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Energy prices in France turned negative following a surge in renewable output last week, causing a number of nuclear reactors to shut down.

Electricity Prices in France Just Turned Negative Because of Renewables

By Victor Tangermann

We regret to inform you that another, significantly larger penis drawing has hit the terrain maps of Mars after a full two decades.

NASA Has Drawn Another Giant Schlong on the Surface of Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Unfortunately for a dozen or so now-former Wells Fargo employees, the future of work is not mouse jiggling devices.

Major Bank Fires Employees for Pretending to Work via “Simulation of Keyboard Activity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ice occasionally falls from the sky in New Jersey — but typically not in June, and typically not from planes.

Large Chunk of Ice Smashes Through Family’s Roof

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla has canceled several Cybertruck deliveries, with users citing a safety issue affecting the pickup's gigantic windshield wiper.

Tesla Cancels Cybertruck Deliveries After Their Gigantic Windshield Wipers Start Failing

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI just named former NSA director Paul Nakasone to its board. Infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, for one, had some thoughts.

Edward Snowden Says OpenAI Just Performed a “Calculated Betrayal of the Rights of Every Person on Earth”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Fast food chain McDonald's is giving up on its AI-powered drive-thru bots, following a string of hilarious, albeit infuriating failures.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Abandoning AI-Powered Drive Thrus After Embarrassing Failures

By Victor Tangermann

OceanGate cofounder Guillermo Söhnlein recently implied we should celebrate CEO Stockton Rush's legacy, following his death one year ago.

Cofounder of Doomed Titanic Sub Says Tragic Implosion Has Amplified His Drive

By Victor Tangermann

An expedition team has found the underwater wreckage of a ship that famous explorer Ernest Shackleton had chartered for a trip to Antarctica.

Researchers Discover Legendary Shipwreck Using Underwater Imaging

By Sharon Adarlo

$With just a fraction of people responding to political polls, Harvard experts are suggesting that pollsters "call" AI chatbots instead.$

Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Scholars Suggest Pollsters Ask Questions to AI Simulations of Voters Because Real People Won’t Answer The Phone

By Noor Al-Sibai

Many people are passing up new cars and are instead buying used vehicles because new tech like touchscreens are distracting.

Advanced Transport

People Buying Cars Hate Touch Screens, Instead Getting Used Cars With Knobs and Buttons

By Sharon Adarlo

SpaceX's growing Starlink megaconstellation could be hindering the Earth's ozone layer from healing itself, researchers find.

SpaceX’s Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds

By Victor Tangermann

With dwindling funds and a hostile political climate, SCiFi Foods, a San Francisco-based lab grown meat startup, has abruptly shut down.

Fake Meat Startup Shuts Down Without Selling a Single Fake Meat to a Restaurant or Grocery Store

By Frank Landymore

A new report from the International Energy Agency is bullish about the impact of renewables, which will contribute to a drop in oil demand.

Science & Energy

Oil Companies in Trouble as Renewables Suddenly Mean They’re Producing Way Too Much Oil

By Frank Landymore

Google's search head doesn't want something as pesky as nonsense AI answers to keep the company from pushing out immature products.

Google’s Head of Search Tells Employees That AI Will Keep Making Absurd Mistakes, But They’re Gonna Keep Pushing It Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

A cutesy Pixar-style animation clip featuring an Ancient Egyptian girl is going viral this week because it's entirely AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Generated Pixar Style Animation Just Might Blow Your Mind

By Sharon Adarlo

A viral TikTok shows a frustrated Tesla owner trying to figure out what to do when his charging cable gets stuck in his Cybertruck.

Advanced Transport

Man Annoyed When Charging Cable Gets Stuck in Cybertruck

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The driver of the Tesla reportedly admitted to using their phone in the lead up to the crash while it was in self-driving mode.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Cop Leaps Out of the Way Just as Self-Driving Tesla Wipes Out His Cruiser

By Frank Landymore

What was set to be NASA's 90th spacewalk at the ISS was called off just an hour before the astronauts were scheduled to egress.

NASA Cancels Spacewalk With Cryptic Announcement About “Spacesuit Discomfort”

By Frank Landymore

According to Bloomberg, neither party expects a direct boost in revenues from their partnership that is nonetheless significant.

It Turns Out Apple Is Only Paying OpenAI in Exposure

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT is either ignoring or generating fake links to articles from Business Insider even though the two organizations have a deal.

ChatGPT Is Hallucinating Fake Article Links by One of Its Publishing Partners

By Sharon Adarlo

After announcing a new AI feature that records and screenshots everything you do, Microsoft is now delaying its launch.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Admits That Maybe Surveiling Everything You Do on Your Computer Isn’t a Brilliant Idea

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a terrifying video, a Boeing jet appeared to catch on fire during takeoff in yet another safety incident involving the plane manufacturer.

Flames Shoot From Boeing Jet’s Engines With 389 Passengers on Board

By Noor Al-Sibai

In Turkey, cheating on college entrance exams is an arrestable offense — and one enterprising student almost got away with it by using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Student Busted With Elaborate AI Device That Whispers Test Answers Into Their Ear

By Noor Al-Sibai

The New York Times' union is claiming that the paper is firing human artists to replace them with artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Memo Claims New York Times Fired Artists to Replace Them With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Boeing's sales have slumped in a huge way this year — and for two months straight, nobody has purchased a single 737.

Boeing Hasn’t Sold a Single 737 Max for Two Entire Months

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is threatening to sue fired Twitter staff in Australia, demanding to claw back payments after accidentally overpaying them.

Elon Musk Demands Money Back From Employees He Laid Off

By Victor Tangermann

A new report on generative AI reveals that many companies in much of the world are not making a profit on their AI products.

Artificial Intelligence

Companies Find That AI Projects Have Had “Dismal” Financial Results

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA accidentally broadcasted the audio of an emergency simulation over a routine ISS livestream, causing alarm among viewers.

NASA Apologizes for Broadcasting Emergency on Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rapper Iggy Azalea launched a sketchy crypto token dubbed "MOTHER" that can soon allegedly be used to purchase phones.

Iggy Azalea Launches Extremely Dubious Crypto Literally Minted by Company Called “Pump.Fun”

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian farmer, who found massive pieces of SpaceX junk on his farm, has sold them and is using the money to pay for a hockey rink.

SpaceX Pays for Rocket Parts That Fell to Farm of Canadian, Who Vows to Use Money to Pay for Hockey Rink

By Victor Tangermann

A Wyoming man wants an AI named VIC to be on Cheyenne's mayoral ballot. Authorities in the state are questioning the AI's legality.

Artificial Intelligence

Authorities Investigating AI Running for Mayor in Wyoming

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stable Diffusion 3 is here — and if you want to generate an image of a person, maybe expect an output resembling human appendage soup.

Artificial Intelligence

The New Stable Diffusion Is Producing Horrific Mangled Human Bodies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new Washington Post interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that he's not "100 percent" sure the company's AI will stop lying.

Artificial Intelligence

Tim Cook Admits Apple May Never Be Able to Make Its AI Stop Lying

By Victor Tangermann

Troubleshooter, a popular turn-based RPG, wanted to introduce a dating feature — but the people making it don't have no experience.

Game Developer Says Team Can’t Add Dating Feature Because Team Has No “Real Life” Romance Experience

By Noor Al-Sibai

Several yellow bananas on a sky blue background. Image via Getty.

Banana Seller Chiquita Found Liable for Numerous Violent Deaths

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers suggest we should hunt for an ultralight dark matter candidate in the Earth's ionosphere, a "long shot."

Science & Energy

The Earth May Be Swimming Through Dark Matter, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had sex with an ex-intern several years ago, in addition to having inappropriate interactions with women employees.

Elon Musk Reportedly Had Sex With SpaceX Intern

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA astronauts are scheduled to venture outside of the ISS to see if microorganisms that were attached to the exterior survived.

NASA Astronauts Checking Exterior of Space Station for Living Organisms

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Musk didn't say why, but it's hard to see why he wouldn't.

Elon Musk Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI After It Releases Emails Showing He Was Totally on Board With What He’s Now Criticizing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax. Meanwhile, MAGA supporters are getting hospitalized by global warming-induced heat at rallies.

Fans of Donald Trump, Who Thinks Climate Change Is a Hoax, Hospitalized by Heat at Trump Rallies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the aperture doors covering one of the XRISM space telescope's particle-detecting instrument called Resolve has remained jammed.

Door Is Jammed on Expensive Space Telescope, Blocking Its View of Space

By Victor Tangermann

Bpoeing has discovered five different helium leaks on its Starliner spacecraft while docked to the International Space Station.

Boeing Starliner Stuck on Space Station as More Leaks Discovered

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a new way to store energy inside a modified concrete, a potential solution to a growing energy storage problem.

New Concrete That Stores Electricity Could Turn Whole Homes Into Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

Marjorie Taylor Greene's speech at Trump's Vegas rally included some soundbite-packed word salad about gas prices for... electric vehicles?

Advanced Transport

Marjorie Taylor Greene Mocked for Saying the Gas Prices for Electric Cars Are Too High

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The head of the United Nations is begging world leaders not to use artificial intelligence to control their nuclear arsenals.

Artificial Intelligence

UN Head Implores Dimwit Leaders Not to Give AI Control of Nuclear Weapons

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk Threatens to Seize iPhones and Store Them in a Faraday Cage at His Companies

Elon Musk Threatens to Seize iPhones and Store Them in a Faraday Cage at His Companies

By Frank Landymore

A person driving a Tesla with Full-Self Driving mode had to take the steering wheel after the vehicle became confused by a road worker.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch a Self-Driving Tesla Get Completely Baffled by a Road Worker Directing Traffic

By Sharon Adarlo

A pixelated Pinnochio with a very long nose to symbolize lies. Image via Getty/Futurism.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Say There’s a Vulgar But More Accurate Term for AI Hallucinations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tech giant Apple has finally shown off its own take on artificial intelligence tech. We've seen this all before.

Apple’s Huge AI Announcement Is a Chatbot and an Image Generator, Which Is the Exact Same Boring Offering as Microsoft, Google and Meta

By Victor Tangermann

Unsold Tesla stock piling up so much, it can literally be spotted from space, as seen in several satellite images.

There Are Now So Many Unsold Teslas That You Can See Them From Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson isn't one to mince words, but in a recent interview, he used colorful language to describe his colleagues.

Head of NASA Says He Works With a “Bunch of Wizards”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A PhD student in India has proposed a "new model" of the universe that includes an "anti-universe" that flows backward in time.

Science & Energy

Our World May Be Connected to an Anti-Universe, Scientist Says

By Victor Tangermann

One of the OpenAI directors who ousted CEO Sam Altman is issuing some stark warnings about the future of unchecked artificial intelligence.

Former OpenAI Director Warns There Are Bad Things AI Can Do Besides Kill You

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tech company Sightful has fully doubled down on augmented reality glasses by releasing an unusual laptop that doesn't have a screen.

Virtual Reality

New Laptop Has No Screen, Just Augmented Reality Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

A video shows an overly confident driver attempting to show off his Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) capabilities, only to almost crash.

Self-Driving Vehicles

As Tesla Driver Boasts to Passenger How Awesome Full Self-Driving Is, Car Suddenly Swerves Into Oncoming Traffic

By Victor Tangermann

A video making its rounds in China unmasks a hidden pipe feeding what is claimed to be the country's tallest, uninterrupted waterfall.

Science & Energy

Hiker Alarmed to Find Pipe Feeding China’s Tallest Waterfall

By Victor Tangermann

After promising they'd get free space flights, the billionaire behind the dearMoon space tour has completely let down his crew.

Billionaire Promised Crew Free Flights Around Moon, Then Dashed Their Dreams

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some scientific experts have been proposing refreezing the Arctic region via a series of drastic geoengineering projects.

Scientists Working on Desperate Plan to Refreeze Arctic

By Sharon Adarlo

After Google's AI Overviews was caught generating incorrect answers, Google has slashed AI-generated summaries from 84 to less than 15%.

Google Has Drastically Slashed Its AI Results After Disastrously Embarrassing Launch

By Sharon Adarlo

To celebrate an April 20 Phish concert, a fan took what is being hailed as the historic, first bong rip at Las Vegas' Sphere.

Phish Fan Takes Historic First Bong Rip at Vegas Sphere, Gets Permanently Banned

By Victor Tangermann

AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy predicted that there's a 99.9 percent chance AI could wipe out humanity within the next 100 years.

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Estimates 99.9 Percent Chance AI Will Destroy Humankind

By Victor Tangermann

In a new interview, a former OpenAI employee made a shocking admission about his ex-employer's plans for AGI.

Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start AGI Bidding War With China and Russia

By Noor Al-Sibai

A repeating radio signal from deep space has scientists puzzled, because they can't fully explain what's emitting it.

Scientists Intrigued by Signal From Space Repeating Every Hour

By Frank Landymore