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Elon Boasts of Huge Starship Improvements Immediately Before It Blows Up Spectacularly
Starship

Elon Boasts of Huge Starship Improvements Immediately Before It Blows Up Spectacularly

Oops.

By Victor Tangermann

AI isn't even close to coming for everybody's jobs, a frequently cited fear — and it's not exactly making workers more productive, either.
Future Society

You’ll Spit Take When You Hear How Little Time Workers Are Saving With AI, According to This Huge New Study

This is pitiful.

By Victor Tangermann

Aurora launched the nation's first fully driverless trucking service, but its self-driving efforts have already hit a snag.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Trucking Company Deploys Self-Driving 18-Wheeler Where Human Employee Can Chill Out and Watch YouTube Videos in the Back as It Bombs Down the Highway

"I may be in the truck, but I'm just a passenger."

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's exciting new partnership with famed iPhone designer Jony Ive has the rumor-mill churning — and the latest may give you a guffaw.
OpenAI

You May Laugh When You Hear What OpenAI’s Top Secret AI Gadget Allegedly Looks Like

This is not going to be the game-changer Sam Altman is clearly expecting.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists say they've developed a ludicrously keen-eyed laser device that can read the text in a book from a whopping 0.85 miles away.
Devices

Alarming Spy Device Can Read Text in an Open Book From Nearly a Mile Away

Enhance!

By Victor Tangermann

Fresh on the heels from his exit from Meta, former Facebook executive Nick Clegg is defending AI against copyright holders.
Artificial Intelligence

Legendary Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable If Tech Companies Had to Ask for Artists’ Consent to Ingest Their Work

"I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.
Off-World

Scientists Detect Mysterious Object in Deep Solar System

It's absolutely enormous.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's latest o3 model frequently sabotaged the script that would shut it down even when it was explicitly told not to.
OpenAI

Advanced OpenAI Model Caught Sabotaging Code Intended to Shut It Down

Hell-bent on survival — or, maybe, doing more math problems.

By Frank Landymore

A Cybertruck driver has filmed himself playing "Grand Theft Auto V" while rip-roaring down a highway in FSD mode.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch in Horror as Cybertruck Driver Plays “Grand Theft Auto” While Screaming Down Highway on Self-Driving Mode

"This is literally what GTA would make a satire about."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar way.
Moon

Scientists Puzzled by Mysterious Motion in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Moon

"We've got a new mystery on our hands."

By Victor Tangermann

Two humanoid robots entered the ring to trade punches and kicks at an event in Hangzhou, China, over the weekend.
Robotics

Wild Video Shows Robots Fighting in Kickboxing Match

Forget Battle Bots... this is robot combat with fists of steel.

By Victor Tangermann

The New York Times published an article with a strange and bigoted claim about Asian women and manufacturing at Apple.
Future Society

The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women

Do they have any shame?

By Noor Al-Sibai

A nasty superbug is spreading through hospitals and killing tons of people — and scientists have found what it feeds on.
Studies

Superbug That Can Feed on Plastic Is Spreading in Hospitals

"Plastic is everywhere in modern medicine."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Women in wealthy nations are three times more likely to face heightened levels of automation risk than their male counterparts.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Replacing Women’s Jobs Specifically

Yikes.

By Joe Wilkins

Scientists suggest a star and its planet are orbiting a second star in two opposite directions in an exotic binary star system.
Off-World

Scientists Intrigued by Strange Behavior of Distant Planet

Did somebody say "three body problem?"

By Victor Tangermann

The unholy lightning collision unleashed a rarely witnessed blast of the most energetic radiation seen on Earth.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Witnessed Two Lightning Bolts Collide and Unleash a Blast of Radiation

"Dark lightning."

By Frank Landymore

A new company backed by Lance Armstrong just raised $4 million dollars to track your stool and urine using artificial intelligence.
Devices

New Device Mounts to Your Toilet to Analyze Your Turds Using the Power of AI

"It’s time to stop flushing away valuable data."

By Joe Wilkins

New research suggests that Jupiter used to be at least twice as big as it is today, during a crucial moment in the Solar System's evolution.
Off-World

Scientists Find Jupiter Used to Be More Than Twice Its Current Size

Wait till you hear how many Earths it fits.

By Frank Landymore

Facing dismal financial results, Target is praying to the gods of artificial intelligence to fix its horrible stores.
Artificial Intelligence

After Disastrous Experiments Into AI, Target Pledges to Pile on Even More AI

Had enough AI yet?

By Joe Wilkins

Well-heeled festivalgoers shelled out for Glastonbury "glamping" yurts — and then the company they paid went out of business.
Future Society

Company Tells Customers Who Paid $13,500 for Glamorous Yurts That It’s Bankrupt, the Yurts Are Unavailable, and Refunds Are Impossible

We're playing the world's smallest, and most expensive, violin.

By Noor Al-Sibai