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Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez say their trip to space was path-paving step for women — as NASA removes images of women from its walls.
NASA

Katy Perry Boasts About Ridiculous Rocket Launch While NASA Is Scrubbing History of Women in Space

She didn't have a word to say about Trump's attack on women in science and space travel.

America's first nuclear power plant to use artificial intelligence is, ironically, the last operational one in California. 
Artificial Intelligence

California Nuclear Power Plant Deploys Generative AI Safety System

"I don’t really trust that it would stop there."

Hackers took over the crosswalk buttons of downtown intersections in several California cities, to play clips of Elon Musk's cloned voice.
Elon Musk

Someone Is Hacking Crosswalk Buttons to Speak in the Voice of Elon Musk Lamenting the Terrible Sadness in His Life

"Will you be my friend?"

Katy Perry reportedly broke into song, singing "What a Wonderful World" during her rocket ride. Others wanted her to sing her own songs.
Off-World

Passengers Trapped in Rocket With Katy Perry Wished She Would Sing Something Else

Oh God.

Around 15 of Nobel Prize-winning biochemist David Baker's graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are looking to leave the US.
Developments

Nobel-Winning Scientist Says His Researchers Are Fleeing the Country Because of Trump’s Cruelty

"Things have gotten quite bleak."

A former OpenAI employee is joining Elon Musk's campaign against CEO Sam Altman — and he's got a lot to say about his ex-boss.
OpenAI

Former OpenAI Employee Rages Against Sam Altman: “Person of Low Integrity”

Them's fightin' words.

Apple's AI and machine learning group tasked with upgrading Siri is facing just as much scrutiny from its peers as it is from the public.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s AI-Powered Siri Is Such a Disaster That Employees Have Given the Team Developing It a Rude Nickname

Ouuuch.

ADHD drugs may have bizarre side effects for kids who take them while they're growing — and it's a tall order as to whether they're worth it.
Studies

Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It

This one's puzzling.

Those who tuned in to watch pop star Katy Perry launch in Jeff Bezos' rocket were left largely unimpressed.
Future Society

Chat Relentlessly Mocks Katy Perry’s “Space Trip”

"People are dying, Gayle."

A high-end clinic is offering the ability to cleanse your body of microplastics — so long as you can shell out for it.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Say They’ve Found a Way to Clean the Microplastics Out of Your Body

An intriguing concept.

The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once revived.
Science & Energy

Scientists Revive Organism Found Buried at Bottom of Ocean

The resurrected organism is thousands of years old.

Google has one weird trick to hoard its artificial intelligence talent from poachers — paying them to not work at all.
Google

Google Is Allegedly Paying Top AI Researchers to Just Sit Around and Not Work for the Competition

It's not quite as cushy as it sounds.

New investigative reporting has uncovered a tech giant in the middle of a cruel AI-powered border dystopia.
Future Society

Google Is Helping Government Build an AI-Powered Border Surveillance System

From the guys who brough you targeted ads.

Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick the contrast dye you get before an MRI.
Studies

MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find

The results can, on rare occasion, be deadly.

In Scotland, a woman successfully gave birth to a baby girl after getting a womb transplant from her sister.
Developments

Baby Born to Woman With Transplanted Womb

"The whole thing is astonishing and incredibly moving."

As the biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, a near-majority of readers aren't buying it.
Artificial Intelligence

Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News

If you build it, they're not necessarily going to come.

A 74-year-old entrepreneur played an entirely AI-generated video of a male avatar to address the judge during a court appearance.
Artificial Intelligence

Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court

"I don't appreciate being misled."

Trump interior secretary Doug Burgum said that the endangered species is too big and suggested that the future of conservation is in cloning.
Science & Energy

Trump Official Says It’s Okay to Destroy Endangered Species Because We Can Just Clone Them

"The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave."

As cosmetic procedures surge in popularity, lip fillers have never been more ubiquitous — but men, apparently, are not impressed.
Studies

Scientists Study Who Actually Likes Lip Filler

Fascinating.

A stressed spouse revealed something quite dirty about their husband's telescope usage in their big old apartment in the sky.
Off-World

Spouse Alarmed by What “Stargazing” Husband Is Really Doing With Telescope

"I called him a pervert and left the room."