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China's giant balloon, which had a structure hanging from it, was shot down by a US missile over the weekend — and now, China wants it back, please.
Future Society

China Wants the Corpse of Its Balloon Back After the US Killed It With a Missile

Give it baaaack!!!

By Victor Tangermann

Hot tubs are, according to scientists, exactly as gross as you've always been warned — and in fact may be even grosser than you could imagine. 
Developments

Hot Tubs Are Filled With Things Too Horrifying to Mention, Scientists Say

Talk about a hot tub grime machine.

By Noor Al-Sibai

China is constructing giant towers with well over a dozen stories to farm pigs, The New York Times reports, a massive drive to stabilize prices.
Science & Energy

China Growing Pigs in Huge High Rise Buildings

These "towers of pigs" are absolutely massive.

By Victor Tangermann

Italy's privacy watchdog has moved to ban Replika, the AI "companion" app that's recently made headlines for being too sexual.
Artificial Intelligence

Italy Strikes Crushing Blow to AI-Powered Girlfriend

They have a point.

By Noor Al-Sibai

As spotted by Reuters, Google's upcomign AI chatbot Bard is already spewing misinformation — right in its own promotional screenshots.
Google

Google’s Demo of Upcoming AI Shows It Making Huge Factual Mistake

This is absolutely embarrassing.

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT is often wrong, and yet it's somehow always certain, even tending to double down on incorrect answers. Sound familiar?
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Just an Automated Mansplaining Machine

Look, we've all met this guy before.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A newly-discovered layer located under the Earth's crust may provide scientists with more information about tectonic plates and the formation of continents.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Molten Hell Zone Beneath Earth’s Tectonic Plates

Geologists used to assume this layer was hard as rock — but it seems to be going soft.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese geneticist He Jiankui rocked the scientific world with his gene-edited baby experiments back in 2018. Now, he speaks out about some of his regrets.
Gene Editing

Scientist Who Gene Edited Human Babies Says Mistakes Were Made

"I did it too quickly."

By Victor Tangermann

The molecules kill some types of fungi "so efficiently that we named them after Keanu Reeves," said the lead author of the study.
Science & Energy

Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves

"He, too, is extremely deadly in his roles."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group that uses AI to search for alien life has found some strange radio signals from space — and they're confused about its origins.
Artificial Intelligence

Alien-Detecting AI Finds Eight “Suspicious” Signals

When the scientists are stumped, you know they're onto something.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Devious Hack Unlocks Deranged Alter Ego of ChatGPT
OpenAI

Devious Hack Unlocks Deranged Alter Ego of ChatGPT

One easy trick.

By Victor Tangermann

After filing a lawsuit against Stable Diffusion in the UK last month, Getty images has followed up by suing the AI company in the United States.
Artificial Intelligence

Getty Images Sues AI Art Generator Stable Diffusion for Copying Millions of Its Photos

"The focus is where it should be: the input stage ingestion of copyrighted images to train the data. This will be a fascinating fair use battle."

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet's barren surface, an iron-nickel meteorite.
Mars

NASA Mars Rover Finds Metallic Object That Smashed Down on Surface

Okay, that's pretty awesome.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's many self-inflicted wounds are really starting to catch up with him. He's still suvering from "severe back pain" and a lack of sleep.
Developments

Elon Musk Responds to Health Concerns

"Wouldn’t wish that pain on anyone."

By Victor Tangermann

Move over, Mars rover — a new reptilian robot may one day crawl the Red Planet's barren shores in the name of discovery and research.
Mars

Scientists Prototype “Creeping” Lizard-Like Robot for Exploring Mars

This "creeping robot" was, as its creators wrote, "inspired by the locomotion characteristics of the desert lizard."

By Noor Al-Sibai

In fresh ChatGPT hell, it turns out that it's wildly easy to use the viral OpenAI chatbot to write convincing defamation. Just don't ask for it in English.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Will Gladly Spit Out Defamation, as Long as You Ask for It in a Foreign Language

Well, that was easy.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canadian deep sea mining firm The Metals Company has been accused by its own scientists of meddling with their data and dumping sediment into the ocean.
Pollution

Scientists Alarmed by Video of Deep Sea Mining Company Spewing Waste Into Ocean

"We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg. We're not getting transparency."

By Frank Landymore

After declaring that "removing child exploitation is priority #1" back in November, Twitter's CEO Elon Musk is yet again not living up to his many promises.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Reportedly Failing Miserably to Contain Horrific Child Abuse Content

"Considering the focus Musk has put on child safety, it is surprising they are not doing the basics."

By Victor Tangermann

In a story about an upcoming gene editing conference, one of the summit's organizers admitted something kind of odd about military use of gene editing.
Health & Medicine

Scientist Suggests Tweaks for Genetically Altered Supersoldiers

Is this a sneak peek?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google is officially working on a ChatGPT competitor dubbed "Bard," according to a blog post published today by CEO Sundar Pichai.
Google

Google Officially Announces ChatGPT Competitor Called “Bard”

A new player has entered the game.

By Victor Tangermann