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Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Telling Cancer Patients to Try Useless Woo-Woo Treatments Instead of Chemotherapy

Why do chemo when you can try a "cancer-fighting diet" instead?

Mars

Scientists Puzzled by Huge Shadowy Blight Spreading Across Surface of Mars

A battle between light and dark.

Ethics

Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI

The company is saying the quiet part out loud.

Privacy

Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family’s Intimate Conversations

Uh, come again?

Ethics

Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements

Why would they choose to dig their own graves?

Ethics

Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities

"The brain didn't fall asleep, but there was much less activation in the areas corresponding to creativity and to processing information."

Starship

Jeff Bezos’ Botched Space Launch Was So Bad It Could Threaten NASA’s Entire Moon Program

More delays could be coming.

Moon

Guess What This Creepy Underwater Thing Is That Was Photographed by US Navy Divers for NASA

Hint: it's neither a bird, nor a plane.

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Drivers Losing Patience at Elon Musk’s Eternal Excuses

They're fed up.

Artificial Intelligence

JPMorganChase Data Center Gets $77 Million Handout to Create Grand Total of One Job

"The county is giving away quite a lot of public money in exchange basically for nothing."

Ethics

Nvidia CEO Loses His Cool at Tough Question

"You're not talking to someone who woke up a loser."

Ethics

CEO of $1.5 Billion AI Startup Accused of Massive Fraud by Justice Department

"The defendants exploited investor excitement over the AI boom and presented a rosy financial outlook to investors and lenders that was built on lies."

Ethics

Palantir Issues Ominous Corporate Manifesto

This is "comic book" levels of villainy.

NASA

NASA Shuts Down Voyager 1 Instrument as Its Life Force Fades

"While shutting down a science instrument is not anybody's preference, it is the best option available."

Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Just Screwed Up Very, Very Badly

One step forward, two steps back.

Cryptocurrency

In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control

"Ghoulish."

Robotics

Chinese Humanoid Robot Runs Half Marathon, Beats Fastest Human Time in History

This is seriously impressive.

Ethics

Madison Square Garden Reportedly Used Facial Recognition to Stalk Trans Woman For Two Years

"She wasn't taking pictures in restricted areas. She wasn't trying to go places she shouldn't be."

Ethics

The Florida Mass Shooter’s Conversations With ChatGPT Are Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine

If a human uses an AI chatbot to plan a mass shooting, is the company liable for the ensuing deaths?

RX and Medicine

Scientists Intrigued by Nasal Spray That Reverse Brain Aging in Mice, Say It May Work on Humans as Well

It just takes two sprays into the nasal cavity to make a difference.