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The next time you call your car dealership to schedule a tune-up, the voice on the other end may not belong to a human.
Artificial Intelligence

Do androids dream of electric cars?

Horrifying footage shows the moment a "full self-driving" Tesla plows into a 71 year old woman who had stopped to assist in a crash.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Gruesome.

A team of researchers in China believe their injection can give "dead" lithium-ion batteries a second shot of life.
Science & Energy

"If we can give an injection to a sick person to help them recover, why can't we have a magic potion for drained batteries, too?"

Young people often want to be influencers — but certain personality types appear more likely to pursue it as a career than others.
Health & Medicine

This is kind of sad.

Scientists Say There’s Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon’s Craters
Moon

The race is on.

The Pentagon's UFO office has learned that military officials have repeatedly spread disinformation about phony "alien technology."
Off-World

Unfortunately, this isn't that surprising.

The leader of Tesla's humanoid robot program is leaving the company, and he swears Elon Musk had nothing to do with it.
Elon Musk

"I want to make it clear that this is the only reason, and has absolutely nothing to do with anything else."

Billionaire tech tycoon Elad Gil is rolling out the private equity playbook, complete with a heaping dose of artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence

Where have I heard this one before?

Donald Trump and Elon Musk's bad blood has burst into public view — but apparently, it was brewing behind the scenes for some time.
Future Society

This is when things went off the rails.

In a blow to gymfluencers everywhere, it appears that ice baths and bodybuilding don't mix, according to new research.
Developments

"It looks like it's not a great idea."

In Washington, projection of power is everything — and some cosmetic surgeons are providing it artificially to their political clientele. 
Health & Medicine

"No one wants to look weak."

A team of researchers have created a dataset using only openly licensed or public domain content and used it to train an AI model.
Artificial Intelligence

Well, look at that.

Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang
Big Bang

Behold: extreme nuclear transients.

A leading AI pioneer is concerned by the technology's propensity to lie and deceive — and he's founding his own nonprofit to curb it.
Artificial Intelligence

"I’m deeply concerned by the behaviors that unrestrained agentic AI systems are already beginning to exhibit."

If the Big Bang actually happened inside a black hole, it could neatly explain some of the universe's biggest mysteries.
Big Bang

And we're still trapped inside it.

The TSA has some important advice for the next time you take to the skies: a Costco membership will NOT fly.
Future Society

"We love hotdogs and rotisserie chickens as much as the next person."

A little-known change to the tax code during Trump's first presidency seems to be the driving factor behind all those tech layoffs.
Future Society

Why didn't we know about this before?

If you look just right, the Sun appears to be opening its mouth and laughing at us — and that "smile" is weirder than you'd think.
Off-World

Why so serious?

Elon Musk and DOGE moved fast and broke things in Washington — and now Donald Trump's administration is left to clean up the mess.
Elon Musk

"It was all just a game to them."

Elon Musk and Donald Trump's nasty feud has had some unintended consequences for the meme coin that inspired DOGE.
Blockchain

It's not lookin' great, folks.