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Two astronauts on the ISS are gearing up for a spacewalk to figure out if microorganisms on the outside of the station can survive.

NASA Swabbing Outside of Space Station to See If Stuff Is Growing on It

By Victor Tangermann

AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the "Godfather of AI," is worried that AI might take over the world one day.

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Admits He Fears His Creation Could “Take Over From Humanity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Announces Asteroid Samples Contain Both Water and Carbon

NASA Announces Asteroid Samples Contain Both Water and Carbon

By Victor Tangermann

Alex de Vries, a data scientist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, found that AI companies could soon use as much power as a country worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It’ll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country

By Victor Tangermann

An analyst from a tech advisory firm said that generative AI is slated for a slowdown next year due to increasing costs.

Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI Is Headed for a Financial “Cold Shower” Next Year, Analyst Predicts

By Sharon Adarlo

A Tesla Cybertruck with flashing hazard lights seemed to had become stalled on the side of a highway this weekend in California.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted Broken Down on Highway Shoulder

By Sharon Adarlo

Caroline Ellison testified that Sam Bankman-Fried once told her there was a five percent chance that he would become the president.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Delusions Included That He Could Become President, Former Girlfriend Says

By Victor Tangermann

Caroline Ellison, the ex-girlfriend of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, clearly came to court with guns blazing.

Caroline Ellison Says Sam Bankman-Fried “Directed” Her to Commit Crimes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fun's over, kids. As Windows Central reports, Microsoft appears to have lobotomized Bing's DALL-E 3-powered AI Image Creator.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Lobotomizes Bing’s Image Generating AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new Stockholm, Sweden-based startup called Luvly has unveiled a new car that can be delivered in flat pack form.

Advanced Transport

Sweden Invents Flat Pack Car

By Victor Tangermann

The space station's Russian segment has sprung yet another coolant leak, the third in less than a year, raising questions about reliability.

NASA Alarmed to See Flakes Drifting Past Space Station Window

By Victor Tangermann

The results of a comprehensive survey of over 8,000 species of amphibians shows that 41 percent are globally threatened with extinction.

The Poor Little Froggos Are Going Extinct

By Frank Landymore

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

By Frank Landymore

A cat is said to have jumped on a VA technician's keyboard, deleting a trove of US government-held medical data.

VA Department Staffer Blames Cat Jumping on Keyboard for Server Outage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk hopes that SpaceX's Starship won't explode again next time it attempts to launch into orbit — but he's tempering his expectations.

Elon Musk Expresses Hope Starship Won’t Explode Next Time He Launches It

By Noor Al-Sibai

New evidence shows that a set of ancient footprints in New Mexico pre-date when scientists believed humans populated the Americas.

Scientists Surprised by Footprints From Before Humans Were Supposed to Be in America

By Frank Landymore

Prada Is Officially Working on NASA’s Lunar Spacesuit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For more than a decade, cops have tried to use "predictive policing" to presage where crimes will happen — but they seem not to work at all.

Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Car tires are leaching hundreds of chemicals and microplastics, including known carcinogenics, into the ocean, worrying scientists.

Science & Energy

Your Evil Car Is Filling the Ocean With Microplastics, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A growing number of container ships are using sails and even kites to propel themselves across the ocean, saving fuel and cutting emissions.

They’re Putting Sails on Giant Container Ships

By Victor Tangermann

You can now purchase an NFT of Starbucks' famous pumpkin spice latte, though of course, you won't be able to taste it.

Starbucks Is Now Selling Pumpkin Spice NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Videos show Tesla's Cybertruck slowly driving down a road, with a second-stage Raptor Vacuum on a trailer behind it.

Advanced Transport

Awesome Video Shows Cybertruck Towing Gigantic Starship Engine

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Bankman-Fried's old college roommate testified that the ex-FTX CEO would only take "occassional naps" on his Bahamian bean bag.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Friend Says He Was Exaggerating How Much He Slept on His Bean Bag Chair

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X owner Elon Musk is confused about why users aren't enthusiastic about not being able to see headlines anymore.

Elon Musk Baffled About Why People Would Want to See Headline Before Clicking Article

By Frank Landymore

The first generation "Editions" line of Apple Watches which came encrusted in 18 karat gold are being left out to dry.

Apple Says Its $17k Gold-Plated Watch Is Obsolete

By Frank Landymore

More than 150 pink river dolphins died in Lake Tefé in Brazil's Amazonas state, a "catastrophe" that is startling scientists.

Science & Energy

150 Dolphins Die as Water Hits Hot Tub Temperature

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook owner Meta is laying off employees in its Reality Labs division, who were tasked with developing custom silicon.

Facebook Laying Off Metaverse Employees

By Victor Tangermann

Shell has begun targeting the youth with a new "Road Trip" ad campaign baked into the popular video game Fortnite.

Shell Using Fortnite to Promote Gasoline to Youths

By Victor Tangermann

New York City is still sinking a little bit each year, but NASA says that its iconic skyscrapers are not to blame.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say No, NYC Isn’t Sinking Because of Its Skyscrapers

By Noor Al-Sibai

China is now planning to expand the station by doubling the number of modules, giving it a lot more room in orbit.

China’s Doubling the Size of Its Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Meta has started rolling out AI-generated stickers on its Messenger platform, but its half-baked safeguards leave plenty to be desired.

Facebook’s New AI Stickers Let You Generate Pics of Elon Musk With Boobs

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have been poring over the samples collected by OSIRIS-REx, cracking open the canister to find an abundance of dark particles.

Scientists Surprised by Abundance of Material in Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing Chat is usually weary of being used to solve CAPTCHAs, and not, for example, an AI being used to commit fraud.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing Chat Will Help With Fraud If You Tug Its Heartstrings About Your Dead Grandma

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this year, a CEO of an e-commerce platform replaced his customer service team with OpenAI's ChatGPT. He has no regrets.

CEO Roasts Human Workers He Fired and Replaced With ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

A hacker got away with a whopping 800 gallons of gas — roughly worth $3,000 — at a Shell station in Detroit.

Man Reportedly Steals 800 Gallons of Gas by Hacking Pump

By Victor Tangermann

Walgreens' experimental rollout of those ad-covered refrigerator screens has disintegrated into legal chaos.

Walgreens’ Ad Screens on Drink Fridges Allegedly Caught Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new biography of Sam Bankman-Fried strongly suggests that the disgraced FTX founder, now on trial for fraud, was a bad boyfriend.

Sam Bankman-Fried Apparently Told Caroline Ellison That “In a Lot of Ways I Don’t Really Have a Soul”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Claire "Grimes" Boucher is suing Elon Musk in an attempt to "establish parental relationship" of the children they have together.

Grimes Just Sued Elon Musk Over Their Kids

By Victor Tangermann

A woman was found trapped and injured underneath a self-driving car — but the autonomous vehicle (AV) doesn't seem to be the one to hit her.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Pedestrian Found Critically Injured Under Self-Driving Car

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid the ongoing SAG strike, Tom Hanks has issued a warning about an AI version of him being used in a dental ad without his consent.

Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Says Someone Used AI to Make an Ad Featuring Him Without His Permission

By Noor Al-Sibai

A perfectly-timed SBF biography reveals strange stories about the disgraced crypto czar, including unknown details about his killer pup.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Dog Apparently Is Trained to Kill, But He Doesn’t Know the Command

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trump layer Alina Habba showed up to the former president's Monday court hearing with a light-changing gamer's laptop.

Trump’s Lawyer Shows Up to Court With Glowing ROG Gaming Laptop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk tried to give his father, Errol Musk, a free Tesla vehicle in January 2020, but Errol Musk turned him down.

Elon Musk’s Dad Says He Turned Down a Free Tesla

By Sharon Adarlo

The same lawyer who took down Alex Jones of InfoWars is now suing Elon Musk for promoting an unfounded Internet rumor on X.

Lawyer Who Successfully Sued Alex Jones Says His Next Target Is Elon Musk

By Sharon Adarlo

Apple's iPhone 15 models have reportedly been overheating, according to consumers. They have become too hot to touch.

Apple Scrambling After New iPhones Getting Too Hot

By Sharon Adarlo

According to American journalist Michael Lewis, FTX paid NFL quarterback legend Tom Brady "$55 million for 20 hours a year for three years."

Tom Brady Reportedly Made $55 Million From FTX From Doing Almost No Work

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is doomed to come to face-to-face with some ghosts of the crypto exchange's destructive past.

Ukrainian Man Who Lost Everything in FTX Scheduled to Confront Sam Bankman-Fried

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, an avid jiu-jitsu devotee, took to Instagram to show off recent training trophies: two black eyes.

Mark Zuckerberg Got Busted in the Face

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Sun is officially setting on the landing spot of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission yet again, diminishing hopes of it ever waking up again.

Hope Fades as Indian Rover Fails to Wake Before Sun Sets Again

By Victor Tangermann

Robin Williams' daughter Zelda has had it up to here with artificial intelligence used to mimic her father's voice in films.

Artificial Intelligence

Robin Williams’ Daughter Disgusted by Efforts to Bring Her Dad Back With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted hundreds of lonely "planets" that are floating through space without parent stars.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Numerous Pairs of Planets, Hanging Out With No Stars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has spotted a super-tall dust devil on the Red Planet — and the agency has released the footage, y'all.

NASA’s Mars Rover Spots Super-Tall Dust Devil

By Noor Al-Sibai

A South Korean judge has for the first time in that country's history sent down a sentence related to AI-generated child abuse images.

Artificial Intelligence

South Korea Sentences Man for Creating Child Abuse Images Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter's new-ish CEO didn't have the X app on her iPhone home screen when she showed it to a crowd last week.

The CEO of X Doesn’t Have X on Her Home Screen

By Noor Al-Sibai

A NASA spacecraft has caught a glimpse of a green comet being buffeted by a coronal mass ejection, a powerful solar storm.

Amazing Video Shows Solar Eruption Blasting Tail Off Comet

By Victor Tangermann

X-formerly-Twitter's newly anointed CEO Linda Yaccarino is now being tasked with picking up the pieces, following Elon Musk's acquisition.

Twitter CEO Trying to Figure Out What to Tell Banks That Funded Elon’s Disastrous Acquisition

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese scientists are questioning whether India's lunar lander actually ever made it to the area broadly defined as Moon's south pole.

China Salty About India’s Successful Moon Landing

By Victor Tangermann

Even a cave that's been closed to the public for three decades can't escape the reach of microplastic particles.

Scientists Find Microplastics in Cave Sealed Off From All Humans

By Frank Landymore

Writers who are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on their work without permission aren't having any of the AI startup's nonsense.

Suing Writers Seethe at OpenAI’s Excuses in Court

By Frank Landymore

With its ability to spit out entire papers in seconds, ChatGPT might seem like a massive problem to the contract cheating industry.

ChatGPT Could Put People Who Write Essays for Cheating Students Out of Business

By Frank Landymore

Two astronauts on board China's Tiangong space station have lit a candle with a match during a live broadcast.

Chinese Astronaut Lights Match in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Devour Waste Plastic

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Devour Waste Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered microplastics inside rain clouds, indicating that the particles are contaminating nearly every part of nature.

Scientists Find Microplastics Inside Clouds

By Victor Tangermann

The supermassive black hole that made headlines for being the first one to be imaged now became the first observed to be spinning.

Remember That Black Hole They Took a Picture of? It’s Spinning

By Frank Landymore