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CNN reports that Russia is working on a nuclear-powered spacecraft designed to generate a huge energy wave that would knock out satellites.

Russian Nuclear Spacecraft Would Reportedly Attack With Massive Energy Wave

By Jon Christian

Large parts of the Amazon are nearing an irreversible “tipping point” and collapse due to deforestation and climate change, scientists warn.

Amazon Rainforest Set for Collapse, Scientists Warn

By Sharon Adarlo

Air Canada's chatbot lied to a man about its bereavement policy and later claimed the company was not responsible for the chatbot actions.

Artificial Intelligence

Airline’s Chatbot Lies About Bereavement Policy After Passenger’s Grandmother Dies

By Sharon Adarlo

This tasty cosmic sandwich is a star surrounded by a protoplantery disk that we're seeing at an incredibly rare angle.

Scientists Discover Sandwich-Shaped Star

By Frank Landymore

Companies are using artificial intelligence tools to screen potential employees but they are screening out highly-qualified candidates.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Hiring Tools Are Ignoring Qualified Candidates, Expert Says

By Sharon Adarlo

J. Robert Oppenheimer's grandson is among the star-studded signatories of a new open letter about the dangers of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Oppenheimer’s Grandson Signs Letter Saying AI Threatens “Life on Earth”

By Noor Al-Sibai

To meet the skyrocketing energy demands of AI, companies are looking to develop small nuclear reactors to power individual data centers.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Data Centers Need So Much Power They May Need Built-In Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

The spacecraft, developed by Varda Space Industries, has spent over a year in space manufacturing protein crystals used to develop drugs.

Drug Manufacturing Spacecraft Finally Cleared to Return to Earth

By Frank Landymore

Bill Nye the Science Guy is sounding off about a new report about Greenland's ice sheet melting and the "big, big problems" it creates.

Science & Energy

Bill Nye Issues Warning for the World

By Noor Al-Sibai

International pop sensation Stefani "Lady Gaga" Germanotta was spotted this morning popping by the local Whole Foods in a Tesla Cybertruck.

Lady Gaga Pulls Up to Grocery Store in Tesla Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

A bunch of maggots rained down on a woman during an international flight — and you won't believe where they came from.

Advanced Transport

Plane Passengers Horrified as Maggots Rain Down from Luggage Compartment

By Noor Al-Sibai

After racing to meet surging demand for electric cars just six months ago, carmakers are now slamming the brakes, and cutting output.

Advanced Transport

Electric Car Sales Are Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

Experts at the Mozilla Foundation are warning that AI girlfriends are plagued by concerning privacy pitfalls and murky data use policies.

Artificial Intelligence

Warning: “AI Girlfriends” Are Hoarding Your Personal Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched a privately-owned Moon lander, which could set an historic precedent for the United States.

SpaceX Launches Private Moon Lander

By Noor Al-Sibai

The social network formerly known as Twitter is once again in the midst of an extremism crisis under Elon Musk's leadership.

Elon Musk Selling Blue Checkmarks to Literal Terrorists

By Noor Al-Sibai

Among its series of baffling AI-generated images is a mislabeled figure of a mouse with grotesquely large testicles.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientific Article With Insane AI-Generated Images Somehow Passes Peer Review

By Frank Landymore

People are getting headaches from wearing the Apple Vision Pro. One user believes using the device led to a burst blood vessel in his eye.

Virtual Reality

Apple Vision Pro Users Reporting Headaches, Burst Blood Vessels

By Victor Tangermann

US lawmakers are becoming increasingly worried of a space-based nuclear weapon that could take out satellites.

Rumors Swirl That Russia Plans to Launch Space-Based Nuclear Weapon

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian artist is threatening to destroy $45 million worth of art work if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange dies in prison.

Man Threatens to Destroy Priceless Rembrandt and Picasso Paintings With Acid If Julian Assange Dies

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI is looking to hire an "insider risk investigator" to "fortify our organization against internal security threats."

OpenAI Hiring Detective to Find Who’s Leaking Its Precious Info

By Victor Tangermann

A new Amazon AI model is, according to the researchers that built it, exhibiting incredible language abilities that it wasn't trained on.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing “Emergent Abilities”

By Noor Al-Sibai

An international team of scientists has discovered water molecules on the surface of an asteroid for the first time.

Scientists Surprised to Find Distant Asteroid Is Very Soggy

By Victor Tangermann

AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic."

Artificial Intelligence

AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers are testing out drastic, large-scale geoengineering methods that were once considered taboo in order to fight climate change.

Scientists Desperately Studying How to Hack Climate

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting fined for $3,600 after a worker suffered a "near amputation" of a foot at one of its facilities.

SpaceX Fined for “Near Amputation” of Employee’s Limb

By Sharon Adarlo

Some folks who cashed out the eye-watering $3,500 (before tax!) for Apple's Vision Pro headset are already showing some buyer's remorse.

Virtual Reality

People Are Already Returning Their Apple Vision Pro Headsets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to "deorbit" roughly 100 Starlink satellites — which means that techs will guide them to their fiery deaths.

SpaceX Announces Plans to Set 100 Starlink Satellites on Fire

By Noor Al-Sibai

The test involved IVO's quantum drive, a reactionless drive that supposedly doesn't need propellant to generate thrust

Advanced Transport

Contact Lost With Spacecraft Carrying Experimental Quantum Drive

By Frank Landymore

With official inquiries into UFOs, the concept of alien contact has never seemed closer — but there would still be some major hurdles.

Alien Probes May Have Already Visited Earth, Scientist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man discovered a torpedo-shaped object that had some "unsettling" blinking light. It turned out to be a training device for the Navy.

Robots and Machines

Man Finds Missile-Like Object With Ominous Blinking Light

By Victor Tangermann

A man's Tinder AI bot scheduled a date with a woman at a local museum. She showed up, but the man never did, because the bot didn't tell him.

Artificial Intelligence

Man’s Tinder AI Makes Date With Woman, Forgets to Tell Him and Stands Her Up

By Victor Tangermann

The China National Space Administration is encouraging companies to come up with a special device that can squeeze moon soil into bricks

New Chinese Lander to Start Building Base From Moon Dust Bricks

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has lost yet another of its founders — though in the case of computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy, this is his second exodus.

Top OpenAI Researcher Quits, References “Conspiracy Theories”

By Noor Al-Sibai

To address those fears, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for the creation of an international body to regulate AI.

Sam Altman Worries AI Could Go “Horribly Wrong”

By Frank Landymore

In China, new artificial intelligence chatbots offer romance and companionship that can rival that of a human lover.

Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Women Say AI Boyfriends Are “Better Than a Real Man”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could reach a tipping point and shutdown, rapidly cooling Europe and North America.

Scientists Say the Atlantic Current Appears to Be on the Verge of Collapse

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found a giant wall underneath the Baltic Sea — and they're pretty sure it was made by Stone Age humans.

Science & Energy

Ancient Underwater Megastructure Not Created Naturally, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A landslide caused by the recent atmospheric river left three oceanside mansions in Southern California dangling off the edge of a cliff.

Luxury Homes Teetering Above Cliff After Landslide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using a supercomputer, a team of astrophysicists have simulated how young gas giants grow and found that they first have a flattened shape.

Jupiter Used to Be Flat, Scientists Suggest

By Victor Tangermann

An Indonesian political party used generative AI to "resurrect" the dead dictator Suharto via deepfake amid the nation's ongoing elections.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Used to Resurrect Dead Dictator to Sway Election

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's not just you — college students are having trouble reading, too, and according to one college teacher, that's major cause for concern.

College Students Basically Don’t Know How to Read Anymore

By Noor Al-Sibai

So much lava is spewing forth from an erupting volcano in Iceland, it can be spotted from space, as seen in a recent satellite image.

So Much Lava Is Oozing Out of Iceland That You Can See It From Space

By Victor Tangermann

When going on a nature walk, an Indian scientist discovered something astounding — a frog that seemed to have a mushroom growing out of it.

Science & Energy

Scientists Surprised to Find Mushroom Growing Out of Frog

By Noor Al-Sibai

An under-construction water park caught fire and exploded in Gothenburg, Sweden today. Fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt.

Water Park Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

The woke Goody-2 chatbot's guardrails are so geared towards safety, it won't answer any question fully — but it'll definitely tell you why.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Chat Is So Ethical That It Refuses All Prompts

By Noor Al-Sibai

San Francisco is fed up with all those robotaxis crowding its streets — and on Lunar New Year, some folks let off some steam about it.

Advanced Transport

Furious Crowd Destroys Robotaxi, Sets It on Fire

By Noor Al-Sibai

Last night's event was the first Super Bowl to be entirely powered by renewable energy, an impressive feat for a 65,000-person stadium.

Renewable Energy

The Entire Super Bowl Was Powered by Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Love across language barriers has a mixed track record — but in the case of one AI-assisted couple, it seems there may be a happy ending.

Artificial Intelligence

Lovers Who Can Only Communicate Through AI Get Engaged

By Noor Al-Sibai

People Who Take Magic Mushrooms Have Better Sex, Scientists Find

People Who Take Magic Mushrooms Have Better Sex, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's PACE mission will use a state-of-the-art satellite to see how aerosols and tiny phytoplanktons affect Earth's atmosphere and oceans.

NASA’s Launches Mission to Study Earth’s ‘Invisible Universe’

By Frank Landymore

Departing Astronauts Leave Sticky Brown Surprise in Space Station

Departing Astronauts Leave Sticky Brown Surprise in Space Station

By Sharon Adarlo

Mark Zuckerberg was a panicked, sweaty mess before he got into MMA and doomsday prepping — and his executives used to warn people about it.

Facebook Exec Warned Zuckerberg Might Have Panic Attack and Faint

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ancient Human Artifact Was Made With Extraterrestrial Material, Scientists Say

Ancient Human Artifact Was Made With Extraterrestrial Material, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Sam Altman Seeking Trillions of Dollars for New AI Venture

Sam Altman Seeking Trillions of Dollars for New AI Venture

By Victor Tangermann

A former NASA employee is sounding off on government short-sightedness — and, perhaps somewhat hyperbolically, comparing Congress to Rome.

Ex-NASA Employee Slams Government for “Folly, Arrogance, and Fully-Informed Ignorance”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Staff at a radio station in Jasper, Alabama were stunned after finding that the station's 200-foot AM radio tower mysteriously went missing.

Thieves Steal 200 Foot Radio Tower

By Victor Tangermann

Last fall, NASA's Mars rover spotted a massive spot on the surface of the Sun — and now, that ginormous maw is looking directly at the Earth.

Gigantic Spot on Surface of Sun Turns to Face the Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft’s Super Bowl AI Ad Will Get Dumbest People You Know Absolutely Hyped

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Super Bowl AI Ad Will Get Dumbest People You Know Absolutely Hyped

By Frank Landymore

NBA Sued Mid-Season For Pushing Mark Cuban’s Crypto Scams

NBA Sued Mid-Season For Pushing Mark Cuban’s Crypto Scams

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Pentagon’s Ex-UFO Chief is Blaming the Government for Conspiracy Theories

The Pentagon’s Ex-UFO Chief is Blaming the Government for Conspiracy Theories

By Noor Al-Sibai

FCC Bans Robocalls With AI-Generated Voices

FCC Bans Robocalls With AI-Generated Voices

By Frank Landymore

A massive, defunct satellite is set to come crashing through the Earth's atmosphere and plummet to the surface below in a matter of weeks.

Massive European Satellite to Plummet Back Down to Earth Uncontrollably

By Victor Tangermann

A widely-circulating video shows a worker inside a backhoe in Iceland spreading dirt to stop quickly approaching lava from destroying a road.

Science & Energy

Watch Workers Desperately Try to Stop Oncoming Lava

By Victor Tangermann

An infamous thrill-seeker has been arrested after climbing the Sphere, a mind-bending new venue in Las Vegas.

“Pro Life Spider Man” Tries to Climb the Sphere in Las Vegas, Gets Immediately Arrested

By Victor Tangermann