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In an ominous new experiment, a robot powered by a popular machine learning AI model immediately started to display racist and sexist behavior.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Alarmed When Robot Immediately Becomes Racist and Sexist

As if racism and sexism by humans wasn't enough.

By Frank Landymore

As of 2024, Air New Zelaand will be offering access to six full bunk beds to its Economy class passengers.
Advanced Transport

Airline Announces Plans to Add Spacious Bunk Beds to Economy Class

These sleep pods look cozy as hell.

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI is warning that deepfakes — coupled with stolen Personal Identifiable Information (PII) — are increasingly being used to apply for WFH positions.
Future Society

The FBI Says Scammers Are Using Deepfakes to Apply to Remote Jobs

So like... do we have a fake coworker, or...?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla is gutting a part of its Autopilot department, cutting around 200 jobs from its office in San Mateo, California, CNBC reports.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Fires 200 People Working on Its Unfinished Self-Driving Tech

Is this why Elon is so quiet right now?

By Victor Tangermann

Vice has confirmed that Facebook is removing status updates that discuss mailed abortion pills, and has even issued temporary bans to some users.
Meta

Facebook Is Automatically Deleting Posts Offering to Mail Abortion Pills

These pills could save lives. So why is Facebook throttling information?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While examining eight-year-old data from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, scientists have made a tantalizing new discovery.
Mars

NASA Rover Finds New Potential Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

Was Mars once teeming with life?

By Victor Tangermann

Alex Mashinsky, CEO of anguished crypto lending firm Celsius, did NOT attempt to flee the US amid the bitcoin crash, a Celsius spokesperson clarified.
Bitcoin

Crypto Startup in Crisis Insists That Its CEO Isn’t Trying to Flee the Country

"Any reports that the Celsius CEO has attempted to leave the US are false."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that getting at least one flu shot makes it 40 percent less likely for people over the age of 65 to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Studies

Weirdly, It Appears the Flu Vaccine May Protect Against Alzheimer’s

Strange... but intriguing.

By Victor Tangermann

A study published Monday found that cannabis consumers were 22 percent more likely to end up in the ER or be hospitalized than those who didn’t smoke weed.
Developments

Study Finds That Weed Puts You at Higher Risk for Hospitalization

"Cannabis use is not as benign and safe as some might think."

By Frank Landymore

A pair of robotic arms allowed a partially paralyzed man to eat with a knife and fork, an impressive demonstration that could help many people.
Prosthetics and Devices

Robotic Arms Allow Paralyzed Man to Eat Cake With Knife and Fork

This is amazing.

By Victor Tangermann

Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos has cancelled plans to transform an ocean freighter — renamed after his mother Jacklyn — into a booster rocket recovery site.
Off-World

Jeff Bezos Ditches Plan to Land Rockets on Ship Named for His Mom

Sorry, mom!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A massive cloud of yellow gas took the lives of at least 13 people after a crane accidentally dropped a chlorine gas tank onto a ship at a Jordanian port.
Science & Energy

Huge Cloud of Toxic Yellow Gas Kills 13

Horrifying.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Watkins has harvested radishes and mizuna greens aboard the ISS — successfully grown without any soil whatsoever.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Harvest Delicious Space Vegetables, Sans Soil

Get ready for space hydroponics.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's been an entire week since Tesla CEO Elon Musk has last tweeted. Which begs the question: where the hell is Elon Musk?
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Missing

Where is he?

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are perplexed by a mysterious star, believed to be destroyed in a supernova — only to be found still alive, burning brighter than ever before.
Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Star That Exploded in Supernova But Somehow Survived

"This star surviving is a little like Obi-Wan Kenobi coming back as a force ghost in Star Wars."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla's offices are literally not equipped to handle the recent influx of workers, with parking spots and desks becoming difficult to come by.
Tesla

Tesla Demanded Workers Come Back to Office, Then Realized It Didn’t Have Enough Desks

Oops.

By Victor Tangermann

A gaggle of hackers has decided to take the US Supreme Court's sudden and devastating reversal of landmark decision Roe vs. Wade into their own hands.
Hacking

Hackers Declare War on Anti-Abortion States

"THE ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE!"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Kenyan engineer Nzambi Matee has come up with a way to upcycle plastic trash — by pressing it with the addition of sand into usable bricks.
Environment

Kenyan Engineer Invents Method to Turn Waste Plastic Into Sturdy Construction Bricks

"As a materials expert, I believe that plastic one of the misunderstood materials."

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli military technology startup Camero-Tech has unveiled a device that it claims could allow soldiers to literally "see through walls," Insider reports.
Military

Startup Claims New Military Tech Can See Straight Through Walls

Kinda creepy!

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's job slash is in full swing — and newer employees, including some who had yet to start accepted positions, seem to be bearing the brunt.
Tesla

As Crisis Deepens, Tesla Rescinds Job Offers to People Who’d Already Accepted Them

"D*mn, talk about a gut punch."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré