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The International Space Station has long been known to be gross, and according to a new study, it has bacteria mutating into something alien.

International Space Station

Mutant Bacteria Discovered Aboard International Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta is eating crow after Facebook's algorithm flagged nearly two dozen posts from the Auschwitz Museum as problematic or offensive.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Says Sorry Its AI Flagged Auschwitz Museum Posts as Offensive

By Noor Al-Sibai

Netflix is looking to double down on the use of AI to tell stories — but whether it has any actual plan beyond a bunch of buzzwords remains unclear.

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix CEO Says AI Is “Storytelling” Tool as Controversy Rages Over Company’s AI Use in “True Crime” Documentary

By Victor Tangermann

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wants to use Israel's laser technology to keep away migrants at the country's Mexican border.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands Anti-Immigrant Space Lasers

By Sharon Adarlo

In a shocking testimony, a Boeing whistleblower is accusing the company of lying and covering up safety problems.

Boeing Whistleblower Claims “Criminal Coverup” of 737 Door Blowout Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

X owner Elon Musk's AI chatbot and low-brow dad joke generator Grok is accusing NBA star Klay Thompson of throwing bricks.

Elon Musk’s AI Publicly Accuses NBA Player of Criminal Vandalism

By Victor Tangermann

Effectively every single Cybertruck that has been sold in the US is officially being recalled over a serious design flaw.

Tesla Recalling All Cybertrucks After Disastrous Issue With Accelerator Getting Stuck Down

By Victor Tangermann

While Pushing to Give Himself a Massive Bonus, Elon Musk Apologizes for Stiffing Laid-Off Employees

While Pushing to Give Himself a Massive Bonus, Elon Musk Apologizes for Stiffing Laid-Off Employees

By Victor Tangermann

A report from Nieman Labs reveals that Newsweek, a 90-year-old journalistic institution, is using AI in its newsroom.

Artificial Intelligence

Newsweek Is Using AI in Its Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For months now, the company behind the Stable Diffusion AI image generator has been falling apart — and now, it's conducting mass layoffs.

Artificial Intelligence

Maker of Stable Diffusion Conducts Mass Layoffs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of self-described "gay furry" hackers have breached the servers of a far-right media outlet over its transphobic rhetoric.

Gay Furry Hackers Attack Right-Wing News Outlet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dark matter may in fact be made up of light-barrier breaking particles called tachyons, the researchers posit.

Science & Energy

Physicists Suggest Universe Is Full of Material Moving Faster Than Light

By Frank Landymore

The CEO of the SETI Institute said the American government does not have compelling evidence of alien technology.

The Head of the SETI Institute Says He’s Seen Zero Evidence of Alien Technology

By Sharon Adarlo

The fake James Bond trailer uses a mix of AI-generated imagery and footage taken from other Henry Cavill movies.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Trailer for James Bond Starring Henry Cavill Gets 2.5 Million Views

By Frank Landymore

AI chatbots are trying, apparently, to be just like us — but in the case of Meta-formerly-Facebook, those attempts are uncanny as heck.

Meta’s AI Is Telling Users It Has a Child

By Noor Al-Sibai

A24 released a series of realistic apocalyptic scenes on Instagram promoting the Civil War movie, but the images are AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

A24 Admits Those Ads for “Civil War” Were AI-Generated

By Sharon Adarlo

Six months after moving for a technician job, a Tesla employee was laid off along with more than 10 percent of its workforce.

Tesla Moves Employee Across Country, Then Fires Them

By Sharon Adarlo

Last month, a 2-pound object crashed through the roof of Alexandro Otero's home in Florida. NASA admitted it belonged to the space station.

NASA Admits Space Station Junk Crashed Through Man’s Roof

By Victor Tangermann

A new report from AND Digital reveals that nearly half of the surveyed CEOs believe that AI could replace their jobs.

Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Suddenly Fear AI Will Take Their Jobs Too

By Frank Landymore

Boston Dynamics has announced its latest bipedal creation, the successor of the company's Atlas robot, built on a new electric platform.

Boston Dynamics Shares Terrifying Video of Its Next-Gen Robot

By Victor Tangermann

On Mars, a little helicopter from another world bedded down for its final mission on Tuesday: to become a silent sentry on the Red Planet.

Dying Mars Helicopter Sends NASA Final Transmission

By Sharon Adarlo

Thousands of new satellites, like Elon Musk's Starlink constellation, could have harmful effects on our planet's magnetic field.

Plasma Physicist Warns That Elon Musk’s Disposable Satellites May Be Damaging the Earth’s Magnetic Field

By Victor Tangermann

We Apologize for Showing You This Sex Toy That Talks Dirty When It’s Touched

Artificial Intelligence

We Apologize for Showing You This Sex Toy That Talks Dirty When It’s Touched

By Victor Tangermann

An elderly elephant named Viola was found ambling through Butte, Montana on Tuesday after escaping a traveling circus.

Science & Energy

Elephant Escapes Circus, Thunders Through Montana City

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Donald Trump's disastrous bet on social media continues its weeks-long decline, investors on Truth Social are scratching their heads.

Investors in Trump’s “Truth Social” Trying to Figure Out Why They’re Losing All Their Money

By Victor Tangermann

After laying off more than ten percent of its workforce, Tesla is trying to reinstate CEO Elon Musk's mammoth $56 billion payout.

As Tesla Conducts Mass Layoffs, Elon Musk Asks for Huge Bonus

By Victor Tangermann

A report about a craft that appeared to defy both aerial and aquatic physics is, apparently, making a splash among the ex-military set.

Science & Energy

Former Naval Officer Raises Alarm About “World-Changing” Underwater UFO Captured on Video

By Noor Al-Sibai

Army of Backpack-Wearing Cyborg Cockroaches Swarm Desert Target

Robots and Machines

Army of Backpack-Wearing Cyborg Cockroaches Swarm Desert Target

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute claims to have had a "conversation" with a humpback whale in Alaska.

Science & Energy

SETI Institute Claims They’ve Successfully Communicated With a Whale

By Victor Tangermann

As AI seems to grow more powerful every day, the CEO of Anthropic is saying that soon, it might be self-sustaining and self-replicating.

Anthropic CEO Says That by Next Year, AI Models Could Be Able to “Replicate and Survive in the Wild”

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a beta build of Windows 11, Microsoft will show Start Menu ads in the form of "recommendations" for apps in the Microsoft Store.

You Know How Microsoft Keeps Pestering You to Upgrade to Windows 11? Now It’s Officially Putting Ads in Its Start Menu

By Frank Landymore

Some Tesla workers didn't find out they'd been laid off until they showed up to work Monday morning and were locked out.

Tesla Staff Didn’t Know They Were Laid Off Until They Tried to Enter the Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology announced that it's looking to launch a live TV streaming platform. Investors are not impressed.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Announced a Hot New Product to Try to Turn Things Around, But Its Stock Kept Nosediving

By Victor Tangermann

In a supposed scheme to combat bot spam, Elon Musk has confirmed that he wants new users to pay a monthly fee to post on X, formerly Twitter.

Elon Musk’s Brilliant New Idea: Charge an Annual “Fee” to Post on Twitter

By Frank Landymore

Former president Donald Trump hired former One America News host Natalie Harp as a personal messenger of only positive news.

Trump Has an Aide Who Follows Him Around With a Wireless Printer to Print Out “Good News From the Internet”

By Victor Tangermann

Last month's deadly bridge collision in Baltimore has, apparently, gotten the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Science & Energy

Report: Baltimore Bridge Collapse Now Has the FBI’s Attention

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CEO of Mistral, Europe's brightest new AI firm, is calling bull on the quest for AGI, which he says is akin to the desire to create God.

Artificial Intelligence

Mistral CEO Says AI Companies Are Trying to Build God

By Noor Al-Sibai

Employees being inebriated on the job has long been a workplace hazard — but according to one boss, it's a non-issue.

Boss Says He Doesn’t Care at All If Employees Do Drugs at Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla's controversial Full Self-Driving software is scraping up rims on curbs left and right and owners are pissed.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Teslas Have a Small Issue With Crashing Into Curbs

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump made the first moves to cash out, leaving Truth Social investors, who have already seen their holdings crumble, out to dry.

Truth Social Stock Crashes as Donald Trump Maneuvers to Sell His Own Shares

By Victor Tangermann

Top Astronomers Gather to Confront Possibility They Were Very Wrong About the Universe

Top Astronomers Gather to Confront Possibility They Were Very Wrong About the Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is laying off over ten percent of its global workforce, the latest bruising in a not-so-great 2024 for the Elon Musk-owned EV maker.

Elon Musk Fires More Than Ten Percent of Tesla’s Staff After Alienating Pretty Much Everyone Who Might Have Bought a Tesla

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Investors who poured their hard-earned cash into former president Donald Trump's Truth Social meme stock are experiencing a rude awakening.

Trump Supporters Horrified as the Value of Their “Truth Social” Stock Evaporates

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has reportedly stopped delivering all Cybertrucks to address a glaring issue with the controversial vehicle's accelerator pedal.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Deliveries Reportedly Stopped After Issue With Accelerator Discovered

By Victor Tangermann

Netflix Uses Seemingly AI-Manipulated Images in True Crime Doc

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix Uses Seemingly AI-Manipulated Images in True Crime Doc

By Victor Tangermann

Climate Change Now Linked To Rise In Strokes

Climate Change Now Linked To Rise In Strokes

By Frank Landymore

When witnessing the sorry state of men addicted to AI girlfriends, one Miami tech exec began seeing dollar signs instead of red flags.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Exec Predicts Billion-Dollar AI Girlfriend Industry

By Noor Al-Sibai

Northrop Grumman has released a photo of a sleek underground drone called Manta Ray that closely resembles its oceanic namesake.

Northrop Grumman Shows Off Terrifying Military Drone Submarine

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists seem to have figured out why the Moon is made up of such weird heavy rocks — because, as they claim, it turned itself inside out.

The Moon Turned Itself Inside Out, Scientists Confirm

By Noor Al-Sibai

Yet another Tesla Cybertruck has become woefully stuck on the side of an off-roading track, a new video shows.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Gets Stuck on Hill, Crashes Into Tree

By Victor Tangermann

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA.) signed up for a master's degree program in machine learning at George Mason University.

Machine Learning

Congressman Getting Master’s Degree in Machine Learning So He Can Make Well-Informed Laws About AI

By Sharon Adarlo

A resourceful hacker cloned the voice of LastPass' CEO to try to dupe one of its employees — but they were not successful.

Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass for Attack

By Noor Al-Sibai

United Nations' head climate expert says the human race has got two years tops to tamp down the worse effects from global warming.

The UN’s Climate Chief Says We Have Just Two Years to Save the Planet

By Sharon Adarlo

Shares of Trump Media are hovering just above $30, well below half of what they were worth around the time of the merger.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Has Crashed So Hard It’s Worth Less Than Half of What It Was Two Weeks Ago

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is quietly teaching a robot dog how to walk on the Moon. Researchers just let one loose on the side of a mountain in Oregon.

NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

After months of leaks, OpenAI has apparently fired two researchers who are said to be linked to company secrets going public.

OpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk and ex-girlfriend Grimes are seemingly flirting with each other this week on the social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.

Messiest Exes on Earth Elon Musk and Grimes Are Flirting Again

By Sharon Adarlo

The use of aerosols to make clouds reflect more sunlight could be significantly more effective than once believed.

Scientists Find That “Cloud Engineering” Could Help Stave Off Climate Disaster

By Frank Landymore

Apple's Vision Pro VR headset is giving some users literal black eyes, MarketWatch reports, thanks to an awkward fit.

Virtual Reality

Another Apple VR Side Effect: Black Eyes

By Victor Tangermann

A woman is suing Tesla after her toddler ran her over in her Model X back in 2018 — while she was eight and a half months pregnant.

Woman Sues Tesla After Toddler Starts Car, Runs Her Over While Pregnant

By Victor Tangermann

Global surface temperatures have soared once again, making March the tenth consecutive hottest month on record.

Global Temperatures Have Set Records Every Month for the Past Ten Months

By Victor Tangermann

Geneva Long, founder and CEO of electric RV maker Bowlus, found that a Model X could pull an RV much longer than a Cybertruck.

Advanced Transport

Test Shows the Model X Has Better Range Than the Cybertruck When Pulling the Same Trailer

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI and Meta are reportedly about to release new AI models that achieve important milestones towards achieving AGI.

OpenAI and Meta Reportedly Preparing New AI Models Capable of Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

A Tesla Cybertruck's windshield cracked after enduring a routine but sudden hail storm in Austin, Texas, according to a Reddit post.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck’s “Armor Glass” Cracks in Routine Hail Storm

By Sharon Adarlo