tiny, flexible robotic arm that is designed to 3D-print inside the body.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say They’ve Devised a Way to 3D Print Inside the Human Body

This tiny device could be a game changer.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab are studying the earliest chemical reactions that may have led to the formation of life on Earth.
NASA

NASA Facility Replicating Conditions to Form Life

It's the ultimate scientific mystery.

Good news for anyone who's already using ChatGPT to help them get dates: when you get to the altar, the chatbot will take care of your wedding vows, too.
Artificial Intelligence

Romantic! Wedding Startup Wants You to Write Your Vows with GPT

Because nothing says eternal love like a robot writing your vows.

A man in Peru was caught lugging around the mummified remains of a woman, who likely died well over 600 years ago, tucked inside a food delivery cooler bad.
Future Society

Man Busted With 600 Year Old Mummified “Girlfriend”

"She sleeps with me. I take care of her."

Nothing will make you feel more patriotic than this Twitter thread of mullet-headed US presidents, generated with the help of Midjourney's AI.
Artificial Intelligence

America Trembles as AI Generates Every US President With a Mullet

Perfect. No notes.

All is not well in the county that's home to some of Jack Daniel's barrel houses amid a fungus infestation caused by the whiskey itself. 
Science & Energy

Residents Blame Horrid Black Fungus on Whiskey Facility

Who knew whiskey had such a horrible price tag?

A new lawsuit against the NFL alleges that the league keeps a massive database of lewd shots of women — both cheerleaders of fans — captured at games.
Future Society

Lawsuit Accuses NFL of Compiling Huge Database of Lewd Photos of Women

An incredibly disturbing allegation.

What's Twitter CEO Elon Musk up to in the late hours of the night? Screwing around in Twitter spaces and playing fart noises, apparently.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Hosts Bizarre 2am Livestream

"Dude, you can't go on Twitter Spaces when you're in the bathroom, bro."

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI
OpenAI

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI

"From the get-go this is just gross."

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Future Society

Ford Files Deranged Patent For Self-Driving Cars that Repossess Themselves

Fall behind on your payments, and your car could simply drive itself away.

A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown “Minibrains”

"While silicon-based computers are certainly better with numbers, brains are better at learning."

China's state-run media just told Elon Musk to knock it off after the billionaire tweeted about the theory that COVID-19 started in a Chinese lab.
Developments

China Warns Elon Musk Not to Contradict Its COVID Messaging

He's arguing the pandemic started in a Chinese lab.

With everyone and their mother getting into AI at the moment, the FTC firmly reminds businesses that it won't tolerate any BS marketing on AI products.
Artificial Intelligence

Government Warns Tech Companies to “Keep Your AI Claims in Check”

Watch out, AI bros.

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada took an "absolutely unreal" photo of the northern lights from on board the International Space Station.
Off-World

Astronaut Snaps Mind-Melting Photo of Northern Lights Way Down Below

"Absolutely unreal."

Over the weekend, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took to Twitter to share — seemingly in earnest — a photo of a mythological Mayan elf.
Science & Energy

President of Mexico Posts Photo of What He Claims Is a Mythological Creature

"If you throw a dead cat on the table, everyone's going to be talking about the dead cat on the table, right?"

Steve Davis, a SpaceX alum and the current CEO of The Boring Company, might be the first "Goon" in line for the CEO role at Elon Musk-owned Twitter.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Rumored to Be Giving Twitter CEO Job to Guy in Charge of Digging Holes in the Ground

Digging the hole deeper, we see.