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Leaked internal documents obtained by Engadget reveal that Amazon is burning through new employees at an utterly alarming degree.
Future Society

Leak: Amazon is Churning Through New Employees at an Alarming Rate

Only one in three new employees stayed longer than 90 days last year.

Francisco Cadaba, ten year veteran at SpaceX, was horribly injured in January during a routine check up, and SpaceX has remained eerily quiet.
Future Society

SpaceX Reportedly Kept Quiet After an Employee Was Horrifically Injured This Year

He may never recover.

AI powered "grief tech," which captures lost loved ones and makes interactive versions of them, is here. And unlike feeble humans, it might be here to stay.
Artificial Intelligence

Ghoulish AI Simulates Your Dead Parents

"It's not hard to see the appeal."

Roscosmos has confirmed that one of its cosmonauts hit an elderly colleague with his car — mere weeks after returning from the International Space Station.
Future Society

Russian Cosmonaut Runs Over Elderly Colleague

He returned to Earth just three weeks ago.

An elementary school in St. Louis had a rude awakening when scientists discovered grounds had "unacceptable" levels of radioactive contamination.
Pollution

Radioactive Waste From Manhattan Project Found at Elementary School

Oh no.

Which is worse: the concept that Elon Musk thought his now-ex Grimes was a simulation of his "perfect companion," or that she agreed with him?
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Reportedly Thought His Ex-Girlfriend Might Have Been a Simulation

"Musk has this theory of her that she’s not real."

NASA Just Shot Tiny Bullets at Its Mars Spacecraft
Mars

NASA Just Shot Tiny Bullets at Its Mars Spacecraft

Pew pew pew!

Back in 2009, pro-life absolutist Herschel Walker allegedly paid for his girlfriend to get an abortion — even though he backs "no exception" abortion bans.
Developments

Rabidly Anti-Abortion Politician Reportedly Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion

"I just can't with the hypocrisy anymore."

Police in Oakland are hoping to arm robots with lethal shotguns, called the PAN disrupter. Why? Because that's just what we do now, apparently.
Robotics

Oakland Police Want to Arm Robots With Shotguns, Because We Live in a Dystopian Nightmare

Well, that's terrifying.

Rents across the country have skyrocketed thanks in part to an algorithm that hikes rental prices on behalf of landlords.
Artificial Intelligence

Rent Too Damn High? Blame YieldStar, a Secret Algorithm from Housing Hell

"If you have idiots undervaluing, it costs the whole system."

The married couple who helped create Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine predict that the new vaccine they're developing will cure cancer within the decade.
Cancer

Vaccine Makers Predict We Will Have Cancer Cure “Before 2030”

"We feel that a cure for cancer, or to changing cancer patients' lives, is in our grasp."

A grim new study just found that kids with pre-existing heart conditions are likely to suffer sever cardiac events as a result of playing videogames.
Studies

Certain Kids Can Get Heart Attacks From Gaming, Doctors Say

That's not good.

Internal Meta documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal revealed that most Horizon Worlds users don't return to the metaverse after a month of use.
Metaverse

Leak: Most Facebook Metaverse Users Have Quit in a Month

"An empty world is a sad world."

Newly-minted political expert Elon Musk has issued a stark warning to Ukraine as Russia's invasion of the former Eastern Bloc country continues. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Warns “Civilization Is Over” If Ukraine Doesn’t Give in to Russia

"If we nuke Russia back, they will nuke us and then we have WW3."

As Facebook's Metaverse slump continues, analysts are saying that CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have made a terrible miscalculation. 
Future Society

Analysts Say Mark Zuckerberg Has Made a Grave Error About Facebook

"I think Mark Zuckerberg is telling us he doesn't think he has a core business."

Introducing: The Synthetic Party, a new political party in Denmark. Their head honcho, Leader Lars, is an AI chatbot, and all policies are AI-derived.
Artificial Intelligence

New European Political Party Is Led by an Artificial Intelligence

Oh, okay.

The White House has launched a five year research plan to investigate the possibility of reflecting sunlight to reduce warming and fight climate change.
Climate Change

White House Researching Combating Climate Change By Spraying Particles Into the Atmosphere

Is that a good idea?

Tech-savvy students are reportedly getting straight A's by using advanced AI language generators — mainly OpenAI's GPT-3 — to write papers for them.
Artificial Intelligence

Sneaky Students Using AI to Write Their Papers For Them

Kids? Being better at technology than adults? We're shocked.

You might want to set aside your lunch if you're going to watch this video of nearly two dozen crusty contact lenses being extracted from an eye.
Developments

Alarming Video Shows Doctor Removing 23 Contact Lenses From Patient’s Eye

H-how many lenses did you say there were?

Scientists Spotted Something That Appeared to Be Moving 7 Times the Speed of Light
Off-World

Scientists Spotted Something That Appeared to Be Moving 7 Times the Speed of Light

That can't be right.