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According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, fully AI-generated video games are only five to ten years away.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO: Soon There’ll Be Games Where AI Generates “Every Pixel”

By Victor Tangermann

Fans discovered several AI-generated images in the horror movie "Late Night With the Devil," which the directors have since confirmed.

Artificial Intelligence

Acclaimed Movie Secretly Contained AI Generated Imagery

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers believe an egg-shaped exoplanet is hurtling towards its parent star faster than previously thought.

Astronomers Intrigued by Planet Shaped Like Egg

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Angela Chao, who drowned after backing into a pond while driving a Tesla, had a blood alcohol level that was three times the legal limit.

Billionaire Who Died in Tesla Had Three Times Legal Blood Alcohol to Drive

By Sharon Adarlo

After a rare captivity birth, a family of endangered siamang gibbons were "heard singing together" to celebrate the new arrival.

Endangered Primates Heard “Singing Together” After Rare Birth in Captivity

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has apparently been demonstrating GPT-5, the next generation of its notorious large language model, to prospective buyers.

OpenAI Reportedly Looking to Release GPT-5 This Summer

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chipmaker Nvidia has shown off a clone of our entire planet that could help meteorologists simulate and visualize global weather patterns.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers taught an AI to think before it speaks like a human's inner monologue — and found that it made the model smarter.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Gave AI an “Inner Monologue” and Something Fascinating Happened

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google faces a $270 million fine from France for using articles from media companies to train its AI chatbot, Gemini, without permission.

Google Hit With Huge Fine for Training AI With News Articles Without Getting Permission

By Sharon Adarlo

Several key AI developers, who worked on Stable Diffusion, Stability AI's popular text-to-image generator, have resigned, Forbes reports.

Artificial Intelligence

Stability AI Is Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

As the space race heats up, the US is growing increasingly concerned about China, its chief adversary, using the Moon to launch attacks.

US Military Commander Worries China Could Launch Attack From Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia has accused the US of using commercial satellite operators for its intelligence efforts — and is threatening to take military action.

Russia Warns of Potential Military Strike on SpaceX Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has tested the emergency slides that could save astronauts' lives during a launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

SpaceX Tests Epic Escape Slide in Case of Exploding Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

The comet 12P/Pons-Brookes is returning for the first time since 1954, and astrophotographers are already discovering new things about it.

Exploding “Devil Comet” Flying Past Earth Has Spiral Core

By Frank Landymore

Academic journals have been caught publishing papers that were clearly written by ChatGPT — and at least one has yet to retract.

Scientists Caught Generating “Academic Papers” Using ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dystopian Google AI Tool Turns Still Images into Creepy Talking Videos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is remaining tight-lipped about its secretive Q* project — even after admitting that his company is a leaky ship.

Sam Altman Shuts Down Q* Questions

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Under Armour ad reused footage shot for a previous commercial two years ago, but was not credited when it was shared by the director.

Artificial Intelligence

Advertisers Horrified by Under Armour’s AI-Generated Commercial

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI is not ruling out its forthcoming Sora video generator creating nudity — and that could be bad news for the company.

OpenAI Says Sora Video Generator May Allow Nudity

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Department of Homeland Security revealed a sweeping AI roadmap. Some of its proposed applications are concerning.

Artificial Intelligence

The Department of Homeland Security Wants to Use AI to Train Immigration Officers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"A future Starship, much larger and more advanced, will travel to other star systems," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk argued in a recent tweet.

Elon Musk Says Future Version of Starship Will Travel Between Star Systems

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest the sand dunes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan may be the crumbling remains of colliding moons.

Titan Covered With Fragments of Obliterated Moons, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A video showing a Cybertruck wading through a puddle, grinding to a halt and emitting a horrible gurgling sound, went viral on social media.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Drives Through Puddle, Emits Horrible Sound

By Victor Tangermann

Russian news outlets were caught spreading fake news about the death of King Charles, which the British embassy in Moscow had to dispel.

UK Government Denies That King Charles Has Secretly Died

By Noor Al-Sibai

The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is looking for five people to count penguins and "sorting mail at the world’s southernmost post office."

Antarctic Base Seeks Penguin Counter

By Victor Tangermann

The Arena Group, which allowed for the publishing of AI content to legacy title Sports Illustrated, has lost the venerable magazine entirely.

Artificial Intelligence

The Company That Published Fake AI Authors at Sports Illustrated Just Lost the Whole Magazine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As things continue to literally and metaphorically fall apart at Boeing, the CEO of United Airlines is trying to reassure customers.

United CEO Says Sorry Parts Keep Falling Off Our Planes Mid-Flight

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists were able to restore a coral reef in Indonesia in just four years by using specially made steel frames covered with sand.

Science & Energy

Steel Frame Brings Completely Dead Coral Reef Back to Life

By Sharon Adarlo

A nova explosion from 3,000 light years away is predicted to become visible to our naked eyes in the Northern Hemisphere.

Star Explosion Will Be Visible in Night Sky, Astronomers Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Chinese scientists are working on a giant electromagnetic launch track to launch a massive 50-ton space plane into orbit.

China Working on Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Astronauts Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

A Single Asteroid Caused Two Billion Craters on Mars, Scientists Claim

A Single Asteroid Caused Two Billion Craters on Mars, Scientists Claim

By Victor Tangermann

MrBeast, one of the world's most famous YouTubers, is begging wannabe influencers not to follow in his footsteps.

MrBeast Warns Youth Not to Be Like Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

A yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper suggests that metal particles from burned up satellites could be accumulating in our atmosphere.

Paper Claims Dying SpaceX Satellites Could Weaken Earth’s Magnetic Field

By Frank Landymore

Employees at a wildlife center are wearing a fox mask to help feed a baby fox — and folks are pointing out that it looks like a fursuit.

Wildlife Center Employee Dresses as Big Fox to Care for Baby Foxes

By Noor Al-Sibai

The seismic data Avi Loeb used to locate the crash site of an interstellar meteor and recover "alien" fragments from was interpreted wrongly.

There’s an Embarrassing Explanation for Those “Alien Fragments,” Researchers Claim

By Frank Landymore

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang earnestly wants you young students out there a lot "pain and suffering" — so you can be successful, of course.

Nvidia CEO Wishes “Pain and Suffering” on Young People

By Frank Landymore

Before his untimely death, a Boeing whistleblower told his friend that if anything happened to him, "it's not suicide."

Boeing Whistleblower Before Death: “If Anything Happens, It’s Not Suicide”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Barack Obama argued that we shouldn't abandon the Earth in favor of Mars after making a possibly irreparable mess of its climate.

Obama Slams Plan to Escape Earth by Colonizing Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A Montana man was trying to create giant hybrid sheep from cloned embryos but his actions violated international and federal wildlife laws.

Man Pleads Guilty to Trying to Clone Giant Sheep

By Sharon Adarlo

Tech startup Figure has released a new clip of its OpenAI-powered humanoid robot chatting with an engineer as it puts away the dishes.

This Humanoid Robot Powered by OpenAI Is Almost Scary

By Victor Tangermann

In a new bill, Senator Bernie Sanders is pushing for a 32-hour work week that wouldn't result in a pay markdown.

Bernie Sanders Proposes Four-Day Workweek With No Loss in Pay

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former president Donald Trump took to Truth Social to dismiss unflattering — and real — videos of himself as AI-generated fakes.

Artificial Intelligence

Donald Trump Is Just Calling Any Video He Doesn’t Like “AI” Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An engineer with the Deep Space Network figured out a way to decode a mysterious "new signal" coming from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.

Voyager 1 Sputters Back to Life

By Victor Tangermann

At this year's South by Southwest, audiences booed a clip featuring people preaching the inevitably of an AI takeover.

Artificial Intelligence

SXSW Audience Loudly Boos Video About How AI Is Awesome

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a not-so-subtle message to the West on Wednesday: he's got nukes and he is ready to use them.

Putin Says He’s Ready for Nuclear War

By Sharon Adarlo

In England, researchers have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized remains of the oldest forest ever found.

Scientists Discover Bizarre and Ancient Fossilized Forest

By Sharon Adarlo

One of NASA's latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity's message out to the stars.

NASA Craft Hunting Alien Life Will Carry a New Message From Humanity

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report reveals that YouTube is filling up with AI-generated kids' videos, designed to glean cash via lucrative toddler eyeballs.

Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New James Webb Space Telescope measurements suggest that problems with Universal expansion rates may be caused by something else entirely.

We May Have “Misunderstood the Universe,” Nobel Prize Winner Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta's v63 update allows users of its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets to lay down while using their devices. VR porn enthusiasts, freak on.

Virtual Reality

Meta’s VR Headsets Are Getting a Masturbation Mode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has set up guardrails that bar its Gemini AI from answering any election questions in any country where they are taking place.

Google Bans Its Dimwit Chatbot From Answering Any Election Questions

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who spoke with the Wall Street Journal, the company's text-to-video tool Sora is coming this year.

OpenAI CTO Says It’s Releasing Sora This Year

By Victor Tangermann

Officials in Japan are on the lookout for a cat that fell into a vat of toxic chemicals and are warning residents not to touch it.

Officials Hunting Cat Who Fell Into Vat of Horrific Chemicals

By Sharon Adarlo

In Wales, a man spotted a strange apparition: a 10-foot tall silver monolith, just like the ones that had appeared in 2020.

Silver Monolith Appears in Wales

By Sharon Adarlo

A Japanese rocket by startup Space One has exploded in spectacular fashion following a launch attempt earlier today.

Rocket Explodes Seconds After Launch

By Victor Tangermann

A community in Massachusetts spent half a million dollars on a sand dune to protect their lavish, coastal homes. It was swept away in 3 days.

$500,000 Sand Dune to Protect Vacation Homes Washes Away in Three Days

By Victor Tangermann

Last summer, Donald Trump reportedly asked Elon Musk if he would buy his failing Truth Social site — and the billionaire obviously said no.

Trump Secretly Begged Musk to Buy Failing Truth Social

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI company Midjourney has banned competitor Stability AI after accusing one of its employees of scraping huge amounts of data.

Artificial Intelligence

Midjourney Bans Stability From Using Its Images Without Permission

By Victor Tangermann

After a terrifying nosedive, a pilot admitted that he'd lost control of the Boeing 787 due to the plane's instruments going "blank."

Pilot Lost Control of Boeing Jet Because Gauges “Went Blank,” Causing Nosedive

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazing Discovery as Man Finds Huge Bone Sticking Out of Ground

Science & Energy

Amazing Discovery as Man Finds Huge Bone Sticking Out of Ground

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered changes in ocean currents linked to "2.4 million-year climate cycles," which are correlated to Mars' and Earth's orbit.

Mars’ Gravity Causing Huge Currents Deep in Earth’s Ocean, Scientists Suggest

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that hackers could easily hijack WiFi networks at Tesla charging stations to steal parked vehicles.

Teslas Can Be Stolen by Hijacking WiFi at Charging Stations, Researchers Find

By Victor Tangermann

After its robot was caught on camera seeming to grope a female reporter's backside, a Saudi firm is defending its behavior.

AI Company Defends Robot After It’s Accused of Groping Woman On Camera

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner "nosedived" while traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand, resulting in at least 50 injuries.

Advanced Transport

Boeing Jet Nosedives, Sending 13 Passengers to Hospital

By Victor Tangermann