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Each of SpaceX's enormous Starship explosions is costing the private space company an enormous amount of money.
Starship

SpaceX Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money Every Time One of Its Starships Explodes

Nobody knows if SpaceX's approach will eventually pay off.

New surveys reflect how most people are concerned about AI compared even amid the incredible hype being blasted out by the tech industry.
Artificial Intelligence

The Average Person Is Far More Scared of AI Than Excited by It, Studies Find

Occasionally, sanity does prevail.

Nonsmokers now make up nearly a quarter of all lung cancer diagnosis, as threats like radon and air pollution take a heavy toll.
Cancer

People Who Don’t Smoke Are Getting Lung Cancer in Scary Numbers

"For me to get a cancer diagnosis was a big shock. And then to have a lung cancer diagnosis was very puzzling for me."

The CEO of IgniteTech recently bragged about replacing the vast majority of his workforce after they "sabotaged" his AI initiative.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn’t Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Again

"It was extremely difficult."

Pollsters are surveying AI instead of real people to save time and money — but the responses, per new research, are not up to snuff.
Artificial Intelligence

Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI Instead of Real People, and It’s Going About as Well as You’d Expect

Maybe we should save the political surveys for real voters.

Journalists found in an investigation that AI is strikingly terrible at summarizing documents and scientific research for busy reporters.
Artificial Intelligence

Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

Embarrassing.

Donald Trump is finally taking on the media haters who keep clowning him for his cankles — though of course, he isn't mentioning the context.
Developments

Trump Rages as His Swollen Legs Are Scrutinized

"A FAILURE BY ANY NAME!!!"

Another company is recalling its bags of frozen shrimp due to possible radioactive contamination, the FDA says.
Developments

Even More Shrimp Just Got Recalled Because of Radiation, at More Grocery Stores

A second wave of radiated prawn has hit the nation.

Elon Musk's obsession with anime waifus is repulsive even to his most fervent supporters on his social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly “Gooning to AI Anime”

"BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME."

Instagram users are baffled after an innocuous illustration of the words "immigrants make the country great" was flagged by the platform.
Future Society

Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say “Immigrants Make the Country Great”

"This photo may contain graphic or violent content."

New climate research suggests the Antarctic sea is experiencing rapid disruptions that could represent a global climate "tipping point."
Climate Change

The Climate Is Officially Getting So Bad That It’s Unrecoverable

"The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss..."

Some researchers have given up saving for their retirement, based on the assumption that AI has guaranteed the downfall of humanity.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

"I just don’t expect the world to be around."

At least six news sites in the UK and US have run a pretty obvious fake news story about "pregnancy robots" — and they're still live.
Robotics

Mainstream Publications Are Getting Suckered by a Ridiculous Fake News Story About a “Pregnancy Robot”

Check your sources, people!

Wildfires are getting more frequent across the globe — and according to a new study, smoke from these blazes is deadlier than we thought.
Studies

If You’ve Breathed Wildfire Smoke, Scientists Just Found Something Horrifying

If you've smelled something burning against an orange sky, we have bad news.

OpenAI Chairman and Sierra AI co-founder Bret Taylor has some fears about AI, which are best taken with a grain of salt.
OpenAI

OpenAI Chairman Says AI Is Destroying His Sense of Who He Is

"The thing I self-identify with is just, like, being obviated by this technology."

The billionaire's latest theory is a contradictory prediction of AI's effects on mental health on one hand, and fertility on the other.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Warns That AI Is “Obviously Gonna One-Shot the Human Limbic System”

"Mark my words."

In the middle of a show, Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst provoked and then knocked out of the air a drone that dared to get too close.
Drones

Furious Fred Durst Knocks Drone Out of Air During Live Concert

That's what you get for trying to pull one over on Fred.

Renowned tech magazine Wired and global news brand Business Insider have been caught publishing what appears to be AI slop.
Artificial Intelligence

Wired and Business Insider Accidentally Published AI-Generated Slop Articles by Seemingly Fake Journalist

The internet is drowning in AI slop.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has confirmed that it's freezing all hiring in its artificial intelligence division.
Meta

Meta Freezes AI Hiring as Fear Spreads

Is AI going to flop like the metaverse?

The Space Force's top-secret X-37B space plane is gearing up for its eighth mission. It will bring a "quantum inertial sensor."
Space Force

Space Force Launching Secretive Experimental Spacecraft With Quantum Equipment on Board

It's serving an important purpose.