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NASA could be getting a bigger budget next year, with hopes of allocating money to developing its own spacecraft to retire the ISS.
NASA

NASA Wants to Build a Special Spacecraft to Destroy the ISS

Its time has come.

By Frank Landymore

Hot on the heels of the GPT-4 drop, OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model — and we're slightly freaked.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone’s Ever Taken

Hot damn!

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans.
OpenAI

High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work

It's not just the students.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is irked by the suggestion that the $10 million his company pays Matthew McConaughey per year was related to its mass layoffs.
Future Society

CEO: Matthew McConaughey’s Huge Paycheck Has Nothing to Do With Layoffs, Peasants

"If you have seen the work, it’s some of the best in the world."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Something's not right about the apparent friction between the UFOs and the and air and water they're churning through — or so it seems.
Physics

Harvard and Pentagon Scientists Say “Highly Maneuverable” UFOs Appear to Defy Physics

Something isn't adding up.

By Frank Landymore

As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.
Future Society

Creepy App Used Stolen Pictures of Dead People to Train Its Facial Recognition Algorithm

"My sister is dead. She can't consent or revoke consent for being enrolled in this."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chatbots are all the rage, and a ChatGPT-based one is coming to General Motors' cars, according to a company executive.
OpenAI

General Motors Wants to Put ChatGPT in Its Cars

What could possibly go wrong?

By Frank Landymore

Shocker: bottling your kid's childhood into social media content for the sake of monetization makes their lives miserable.
Future Society

Their Parents Were Family Influencers, Now Their Kids Hate Them

"Any money you get will be greatly overshadowed by years of suffering."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A novel quantum computing technique could be able to reconstitute a small object across space "without any particles crossing," just like a wormhole.
Quantum Physics

Researchers Say They’ve Come Up With a Blueprint for Creating a Wormhole in a Lab

Mind blown.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The ConocoPhillips Willow oil project in Alaska will produce some 600 million barrels of oil in 30 years, potentially undoing Biden's climate pledges.
Climate Change

Biden Turns Blind Eye to Climate Change, Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project

"Allowing the Willow project to proceed would result in double the carbon pollution that all renewable progress on public lands and waters would save by 2030."

By Frank Landymore

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Demolishes Hubble’s Record of Fitting the Most Galaxies in a Single Image

And we're barely scratching the surface.

By Frank Landymore

Bitcoin is way up in spite — or, perhaps, because — of the tumult following the federal seizure of Silicon Valley Bank.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Surges As Spooked Investors Seek Shelter in Crypto, of All Places

What the hell is going on?

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study paints a detailed picture of Mars' climate and water cycle — by mapping how its Swiss cheese-like polar deposits formed over time.
Mars

Scientists Figured Out Why Mars’ South Pole Looks Like Swiss Cheese

Pay attention, future astronauts.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and lots of worshippers, and religious experts, are freaked out by it. 
Robotics

Experts Worried Ritual Robots May Worship Gods Better Than Humans

"Robots, unlike people, are spiritually incorruptible."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Financial regulators have shut down Signature Bank, which was known for letting people make deposits via crypto, in an effort to stem a wider banking crash.
Cryptocurrency

Regulators Just Shut Down a Crypto Lender to Stem a Growing Financial Disaster

Things aren't looking great, folks.

By Noor Al-Sibai

California Congressman Mark Takano has reintroduced a bill that would make the four-day (32-hour) workweek a federal mandate in the US.
Future Society

This Bill Would Make the Four-Day Workweek a Federal Law in the US

It only makes sense.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

They've produced the first ever complete connectome of an insect brain showing every single neoron and synapse, a landmark in neuroscience.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Just Created the First Complete Map of an Insect Brain

It's an incredible achievement.

By Frank Landymore

A German environmentalist group has just filed "criminal charges" against Tesla, accusing the company of "suspected water pollution."
Pollution

Environmentalist Group Files “Criminal Charges” Against Tesla, Accusing It of “Water Pollution”

They're absolutely furious.

By Victor Tangermann

It very much looks like a lot of Twitter Blue subscribers are angry that their genius tweets aren't getting algorithmic priority yet.
Future Society

People Are Mad They Aren’t Getting Attention on Twitter After Paying for Twitter Blue

"This is a slap in the face to me!"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers were shocked to find that the rate of plastic entering our oceans is rapidly increasing even faster than expected.
Pollution

The Ocean’s Plastic Pollution Has Spiked to “Unprecedented” Levels

Over 171 trillion plastic particles are already poisoning our planet's oceans.

By Frank Landymore