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Japanese tech giant Sony is looking to let an AI navigate PlayStation games on the human player's behalf.
Ethics

Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck

Finally, our leisure time has been automated.

The Tesla owner uploaded footage of the car running FSD swerving off the road after failing to brake in time.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Fan Profusely Praises FSD For Veering His Car off the Side of the Highway

"Tesla FSD saved my life last night..."

Kawasaki has announced that it's started to work on turning its ambitious vision for a four-leged robotic horse into a reality.
Robot Dogs

Kawasaki’s Robot Horse Is Going Into Production

Yeehaw!

A group of researchers studied the personality traits most common in conspiracy-brained people, discovering insecurity might be to blame.
Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories

"Few, if any, researchers have taken into account the 'cover up' perspective of conspiracy believers."

NASA announced that it was forced to postpone a January 8 spacewalk, citing a "medical concern." Many questions remain.
International Space Station

Astronaut on Space Station Suffers Medical Issue

"The matter involved a single crew member who is stable."

28 trainees and veterans in China's astronaut corps took part in a nearly month-long training program in a cave in Chongqing.
Space

Chinese Moon Astronauts Emerge From Month-Long Journey Into Deep Cave

"In that kind of darkness, the mental pressure is overwhelming."

A Finnish company called IXI is claiming to have manufactured the world's first eyeglasses that can change prescription on the fly.
Prosthetics and Devices

Instant Bifocals: New Glasses Can Change Their Prescription on the Fly Depending on What You’re Looking At 

“The eyewear industry hasn’t really been innovating for vision correction."

Devastating air strikes by the US military targeted a major research institute in Venezuela, destroying at least five academic buildings.
Education

Trump’s Air Strikes Targeted a Scientific Research Institute, Venezuela Says

"An unprecedented act of imperial aggression."

New details show the lucky bettor who made over $400,000 betting for Maduro's downfall on Polymarket doubled down hours before the attack.
Finance

The Venezuela Polymarket Scandal Is Looking Really Bad

"It's more likely than not that this was an insider."

The National Weather Service was caught posting an AI-generated weather map that hallucinated names for towns in Idaho.
Ethics

National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name

Welcome to Whata Bod, Idaho.

Trump's smartphone company Trump Mobile has embarrassingly little to show and just blew through its own deadline.
Future Society

Trump’s Golden Smartphone Is Getting Sketchier and Sketchier

The company is still collecting $100 deposits for a device that likely doesn't exist.

Windows PC maker Dell admitted at this year's CES that things have really gotten out of hand, agreeing that people don't buy PCs for AI.
Ethics

Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With AI Features

"They're not buying based on AI."

Investors are already preparing for that type of major tech sell-off amid ongoing fears of a collapse of an AI bubble.
Ethics

Terrified Investors Are Bracing for an AI Bubble “Reckoning”

"Some of the valuations are insane."

During a live demo at this year's CES convention in Las Vegas, Boston Dynamics showed off the unnerving agility of its humanoid Atlas robot.
Robotics

The Way Boston Dynamics’ New Robot Moves Is Skin-Crawlingly Unnatural

You can't spell "demonstration" without "demon."

Microsoft hard push to stuff AI features into Windows 11 is clogging up an already bloated operating system.
Artificial Intelligence

“Microslop”: Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI

"This is not a real company."

A ufologist's Freedom of Information Act inquiry about documents related to interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was mysteriously shut down.
Astronomy

CIA Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny Records on 3I/ATLAS

What's the CIA hiding?

A new bill introduced by Ritchie Torres would ban government officials from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.
Cryptocurrency

New Law Would Prevent Trump Officials From Invading a Country and Profiting by Placing Bets on Polymarket

The founding fathers must have overlooked that one.

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?
Ethics

Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

We're following whether Elon Musk and his companies, X and xAI, make any meaningful change to stem the tide of likely-illegal AI deepfakes on X — content that's being generated via Musk's own chatbot, Grok.

Tesla's much-hyped self-driving "Cybercab" is in danger of losing its name because of an incredibly avoidable blunder.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Loses Trademark to “Cybercab” Due to Its Own Staggering Incompetence

A trillion dollar company at work.

We're increasingly sure that humankind would catch an epic beatdown as humanoid robots show great advances in martial arts acumen.
Robotics

If the War Against the Machines Is Fought Via Martial Arts, Humans Are Gonna Catch an Epic Beat Down

Picking a fight in the dojo seems like a terrible idea.