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Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human bodies.
Pollution

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

"The brain microplastic paper is a joke."

By Frank Landymore

In the final days of the Biden administration, government officials spent millions to buy a device thought to cause the mystery illness.
Devices

Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome

A small price to pay.

By Joe Wilkins

Beyond performing preprogrammed martial arts and dance moves, we can't shake the feeling that robots as they exist today just kind of suck.
Future Society

Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck

The gap between what's being promised and what robots are capable of today is growing fast.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that the brain "shifts upward and backward within the skull following spaceflight," a new wrinkle for future space travel.
NASA

Astronauts’ Brains Are Being Displaced

"That kind of change is visible by eye."

By Victor Tangermann

The hottest paid app in China is an interactive timer meant to inform loved ones of a single user's lonesome death.
Future Society

Hot New App Makes Single People Check in Constantly in Case They Die Alone

Grim.

By Joe Wilkins

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey filed eight trademark applications that featured videos and audio clips of him to thwart AI.
Ethics

Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon AI Companies

"Alright, alright, alright."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is gutting its employee library and cutting subscriptions in favor of what it's describing as an "AI-powered learning experience."
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI

Just tech company things.

By Frank Landymore

AI data centers are using up so much energy that grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers.
Ethics

AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown

This summer may bring more than hot temperatures.

By Sharon Adarlo

Washington State University professor of medicine Bruce Davidson says Trump appears to have suffered a stroke.
Neuroscience and Brain

Doctor Says Trump Appears to Be Showing Signs of a Stroke

"All of this is consistent with having had a stroke on the left side of his brain."

By Joe Wilkins

A University of Alaska Fairbanks student was detained after ripping AI "artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest."
Ethics

Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

He's since been arrested for "criminal mischief."

By Victor Tangermann

A highly controversial study funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services on infants in West Africa has been halted.
Studies

Trump Administration Says It’s Not Canceling Tuskegee-Style Medical Study That Will Withhold Hepatitis Vaccine From Newborns

"This administration did not see people in Africa as valuable."

By Joe Wilkins

For over two decades, millions volunteered their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Exobiology

Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals

Here's what they found.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.
Anthropic

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core

Could this be the smoking gun?

By Victor Tangermann

In an appearance on the Katie Miller Podcast, the health secretary said he's astonished that Trump is even alive.
Food

RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet

"I don't know how he's alive, but he is."

By Joe Wilkins

The immigration agency reportedly deployed an AI system which failed to separate recruits based on prior law enforcement experience.
Future Society

ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster

"They were using AI to scan resumes and found out a bunch of the people who were LEOs weren't LEOs."

By Joe Wilkins

Wikipedia has signed licensing deals with a host of major AI companies in a bid to recoup the costs of being pillaged by data scrapers.
Artificial Intelligence

After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them

It wants Big Tech to pay its fair share.

By Frank Landymore

The Department of Homeland Security released a new video featuring something striking: an officer operating a Chinese drone.
Drones

There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute

Safeguarding American aerospace... with Chinese tech.

By Joe Wilkins

A new law passed in the Senate would allow victims to sue people who use AI models like Grok to generate sexually explicit images of them.
Future Society

New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes

"Give to the victims their day in court to hold those responsible who continue to publish these images at their expense."

By Frank Landymore

The International Space Station has gone from seven crew members down to a "skeleton crew" of three due to a recent medical evacuation.
International Space Station

Entire Space Station Down to Skeleton Crew After NASA Evacuation

It's down to a much smaller "skeleton crew."

By Victor Tangermann

After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.
Meta

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

"You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré