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Within the span of a weekend, Facebook's new chatbot learned to be a racist conspiracist— and the company has already had to respond to headlines about it. 
Meta

Facebook Forced to Defend Its Brand New, Already-Racist Chatbot

According to the company, it's all part of the plan.

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you thought $40,000 for a new truck was expensive, try $47,000. Ford's electric model F-150 isn't going to be as "cheap" as originally promised.
Advanced Transport

Even Ford’s Electric F-150 Just Got a Massive Price Hike

It's Ford's way or the highway.

By Frank Landymore

Google experienced a major outage the same day an explosion occured at one of its major data centers, but didn't comment on whether the events were related.
Future Society

Mysterious Explosion At Google Injures Workers Hours Before Major Outage

The events are apparently unrelated.

By Frank Landymore

On Saturday, park rangers came across yet another set of human remains in Lake Mead. This is the fourth discovery of the like since May.
Climate Change

Rangers Keep Discovering Human Remains in Drying Up Lake

They just uncovered the fourth set of remains since May.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Iran has purchased $10 million worth of imported goods using cryptocurrency — a move that could evade American trade sanctions.
Cryptocurrency

Iran Just Made a $10 Million Import Order Using Crypto

It's likely an attempt to evade sanctions.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A surgical robot called MIRA could be remotely operated or autonomously perform surgery aboard the ISS, and is set to make its space debut in 2024.
Robotics

Surgical Robot Could Perform Surgeries By Itself on Space Station

This could be a game changer during trips into deep space.

By Frank Landymore

Artificial intelligence isn't yet, and likely won't ever be, conscious. We just want it to be. And such a phenomenon can be explained by the Eliza effect.
Artificial Intelligence

Analysis: No, AI Isn’t Sentient, You Absolute Morons

We just want it to be — for the most human of reasons.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A consumer watchdog group has issued a stern warning to more than a dozen celebrities for promoting NFT collections without proper financial disclosures.
NFTs

Celebrities Smacked Down Over Shilling NFTs Without Legal Disclosures

According to a watchdog, they're breaking the law.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A shocking new study found that over half of all human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by greenhouse gas driven climate change.
Climate Change

Study: Climate Change Making More Than Half of Infectious Diseases Far Worse

"It is so naive for us to think that we are going to be able to adapt to this."

By Frank Landymore

China is about to get the San Francisco treatment now that a robotaxi company is able to operate its robotaxis without a driver in two of its major cities. 
Advanced Transport

Driverless Robotaxis To Officially Hit Chinese Streets

The company claims its self-driving tech is ahead of Tesla's.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Almost immediately after the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex made Artemis 1 Moon misson launch tickets available to the public, the website crashed.
Moon

Website Selling Moon Mission Launch Tickets Crashed Almost Immediately

It's going to be absolute mayhem.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Isness-D — a therapeutic VR experience — reportedly works just as well as medium doses of LSD or psilocybin at bringing users to self-transcendence.
Virtual Reality

This Therapeutic VR Experience is Just Like Tripping on Acid

"What happens in VR is that sense of completely forgetting about the existence of the external world."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Space Force is to deploy Ghost Robotics' Q-UGVs in order to automate "damage assessments and patrol" at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Space Force

Space Force Sending in Robot Dogs to Patrol a Space Port

Coming to a launch pad near you.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of scientists in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker's yeast for the first time.
Gene Editing

Mad Scientists Create Human Bread Yeast in a Lab

It "works like a charm."

By Victor Tangermann

Gigantic “Jet” Lightning Bolt That Reached Edge of Space Puzzles Scientists
Space

Gigantic “Jet” Lightning Bolt That Reached Edge of Space Puzzles Scientists

Was that you, Thor?

By Victor Tangermann

Mark D'Amico, one of several New Jersey grifters who conned thousands of good samaritans out of over $400k, has been sentenced to five years in jail.
Future Society

Dirtbag Behind Homeless Man GoFundMe Scam Sentenced to Prison

The whole thing was entirely made up.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mixed feelings about Mark Zuckerburg? Meta's advanced AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, doesn't seem to know how it feels about Meta's founder and CEO, either.
Meta

Meta’s AI Chatbot Calls Mark Zuckerberg “Creepy and Manipulative”

"I don't like him very much. He is a bad person. You?"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found a simple trick to unmask somebody, who is using live deepfake software on a video call: ask them to turn their head to the side.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Reveal Astonishingly Simple Trick to Unmask a Deepfaker

It's really that easy.

By Victor Tangermann

US Senate Democrats passed a bill to address climate change and energy needs through new corporate taxes on Sunday. Is it enough?
Energy

Senate Democrats Pass Sweeping Climate and Energy Bill

Next stop: the House of Representatives.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover celebrated a decade on the Red Planet on Friday with an art poster. New missions and helicopters are in the Red Planet's future.
NASA

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Stay curious.

By Lonnie Lee Hood