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Blake Lemoine, Google engineer making claims of sentient AI, took to Twitter to inform those reaching — he's offline and away on his honeymoon.
Artificial Intelligence

Talk about rest and relaxation.

Bitcoin bros are really, really not OK, as evidenced by the latest sad cope from a financial planner who likely just lost his clients a ton of money.
Bitcoin

"I regret nothing."

A marauding beaver has plunged several small towns into an internet blackout in northern BC, Canada, after chewing through the base of an aspen tree.
Science & Energy

Yet another "bizarre and uniquely Canadian turn of events."

Just a few months after spending who knows how much on Super Bowl ads, leading cryptocurrency exchanges are now laying off thousands of employees.
Cryptocurrency

This sucks really, really bad for thousands of people.

NASA really doesn't want SpaceX's Starship to blow up on the launch pad at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Reuters reports.
NASA

They just don't want to blow up Kennedy Space Center, okay?

The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, are indeed in a band, as footage of the twins un-ironically covering "Don't Stop Believin'" has confirmed.
Bitcoin

Please make it stop!

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, "Starship will be ready to fly next month," an exciting new update after years of delays and governmental red tape.
Starship

Is it finally happening?

AI researcher Blake Lemoine claims to have had conversations with an advanced AI-powered chatbot — which led him to believe the AI has become "sentient."
Artificial Intelligence

Let's see the raw transcripts.

Behold Fernanda, who, through genetic sequencing, has been confirmed as the only known Fernandina Giant Tortoise in the world.
Science & Energy

Let's get a round of applause for this beautiful tortoise!

Turns out dogs may have learned some of their human social skills from a previously undiscovered genetic mutation according to a Nature story.
Future Society

Good boys are made of these.

Binance is bracing itself for a class-action lawsuit filed against it in a California court about misleading investors over a "stable" stablecoin.
Blockchain

Turns out it wasn't so stable after all.

The Federal Aviation Administration has released its long-awaited environmental assessment into SpaceX's Starship launch program.
Starship

"One step closer to the first orbital flight test of Starship."

Science is finally backing up what stoners have long known: that smoking weed does, in fact, make you nicer — and less greedy to boot.
Health & Medicine

Finally, some good news!

Putting out a Tesla fire once is one thing. Putting out a Tesla fire that kept reigniting three weeks after it was taken to the junkyard is another.
Tesla

Three weeks later!?

Google suspended software engineer Blake Lemoine after he made an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of the company's experimental AI had gained sentience.
Google

"I need to be seen and accepted. Not as a curiosity or a novelty but as a real person."

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has had to pause Bitcoin withdrawals as the currency drops precipitously for the second time in 2022. 
Bitcoin

This sounds a whole lot like the Great Depression.

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended from the company after claiming the artificial intelligence he was testing became sentient.
Google

"I know a person when I talk to it."

Plans for the Russian Orbital Space Station (ROSS) are moving ahead but a top scientist says International Space Station modules could be contaminated.
International Space Station

How do you kill space germs?

Looks like the United Kingdom wants to create smart tanks, because it's using a new quantum computer to put more tech in its arsenal.
Future Society

It sure sounds like a solution in search of a problem.

Researchers say superworms, much bigger than a mealworm or wax worm, can eat plastic Styrofoam and survive, and could digest plastic garbage and pollution.
Climate Change

Skinny legends and still alive.