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Scientists have confirmed NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is indeed exploring an ancient lake. Will its collected samples hold signs of life?

Scientists Suspect Mars Rover Could Have Already Scooped Up Signs of Life

By Victor Tangermann

A new PBS documentary captured the last moments rare Madagascan chameleon bursting into a vibrant display of color as she died.

Science & Energy

Chameleon Bursts Into Pulsating Color Just Before Dying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is warning his workers that they will have to live and sleep at the factory to make its next electric vehicle.

Elon Musk’s New Whim: Tesla Workers Must Sleep on Assembly Line

By Sharon Adarlo

A Serbian deejay turned cybersquatter bought The Hairpin domain and is now using it to post AI-generated garbage content.

Guy Buys The Hairpin’s Domain, Proudly Turns It Into AI-Powered Zombie Content Mill

By Sharon Adarlo

The Stanley mug-making company has been forced to respond after a TikToker found lead in her viral bottle.

Science & Energy

Stanley Admits Its TikTok-Famous Mugs Are Made With Lead After All

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google is gearing up to release a new feature for Chrome that's essentially an in-browser, AI-powered writing assistant.

Google Debuting Chrome Feature Where AI Writes Your Posts For You

By Sharon Adarlo

in an attempt to fix ChatGPT's increasing laziness, the company issued an update to its GPT-4 Turbo large language model.

OpenAI Issues Patch to Fix GPT-4’s Alleged Laziness

By Victor Tangermann

The T-shirt and mug bots that prowl social media will steal almost any content that's out there, including horrendous looking AI "art."

Artificial Intelligence

Reply Bots Selling Mugs With Garbled AI Nonsense on Them

By Frank Landymore

Amid a giant wave of AI layoffs, Google is firing thousands of contractors tasked with making its search engine work better.

As AI Destroys Search Results, Google Fires Workers in Charge of Improving It

By Noor Al-Sibai

As it continues to layoff thousands of employees, Google remains unwavering in its commitment to "responsible AI."

Leaked Google Memo Shows Aimless Execs Basically Worshiping AI

By Frank Landymore

A yogurt company is giving away $10,000 to whoever can live without their phones for a month — and it's a pretty ingenious marketing scheme.

Contest Giving Away $10,000 If You Can Give Up Your Phone for A Month

By Noor Al-Sibai

The fossil has led to the discovery of a new dinosaur species nicknamed the "pharaoh's dawn chicken from hell."

Science & Energy

Researcher Buys Dinosaur Fossil Online, Discovers Terrifying Monster

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that North Korean scientists are using artificial intelligence for surveillance and wargaming purposes.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn North Korea Is Using AI Nefarious Purposes

By Victor Tangermann

An Australian streamer has been banned from Twitch for 30 days after faking a stunt involving him sticking two forks in two toasters.

Twitch Streamer Suspended for Sticking Forks in Toasters

By Victor Tangermann

During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, astronauts saw strange flashes of light on the Moon. NASA still wants to catch them on camera.

NASA Curious Whether Astronauts Will See Strange Flashes of Light on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has bought a Boeing 737-800 jet that once belonged to Air China. It's much bigger than its existing fleet.

Advanced Transport

SpaceX Buys Mysterious Aircraft

By Victor Tangermann

The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit to get those pesky autonomous vehicles off of its streets, appealing a recent decision.

Self-Driving Vehicles

San Francisco Sues to Get Nuisance Self-Driving Cars Off Its Streets

By Victor Tangermann

BMW has signed an unprecedented deal with the robotics firm Figure to bring general-purpose humanoid robots into its factories.

BMW Putting Humanoid Robots to Work in Its Factory

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda is doubling down on his pessimism about EVs, and arguing they're only a part of the solution.

Advanced Transport

Toyota Slams Electric Cars, Says They’ll Never Catch On

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Has Died

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Has Died

By Victor Tangermann

There are a bunch of dancing objects hanging out in space with no stars — and two of them seem to be giving off some weird radio waves.

Scientists Puzzled by Planet-Sized Objects Emitting Strange Radio Signal

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla shares have plummeted by over ten percent on Thursday, following an earnings report that fell short of expectations.

Tesla Is in Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

A man says he was savagely beaten and gang raped in jail after facial recognition led to his false arrest him for a robbery in Texas.

Facial recognition

Man Says Sunglass Hut Used Facial Recognition to Falsely Jail Him, Where He Got Sexually Assaulted

By Sharon Adarlo

An artificial intelligence-generated audio deep faked the voice of a New York City politician insulting another colleague.

Scandal as AI-Generated Audio of Politician Slamming Colleague Goes Viral

By Sharon Adarlo

In an extremely unfortunate twist of fate, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has landed on its nose.

Photo Shows Japanese Moon Lander Is Upside Down on Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new anonymous whistleblower, it may have been Boeing's own lack of quality control that led to the January 5 incident.

Advanced Transport

Boeing Door Scandal Grows With New Whistleblower

By Victor Tangermann

The vast network of ancient earthworks in the Amazon, including roads, canals, and cities, are believed to be over 2,000 years old.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Ruins of Ancient Cities in Amazon Jungle

By Frank Landymore

A massive NASA jet has been circling at low altitude over the San Joaquin Valley in California this week to study air quality.

NASA Aircraft Making Low Passes Over California

By Victor Tangermann

Right before takeoff, Phil Hardy noticed something strange while looking out of the window of the Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330.

Flight Canceled When Passenger Looks Out Window, Notices Something Wrong With Wing

By Victor Tangermann

The tool, Nightshade, introduces subtle alterations into an image to confuse AI models and "poison" their training data.

Artificial Intelligence

Software Released to Make Your Original Art Poison AI Models That Scrape It

By Frank Landymore

Chinese scientists have opened the deepest and largest underground lab in the world to study dark matter particles.

China Opens Huge Underground Dark Matter Lab

By Victor Tangermann

AI is still far from achieving human-level intelligence — but some researchers are suggesting that the technology may understand the world.

Artificial Intelligence

Chatbots Are Developing an Understanding of the World, Scientists Claim

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you give a rat a camera, it will, apparently, take selfies — even if it doesn't get a treat as a reward.

Science & Energy

Amateur Scientist Teaches Rats to Take Selfies

By Noor Al-Sibai

The comment comes as the HP CEO responds to backlash over the company's practice of bricking printers that use third party ink cartridges.

HP CEO Says Goal Is to Make “Printing a Subscription”

By Frank Landymore

Terrifying footage circulating on social media shows a massive rogue wave hitting a US military base in the Marshall Islands.

Video Shows Huge Wave Smashing Military Base, Blowing Doors of Hinges

By Victor Tangermann

An online pastor based in Denver, Colorado has been accused of raising nearly $3.2 million as part of a cryptocurrency scam.

Pastor Accused of Crypto Scam Says God Told Him to Do It

By Victor Tangermann

The former head of the Pentagon's UFO office has admitted that a lot of sightings are likely of this Earth — and top secret.

Pentagon’s Ex-Alien Hunter Admits a Lot of UFO Sightings Are Secret Military Crafts

By Noor Al-Sibai

Private space company Sierra Space has blown up its first full-scale inflatable space habitat dubbed LIFE — and it was all part of the plan.

Full-Scale Prototype Space Habitat Explodes Under Pressure

By Victor Tangermann

Someone used Joe Biden's voice to send out robocalls in New Hampshire ahead of the state's primaries encouraging Democrats not to vote.

Artificial Intelligence

Officials Investigating AI-Powered Joe Biden Calling People in New Hampshire

By Noor Al-Sibai

"AI girlfriends" have already overtaken OpenAI's new GPT Store despite being against the rules — and a bunch of them are still on the site.

OpenAI Struggling to Destroy Onslaught of AI Girlfriends

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japan's Moon lander had to be shut down just three hours after touching down. There's still a small chance it can recharge its batteries.

Japan Trying to Bring Dead Moon Lander Back to Life

By Victor Tangermann

The package delivery company DPD's AI chatbot was caught swearing at customers -- and even insulting DPD itself.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Customer Service Bot Disabled After Trashing Company Using It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg is planning to spend billions of dollars to build and open-source human-level AI — and that idea is pretty freaky.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Terrified by Mark Zuckerberg’s Human-Tier AI Plans

By Noor Al-Sibai

What was meant to be a theatric on-stage entrance quickly turned into a grisly scene in India when a tech executive plunged to his death.

Tech CEO Plunges to Death Trying to Make Grand Entrance at Company Party

By Victor Tangermann

Residents in Florida saw Thursday night a cargo plane, a Boeing 747 in fact, catch on fire during its flight.

Advanced Transport

Boeing Plane Catches Fire While Flying

By Sharon Adarlo

An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has launched this week in a bid to deny President Joe Biden from winning a second term in office.

Group Linked to Sam Altman Launches AI to Defeat Joe Biden

By Sharon Adarlo

Now that NASA is pushing back the Artemis lunar mission again, Congress is more anxious than ever that China will beat the US to the Moon.

Congress Terrified China Will Beat the United States to the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

The actor who voices Grand Theft Auto V's Michael De Santa called out a tech company for using his voice in an unauthorized AI chatbot.

Artificial Intelligence

Grand Theft Auto Voice Actor Furious at AI That Copied His Voice

By Sharon Adarlo

The black hole formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang, but is so massive that it should've taken far longer to reach its size.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Finds Most Ancient Black Hole Ever Discovered

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of a tiny reflector attached to India's Vikram lander.

NASA Probe Shoots Indian Moon Lander With Laser

By Victor Tangermann

The Davos glitterati seems to have changed their tune about AI at this year's World Economic Forum — but they're still firing people for it.

Artificial Intelligence

Global Elites Suddenly Starting to Fear AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Now that he's all but abandoned the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg's pivot to artificial intelligence is in the spotlight.

Bored With the Metaverse, Zuckerberg Spending Billions on AI Chips

By Noor Al-Sibai

After leaving the Pentagon, the government's former head UFO hunter is sounding off about all things unidentified.

Pentagon’s Former Head UFO Hunter Says This Is the Truth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Users of a UC Irvine student-run Discord server fell victim to a horrifying cyberattack, and were sent extremely graphic content.

Students Hospitalized After Hackers Send Horrifying Pictures

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers has suggested that primordial black holes (PBH) are passing by the Solar System, causing planets' orbits to "wobble."

Small Black Holes Affecting Earth’s Orbit, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A recent study by Amazon AI researchers found that a "shocking amount of the web" comprises poor-quality AI-generated and translated content.

Artificial Intelligence

Huge Proportion of Internet Is AI-Generated Slime, Researchers Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Rover Spots “Star Trek” Symbol on Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have observed an object that's far heavier than any known neutron star, but too light to be classified as a black hole.

Astronomers Puzzled by Inexplicable Deep Space Object

By Victor Tangermann

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s SLIM lunar lander successfully touched down but its solar panels aren't charging.

Japanese Moon Lander Dying After Touching Down on Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

A particularly enterprising Tesla owner has built his very own solar panel array that can be mounted on the roof of his Model Y.

Tesla Owner Builds Solar Array That Folds Out of Model Y Roof

By Victor Tangermann

The lawsuit against OpenAI allges that ChatGPT fabricated an entire fake lawsuit accusing the plaintiff of embezzlement.

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Libel Suit Against OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

The winner of the Atakugawa Prize, Rie Kudan, said that about five percent of her novel was copied from ChatGPT and other generative AIs.

Novelist Wins Award, Then Reveals She Used ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

A gigantic trove of passwords has been released by bad actors, and there's a very good chance that yours is on there.

Massive Release of Breached Passwords Likely Includes Yours

By Noor Al-Sibai

After removing mentions the "military and warfare" from its usage policies page, OpenAI has spoken out about working with the military.

OpenAI Axes Ban on Military Contracts, Reveals Deal With Pentagon

By Victor Tangermann