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Researchers have created the robotic equivalent of a seeing-eye dog for the visually impaired which responds to leash tugs.

Scientists Create Robotic Seeing Eye Dog

By Victor Tangermann

Bolstering future deep space ambitions, Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station showed off their space-cultivated veggies.

Chinese Astronauts Harvest Space-Grown Lettuce and Tomatoes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Robin Witt, who helped build NASA's Artemis I rocket, was living her dream. She says that Florida's anti-trans laws cut that dream short.

Anti-Trans Laws Force Engineer to Quit Job Helping NASA With Moon Missions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA attempted to spit facts about humans' inability to fly to Jupiter — and then was forced to apologize.

NASA Apologies for Saying Your Broke A** Will Never Go to Jupiter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Someone used AI to create a cover of the late Johnny Cash singing Taylor Swift's "Blank Space," and it unfortunately absolutely slaps.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Lets Johnny Cash Cover Taylor Swift From Beyond the Grave

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a recent tweet, Musk promised that the Cybertruck will be "what Bladerunner would have driven." But there is no "Bladerunner" character.

Elon Musk Thinks the Main Character in “Blade Runner” Was Named “Bladerunner”

By Victor Tangermann

President Joe Biden was reportedly spooked by the AI in the Hollywood action blockbuster "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One."

Artificial Intelligence

Biden Apparently Got Scared of AI After Watching the New “Mission: Impossible”

By Victor Tangermann

Joe Rogan Shoots Cybertruck With Bow and Arrow, Possibly Mistaking It for Metal Mammoth

Advanced Transport

Joe Rogan Shoots Cybertruck With Bow and Arrow, Possibly Mistaking It for Metal Mammoth

By Victor Tangermann

A disabled man had to literally drag himself off an Air Canada plane because flight attendants were not able to provide him a wheelchair.

Airline Apologizes for Forcing Disabled Man to Drag Himself Off Plane With No Wheelchair

By Sharon Adarlo

In case you weren't existentially worried about AI-developed bioweapons, your fears may not be entirely unwarranted.

Artificial Intelligence

Biden Terrified AI Will be Used to Create Bioweapons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's released a new update to ChatGPT, which allows users to upload PDFs. The update effectively killed dozens of startups.

OpenAI Signals That It’ll Destroy Startups Using Its Tech to Build Products

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly skeleton hand floating in outer space some 16,000 light-years from Earth.

NASA Shows Off Image That Looks an Awful Lot Like Skeleton Fingers Floating in Space

By Victor Tangermann

It's been a bit more than a year since Elon Musk bought Twitter, and in that time, the company's value has plummeted more than 50 percent.

Twitter Admits Elon Musk Has Destroyed More Than Half Its Value

By Noor Al-Sibai

Even the ghouls on Jupiter are out for Halloween! The Juno spacescraft captured a spooky image of a grimacing "face" in Jupiter's clouds.

Behold This Scary Face in the Clouds of Jupiter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X CEO Elon Musk said that any posts that are corrected by CommunityNotes become ineligible for revenue share.

Elon Musk Promises to Stop Paying People to Post Misinformation on Twitter

By Sharon Adarlo

For Halloween, the gigantic sphere that now dominates the Las Vegas skyline is done up as a jack-o'-lantern.

The Giant Las Vegas Sphere’s Halloween Costume Is Pretty Great

By Sharon Adarlo

Blue Origin just unveiled the latest prototype for its NASA moon lander — and it's way jankier looking than the concept art made it seem.

Jeff Bezos’ Moon Lander Design Just Got a Big Downgrade

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just six months after opening a cocktail lounge in its San Francisco offices, the startup Expensify is shutting down its fancy company bar.

Startup Admits Office Cocktail Bar Wasn’t a Good Idea

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk’s Promise to Bring Starlink to Gaza May Be Dead on Arrival

Elon Musk’s Promise to Bring Starlink to Gaza May Be Dead on Arrival

By Noor Al-Sibai

German camera maker Leica has just unveiled its latest M11-P camera that comes equipped with tech to prove it wasn't AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

This Anti-AI Camera Fights Deepfakes by Certifying Each Picture It Takes

By Frank Landymore

More than 15,000 scientists have signed onto a paper warning that the climate may collapse by the end of this century if we don't fix it now.

15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could Collapse By 2100 Due to Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has made big moves with its Orion spacecraft, which will soon undergo rigorous testing in anticipation of the Artemis II flight.

NASA Is Making Huge Progress on Crewed Moon Capsule

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

UK Royal Astronomer Says Alien Life Might Be Mega-Weird AI

Artificial Intelligence

UK Royal Astronomer Says Alien Life Might Be Mega-Weird AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

The FAA has cleared Google cofounder Sergey Brin's 400-foot airship, dubbed the Pathfinder 1, for test flights in California.

Google Cofounder’s Airship Cleared for Flight

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Car Companies Are Suddenly Super Worried About the Future of EVs

Advanced Transport

Car Companies Are Suddenly Super Worried About the Future of EVs

By Frank Landymore

Some astronomers suggest that aliens may have already spotted us, we just don't know it yet, a tantalizing theory.

Aliens May Already Know We Exist, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have uncovered evidence that suggests Mars was a place with many flowing rivers.

Scientists Find Evidence Mars Was Covered in Rivers

By Sharon Adarlo

The International Space Station's retirement date is looming, and NASA warns that there could be "catastrophe" if it's not safely taken down.

NASA Terrified of Space Station Careening Out of Control and Crashing Into People

By Frank Landymore

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says that because he wasn't a coder, he wasn't sure what was going on with that alleged "back door."

SBF Says He Had No Idea “What Was Happening” Because He “Wasn’t Much of a Programmer”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI has created a new team whose whole job is heading off the "catastrophic risks" that could be brought on by artificial intelligence.

OpenAI Team Tasked With Stopping AI From Triggering Nuclear Armageddon

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is here to let everyone know that her boss rocks, X rocks, and she's doing just great. OK!

Twitter CEO Says Everything’s Totally Fine Actually, Thanks for Asking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cruise made the decision following a federal investigation into the company and the loss of its permit to operate its service in California.

Advanced Transport

Cruise Pauses All Driverless Operations, Saying It’s Taking a “Hard Look Inwards”

By Frank Landymore

Sam Bankman-Fried Admits He Only “Skimmed” FTX’s Terms of Service

Sam Bankman-Fried Admits He Only “Skimmed” FTX’s Terms of Service

By Noor Al-Sibai

A gamma ray burst triggered by colliding neutron stars, one of the brightest explosions ever, created tellurium and other heavy elements.

Neutron Star Collision Unleashes Explosion One Million Times Brighter Than Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI is arguing that ChatGPT is only a drafting tool, and thus can't be held legally responsible for any hallucinations it spits out.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine If ChatGPT Occasionally Accuses Innocent People of Crimes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The cosmonauts were investigating the cause of a leak of ammonia coolant from the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

Cosmonauts Encounter Deadly “Blob” During Spacewalk

By Frank Landymore

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

A leader in Google's artificial intelligence division in the United Kingdom says that AI poises a big threat to humanity like climate change.

Google AI Boss Says AI Is an Existential Threat to Humankind

By Sharon Adarlo

In his gambit to take over Twitter, Elon Musk seems to have played himself, his users, and his lenders to the tune of $44 billion.

Twitter Use Has Absolutely Plummeted Since Elon Musk Took Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

More than 80 years ago, astronomers were doing a sky survey when three bright stars they just saw disappeared, never to be seen again.

Scientists Puzzled by Stars That Disappeared From the Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two years into Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse pipe dream and there's not much to show for it, except for more than $25 billion in losses.

Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Is Bleeding Billions of Dollars, Documents Reveal

By Noor Al-Sibai

The mercurial CEO had to borrow a whopping $13 billion from seven banks to buy Twitter. They're now facing billions of losses.

Banks That Lent Elon Musk Money to Buy Twitter Are Totally Screwed Now

By Victor Tangermann

IBM researchers said a ChatGPT-generated phishing email was almost as effective in fooling people compared to a man-made version.

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT’s Scary Good at Getting People to Click Phishing Emails, IBM Finds

By Sharon Adarlo

A new atomic study of an Apollo 17-era Moon crystal suggests that the Moon formed roughly 40 million years earlier than previously thought.

NASA Surprised by What It Found Studying Ancient Moon Crystal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apple is spending $1 billion per year on generative AI, which may soon manifest in a smarter Siri and AI capabilities in other programs.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple Is Apparently Spending Billions on Secret AI Development

By Sharon Adarlo

A Cybertruck forum user saw how a truck had to be towed away from a Supercharger station on a flatbed truck because it "wouldn't charge."

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Breaks Down So Badly It Has to Be Dragged Out of Public

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's two Voyager spacecraft have been through a lot. But NASA isn't giving up and is still actively uplinking software patches.

Ancient Voyager Probes Plead for Death, NASA Says “No”

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer has revealed that the disgraced crypto CEO will take the witness stand at his own fraud trial.

Grab Some Popcorn, Because SBF Is Gonna Testify at His Own Trial

By Victor Tangermann

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says he will probably keep touring as a hologram after he does finally pass on.

Virtual Reality

Keith Richards Says He’ll Probably Keep Touring After He’s Dead

By Noor Al-Sibai

Anaconda co-founder and CEO Peter Wang predicts that books will soon be replaced by AI-generated, interactive content trips dubbed "thunks."

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Guy Says Books Will Be Replaced by AI-Powered “Thunks”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Oregon State University blasted out an urgent alert warning students of an ongoing "bomb threat" involving Starship food delivery robots.

University Warns of Bomb Threat Involving Delivery Robots

By Victor Tangermann

Cracking the lid ofNASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample container is proving harder than expected due to two stuck fasteners.

NASA’s Having Trouble Getting Its Asteroid Sample Open

By Victor Tangermann

Big pods of orcas may be teaching each other how to tear unsuspecting blue whales into massive chunks.

Science & Energy

Orcas May Be Teaching Each Other How to Brutalize Blue Whales

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla investor Kevin Pafrath called a recent Tesla earnings call "terrible" and accused Elon Musk of "turning into a little baby."

Tesla Investor Calls Elon Musk a “Little Baby” Who Was “Almost in Tears”

By Victor Tangermann

The US Department of Justice is officially investigating whether Tesla exaggerated the advertised ranges of its vehicles.

Tesla Admits the DOJ Is Investigating Its Vehicles’ Driving Range

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk, a 52-year-old centibillionaire, offered this weekend to pay Wikipedia one billion dollars to change its name to Dickipedia.

Elon Musk Is Now Bullying Wikipedia

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of scientists say they have found evidence that suggests the Earth's core has slowly been leaking helium over billions of years.

Science & Energy

There Appears to Be a Slow Leak in Earth’s Core, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A British boarding school has recruited two artificial intelligence chatbots to serve as the school's "principal headteacher" and head of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Prep School Appoints AI Chatbots to Executive Staff Roles

By Noor Al-Sibai

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the GM division for reports of its robotaxis hitting pedestrians.

Advanced Transport

Cruise Robotaxis Under Federal Investigation for Endangering Pedestrians

By Frank Landymore

Eagles and drones go together like pie and ice cream — and in a new video, one raptor shows just how awesome its predatory skills really are.

Amazing Footage Shows Drone Getting Attacked by a Furious Eagle

By Noor Al-Sibai

The AI companion app Soulmate suddenly shut down in September, leaving users with only a week left to talk to their digital lovers.

Artificial Intelligence

Lonely Redditors Heartbroken When AI “Soulmate” App Suddenly Shuts Down

By Noor Al-Sibai

The signal is know as a fast radio burst (FRB), and it is the oldest and most powerful of its kind ever detected.

Scientists Intercept Signal That Took 8 Billion Years to Reach Earth

By Frank Landymore

Apple executives gave John Stewart an ultimatum: cede creative control, give up those issues, or "The Problem" gets cancelled.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple Reportedly Ditched Jon Stewart Because They Didn’t Like His Thoughts About AI

By Frank Landymore

Solar power is set to become the dominant energy source in the world by 2050, surpassing even fossil fuels if current trends continue.

Study Finds That Solar Power Is on Track to Dominate Electric Grids

By Sharon Adarlo