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Researchers warn that companies like OpenAI and Google could soon run out of human-written training data for their AI models.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can’t Get Smarter

By Victor Tangermann

A Reuters report says that an AI tool used by the app NewsBreak has been publishing entirely made-up news articles.

Artificial Intelligence

Popular News App Caught Publishing Completely Untrue AI Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's parent company, Alphabet, has poached Eli Lilly's chief financial officer and tapped her to be its own.

Google Hires Weight Loss Drug Exec With Zero Tech Experience as New CFO

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Kutcher, OpenAI's generative AI tool Sora is already good enough to churn out footage for major movie productions.

Artificial Intelligence

Ashton Kutcher Threatens That Soon, AI Will Spit Out Entire Movies

By Frank Landymore

An ESA scientific instrument dropped off by China's lunar lander detected negative ions on the far side of the Moon.

Chinese Lander Instrument Detects Negative Ions on Far Side of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Starship's aerodynamic flap endured some brutal conditions during reentry, but survived, leading to staff cheering it on.

SpaceX Staff Erupt in Cheers as Starship Flap Keeps Functioning Even While Burning Up, Pieces Flying Off

By Victor Tangermann

Cybertruck Driver Caught Lying That The Cops Let Him Go 50 Miles Over The Speed Limit

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Driver Caught Lying That The Cops Let Him Go 50 Miles Over The Speed Limit

By Noor Al-Sibai

The layoffs, a Microsoft exec said in a leaked memo, are merely part of the decisions the company has to make "along the way."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames “AI Wave”

By Frank Landymore

New data from NOAA and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide reached an all-time high in May.

Carbon Pollution in Atmosphere Hits All Time Record

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In one California town, local officials have shut down the United States' first so-called "cloud-brightening" geoengineering experiment.

City Shuts Down Geoengineering Experiment

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nvidia dominates both the AI chip and gaming hardware market. And so its CEO Jensen Huang eagerly anticipates the two technologies colliding.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says Video Games Will Be Totally Infused With AI

By Frank Landymore

Boeing had to call off its first Starliner docking attempt with the International Space Station due to thrusters malfunctioning.

Boeing’s Starliner Has Trouble Docking With Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

In an email sent out to customers, Humane admitted that a third-party battery cell used in some of the AI Pins "may pose a fire safety risk."

Artificial Intelligence

Maker of Disastrous “AI Pin” Device Admits It Can Cause Fire While Charging

By Victor Tangermann

After years of delays, Boeing finally managed to get its plagued Starliner capsule off the ground. It's now springing even more helium leaks.

Boeing Spacecraft Springs More Leaks as It Sputters to the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Dramatic footage shows SpaceX Starship's fins being shredded to pieces as the plasma started heating up during reentry.

Starship’s Flight Was Going Great. Then Pieces Started Falling Off on Livestream

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft announced an AI Windows feature called Recall that regularly takes screenshots. It's a cybersecurity mess that can easily be hacked.

Artificial Intelligence

Windows Feature That Records Everything You Do Can Easily Be Hacked

By Victor Tangermann

Starlink allows the Marubo people, an Amazon tribe, to have internet even in the heart of the rainforest — but it comes at a cost.

Remote Amazon Tribe Finally Gets Internet, Gets Hooked on Porn and Social Media

By Frank Landymore

Beware the three horsemen of the ocean apocalypse, according to a new study: extreme heat, acidification, and deoxygenation.

You Might Cry When You Read This Study About What’s Happening to the Oceans

By Frank Landymore

After her husband died, one woman found the perfect way to send off his cremated remains after discovering space burial company Celestis.

Widow Astonished by Options After Husband Dies: “Space?! I Can Shoot Him Into Space?”

By Victor Tangermann

Lab-grown diamonds are taking the jewelry industry by storm — and those invested in the natural-grown kind are none too pleased.

Science & Energy

The Diamond Industry Is Withering as Beautiful Lab-Grown Diamonds Drive Down Prices

By Noor Al-Sibai

Billionaire space tourist Jared Isaacman offered to fix NASA's Hubble telescope. Officials are still unsure the benefits outweigh the risks.

NASA Slaps Down Billionaire’s Plan to Fly Up and Fix Hubble Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

Boeing has finally launched its much-maligned Starliner astronaut shuttle into space with two NASA astronauts on board.

Boeing Spacecraft Finally Manages to Limp Off the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Cybertruck's steer-by-wire system has a considerable delay. But that may be a feature, not a bug, as many netizens have argued.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Steering Has a Significant Lag

By Victor Tangermann

A report by Public Citizen found that the amount of AI lobbyists more than doubled in 2023 from the year before.

Artificial Intelligence

The AI Industry Is Swarming DC With Lobbyists

By Frank Landymore

Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The analysis used several AI models to compare the OpenAI voice to the voices of around 600 actresses, including Scarlett Johansson.

Forensic Analysis Finds Overwhelming Similarities Between OpenAI’s Voice and Scarlett Johansson

By Frank Landymore

An expert warns that over ten thousand people could die as the result of a single heat wave, sending hundreds of thousands to the hospital.

Experts Fear Horrifying Heat Waves That Could Kill Tens of Thousands of People at Once

By Frank Landymore

A former OpenAI researcher became so convinced that the technology would usher in doom for humanity, he left the company and called it out.

OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

By Noor Al-Sibai

A tiny cohort of "supersharers" spread the majority of fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election. They were mostly older white women.

Scientists Find That a Tiny Proportion of People Spread Almost All the Fake News, and They Turn Out to Be Exactly Who You’d Expect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is diverting important AI hardware shipments away from Tesla in favor of his social media platform X and his AI startup xAI.

Leaked Emails Show Elon Musk Diverting AI Resources Away From Tesla as Automaker Flails

By Victor Tangermann

The creator of the new "Spider-Verse" animated film has laid to rest concerns that artificial intelligence was used in the new "threequel."

Artificial Intelligence

Producer of “Beyond the Spider-Verse” Responds to Rumors of AI Use in Animation

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's Chang'e-6 rover planted a flag on the Moon's far side, a victory lap for the country's highly successful lunar program.

China Plants First-Ever National Flag on Far Side of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla investor is accusing Elon Musk of selling $7.5 billion worth of Tesla shares despite knowing of bad news ahead.

Elon Musk Accused of Massive Insider Trading at Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

The supply of renewable energy is soaring across Europe and parts of the US, causing prices to go negative. Investors are becoming wary.

Capitalists Alarmed as Renewables Keep Making Electricity Temporarily Free

By Victor Tangermann

During an LGBTQ pride parade, someone attempted to slay the house down in a Cybertruck with rainbow wrapping that Elon Musk would truly hate.

Elon Musk Is Gonna Blow a Gasket When He Sees This Pride-Themed Cybertruck

By Noor Al-Sibai

The architects behind the Burj Khalifa in Dubai are teaming up with a startup to turn future skyscrapers into massive, gravity-powered batteries.

Designer of Burj Khalifa Now Working on Turning Skyscrapers Into Gravity-Powered Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

China has just successfully scored its latest forte in the space race after landing on the Moon's dark side for the second time.

China Lands on Dark Side of the Moon, Prepares to Gather Loot and Return to Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an apparent attempt to make his Tesla Cybertruck stand out even more on the road, one owner polished his pickup to a mirrored finish.

Advanced Transport

This Perfectly Polished Cybertruck Looks Like a Real Hazard on the Road

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has canceled his flagship space tourism flight, citing readiness problems with SpaceX's Starship rocket.

Billionaire Cancels Moon Tourism Trip After SpaceX Misses Deadline

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spaceplane arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center last week in preparation for its maiden voyage to the ISS.

A Real-Life “Star Wars”-Style Spacecraft Is Preparing for Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Primordial black holes neatly explain where all the dark matter in the universe is hiding — if we could find them.

Astronomers Struggle to Explain Why Ancient Black Holes Are Nowhere to Be Found

By Frank Landymore

After receiving backlash that it is making its car music player obsolete, Spotify has reversed course somewhat and is now offering a refund.

After Facing Major Backlash Over Bricking Music Player, Spotify Gives in and Will Refund Customers

By Sharon Adarlo

The feds arrested Yunhe Wan, who they say perpetrated a massive botnet scheme that swindled billions and facilitated child exploitation.

Multibillion Dollar Botnet Scam Traced Back to a Single Person

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered another intriguing formation on the planet's barren surface in the form of a circular pit.

Scientists Intrigued By Almost Perfectly Circular Pit on the Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

Tesla rival, Lucid Group, just announced last week it's laying off about 400 people from its electrical vehicle company.

Tesla Competitor Lays Off Hundreds of Workers As Other EVs Lose People

By Sharon Adarlo

A psychologist published a study that found no correlation between subjective well-being and Western astrological signs

Health & Medicine

Game Over, Astrologists: Zodiac Signs Have Zero Bearing on Our State of Mind, Researchers Find

By Sharon Adarlo

A dinosaur hunter is set to rake in millions of dollars after his find of a 150-million-year-old stegosaurus goes to auction.

Science & Energy

Dinosaur Hunter Expected to Make Millions After Finding “Virtually Complete” Stegosaurus

By Sharon Adarlo

An international team of botanists just discovered the largest genome ever sequenced — in an itty-bitty Pacific fern.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Teeny Tiny Plant With the Largest Genome Ever Sequenced

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Global warming is thawing permafrost in Alaska and turning remote rivers from pristine glacier blue to rusty bright orange.

Science & Energy

Scientists Alarmed as Rivers in Alaska Turn Bright Orange

By Sharon Adarlo

A new discovery in the way electrical currents work could pave the way for supercapacitors that charge phones and laptops in 60 seconds.

Robots and Machines

Supercapacitor Discovery Could Allow Laptops to be Charged in Just 1 Minute, Engineer Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new theory suggests that rockets blast up plumes of Moon dust at way, way faster speeds than previously thought.

Scientist Terrified Astronauts Might Be Shredded by Sandblasts on the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Last month, China sent four zebrafish to its space station Tiangong. And so far, the fish are thriving in the microgravity environment.

Fish on Board China’s Space Station Are Doing Swimmingly, Confused as Hell

By Sharon Adarlo

Should genAI be journalism's future, Semafor reports that partisan digital outlets, especially those on the far-right, might get frozen out.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Already Leaving Right Wing, Conservative Media Outlets In The Past

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Impartial, data driven AI models could be an appealing replacement for biased , egotistical CEOs — and cheaper, too.

Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI, Experts Argue

By Frank Landymore

Akatsuki, JAXA's Venus probe and the only spacecraft in orbit around the planet, suddenly fell out of contact in late April.

Japan’s Venus Probe Goes Mysteriously Missing

By Frank Landymore

AI's demand on the US power grid is resulting in changing phase-out deadlines for American coal companies.

Artificial Intelligence

Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google says there have been a lot of fake screenshots from AI Oerviews and that people should double check if they are real or not.

Google Accuses Users of Exaggerating Problems With Its Disastrous AI Search Tool

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA scientists believe that a small asteroid in the Main Asteroid Belt called "Dinky" birthed its own Moon. Actually, two of them.

Astronomers Surprised After Finding Tiny Moon Is Actually Two Tiny Moons in a Trenchcoat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After taking pains to distance himself from Donald Trump, Elon Musk is now raging on the GOP frontrunner's behalf over his guilty verdict.

Elon Musk Fuming After Frenemy Donald Trump Found Guilty on All Counts

By Noor Al-Sibai

The sulfur emissions had helped cool the planet before they were significantly curtailed in 2020, the study found.

Major Cuts in Shipping Pollution Actually Made Climate Change Worse, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Tesla is once again in the hot seat after federal regulators found an issue with more than 125,000 of its cars' seat belts.

Tesla Recalling Over 125,000 Cars Over Seat Belt Issue

By Noor Al-Sibai

Within an hour of Donald Trump's historic felony convictions, the presidential candidate's donation site crashed.

Donation Page for Convicted Reality TV Host Crashes Following Guilty Verdict

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

SpaceX will showcase its reusability with its latest Starship test — and an incredible new infographic shows how crazy those plans are.

Check Out This Amazing Starship Infographic Showing SpaceX’s Plans for Its Upcoming Test Flight

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's "hush money" guilty verdict, Truth Social shares plummeted — only to jump back up and then fall again.

Trump Guilty Verdict Sends “Truth Social” Shares on a Rollercoaster Ride

By Noor Al-Sibai