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An asteroid mining startup called AstroForge is preparing to launch two missions to space later this year, Bloomberg reports.
Off-World

Asteroid Mining Startup About to Launch First Mission

It has a lot to prove.

By Victor Tangermann

DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder has announced that his robot lawyer's first live case has been postponed, alleging that prosecutors have threatened to jail him.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup’s Plans for Robot Lawyer Nixed After CEO Threatened With Jail

"...it seems likely they will put me in jail for 6 months if I follow through with bringing a robot lawyer into a physical courtroom."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a new iceberg in town, freshly minted off of Antarctica's 500-foot-thick Brunt Ice Shelf. And at 600-square-miles, it's something to behold.
Science & Energy

Iceberg Twice the Size of New York City Breaks Off Antarctica

"It is not linked to climate change."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After catching snippets of ChatGPT text that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking to the AI.
OpenAI

Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT

It might already be too late.

By Noor Al-Sibai

To cope with the challenges that modern human memory faces, tech journalist Shubham Agarwal decided to "outsource" his memory to assistive AI called Heyday.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy “Outsources” His Own Memory to AI

"It comes with a catch: using a memory tool like this has the potential to make your biological memory worse over time."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Hot New Weight Loss Drug Is Rapidly Aging Users’ Faces
Health & Medicine

A Hot New Weight Loss Drug Is Rapidly Aging Users’ Faces

"Weight loss may turn back your biological age, but it tends to turn your facial clock forward."

By Victor Tangermann

After trying and failing for over a year, NASA scientists have suspended further deployment attempts of the Lucy spacecraft's solar array.
NASA

NASA Says Lucy Spacecraft Will Forge Ahead With Busted Solar Array

It'll be just fine.

By Frank Landymore

As the fallout from CNET's scandalous experiment with AI generated articles continues, a big Red Ventures rival has made its stance known.
Artificial Intelligence

Rival Slams CNET: “We Will Never Have an Article Written by a Machine”

Shots fired.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found asteroids that are largely made out of small pieces of rubble could be very difficult to ward off if one were to head our way.
Off-World

Scientists Warn Giant Asteroid Is Actually Swarm, Nearly Impossible to Destroy

We might have to rethink our asteroid defense strategy.

By Victor Tangermann

The scientist who run the Doomsday Clock have once again ticked it forward, bringing humanity's estimated chances of its own annihilation ever closer. 
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Say We’re Closer to Nuclear Armageddon Than Any Other Point in History

This isn't great!

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Italian clothing line, Cap_able, just released a collection of knitwear that tricks facial recognition software into registering you as an animal.
Facial recognition

Chaotic Italian Fashion Line Baffles Facial Recognition Software

These aren't for the faint of heart.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Italian AI scientists have come up with a unique means of measuring how far away we are from technological singularity. By their data, we're not far off.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Predicts Year That Technological Singularity Will Happen

It's coming right up, they say.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, the Earth's inner core appears to have stopped spinning, and is changing its direction every 60 to 70 years or so.
Science & Energy

Earth’s Core Appears to Have Stopped Spinning, Scientists Say

Huh.

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT, OpenAI's impressive new text generating algorithm, has more than its share of fans — and apparently, it's got haters in high places, too. 
OpenAI

Facebook’s Resident AI Guru Just Brutally Slammed ChatGPT

"It's nothing revolutionary."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gautam Adani, the world's third richest person, says that he's experienced "some addiction" to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot. To each their own.
Artificial Intelligence

World’s Third Richest Person Says He’s Developed “Addiction” to ChatGPT

To each their own.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Substack author Sam Bankman-Fried's excel docs — delivered by way of newsletter — FTX US is solvent. The new FTX CEO says otherwise.
Cryptocurrency

Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Excel Docs That He Says Shows Nothing Was His Fault

It's solved!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of Stanford scientists claims to have come up with a new brain-computer interface (BCI) that can decode speech at up to 62 words per minute.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say New Brain-Computer Interface Lets Users Transmit 62 Words Per Minute

A huge bandwidth increase.

By Victor Tangermann

A new occupational hazard for astronomers just dropped — and it's all because the James Webb Space Telescope is, perhaps, a little too good at its job.
Off-World

Astronomers Complain That the JWST Is Producing Too Much Data, Too Fast

"It was like a firehose."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have created a a remote-controlled walking robot that runs on mouse muscle cells, Inverse reports, an eerie mashup.
Robotics

Scientists Build Gruesome Robots That Move With Mouse Muscles

Did they just build Mousenstein's Monster?!

By Victor Tangermann

CNET's AI-generated articles appear to show deep structural similarities, amounting to plagiarism, with previously published work elsewhere.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

CNET's AI-written articles aren't just riddled with errors. They also appear to be substantially plagiarized.

By Jon Christian