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Famed hacktivist sect Anonymous claims to have deleted incredibly revealing — and now, potentially criminalizing — data from unnamed period tracking apps.
Developments

"Anti-choice organizations will be attacked daily to ensure they have no safe space on the internet."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The cost of polysilicon, used in solar panel production, rose 5 percent in price this week. Solar panel costs could also increase because of the jump.
Solar Power

Crap!

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It looks like algorithms can write academic papers about themselves now, which begs the question — how long until human writers are obsolete? 
Artificial Intelligence

"All we know is, we opened a gate. We just hope we didn’t open a Pandora’s box."

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a recent review by TechRadar, a new full body VR suit with 90 electrodes sounds like a wild experience.
Virtual Reality

Ever wondered what it feels like to get shot in VR?

By Victor Tangermann

Germany is creating a giant thermos to heat homes in the winter in order to stall climate change and secure energy independence from Russia during war.
Climate Change

More of these, please!

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Web3 assets continue their impressively catastrophic nosedive today, as NFTs — even celeb-favored BAYC — reach remarkably new lows in value.
NFTs

"Without question, the NFT market has fallen off the cliff."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chatbot company Replika has had enough of its customers thinking that its avatars are actually real people.
Artificial Intelligence

"We're not talking about crazy people or people who are hallucinating or having delusions."

By Victor Tangermann

The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations
Artificial Intelligence

"People come up with crazy stuff — some it's borderline a bit too crazy."

By Noor Al-Sibai

For an industry so obsessed with peer review, it appears that academic journals are very reticent to retract or even warn readers about fraudulent articles.
Future Society

"Most editors do not seem to make correcting the record a priority."

By Noor Al-Sibai

"I just want to go sit at the beach and do nothing," the anti-productivity icon told Bloomberg. "I'm not thinking about anything else."
Future Society

Go off, anti-productivity king!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While we await the official release of the first images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, early reactions are sounding promising.
Science & Energy

"What I have seen moved me, as a scientist, as an engineer, and as a human being."

By Victor Tangermann

The Supreme Court has given power plants the ability to regulate their own carbon dioxide emissions, a decision that could have disastrous consequences.
Environment

Another huge step backwards.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars
Mars

Citizen scientists, unite!

By Frank Landymore

RadioShack — the once-bankrupt strip mall electronics stable which from death returneth to unlikely crypto trader — has chosen chaos.
Cryptocurrency

"Other big brands are getting all the bread..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Space travel is exciting. But as rocket launches become more frequent, the damage to the environment may no longer be as negligible as once believed.
Off-World

Okay, that's not good.

By Frank Landymore

A mysterious Chinese Wikipedia contributor  who goes by the alias "Zhemao" spent ten years making up fictional accounts of Russian history.
Future Society

Incredible.

By Victor Tangermann

Demand for both abortion and non-abortion emergency contraceptive pills has skyrocketed, putting a lot of added stress on makers, providers, and pharmacies.
RX and Medicine

"We're treating 25 times more patients daily than we were 15 months ago."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

GM debuts its fleet of driverless Cruise model robotaxis in San Francisco, open to the public and charging fares. Now it wants to expand to other cities.
Advanced Transport

"It’s a Wright Brothers moment."

By Frank Landymore

Deadly Russian missiles hit a shopping mall in Ukraine, and the blast was so strong that cameras captured falling rubble from hundreds of meters away.
Future Society

At least 18 are dead, and many others are still missing or injured.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Crypto billionaire and founder of exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried says many cryptocurrency exchanges "are already secretly insolvent."
Cryptocurrency

"There are companies that are basically too far gone..."

By Victor Tangermann