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Our Universe Is Swallowing Baby Parallel Universes As It Expands, Scientists Suggest

Artificial Intelligence

Our Universe Is Swallowing Baby Parallel Universes As It Expands, Scientists Suggest

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google Renames Its Forgettable AI in Fight to Stay Relevant

Google Renames Its Forgettable AI in Fight to Stay Relevant

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of scientists on board an exploration vessel off the coast of South America have discovered four massive, underwater mountains.

Science & Energy

Scientists Baffled After Finding 4 Gigantic Mountains Lurking Under the Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

Saturn’s “Death Star” Moon Is Hiding a Secret Ocean

By Frank Landymore

James Webb Spots Two Planets Solemnly Orbiting Dead Stars

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Two Planets Solemnly Orbiting Dead Stars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's tiny Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has seen its last days — but its friend, the Perseverance rover, hasn't said goodbye just yet.

NASA Rover Spots Dead Mars Helicopter in Its “Final Resting Place”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Officials say they've identified the culprit behind an AI-generated robocall featuring a fake President Joe Biden telling people not to vote.

Artificial Intelligence

Operator of AI-Powered Joe Biden Unmasked, Criminal Investigation Opened

By Noor Al-Sibai

Moscow native Aleksandr Zhadan programmed OpenAI's GPT large language models to talk to well over 5,000 women on his behalf.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Uses AI to Talk to 5,000 Women on Tinder, Finds Wife

By Victor Tangermann

A spectacular image taken by NASA's Juno probe this past weekend shows Jupiter's moon Io with twin eruptions on the surface.

NASA Spacecraft Swoops So Close to Io That It Can See Volcanic Eruptions

By Sharon Adarlo

New year, new missing submersible — and although this one doesn't have anyone on it, its loss is still a really big deal.

Robots and Machines

Submersible Disappears While Exploring Under Doomsday Glacier

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite being many light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth.

Explosion Light-Years Away Could Obliterate Life on Earth, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Things have gone from bad to worse for Voyager 1, which has been out of contact with its Earth-bound mission control for months now.

Things Are Looking Pretty Grim for Voyager 1

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be losing about 530 people or 8 percent of its staff, plus around 40 contractors in mass lay offs.

Mass Layoffs Hit NASA

By Sharon Adarlo

These gross little eggs belong to invertebrates known as flatworms, and were found at a record depth of around 20,000 feet.

Science & Energy

Jet Black Eggs Recovered From Deep Ocean

By Frank Landymore

After reelection, Philadelphia's sheriff has been forced to admit that articles cited as positive press for her campaign were made up by AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Embattled Sheriff Caught Posting AI-Generated Headlines About How She’s Awesome

By Noor Al-Sibai

The magnetic anomaly was discovered as part of researchers' extensive mapping of Lake Rotorua in New Zealand.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Magnetic Anomaly in Lake Over Dormant Volcano

By Frank Landymore

A multinational company was scammed out of $25.6 million by a hacker, who was using a deepfake version of their CFO on a video call.

Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Steal $25 Million by Deepfaking Finance Boss

By Victor Tangermann

Meta is promising to roll out auto-labeling for AI-generated images soon — but its new protocols may still fall short of the mark.

Meta’s Plans to Label AI-Generated Content Are a Sad Fart

By Noor Al-Sibai

OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta told New Scientist that asteroid Bennu may have been "an ancient ocean world."

Sample From Distant Asteroid Shows Signs of Originating on Ocean World

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Coke’s AI-Generated Super Bowl Ad Is Downright Scary

By Victor Tangermann

Executives at Meta are so freaked out by CEO Mark Zuckerberg's extracurriculars that they're warning investors that he might straight up die.

Meta Warns That Mark Zuckerberg Could Die at Any Moment

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Washington man had a nuclear missile chillin' in his garage, and was mighty peeved when local police came asking questions.

Man “Extremely Irritated” When Police Show Up to Examine His Vintage Nuclear Missile

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing "super-Earth" that's orbiting its red dwarf star inside the habitable zone.

Astronomers Discover Potentially Habitable Planet

By Victor Tangermann

New reporting claims that people close to Elon Musk became so concerned about drug use that they asked the billionaire to go to rehab.

Elon Musk Was Reportedly Asked to Go to Rehab

By Jon Christian

Meet Poem/1, an AI-powered clock that tells time in rhyming poetry. Just one catch: it'll sometimes make things up — the time included.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Clock Sometimes Hallucinates the Wrong Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla has been ordered to pay a $1.5 million settlement after being sued over mishandling hazardous waste at its California facilities.

Tesla Forced to Pay for Mishandling Hazardous Waste

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is debating whether to work with commercial partners to get to Mars, the first time the space agency has openly raised the possibility.

NASA Investigating Whether It Could Hire SpaceX for Mars Trip

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists want to send a swarm of small umbrellas into space to block the Sun's warming ways from reaching the Earth's surface.

Scientists Working on Plan to Cool Earth by Blocking Sun

By Victor Tangermann

These data centers are even more power hungry than traditional ones, and as every tech company pivots to AI, the energy demand steepens.

Artificial Intelligence

Coal Plants Staying Online Because AI Needs So Much Power

By Frank Landymore

There's a new-ish artificial intelligence-powered search engine on the scene — but when it comes to the facts, it was caught lacking.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Search Engine Bungles Facts When Profiled by the New York Times

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is still losing billions of dollars in his efforts to build out his virtual reality metaverse.

Mark Zuckerberg Still Bleeding Money on Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

A renowned Chinese scholar has unveiled what he's calling the world's first AI child — and she might bring the technology into a new age.

Artificial Intelligence

Scholar Creates AI-Powered Simulated Child

By Noor Al-Sibai

Talk about a glow up. Bioluminescent houseplants are now a thing, and they're gonna put those old Chia Pets to shame.

Science & Energy

You Can Now Buy Gene-Hacked Houseplants That Glow in the Dark

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some TikTok creators and users are upset that videos are silent ever since Universal Music Group pulled its artists from the platform.

TikTok in Shambles Now That Videos Can’t Use Popular Music

By Sharon Adarlo

The New York City Police Department's Knightscope robot K5 has officially been retired and is now gathering dust in a subway station.

NYPD Fires Useless Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Cybertruck's aero wheel covers are causing considerable wear in the rubber, a glaring design flaw that's already haunting buyers.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Wheel Covers Are Tearing Up Its Tires

By Victor Tangermann

Despite dominating the app market, TikTok's owner is irked that his people didn't move on artificial intelligence sooner.

Artificial Intelligence

TikTok’s Owner Seethes That It Missed the Boat on AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ingenuity, NASA's recently-damaged Mars helicopter, has one last task before its mission is officially over: wiggling around a little.

Derelict Helicopter Will Twitch on Mars, NASA Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new version of the Olympics Games that allows athletes to use performance enhancing drugs recently scored funding from Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel Funding New Olympics Where Athletes Can Take Performance Enhancing Drugs

By Sharon Adarlo

The ad featured Larry David making a tongue-in-cheek endorsement of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

Larry David Says He Wishes He Could Join Lawsuit Against Himself for FTX Super Bowl Ad

By Frank Landymore

This summer, the US Space Force will send its first "Guardian" to the International Space Station as part of NASA and SpaceX's Crew-9 mission.

Space Force Finally Launching a Single Employee Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

The announcement from the US Federal Communications Commission comes just a week after AI scam calls that impersonated President Joe Biden.

FCC Moves to Make Robocalls With AI-Synthesized Voices Illegal

By Frank Landymore

In what could possibly be a world first, a pedestrian in Finland's capital Helsinki caught a food delivery robot doing a hit-and-run.

Advanced Transport

Delivery Robot Damages Car, Flees Scene of Accident

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk will not be $55.8 billion richer anytime soon — and it wouldn't have happened without a ticked off metal band drummer.

Heavy Metal Drummer Cost Elon Musk $55.8 Billion

By Noor Al-Sibai

The attempts to resuscitate FTX are dead on arrival, and soon, it will repay the people its convicted felon co-founder bilked out of money.

Attempt to Reboot FTX Fails Miserably

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has recaptured the escaped Japanese macaque on the lam in the Scottish Highlands.

Escaped Monkey Hunted With Drone

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has topped Fortune's list of "most overrated CEOs" for the second year running.

Elon Musk Voted “Most Overrated CEO” by His Colleagues

By Victor Tangermann

Reviewers of the Apple Vision Pro VR headset have found that the baked-in virtual keyboard is so bad, it's downright unusable.

Virtual Reality

Apple’s Ludicrously Expensive VR Headset’s Virtual Keyboard Is Apparently Useless

By Victor Tangermann

Grocery-delivery app Instacart was caught using AI image generators for pictures of recipes and ingredients, with horrifying results.

Instacart Caught Using Revolting AI-Generated Images of Food

By Victor Tangermann

$Francisco Cadaba's skull was fractured during a botched rocket engine test. Two years later, his wife has sued SpaceX for negligence.$

Wife Sues SpaceX After Rocket Test Leaves Husband in Coma

By Frank Landymore

Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value on Tuesday following disappointing earnings reports.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports

By Victor Tangermann

During a shocking exchange on the Senate floor, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced families harmed by his platforms and apologized.

Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes to the Families of Victims

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX has teamed up with Starlab to deliver a private space station into orbit using only a single Starship rocket.

SpaceX Signs Deal to Launch Private Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A national news service in Australia has been criticized for using AI to photoshop a sexualized image of parliament member Georgie Purcell.

Artificial Intelligence

Scandal Mounts as TV Network Used AI to Sexualize Image of Politician

By Victor Tangermann

Ridicule Erupts as Apple Reveals the Avatars in Its Super Expensive VR System

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI's DALL-E could be used to make pornographic images like the ones targeting Taylor Swift, Microsoft engineer says.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Says He Was Silenced for Warning About DALL-E Issue Linked to Taylor Swift Nudes

By Sharon Adarlo

Universal Music Group is letting its contract with TikTok expire over concerns about AI, safety, and artist compensation.

Artificial Intelligence

TikTok Facing Huge Crisis as It Loses Taylor Swift, BTS, Drake Over Its AI Features

By Noor Al-Sibai

A project restoring the original granite casing of the Menkaure pyramid has incited controversy after footage of the ongoing work was shared.

Experts Horrified by How They’re “Restoring” Egyptian Pyramid

By Frank Landymore

NASA shared pictures following its Ingenuity Mars helicopter's final flight, showing some gnarly damage to its four rotor blades.

Photos Show Catastrophic Damage to Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered "cometary organic matter" while studying samples from Ryugu, a near-Earth asteroid.

Scientists Find Organic Matter in Sample From Distant Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like ChatGPT may be spewing out user data to unrelated parties — and it's far from the first time.

OpenAI Denies Report That ChatGPT Leaked User Passwords

By Noor Al-Sibai

To curb the spread of nonconsensual AI deepfake porn of Taylor Swift, Twitter-formerly-X decided to block all searches for the star's name.

Artificial Intelligence

Twitter’s Idiotic Response to AI Porn: Block All Searches for “Taylor Swift”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is seemingly appalled by all of the deepfakes of Taylor Swift that have been flooding social media feeds.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Horrified by AI-Generated Taylor Swift Images

By Victor Tangermann

Japan's Moon lander has officially been resurrected after landing at an awkward angle on the lunar surface earlier this month.

Japanese Moon Lander Springs Back to Life

By Victor Tangermann