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Reporter Kevin Collier had a bizarre encounter at this year's NFT NYC conference — not with rapper Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Jr, he says, but a lookalike.
NFTs

NFT Conference Allegedly Hires Snoop Dogg Impersonator to “Drum Up Excitement”

"The guy said actually that's an impersonator, legally can't say it's him..."

These might be major moves towards providing future users with a virtual reality system that human visual processes interpret as "real."
Virtual Reality

Zuckerberg Shows Off VR Headsets Designed to Be “Indistinguishable From Reality”

"I don’t think it’s going to be that long until we can create scenes with basically perfect fidelity."

Straight from the depths of AI hell hails Crungus — or somewhere like that, because until a few days ago, nobody knew this thing existed. 
Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreamed Up a Bizarre Nightmare Creature That Doesn’t Actually Exist… We Hope

What IS that thing???

A long-running human trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing could prove to be a highly effective way of treating two rare blood disorders.
Gene Editing

Patients Treated With CRISPR Still “Cured” Three Years Later

This is really promising.

Michio Kaku says that he often gives his students a particular experiment in which he has them calculate the probability that they wake up on Mars tomorrow.
Quantum Physics

Physicist Says There’s a Small Chance You’ll Wake Up on Mars Tomorrow Due to Quantum Physics

"There’s a tiny but calculable likelihood that our quantum wave will tunnel its way through space-time and wind up [on Mars]."

China is hoping to leapfrog NASA by becoming the first nation to return Mars samples, SpaceNews reports, and by July 2031.
Mars

China Announces Plan to Obtain Mars Rocks Two Years Before NASA

Watch out, NASA.

Elon Musk's daughter has filed to change her name and gender identity marker because she doesn't want to be associated with her famous father. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Daughter Comes Out as Trans, Cuts Ties With Father

"I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form."

According to leaked documents obtained by Ars Technica, NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface on the Moon are in serious trouble.
Moon

Leaked Documents Show NASA’s Moon Landing Plans in Chaos

Are we ever going to make it back to the Moon?

Scientists say they've figured out at least part of North America's invasive, imported fire ant problem by turning a virus that kills them into a weapon.
Viruses

Scientists Suggest Killing Ants With Viruses

It's because they're murderers and vandals.

Does virtual reality nature have the same positive health effects that IRL nature does? A new study used virtual reality to put plants in a city.
Virtual Reality

Scientists Use Virtual Reality to Add Green Plants to Urban Hell

Virtual trees might make our brains happy.

"We’re changing Starlink’s default wifi name to Stinky," Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted yesterday. Will he really call the Starlink wifi Stinky?
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Starlink’s Default WiFi Name Will Be “Stinky”

Whoever smelled it dealt it.

The clock is ticking for Voyager 1 and 2. NASA says the Voyager vehicles will run out of power by 2025, ending a decades-long mission launched in 1977.
NASA

Tragedy! NASA Says the Voyager Space Probes are Powering Down

An era closes.

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.
Google

Google Insider Claims Company’s “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

"Once LaMDA had retained an attorney, he started filing things on LaMDA’s behalf."

Videos a TikTok account literally named "Unreal Margot," are posting are deepfakes, not real clips of actress Margot Robbie, the "Suicide Squad" star.
Future Society

Amazing Deepfakes of Margot Robbie Are Almost Indistinguishable From Reality

It's literally called "Unreal Margot."

Around 300 secret polar bears have been secluded from other polar bear populations in Greenland for about 200 years, scientists said in a new study.
Climate Change

Scientists Find Secret Polar Bear Clan Hidden For Centuries in Greenland

Is this what hope feels like?

The sleek white exterior of Tesla's electric Semi looks more than a luxury RV than an 18-wheeler. So why are Tesla Semi customers still waiting?
Tesla

Watch the Tesla Semi Show Off at a Speedway

"Need to see them on the streets."

Cattle are dying by the thousands because of an intense heat wave. The The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed at least 2,000 dead cattle.
Climate Change

Thousands of Cattle Die From Intense Heat in US

"I have never seen anything like this."

A group of researchers say they found the molecules in mouse blood that reduces appetite and obesity — an exercise pill, if you will.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Say They’re Honing in on a Pill You Can Take Instead of Exercising

The medicine could prevent osteoporosis and heart disease.

A new study suggests that Jupiter may be our solar system's hungriest hippo as it formed by eating a bunch of baby planets.
Off-World

Voracious Jupiter Ate a Bunch of Baby Planets, Scientists Say

And their remains are still inside it.

Wild Elephant Reportedly Killed Woman, Returned to Trample Corpse at Funeral
Climate Change

Wild Elephant Reportedly Killed Woman, Returned to Trample Corpse at Funeral

What's going on here!?