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New York University scientists say that forces within neutron stars can slice through the star itself and send out intense gamma-ray bursts.

From Quarks to Quasars

Grim Blades of Energy Could Chop Stars in Half, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Don't get too used to having a robot colleague at work. You might start screwing up without even realizing it.

Scientists Find That Human Workers Get Lazier When Their Teammate Is a Robot

By Frank Landymore

Behold, the transformational power of generative AI technology: generating photorealistic images of lil' tykes gleefully smoking cigs.

OpenAI Image Generator Draws Pictures of Children Smoking Cigarettes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Metals from spacecraft that are supposed to safely burn up in the atmosphere are staying there and potentially affecting the ozone.

Satellites and Spacecraft Are Polluting the Atmosphere, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

The Cybertruck apparently held up admirably after being riddled with dozens of bullets, according to Musk.

Elon Musks Says He Unloaded a Tommy Gun Into a Cybertruck “Al Capone Style”

By Frank Landymore

A proposed New York State bill would require a background check to buy a 3D printer, in an effort to crackdown on 3D printed ghost guns.

New York Bill Would Require a Background Check for 3D Printers, Like a Gun

By Sharon Adarlo

AI has a very dirty secret: that the people hired to train it are making literal pennies on the dollar, which is tantamount to slave labor.

Artificial Intelligence

That AI You’re Using Was Trained By Slave Labor, Basically

By Noor Al-Sibai

Universal Music Group and several other record labels have accused Anthropic of stealing their lyrics to train its chatbot Claude 2.

Music Industry Sues Anthropic for Alleged Theft of Lyrics

By Frank Landymore

Federal regulators grounded Starship after its failed orbital flight test. SpaceX is annoyed it still hasn't gotten permission to fly again.

Advanced Transport

SpaceX Says Feds Are Being Unfair About Its Rocket That Exploded

By Frank Landymore

A one-time Fugees rap group member claims that his attorney fumbled his conspiracy trial because he used artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

Fugees Rapper Says His Lawyer Lost His Case by Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study from Stanford University shows that people with a hoarding problem can alleviate their issue by using virtual reality.

Virtual Reality

VR Lets Hoarders Practice Throwing Away Their Cherished Garbage

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Juno satellite captured new images of Jupiter's moon, Io, which has a fiery surface due to its many volcanoes.

NASA Spacecraft Snaps Beautiful Photo of Jupiter’s Volcano-Dotted Moon

By Sharon Adarlo

Amid rumors, Elon Musk insists that he is not, as reports suggest, going to pull out of the European Union.

Elon Musk Says He Has No Intention of Pulling Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

A year since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, since renamed X, traffic at the social media platform has been down significantly.

Twitter’s Traffic Is Falling Off Under Elon Musk’s Disastrous Leadership

By Sharon Adarlo

Yann Lecun, one of three "godfathers" of AI and Meta's chief AI scientist, thinks that our AI doomsaying is "preposterous."

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Tells Us to Stop Freaking Out Over Its “Existential Risk” To Humanity

By Frank Landymore

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, sees the loss of jobs as a natural part of "technological revolution" every 100 to 150 years.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Gonna Destroy a Lot of People’s Jobs

By Frank Landymore

There's fewer than six weeks until Tesla's Cybertrucks start being delivered, and already, CEO Elon Musk is trying to set the bar low.

Elon Musk Admits Tesla “Dug Our Own Grave” With Cybertruck

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the biggest names behind an author-led lawsuit against OpenAI, John Grisham has seemingly run out of patience with AI companies.

Artificial Intelligence

John Grisham Unloads on Big Tech Using His Books to Train AI

By Frank Landymore

After successfully launching its lunar lander, India plans to make history again by sending up its own astronauts to the Moon.

India Announces Plan to Send Astronauts to the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google has moved to dismiss a class action data-scraping lawsuit regarding its AI training practices, which the suit alleges amount to theft.

Google Terrified of Lawsuit That Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk, madman that he is, is actually going to start charging to use the social network formerly known as Twitter.

Elon Musk Planning to Charge Users $1 to Tweet

By Noor Al-Sibai

LinkedIn, a Microsoft-owned company, is laying off almost 700 people this month in a second round of lay offs.

Artificial Intelligence

LinkedIn Laying Off 700 as Microsoft Pivots to AI

By Sharon Adarlo

It's week three of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial, and legal experts aren't optimistic about his chances.

Legal Experts Say SBF Is in Deep Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While announcing the city's AI plans, NYC's mayor bragged that his voice is now being cloned to make robocalls in Mandarin and Yiddish.

Artificial Intelligence

NYC’s Mayor Using AI to Make Robocalls of Him Speaking Chinese and Yiddish

By Noor Al-Sibai

A couple in Scotland are mad after Tesla billed them more than $20,000 for repairs to their vehicle's battery after a drive through the rain.

Tesla Charges Couple $20,000 After They Drove It in the Rain

By Sharon Adarlo

Would you let a robot ink a cloud-based tattoo design onto you? For the low price of $10,000 and a trip to Austin, Texas, now you can.

Of Course Austin Has a Robot Tattoo Shop Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

A record shattering tremor on Mars still has scientists uncertain on its origin, after new research ruled out a meteoroid impact.

Scientists Puzzled by Sudden, Super-Loud Rumble Inside Mars

By Frank Landymore

Military bases across the US could be polluting nearby water supplies with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the DoD says.

US Military Bases Appear to Be Polluting Drinking Water, Pentagon Admits

By Frank Landymore

AI chatbots may, as new research suggests, be able to infer information about you based on small things you mention to them.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Just Found Something Terrifying About Talking to AI Chatbots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Announcing a solid-state battery partnership, Toyota displayed the sand-like electrolyte in a glass vessel that looks like a butt plug.

Science & Energy

Toyota Put This Fascinating Photo in a Press Release About Electric Vehicles

By Noor Al-Sibai

Humans have always decided what happens to animals without the creatures themselves having a vote. What if that changed?

Science & Energy

Lawyer Suggests Giving Animals the Right to Vote

By Noor Al-Sibai

The financial industry's increasing reliance on AI will most likely trigger the next financial crisis, according to the SEC chairman.

Artificial Intelligence

SEC Head Says It’s a Near-Certainty That AI Will Cause a Financial Crash

By Sharon Adarlo

Genetically supercharged trees and other plants could be promising CO2 vacuums, but are yet to be proven outside the greenhouse.

Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2

By Frank Landymore

Stack Overflow, is laying off 28 percent of its staff, just as OpenAI's ChatGPT is experiencing a big surge in popularity for coding help.

Artificial Intelligence

Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry

By Sharon Adarlo

Adobe has unveiled a sparkling, interactive dress — and got the research scientist who created it to model the high-tech couture.

Adobe Shows Off Dress That Can Change Its Pattern on the Fly

By Noor Al-Sibai

A massive cache of niobium-packed "niabobaoite" discovered in China may have broad implications for the global battery race.

Science & Energy

China Says It’s Discovered a Cache of a Strange New Ore

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A stunning new video put together by the European Space Agency shows the vastness of the Noctis Labyrinthus, a Martian canyon.

Amazing Video Soars Over Mars’ Epic “Labyrinth of Night”

By Victor Tangermann

AI is here to enforce Zoom etiquette — but according to some who have used the meeting bots, the AIs don't always understand nuance.

Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's used as a tie-breaker, a this-or-that decision maker. But the long considered fair coin toss actually has quite a bit of bias.

Science & Energy

Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

A new AI-powered tool from Google will effortlessly swap and add different facial expressions using other photos you took.

Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI quietly changed its "core values" list to include a focus on AGI that wasn't explicitly listed there before.

The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its “Core Values” With Completely Different Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gianluca Grimulda, an Italian social and climate scientist, prefers "slow travel" to cut down on his carbon emissions. That means no flights.

Climate Researcher Fired for Refusing to Fly

By Frank Landymore

A particularly resourceful Tesla owner used the company's Summon feature to retrieve his Model 3 from a locked parking garage.

Man Uses “Smart Summon” to Get Tesla Out of Locked Parking Garage

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is offering a "bug bounty" to anyone who can bait its Bing AI into saying or doing what it's not supposed to.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails

By Noor Al-Sibai

The observation of the donut-shaped cloud of debris is believed to be the first of a planetary collision's afterglow.

Astronomers Say Two Giant Ice Planets Collided, Leaving Donut-Shaped Wreckage

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have developed a material that can remotely stimulate neural tissue and allow nerve signals to flow again.

Scientists Say New Material Can Reconnect Severed Nerves

By Sharon Adarlo

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest extant evidence of a wood structure, dating back almost half a million years.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Structure From Before Homo Sapiens Existed

By Sharon Adarlo

In a new video, former astronaut Chris Hadfield reviewed a "F9: The Fast Saga" scene in which two characters ride a car into space.

Astronaut Analyzes That “Fast & Furious” Scene Where They Drive a Car Through Space

By Victor Tangermann

As Earth's temperatures continue to rise, some areas may soon become uninhabitable — and the consequences will be life or death.

Scientists Say Homes of Billions on Track to Become Uninhabitable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The DOD is looking for tech that will protect against "cognitive attacks" that could disable soldiers wearing virtual reality devices.

Virtual Reality

DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Female European common frogs are taking ghosting to a whole new level, playing dead to deter unwanted males from latching onto them.

Science & Energy

Female Frogs Have an Effective Strategy for Dealing With Annoying Males: Pretend to Be Dead

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Disney has come under fire after a video resurfaced showing horribly CGI-generated background actors in the movie "Prom Pact."

Artificial Intelligence

Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI “Actors” in Crowd Scene

By Victor Tangermann

Google set up a secretive Discord server for its most active Bard AI users — but their feedback isn't all positive.

Google Insider Unimpressed by Its Cutting Edge AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission has officially been launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX Launches NASA Mission to Metallic Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

A document penned by former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried has come to light — and reader, it is absolutely buckwild.

You Have Got To See This Unhinged SBF Memo

By Noor Al-Sibai

Space Force leaders have forbidden their Guardians from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT on government devices.

Space Force Gets Scared, Pauses All Use of Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A livid SpaceX has responded to the Federal Aviation Administration warnings, denouncing its analysis as "deeply flawed."

FAA Warns That Falling Satellites Are Going to Start Killing People

By Frank Landymore

Amazon's Alexa has been caught falsely saying that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen by a massive amount of election fraud."

Robots and Machines

Amazon’s Alexa Goes MAGA, Claims 2020 Election Was Stolen

By Sharon Adarlo

Add cashing out $150 million in foreign bribes — and very weird plots involving Thai prostitutes — to the list of FTX uncanniness.

FTX Witness Says SBF Sent Chinese Officials $150 Million In Bribes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The IRS says that Microsoft owes tens of billions of dollars in back taxes — and apparently, the company isn't buying it.

The IRS Says Microsoft Owes More in Back Taxes Than It Invested in OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has canceled a planned spacewalk, citing an ammonia coolant leak, which was discovered on the Russian segment earlier this week.

NASA Postpones Spacewalk Due to Leak on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has readied a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for a mission to launch a spacecraft to study a big metal asteroid called Psyche.

SpaceX Prepares Spacecraft for Mission to Mysterious Metal Asteroid

By Sharon Adarlo

SBF's former colleague and romantic partner Caroline Ellison says that her ex had what seems to be a pretty skewed moral compass.

Caroline Ellison Testifies That SBF’s Strange Philosophy Justified Lying and Stealing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Caroline Ellison told the court yesterday that back in 2021, Alameda Research already had an alleged $2.7 billion hole in its balance sheet.

Alameda Secretly Had Value of Negative $2.7 Billion, Insider Tells Court

By Maggie Harrison Dupré