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Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It’s Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

An investigation has revealed that the camera on an UberEats delivery robot has been used to convict two men of trying to steal said robot.

Dudes Arrested for Trying to Steal Entire Uber Eats Delivery Robot

By Noor Al-Sibai

The French Competition Authority raided Nvidia's local offices this week as part of a probe in its alleged anti-competitive practices.

Artificial Intelligence

France Just Raided the Offices of Nvidia

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk wanted to livestream his visit to the US-Mexico border on Thursday, but his broadcast crashed just minutes in.

Elon Sends Pleading Email to All of Twitter Staff After Live Stream Flub

By Frank Landymore

Disgraced crypto scion Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial is about to start heating up — and the judge has a stark warning for the FTX founder.

Judge Warns Sam Bankman-Fried He’s Facing a “Very Long Sentence”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The new Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses look like regular shades, but can record and livestream video with little warning to those around it.

Facebook Proud of New Glasses That Let You Record People Without Them Knowing

By Frank Landymore

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Wildly Improved Metaverse With Lifelike Avatars

By Frank Landymore

According to Spotify founder Daniel Ek, there's more to his old friend Mark Zuckerberg than meets the eye.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Friend Says He Has Three Distinct Personas

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI May Be in Big Legal Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers are investigating the feasibility of having astronauts shelter in space inside lava tubes on the lunar surface.

Chinese Scientists Ponder Moon Base Inside Ancient Lunar Lava Tube

By Victor Tangermann

Learning you're fired via tweet is one thing — but learning that you're about to take over as Twitter CEO from an Elon Musk post is another entirely.

Elon Musk Didn’t Bother Telling Twitter’s New CEO She Was Hired Before Announcing It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers are arguing in a new paper that disco balls should be placed in universities and scientific facilities.

Astronomers Call for More Disco Balls at Scientific Facilities

By Noor Al-Sibai

The world's land masses are, a new super-charged climate model suggests, going to form into one giant desert supercontinent.

Scientists Say Earth Will Become a Barren Wasteland

By Noor Al-Sibai

Unfortunately for autonomous carmaker Cruise, its Houston beta test didn't get off to a very hot start this week.

Advanced Transport

Brand New Robotaxis Immediately Cause Traffic Jam in Houston

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A senior OpenAI employee claimed that using the latest version of ChatGPT is akin to talking with a human therapist.

OpenAI Employee Says She’s Never Tried Therapy But ChatGPT Is Pretty Much a Replacement For It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Binance was left to clean up the mess last fall when FTX crashed — but now, the world's biggest crypto exchange is itself falling apart.

The World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Appears to Be Melting Down

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Crack Open Lid of Canister Holding Asteroid Sample

Scientists Crack Open Lid of Canister Holding Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann

Alabama wants to use an experimental execution technique on one of its death row inmates — and the inmate in question is fighting back.

Alabama Prisoner Protests Being Test Subject for New Execution Technique

By Noor Al-Sibai

Government officials in Iran are looking to modernize by using artificial intelligence to help clerics issue fatwas.

Artificial Intelligence

Iranian Authorities Say AI Could Help Issue Fatwas Faster Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Gizmodo, Coca-Cola's new AI-inspired flavor called Y3000 is uninspired and downright terrible.

Artificial Intelligence

People Disgusted With Flavor of Coke’s AI-Generated Soda

By Victor Tangermann

As Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial draws nearer, his mom, Barbara Fried, is holding the line that it's all just a government witch hunt.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Mom Says the Government Is Being Super Mean to Her Beautiful Boy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

India's Vikram lunar lander has yet to "re-awaken" from its prolonged night-time nap, worrying scientists.

India’s Moon Lander Appears to Have Died

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed's stock has been tumbling for months, and it appears that Buzzy the Robot may not be enough to save it from Nasdaq doom.

Artificial Intelligence

What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The "Hitler beetle," Anophthalmus hitleri, is close to extinction as neo-Nazis keep snatching specimens up as collectors' items.

Science & Energy

Beetle Named After Hitler Being Driven to Extinction by Neo-Nazis Collecting It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta is marching forward with its solution for reviving declining user numbers: introducing an array of AI-powered chatbots to its services.

Losing Human Users, Facebook Releasing Chatbots for Lonely to Talk To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Australian woman has pleaded guilty after being caught flying a drone filled with contraband into a prison yard.

Woman Pleads Guilty for Flying Drug- and Porn-Laden Drone Into Prison

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it's not a glitch — it's the app's expensive new subscription plan.

Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching

By Noor Al-Sibai

Watch out, New Yorkers. The NYPD's new surveillance Dalek — er, robot — has officially arrived at a subway platform near you.

NYPD Deploys Villainous-Looking Dalek in Subway System

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A speaker comprising tiny robots can deploy multiple microphones to create speech zones that allow it to separate and mute conversations.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Speaker That “Mutes” Annoying People

By Frank Landymore

An independent review board found several serious issues regarding NASA's Mars Sample Return mission's timetable, cost, and technical plans.

Experts Say NASA’s Mars Sample Return Plan Is Deeply Flawed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Got a billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Consider: donating it to Harvard Medical School in exchange for naming rights.

Science & Energy

Harvard Says That for $1 Billion, You Can Rename Its Medical School

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For an emerald mine that Elon Musk says doesn't exist, his father, Errol Musk, sure seems to have some gruesome mine memories to share.

Elon Musk’s Dad Says Someone at His Emerald Mine Got Eaten by a Crocodile

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google just plugged Bard into a variety of its products — but the AI chatbot might not be the helpful assistant that Google wants it to be.

Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google, claiming Google Maps directions made the father drive his car off a bridge last year.

Family Sues Google for Fatally Telling Father to Drive Off Collapsed Bridge

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe rare pink diamonds were formed when an ancient supercontinent broke up 1.3 billion years ago.

Science & Energy

Pink Diamonds Emerged When a Supercontinent Broke Up, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Parents in Spain are mad after naked deepfake pictures of their daughters were circulated in local schools.

Artificial Intelligence

Parents Furious After Deepfaked Nudes of Daughters Circulate at Schools

By Sharon Adarlo

To fix their terribly writing AI, companies are now resorting to hiring poets and writers with humanity degrees.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Desperately Hiring Authors and Poets to Fix Their Crappy Writing

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent report by crypto platform dappGambl, 95 percent of NFT collections are worthless today.

Study Finds 95 Percent of NFTs Are Now Worthless

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through a plasma flare, specifically called a coronal mass ejection, bursting from the Sun and survived.

NASA’s Solar Probe Survived Flying Right Through Massive Sun Explosion

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of researchers in Japan claims to have figured out a way to translate the clucking of chickens with the use of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say New AI Can Translate What Chickens Are Saying

By Victor Tangermann

Google "Tank Man," and you might be met with a fake, AI-generated "Tank Man Selfie" as the search engine's top — and featured! — result.

Google Made an AI-Generated Fake the First Result for “Tank Man”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An aggressive Tesla driver, who was infamously involved in ten road rage incidents last year, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Tesla Maniac Sentenced to Prison

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump Jr.'s account on X-formerly-Twitter was apparently hacked today, with the account tweeting that his father had died.

Don Jr’s Twitter Account Got Hacked, Posted That Trump Had Died

By Victor Tangermann

NASA helped develop a new humanoid robot that could assist astronauts on future space missions, but they can also serve as "avatars."

NASA Wants to Send Humanoid Robots to Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

A pastor in Austin used ChatGPT to write a sermon as he grapples with whether robots can be used to channel God.

Texas Pastor Defends Using ChatGPT to Write “Shotgun Sermon”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of confidential company data — all because of one misconfigured permission token.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s AI Team Accidentally Leaks Terabytes of Company Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to release a "mini-fridge size capsule" over the Utah desert this week.

NASA Probe to Drop Off Asteroid Samples After 7 Years in Deep Space

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists Have Coined a Devastating New Term for Not Being Able to See the Stars at Night

Scientists Have Coined a Devastating New Term for Not Being Able to See the Stars at Night

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If killing X-formerly-Twitter was always Elon Musk's plan, he might soon be successful if he starts charging everyone to use it.

Elon Musk May Actually Kill Twitter For Real This Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

When it comes to voicing his concerns over AI, English actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry isn't mincing words.

Artificial Intelligence

Actor Stephen Fry Furious After AI Rips Off His Voice Without Permission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Marines have somehow lost an F-35 fighter jet that may have continued to cruise around on autopilot after its human operator was ejected.

Advanced Transport

US Marines Lose $80 Million Stealth Fighter Jet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Lights on Venus that scientists thought were from lightning may be something else entirely, a new study has found.

Scientists Stumped by Mysterious Flashes of Light on Venus

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA and SpaceX test-fired a Raptor engine meant for a Moon mission from a cold start in order to simulate conditions in space.

SpaceX Just Simulated a Lunar Landing With Its Rocket Engine

By Sharon Adarlo

New satellite imagery has revealed that Antarctic sea ice reached yet another record-low in mid-September.

Science & Energy

Antarctic Sea Ice Shrinks to “Mind-Blowing” Low

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study of gamers in Portugal reveals that most get physical activity, have healthy diets, and play for reasonable amounts of time.

Shocking Research Discovers That Gamers Are Overall Pretty Healthy

By Frank Landymore

Irish TV station Virgin Media News broadcasted a breaking news segment about a "mysterious crater. Turns out it was a hole dug by locals.

Irish TV Crew Films Segment on “Mysterious Crater” That Turns Out to Be Hole Dug by Local “Lads”

By Victor Tangermann

Unity is retroactively implementing changes to its payment plans that would charge a fee for every installation of a game using the engine.

Game Developers Outraged After Unity Engine Slaps Ludicrous Fee on Every Game Install

By Frank Landymore

According to Walter Isaacson's new biography, Elon Musk mass-fired Twitter employees who were caught saying mean things about him on Slack.

Free Speech Fundamentalist Elon Musk Mass Fired Staff for Saying Mean Things About Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Walter Isaacson's new biography on Elon Musk also reveals that the CEO left his engineers who wanted to use LiDAR exasperated.

Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him

By Frank Landymore

According to new reporting, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried played much bigger roles in FTX's business proceedings than they've let on.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents May Have Been More Involved in FTX Than We Thought

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Students have built an incredibly efficient electric car that has crushed the record for the longest distance driven on a single charge.

Advanced Transport

New EV Demolishes Previous Record for Longest Distance Driven on a Single Charge

By Victor Tangermann

Starlink is over $10 billion short of the revenue it projected to have back in 2015, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Starlink Is Falling Way Short of Projections on Revenue and Users

By Frank Landymore

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has spent more consecutive days in the Earth's orbit than any other NASA astronaut before him, at over 355 days.

NASA Astronaut Breaks Agency’s Record for Longest Stay in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Japan is sending a tennis ball-shaped rover, which was inspired by children's toys, to the Moon.

Japanese Moon Mission Carrying Weird Rolling Robot

By Victor Tangermann