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Former Dreamworks and Walt Disney Studios executive Jeffrey Katzenberg believes AI will make animation far cheaper to produce.

Artificial Intelligence

The Guy Behind “Shrek” Says AI Is Going to Wipe Out Human Jobs in Animation

By Frank Landymore

Previous research projected that a rogue white dwarf was on a collision course with our solar system. Not so, says a new study.

Bad News! A Rogue Star Will Not Crash Into Us, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Darren Aronofsky is slated to direct the movie, which will be based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk.

A24’s Making an Elon Musk Biopic Directed by Darren Aronofsky

By Frank Landymore

A tool bag was lost during a spacewalk at the International Space Station, and it should be orbiting low enough to see it with binoculars.

NASA Astronauts Let a Tool Bag Drift Away and You Can Now Spot It With Binoculars

By Frank Landymore

Welsh police used facial recognition software to scan people suspected of terrorism or pedophilia at a Beyonce concert.

Artificial Intelligence

Police Scanned Beyoncé Concert for Pedophiles, Terrorists

By Sharon Adarlo

The head of the SEC thinks it's chill for FTX to be rebooted as long as whoever does it follows the letter of the law.

SEC Chair Says Fine, Go Ahead and Start FTX Up Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

The people building new AIs are growing concerned with how lifelike the next generation of generative content has already become.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Industry Insider Claims They Can No Longer Tell Apart Real and Fake

By Noor Al-Sibai

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is worried that the AI industry will have to pay billions of dollars in royalties for copyrighted material.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Investors Horrified at the Suggestion That They Pay Artists for Using Their Copyrighted Work

By Frank Landymore

Researchers claim that in 2020, an astonishing 53 percent of all free-standing homes in Europe could have run entirely on solar.

Researchers Say Solar Is Getting So Good That People Could Start Quitting the Electric Grid

By Frank Landymore

Linda Yaccarino regrets that she was not able to use her boss Elon Musk's wildly vulgar AI chatbot, Grok, to give her kids the "talk."

Artificial Intelligence

Twitter CEO Says She Wishes Elon Musk’s AI Would Talk About Sex With Her Kids

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to audio of a meeting obtained by Forbes, Cruise is getting ready for layoffs, the latest sign the industry is in trouble.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Crisis at Cruise Deepens as Self-Driving Car Company Announces Layoffs

By Victor Tangermann

In its most recent update, OpenAI blamed a possible cyberattack for the "periodic outages" affecting its ChatGPT chatbot.

OpenAI Says It Appears to Have Been Attacked

By Victor Tangermann

Space Force Boss Says Weird New Weapons Are Headed to Orbit

Space Force Boss Says Weird New Weapons Are Headed to Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

A new book about Elon Musk's Twitter takeover is apparently full of wild stories — including one, of course, about Mark Zuckerberg.

Elon Musk Started Screaming About Zuckerberg Immediately After Signing Twitter Deal

By Noor Al-Sibai

After 14 long and problematic years, chat service Omegle has been taken offline. It's not exactly surprising.

Omegle Shuts Down Amid Storm of Child Abuse Allegations

By Victor Tangermann

A new UN report has found that despite climate promises, the world's top oil producers are on track to drill for more fossil fuels than ever.

As Climate Doom Looms, We’re Drilling For More Fossil Fuels Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

Silicon Valley startup Humane is set to unveil its long-rumored AI Pin at noon EDT today. But leaked documents have us seriously worried.

Artificial Intelligence

Humane’s Uber-Expensive “AI Pin” Sounds Like a Total Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Bows Down Before Mighty Worm

By Noor Al-Sibai

A worker in South Korea was crushed to death by a robot after it failed to tell him apart from the box of vegetables it was handling.

Grocery Robot Crushes Robot Inspector to Death

By Victor Tangermann

After getting some intense media grilling about whistleblower reports, the man who headed up the Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down.

Military UFO Head Resigns After Being Grilled About Whistleblower Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon's upcoming LLM codenamed "Olympus" will reportedly have two trillion parameters, twice as many as OpenAI's GPT-4.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Reportedly Training AI With Twice as Many Parameters as GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

Everyone knows that Elon Musk broke Twitter when he bought it, but fewer were aware that Twitter seems to have broken him right back.

Twitter Staff Almost Called the Cops During One of Elon Musk’s Tantrums, Fearing He’d Hurt Himself

By Noor Al-Sibai

Globe owners, take heed: a new island has emerged from Japanese waters, the result of submarine volcanic activity off the coast of Iwo Jima.

Science & Energy

New Island Bursts Forth From Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Peter Jackson, who pioneered the AI tech to isolate John Lennon's vocals for The Beatles' "Now and Then," is ready to release more songs.

Artificial Intelligence

Peter Jackson Threatens to Release Even More AI Beatles Songs

By Victor Tangermann

A husband-and-wife duo have published a book about life on Mars that includes a section about the ethics of astronaut cannibalism.

Should Astronauts Be Allowed to Eat Each Other If They’re Starving?

By Noor Al-Sibai

In newly-released audio recorded by journalist Tiffany Fong, former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said he had done "net harm to the world."

In Newly-Released Audio, SBF Admits He’s “Done Net Harm to the World”

By Victor Tangermann

A matte-black Cybertruck, which Tesla chief designer Franz von Holzhausen was driving around Southern California, looks awful up close.

Advanced Transport

That Matte Black Cybertruck Looks Absolutely Horrendous Up Close

By Victor Tangermann

Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal how Cruise failed to meet its own safety standards for driving around kids.

Advanced Transport

Cruise Reportedly Knew Its Robotaxis Struggled to Notice Children and Kept Them on the Road Anyway

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's first DevDay was jam-packed with updates and announcements. But according to CEO Sam Altman, we've yet to scratch the AI surface.

Sam Altman Says What OpenAI’s Secretly Working on Will Make Today’s AI Seem “Quaint”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers at Kyoto University has constructed a satellite made out of wood — and it's almost ready to fly into space.

NASA Getting Ready to Launch Wooden Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

Software engineer Julian Joseph applied to 5,000 jobs using an AI tool called LazyApply. He got 20 interviews.

Artificial Intelligence

Unemployed Man Uses AI to Apply for 5,000 Jobs, Gets 20 Interviews

By Victor Tangermann

An orca pod has once again attacked and sank a boat off the Strait of Gibraltar, adding to the growing list of similar incidents.

Science & Energy

Orcas Strike Again, Sinking Another Yacht

By Noor Al-Sibai

After a decade of drone dreams, Amazon's "Prime Air" drone delivery service seems to still be barely functional.

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Is a Dismal Failure That Can Only Carry a Single Can of Soup

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier this year, Polish drinks company Dictador announced that it had anointed an AI-powered robot called Mika as its "experimental CEO."

Company Appoints AI-Powered Robot as CEO

By Victor Tangermann

Natalie Tien, Sam Bankman-Fried's former assistant, is defending her old boss — but is also wondering if it's just Stockholm syndrome.

SBF’s Former Assistant Says He Was Like a Little Boy Who Made a Huge Mistake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's Xbox division has partnered with Inworld AI, a Silicon Valley-based company, to collaborate on AI NPCs.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Working on AI-Powered NPCs for Xbox Games

By Victor Tangermann

To raise some much-needed money, the site formerly known as Twitter is apparently moving forward with plans to sell off inactive usernames.

Twitter Desperately Trying to Sell Off Inactive Usernames

By Noor Al-Sibai

After attending a Bored Ape-themed party in Hong Kong, some of the partygoers' eyes started mysteriously burning.

People Say Their Eyes Are Burning After Attending a Bored Ape Event

By Victor Tangermann

An easy to use handheld device called the Flipper Zero can potentially wreak havoc on anything using wireless communications like Bluetooth.

Devious Device Can Crash People’s iPhones Just by Being Near Them

By Frank Landymore

Pilots Testing Electric Airplane Say It’s Weirdly Quiet

Advanced Transport

Pilots Testing Electric Airplane Say It’s Weirdly Quiet

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese government is pushing mass production of humanoid robots — and apparently wants it done in the next few years.

Chinese Government Wants Mass Production of Humanoid Robots By 2025

By Noor Al-Sibai

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Full Self-Driving Helpless When Cameras Fog Up in Cold Weather

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have now measured atmospheric mercury levels in the past, and their findings makes our current levels all the more concerning.

Humans Are Spiking the Level of Poisonous Mercury in the Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

MADRID, SPAIN - MARCH 29: British actor Brian Cox attends the HBO Max premiere of "Succession" at Academia de Cine on March 29, 2023 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images)

Artificial Intelligence

Brian Cox Says AI Replacing Actors Is a “Human Rights Issue”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Controversial new research led by renowned climate scientist James Hansen found that global warming is accelerating.

Global Warming Is Even Worse Than We Thought, Scientist Says

By Frank Landymore

The plight of Tesla's beleaguered Cybertruck continues as social media videos show three of the vehicles struggling to drive off-road.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Struggles to Drive Up Steep Dirt Road

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Thanks to NASA's space probe Juno, astronomers finally have confirmation of salt and organic compounds in Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.

NASA Says It’s Spotted Organic Compounds on Jupiter’s Largest Moon

By Frank Landymore

Clever engineers behind the YouTube channel ND - Woodworking Art have built an entire Cybertruck almost entirely out of wood.

Advanced Transport

Someone Built a Fully Functional Wooden Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

One of OpenAI's cofounders warned years ago that if we don't program it right, AGI may treat humans like animals.

OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Worried AGI Will Treat Us Like Animals

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial Intelligence

Steak-umm Uses Deepfakes to Make Vegans Devour Meat

By Noor Al-Sibai

A minivan-sized, four-legged walking robot that can carry up to four passengers was spotted at this year's Japan Mobility Show.

This Rideable Rhinoceros Robot Looks Absolutely Amazing

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that former President Barack Obama had a heavy hand in crafting current President Joe Biden's AI framework.

Artificial Intelligence

Obama Has Secretly Been Working on AI for Biden

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a lengthy post on X-formerly-Twitter, AI godfater Yann LeCun argued that extremely wealthy CEOs taking control over the future of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Warns That Powerful Companies Are Seizing Control of It

By Victor Tangermann

During a Thursday spacewalk outside of the International Space Station, two NASA astronauts lost an entire bag of tools.

NASA Astronauts Accidentally Lose Tool Bag During Space Walk

By Victor Tangermann

The founder and two top executives of the meme coin SafeMoon have been accused of pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars in customer funds.

Execs of Top Meme Coin Charged With Spending Customers’ Money on Luxury Cars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is set to release its first AI model to a select group of users as soon as Saturday.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Is About to Release His First AI

By Victor Tangermann

Parents and local officials are unsure how to handle AI-generated nudes of teen girls that boys began circulating at a NJ high school.

Artificial Intelligence

Police Investigating AI-Generated Nudes of New Jersey High Schoolers

By Noor Al-Sibai

FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all seven counts in his fraud trial — and he's now facing a huge prison sentence.

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Facing 110 Years in Prison

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk predicted last year that due to Bankman-Fried's donations to the Democratic party, there would be "no investigation." Wrong.

Elon Musk Was Staggeringly Wrong About Sam Bankman-Fried

By Victor Tangermann

It appears that until recently, Fox News host Laura Ingraham did not know that the James Webb Space Telescope existed.

James Webb Space Telescope

Fox News Host Tries to Mock Biden By Claiming Webb Telescope Isn’t Real

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hollywood actor Scarlett Johanson is suing an AI app developer for stealing her voice and likeness for an online ad.

Artificial Intelligence

Scarlett Johansson Taking Legal Action Against AI App for Cloning Her Voice Without Permission

By Victor Tangermann

Colorado-based space startup Sierra Space has made considerable progress on its Dream Chaser spaceplane and is almost ready for flight.

Dream Chaser Spaceplane Ready for NASA Tests

By Victor Tangermann

As part of his vision for turning Twitter into an "everything app," billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to launch dating features.

Elon Musk Wants to Turn Twitter Into a Dating App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

More than 50 years after their breakup, The Beatles have released their final song — and used AI to bring John Lennon's voice back to life.

Artificial Intelligence

The Beatles Just Released Their Final Song That Resurrects John Lennon’s Voice With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai