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Google has released a statement, admitting that "some odd, inaccurate or unhelpful AI Overviews certainly did show up."

Google Admits Its AI Search Feature Is a Dumpster Fire, Says It Will Scale Back the Tool

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope claim they have found two of the most distant galaxies in the universe.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Most Distant Galaxy Ever Observed

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk has hit back against the Wall Street Journal's claims that he's been in talks to advise Donald Trump if he wins the election.

Elon Musk Distances Himself From Possible Trump Presidency

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Denver Police Department is planning to deploy aerial drones as 911 first responders, The Denver Post reports. Yes, seriously.

Denver Police Department Wants Drones to Respond to 911 Calls

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla is preparing to introduce FSD to the Chinese market and considering turning it into a monthly subscription.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Makes Moves to Roll Out Its Controversial “Full Self-Driving” Tech in China

By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has revealed some of the saddest parts of our dark Universe.

Astronomers Find Lonely Starless Planets That Drift Through the Darkness of Space All by Themselves

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump apparently wants to hire Elon Musk for an advisory role in the White House should he win the presidency back in November.

Donald Trump Reportedly Wants to Get Elon Musk Back in the White House

By Noor Al-Sibai

The same sunspot responsible for the epic geomagnetic storm earlier this month just came back into view and immediately let loose.

The Sun Just Unleashed Yet Another Fierce Solar Flare, and It’s Only Getting Started

By Frank Landymore

A new study has found that Teslas are not traveling nearly as far as they're supposed to on a full charge.

The Range of Teslas Drops A Shocking Amount In Just 3 Years, Study Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese EV automaker BYD claims that its new hybrid power train can drive for well over a thousand miles without refueling or recharging.

Chinese Tesla Competitor Claims Its New Hybrid Car Has an Absurdly Long Range

By Frank Landymore

In Iceland, a gigantic volcanic eruption has warranted terrifying videos alongside evacuations of nearby towns and tourist attractions.

Science & Energy

Angry Volcano in Iceland Just Threw Up an Apocalyptic 150-Foot Tidal Wave of Molten Lava

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese scientists have completed the world's first wooden satellite, dubbed LignoSat. It's slated to head to the ISS in September.

Japanese Scientists Show Off World’s First Wooden Satellite

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China has released video footage of its gun-toting robot dogs, and it's about as scary as you were probably imagining.

Video Shows China’s Rifle-Equipped Robot Dog Opening Fire on Targets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shareholders are being encouraged to vote by offering them the chance to win a personal tour with Elon Musk of the Tesla Gigafactory.

Elon Musk Begs Tesla Shareholders to Vote for His $56 Billion Pay Package

By Frank Landymore

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed the birth of some of the youngest galaxies ever witnessed.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Just Observed the Universe’s Youngest Galaxies Being Born

By Sharon Adarlo

While CEOs and investors rush to jam AI into as many products as possible, the general public couldn't care less about it.

Artificial Intelligence

Most People Couldn’t Give a Crap About Using AI, Survey Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

The lava flows were formed by recent volcanic eruptions, providing some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still geologically active.

Astronomers Spot Epic Flows of Lava Oozing Out of Venus

By Frank Landymore

Less than 10 days after dissolving its old safety team, OpenAI has announced a one — with CEO Sam Altman at its helm.

Sam Altman Replaces OpenAI’s Fired Safety Team With Himself and His Cronies

By Noor Al-Sibai

At a news conference on Friday, Boeing and NASA said they were going to proceed with the Starliner launch without fixing a helium leak.

Advanced Transport

Boeing Says Leak on Its Spacecraft Is Totally Fine, Will Launch Astronauts Without Fixing It

By Frank Landymore

Google manually removed AI-powered search results from pages where it was caught giving bizarre and incorrect information to search users.

Google Caught Manually Taking Down Bizarre AI Answers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Ohio man was sent to the emergency room after his new Tesla Cybertruck's metallic panels sliced open his wrist.

Advanced Transport

Driver Says He Still Loves His Cybertruck After It Sliced His Wrist Open And Sent Him to the Emergency Room

By Sharon Adarlo

The person behind those New Hampshire primary robocalls urging voters not to write President Joe Biden in faces a massive fine.

Artificial Intelligence

Robocaller Who Spoofed Joe Biden’s Voice With AI Faces $6 Million Fine

By Noor Al-Sibai

A billionaire plans to journey to the Titanic wreck — but in a presumably more sea-worthy vessel than the OceanGate's Titan which imploded.

Advanced Transport

Oh No! Yet Another Billionaire Plans to Visit the Titanic Wreck

By Sharon Adarlo

xAI, the artificial intelligence startup founded by Elon Musk, has garnered billions of dollars in its latest round of funding.

Elon Musk’s AI Company Announces Ungodly Sum of Money to Beat OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

The Car Thing will no longer be supported by Spotify, turning this perfectly capable piece of hardware into more needless e-waste.

Spotify Says the Hardware Player It Sold You Two Years Ago Will Stop Working and the Only Thing You Can Do Is Throw It in the Trash

By Frank Landymore

The DOJ is suing Ticketmaster and Live Nation to eliminate its alleged chokehold on the ticketing industry.

Ticketmaster May Finally Get What It Deserves

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

By Sharon Adarlo

A research team have identified a new type of cat whose distinctive fur on its back coat is caused by a unique mutation.

Mutation Has Led to a New Type of Cat, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Leave it to The Onion to excoriate OpenAI and its horrendous handling of the Scarlett Johansson ChatGPT fiasco.

The Onion’s Take on OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Disaster Is Pretty Much Perfect

By Frank Landymore

Germany has so much energy coming from solar panels that it has outpaced consumer demand and pushed energy prices into a steep nose dive.

Germany Now Has So Much Solar Power That Its Electric Prices Are Going Negative

By Sharon Adarlo

Another OpenAI researcher left the company this week, ominously citing concerns over AI industry opaqueness and a lack of accountability.

Another OpenAI Researcher Quits, Issuing Cryptic Warning

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After video of the incident went viral, the Tesla driver has shared a crash report confirming that Full Self-Driving was on during the crash.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Blames Full Self-Driving for Almost Plowing Into Moving Train

By Frank Landymore

From these observations, the scientists suggest that Phobos is actually a comet that Mars' gravitational field captured in the distance past.

Mars’ Moon May Not Be What We Think, Scientists Claim

By Sharon Adarlo

The source for the recommendation made by the Google AI Overview to add glue to pizza is utterly embarrassing.

The Reason That Google’s AI Suggests Using Glue on Pizza Shows a Deep Flaw With Tech Companies’ AI Obsession

By Frank Landymore

New reporting by the New York Times alleges that Elon Musk did ketamine and had an affair with Nicole Shanahan.

Elon Musk Reportedly Took Ketamine and Had Sex With the Wife of the Cofounder of Google

By Jon Christian

A resurfaced video shows an OpenAI engineer conceding that it's "deeply unfair" to "build AI and take everyone's job away."

Video Shows OpenAI Engineer Admitting It’s “Deeply Unfair” to “Build AI and Take Everyone’s Job Away”

By Frank Landymore

Electric and hybrid vehicles are more likely to hit pedestrians, especially in urban areas, compared to vehicles that run on fossil fuels.

Advanced Transport

Electric Cars Are Twice as Likely to Hit Pedestrians, Researchers Find

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers found that 52 percent of answers to programming questions generated by ChatGPT were incorrect.

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

By Sharon Adarlo

We may have to revise our idea of stellar evolution, as new research suggests stars are collapsing into black holes without going supernova.

Scientists Attempt to Explain Why Hundreds of Stars Disappeared From Night Sky

By Frank Landymore

Low-paid African content moderators, many of whom are living with PTSD, are calling on Biden to help ensure fair working conditions.

African Workers Doing OpenAI’s Training Say They’re Being Subjected to “Modern Day Slavery”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Blue Visby Solution proposes that cargo ships stop arriving way ahead of schedule and reduce their top speeds at sea to save fuel.

Renewable Energy

Ingenious Trick Cuts Cargo Ship Carbon Emissions by 17 Percent

By Frank Landymore

A New Zealand man did a belly flop into the ocean and tried to "body slam" an adult male orca swimming next to a boat, earning him a fine.

Science & Energy

You’ll Never Guess What Happened After This Guy Tried to “Body Slam” a Killer Whale

By Sharon Adarlo

After OpenAI copied actor Scarlett Johansson's voice for a new voice assistant, the head honcho at Microsoft bashed human-like AIs.

Microsoft CEO Bashes Human-Like AI After OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Scandal

By Sharon Adarlo

Those dodgy "AI Overviews" that Google is forcing onto your search results will now feature "relevant" sponsored ads.

Google Is Already Jamming Advertisements Into Its Crappy AI

By Frank Landymore

Craig Wright, the man who has long claimed to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, has once and for all been revealed to be a fraud.

That Guy Claiming to Be Satoshi Nakamoto Just Got Beat Down by a Judge

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scarlett Johansson is furious that OpenAI seemingly mimiced her voice in its ChatGPT update, which could be an "appropriation of likeness."

Legal Experts Say OpenAI Is in Big Trouble If Scarlett Johansson Decides to Sue

By Frank Landymore

Pentagon accused Russia of launching a satellite that national security officials believe is capable of attacking other satellites in orbit.

Pentagon Says Russia Has Launched a Mysterious Orbital Weapon

By Sharon Adarlo

Ongoing Mexican heatwaves have killed at least 83 howler monkeys in Tabasco, where the primates were already threatened by habitat loss.

Mexico Getting So Hot That Monkeys Are Falling Dead From Trees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Tesla owner is lucky to be alive after his vehicle in Full Self-Driving mode almost drove straight into a moving train.

Footage Shows Self-Driving Tesla Careening Straight Into Moving Train as Driver Desperately Tries to Turn Away

By Sharon Adarlo

A newly-retired Google strategist went off on his ex-employer for forcing AI down its workers' throats as it attempts to win the rat race.

Google Strategist Quits, Slams Company’s AI Work as Motivated by Greed and Fear

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trump Media, which owns Truth Social, only took in $770,000 in revenue in the last quarter despite its multi-billion dollar valuation.

Donald Trump’s “Truth Social” Admits It Lost $327 Million This Quarter

By Frank Landymore

The Thwaites or "doomsday" glacier is in even more danger than once believed, says a new study, because warm water reaching its underbelly.

Warm Water Rushing Under “Doomsday Glacier,” Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has just unveiled a Windows feature to help users "recall" all their past activities by recording everything they do in real time.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Announces Feature That Records Everything You Do on Your Computer for AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers has discovered two underground structures located below a cemetery on the west side of the Great Pyramid.

Science & Energy

Scientists Detect “Anomaly” Underground Near Great Pyramid

By Frank Landymore

A Boeing jet experienced such major turbulence in a recent flight that one passenger died and dozens more were injured.

Turbulence Kills Passenger on Boeing Jet, Puts Seven in Critical Condition

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's AI search wants you to change your car's "blinker fluid." No, dear reader: blinker fluid does not exist.

Google’s Search AI Recommends Changing Your Car’s Blinker Fluid, Which Is a Made Up Thing That Does Not Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Avram Piltch, editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware, cooked up a new Chrome extension that can block Google's new feature AI Overviews.

How to Block Google’s Annoying AI Answers With This Cool Browser Plugin

By Sharon Adarlo

Geoffrey Hinton fears that we aren't doing enough to ensure the safe development of AI, with military applications posing the biggest threat.

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Says There’s an Expert Consensus AI Will Soon Exceed Human Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

A data training failure has resulted in OpenAI's new GPT-4o model spitting out spam and porn-littered Chinese-language responses.

The New ChatGPT Has a Huge Problem in Chinese

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The accused, 41-year-old Corey Cohee, allegedly stole the Cybertruck but was quickly located by cops using the vehicle's tracking app.

Man Steals Cybertruck, Leads Cops on World’s Lamest Car Chase

By Frank Landymore

Amid recurring rounds of layoffs, Tesla workers are dreading their own terminations — and it's unclear when the cuts are going to end.

Tesla Employees “Walking on Eggshells” as Furious Musk Continues Layoffs

By Noor Al-Sibai

When the Blue Origin space capsule touched down on Earth after a flight to the edge of space, it landed in a thicket of bushes.

Blue Origin Astronauts Trapped by Foliage After Capsule Touchdown

By Sharon Adarlo

The latest ChatGPT update drew comparisons to the film "Her" which stars Johansson, but OpenAI insists it didn't mean to imitate the actress.

OpenAI Removing Voice From ChatGPT That Sounds Too Much Like Scarlett Johansson

By Frank Landymore

In an age of growing UFO belief, a handful of Congress members are calling on the government to show its cards.

New Law Would Force Government to Declassify Every UFO Document

By Noor Al-Sibai